Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:53 pm  

The Clan wrote:

The funding from YCP is enough to build a stadium of the correct size and quality to satisfy the RFL criteria for a Grade A rating, but no more!

The funding brought in from grants etc will allow the stadium be built with extra facilities contained within the stands.

Without grant funding we can build 3 box standard stands with little more than toilets and food outlets accompanied by a main stand with hospitality, changing rooms etc.

With grant funding we can build a significantly better facility which has amenities, office space, gymnasiums ECT ECT ECT within all of the 4 stands. If Wakefield Stadium Trust are really successful in securing all the funding available there's a suggestion that the corners could be filled in.

There's also grant applications for further sporting facilities that will rest outside the stadium such as a full sized indoor pitch, 5-aside pitches, hockey pitch, 2nd Rugby pitch with its own dressing rooms and so on.

When YCP say they guarantee a fully funded stadium they mean the basic box standard stadium, when Sir Rodney Walker says we will also need Grants, he's talking about a stadium with bells, whistles, and a feathery balloon attached!

Sorry to P!$$ on everyone's fireworks!

Do the rest of the Wakey fans know this?

Sounds like WR with a lick of paint and a new roof over the railway end transported to Newmarket.!

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:57 pm  

The Clan wrote:

The funding from YCP is enough to build a stadium of the correct size and quality to satisfy the RFL criteria for a Grade A rating, but no more!

The funding brought in from grants etc will allow the stadium be built with extra facilities contained within the stands.

Without grant funding we can build 3 box standard stands with little more than toilets and food outlets accompanied by a main stand with hospitality, changing rooms etc.

With grant funding we can build a significantly better facility which has amenities, office space, gymnasiums ECT ECT ECT within all of the 4 stands. If Wakefield Stadium Trust are really successful in securing all the funding available there's a suggestion that the corners could be filled in.

There's also grant applications for further sporting facilities that will rest outside the stadium such as a full sized indoor pitch, 5-aside pitches, hockey pitch, 2nd Rugby pitch with its own dressing rooms and so on.

When YCP say they guarantee a fully funded stadium they mean the basic box standard stadium, when Sir Rodney Walker says we will also need Grants, he's talking about a stadium with bells, whistles, and a feathery balloon attached!

Sorry to P!$$ on everyone's fireworks!

So the plans, as presented to the Planning Inspector are not "fully funded" as claimed?

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 9:58 pm  

TBH Alf with what iv'e read on these MBs the last 12 months it sounds like castlefords new stadium only a bit better.

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:16 pm  

j.c wrote:

TBH Alf with what iv'e read on these MBs the last 12 months it sounds like castlefords new stadium only a bit better.

That's not "fully funded" either.

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:26 pm  

bigalf wrote:

That's not "fully funded" either.

That's not funded at all at the minute

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:32 pm  

j.c wrote:

TBH Alf with what iv'e read on these MBs the last 12 months it sounds like castlefords new stadium only a LOT better.

Edited for accuracy.

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:33 pm  

djcool wrote:

That's not funded at all at the minute

Of course it is - Cas have an asset - WR .

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:40 pm  

bigalf wrote:

Of course it is - Cas have an asset - WR .

Hopefully this is irrelevent but what happens if the directors call there loans in?.

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:41 pm  

bigalf wrote:

Of course it is - Cas have an asset - WR .

That right now nobody wants to buy.

Re: Stadium Developments : Fri Dec 09, 2011 10:43 pm  

j.c wrote:

Hopefully this is irrelevent but what happens if the directors call there loans in?.

The same thing that happens to any club when the directors loans are called in, trouble, although less for cas than many clubs as our directors loans are tiny compared to a number of sl clubs.