Tre Cool wrote:
I look stupid? Its the worse stadium in top level football codes in this country. Craven Park and Odsal are dated but are actually stadia. Belle Vue is just a jumbled mess with some council flats at one end. I have no problem with Wakey or their great fans but don't bury your heads in the sand and just come back with insults! Its terrible! And yes I also cringe slightly at Hudds and Broncoquins (who I support) in bigger new stadia with lots of empty seats.
It's very easy to make glib comments like this when you support a club that is propped up by the largesse of a wealthy investor, has a council funded stadium, shares with a football club, or any combination of the three.
WTW on the other hand, has been let down, badly managed and generally run into the ground by a series of its former stewards, as well as being the victim of some pretty underhand political maneuvering on the part of WMDC.
As fans, we're well aware that BV doesn't fit the RFL's arbitrary vision of a 'modern' stadium, but I think it's short-sighted and disrespectful to write off 130 years of history simply because you have no understanding of what came before SL.
Lots of people are working their knackers off to get us into a new stadium and our new owner appears to be doing a good job of quietly getting all his ducks in a row for the upcoming PI; in the meantime, I know it's not particularly trendy on here to be anything other than cynical and sarcastic, but you'd demonstrate significantly more class if you expressed some support for the efforts of everyone involved, rather than pouring scorn on the current arrangements.
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