Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:31 pm  

champagnecharlie wrote:

TRB........Its time for you to stop being a busy body and cease trying to sugar coat turds and giving these poor fans things to cling on to, such THAT.... if you were not involved and read the rediculous garbage you have written over the last few months you would see straight away that there wasn't a hope in hell of it actually becoming a reality.

These fans deserve better!!

Its time for some cold hard truth on this forum and it will be tough to cope with, but stringing people along with pathetic petitions and new groups to join is a waste of everybodys time!!

The facts are thus:

- The club is in debt and without new investment will go bust within a month or 2.
- The club will not get a new Franchise.
- The club is probably unlikeley to meet its 2011 Super League commitments.
- Newmarket will NOT get the go ahead following the Public Enquiry and the project will be shelved.

Wakefield should not be asking the fans for all this money when investors won't touch it with a barge pole, they are banking on blind emotion and its a disgrace!!

If the fans want Ted out and to take the club over, why not let it go into administration and buy it for a lot less money, they could have a very good future in the championship and not have to throw all this money into a defunct Super League dream!!

First week in January of 2011 and already Ive found post of the year and I doubt it will ever be beaten.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:34 pm  

Roonaldo6 wrote:

Although age and time wise I cant really go as long as you have, however I too invested /donated money to the club for years, bought everything going, did everything I could to support and build the brand of Wakefield Wildcats, but over the past few years I too lost confidence, became literally bored with the entertainment on the field and found the entertainment off it more entertaining in a comical way over the shambles that came forward.

Now I can only echo your sentiments and have lost total interest in it all and wouldnt shed a tear if we ceased to exist in all fairness. In my eyes things are that bad, and there would have been no way Id have been saying that 5 years ago.

good post, think weve spent enough coin over the years mate.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:52 pm  

allmatt wrote:

Which most of the objectors are concerned about. To say that they have been dismissed is misleading to say the least.

But hey, keep up the good work with the petition which probably will be dismissed in the same way.

Come on allmatt/BigAlf you know that is not what ChampagneTroll meant and what I said had been dismissed and you know it... you know I agree with you on the valid points (I mentioned above), we only disagree on the discharging of those points, I think then can be adequately discharged and you don't... now that is at least a valid debate so don't let your high standards drop!

As for the Statements, I still don't think it is about the numbers game and on reflection I think Leeds City Council was the primary reason for the call in. However, this "no one local wants it crap" being used by the NIMBY's is just that and that is what we are going to set out to prove. Also this other bit of Tory crap, the big society, has changed the game slightly and if people do want this then they need to say so, the argument being that if similar numbers of people say yes and say no then they cancel each other out and it will come down to policy. The idea of the public meeting and Statements is to hit the issues of the B8 head on and then understand how that changes things for people. We are of course presenting our strong views but I would still argue we are not telling any lies to get peoples support, we are speculating on the LDF change being accepted, but nothing more.

Also, I have been meaning to post this for a while. I got some clarity on the site specific LDF proposal and the 95ha direct from the planning policy team. The four sites have been identified and recommended, Newmarket was the largest at 33.28 ha and a site at Shilling Hill 23.88ha, Trinity Farm (ironic!) 26.23 and a small site at Cutsyke (don't have full details on this one but about 7ha) which takes them to around 90ha and they are hoping to pick up some other options during the plan period. Interestingly, Newmarket was a clear first choice because of former use and location, as all the other sites are agricultural (and Greenbelt of course). Now they didn't tell me this but there is a rumour that they might actual extend the Newmarket site and drop either Shilling Hill or Trinity Farm from the LDF as they are all either grade 2 and 3a use! If they do then that will cover all the planned B8 at Newmarket... so it would just be the stadium and B2 that would be the remaining issues!

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:15 pm  

If anyone wants a short break from this topic have a quick view of the RED PASSION forum where the Wrexham soccer fans are accusing MOSS and ROBERTS,the owners of Crusaders as being asset strippers as they try to sell the Racecourse Ground.( With your luck at the moment they will probably have a new stadium constructed at Aberystwyth by this time next month )

For The Clan
Rod Findlay was only at the RFL for 3 years.He was a solicitor dealing with medical negligence prior to that.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:33 pm  

TwoBlues wrote:

For The Clan
Rod Findlay was only at the RFL for 3 years.He was a solicitor dealing with medical negligence prior to that.

I worked for the RFL in 1999 and 2000 and Rod was there then, to mu knowledge he only left the RFL two years ago so by my deduction he was there at least 9 years.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:37 pm  

TwoBlues wrote:

For The Clan
Rod Findlay was only at the RFL for 3 years.He was a solicitor dealing with medical negligence prior to that.

But he was brought in to oversee the first licence process , now he seems to have turned into some kind of RFL expansion troubleshooter , but a solicitor would not be my first choice of proffessional to kick start struggling clubs

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:38 pm  

The Clan wrote:

I worked for the RFL in 1999 and 2000 and Rod was there then, to mu knowledge he only left the RFL two years ago so by my deduction he was there at least 9 years.

If you worked for the RFL in those years can I ask you a little question.

Have you seen the film Big ? With Tom Hanks in. If so, remember the part where he attends his first meeting about the transformer and answer this.

During the meeting where the top dogs of the RFL said they would revolutionise the sport of Rugby league, didnt you put your hand up and say "I dont get it".

It might have solved all these problems from the past 5 years.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:42 pm  

Roonaldo6 wrote:

If you worked for the RFL in those years can I ask you a little question.

Have you seen the film Big ? With Tom Hanks in. If so, remember the part where he attends his first meeting about the transformer and answer this.

During the meeting where the top dogs of the RFL said they would revolutionise the sport of Rugby league, didnt you put your hand up and say "I dont get it".

It might have solved all these problems from the past 5 years.

Had I been in such a meeting I would certainly have had my say and probably found myself locked out the following day.

If only life were that simple.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:43 pm  

The Clan wrote:

Had I been in such a meeting I would certainly have had my say and probably found myself locked out the following day.

If only life were that simple.

Exactly.

Re: AGM/EGM tonight : Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:44 pm  

BRING BACK JOHN HARBIN