Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 9:16 am  

Just seen his tweet. Think he's referring to RW, heard from 'bloke down the pub' that his re-involvement with this whole situation has ruffled some feathers at the club over the ground again. Just rumor, so read into that what you will.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:28 am  

cosmicat wrote:

Just seen a tweet from Phil Townsend he is very concerned over wakefield fc merchandise in the trinity shop and what comes with it

If it comes with a joint venture to rebuild the stadium then what s the problem

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:33 am  

Football grants are a damn sight bigger than Rugby League ones.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:40 am  

Khlav Kalash wrote:

Football grants are a damn sight bigger than Rugby League ones.

Exactly

Up the Trin

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:42 am  

But MC holds all the aces, the club own the ground and land. If RW wants to get involved and the club want him to get involved then surely it's on the clubs terms, not sure if the battle has got to TRB here, may be a little paranoid?

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:44 am  

Jizzer wrote:

Just seen his tweet. Think he's referring to RW, heard from 'bloke down the pub' that his re-involvement with this whole situation has ruffled some feathers at the club over the ground again. Just rumor, so read into that what you will.

There is definitely some truth in this. People have different ideas and agendas and TRB has every right to be concerned by RW involvement.

The problem is that for all his opinions and concerns and his i depth knowledge in one crucial way TRB and the rest are the same as you and I, they have no money.

At the end of the day it will take people like Mc, RW and Denise Jeffries etc to actually make this happen. We can raise objections all day long as to the injustices and inherent dangers of what happens but without money or power TRB and the rest of us can do little but hope for the best.

Unless there is a massive political upheaval in our favour we have to trust MC andJM and I hate to say it even RW (yuk).

If TRB or any of the others has a viable alternative I’m all ears.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 10:58 am  

JINJER wrote:

But MC holds all the aces, the club own the ground and land. If RW wants to get involved and the club want him to get involved then surely it's on the clubs terms, not sure if the battle has got to TRB here, may be a little paranoid?

I'm not sure MC holds all or in fact, any of the aces, all he holds at the moment is a 25-year mortgage.

However he/us do now have a stake in the future of the ground due to this, the ground is effectively now the clubs to lose whereas a years ago it wasn't even that.

To push the poker analogy, we don't have a winning hand by any means but we do have one that keeps us in the game, a lot of bluffing and snake eyes stuff yet to come I suspect.

The problem for people like IA and TRB is not so much paranoia but a certain inability to step back and accept the realities of the situation and that they are no longer a part of it. Understandable when you've been passionately involved with something for so long, it's hard to let go of the dream.

Truth is SWAG/Trust lost, for whatever reason justice did not prevail. What we now need to do as salvage what we can from the ashes. It must really sting for these people who know we have been shafted and that we are potless and thus powerless but it's done now and we may have to get in bed with the devil, life is like that.

PS, when I say shafted I mean in the past tense, I've absolutely no idea regarding the present.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:52 am  

Fishermanscap wrote:

There is definitely some truth in this. People have different ideas and agendas and TRB has every right to be concerned by RW involvement.

The problem is that for all his opinions and concerns and his i depth knowledge in one crucial way TRB and the rest are the same as you and I, they have no money.

At the end of the day it will take people like Mc, RW and Denise Jeffries etc to actually make this happen. We can raise objections all day long as to the injustices and inherent dangers of what happens but without money or power TRB and the rest of us can do little but hope for the best.

Unless there is a massive political upheaval in our favour we have to trust MC andJM and I hate to say it even RW (yuk).

If TRB or any of the others has a viable alternative I’m all ears.

I think we all need to be wary of any involvement with Sir RMW, after the shenanigans which finally made him leave the Stadium Trust. The Stadium Trust committee members are in a better position than the rest of us, to judge this man.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:17 pm  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote:

I think we all need to be wary of any involvement with Sir RMW, after the shenanigans which finally made him leave the Stadium Trust. The Stadium Trust committee members are in a better position than the rest of us, to judge this man.

They are indeed, unfortunately, and this is my main point, they are pretty powerless. I wish they weren't but to me at least that's how it seems. I may, of course, be wrong.

Re: Ground : Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:39 pm  

I'm struggling to work out how any connection to Wakefield FC could ruffle any feathers as the club would have the option of not stocking their produce. The presence of Wakefield FC produce suggests that feathers are not ruffled at all.

My only concern of any rise of Wakefield FC would be the Wakefield public getting a choice of how to support their city in sport and them choosing football over rugby, but then again that's a matter for the game as a whole.