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Who is 'bleating on'? It was my first comment on the matter. Nobody is suggesting they get it for nothing either. That would be absurd. And they did not back out of the deal to purchase a stake, that is the opposite of what happened. Stop making stuff up in an attempt to prop up your flimsy...

10 months ago SISU offered £14 million for a 50% stake in the management company. It was rejected. Were they trying to get the arena for 'nothing' then?

Yes, it is shocking. Especially when the landlord is effectively the city council, and the tenant the most important community asset this fucking city has.

Walsall pay 400K for use of their stadium. Crucially though, it is for 365 days use. Walsall, in 2007/08, averaged 5.5K, but their turnover in that year was approaching £7 million. We averaged over 19K, but our turnover was was a little over £9 million - and we had both higher ticket prices...

Tickets for this now available on the official website for anyone interested.

Right, so had you been born in Exhall on the N&B side of that same line you'd have chosen to support someone else? Not sure why I'm bothering to try and argue against such an irrational viewpoint. We'll be returning to the Ricoh at some point anyway.

You don't have to believe that SISU will build a new stadium to believe that the move is temporary. The most likely outcome remains a return to the Ricoh. The next most likely being the death of the club, then some way behind that you have the building of a new stadium followed by the least...

You lose all credibility with point 2 - trying to dress opinion up as fact.

The fact you would give up on your football club because it might potentially be a few hundred yards the wrong side of an imaginary line drawn by a civil servant at some point in the past is one of the most insane things I have ever read on this forum, and the competition for that accolade is...

Your argument makes no sense, but you're entitled to your opinion. Wakefield (as you define it) is just a collection of towns separated by miles of countryside. So, in your world, a team playing in Knottingley (separated from Wakefield by the town of Pontefract and 14 miles of greenbelt) would...

No it shouldn't. Would be an absolute travesty if away numbers started to dwindle. Away games are a perfect opportunity for us to show how much we care - not just to lift out own spirits, but also as a show of strength to supporters of other clubs and also to the media. There is no value in...

Wakefield (the city) has a population of about 70K. The metropolitan borough has a population 320K+ but includes the towns of Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley - all of which comes together under the somewhat confusing name of City of Wakefield - which is really...

What are you talking about? Do you see dead people?

Wrong.

That's what he is saying.

People keep repeating this nonsense about a permanent move. Presently, we have about 1000 supporters willing to travel 35 miles to watch their team play its fixtures away from its home on a temporary basis. That might feasibly increase to 3000 or so if the team continue to perform well and...

It is a fair assumption to make. The default reaction on Saturday for many, rather than show their delight at a thumping away win, was to agonise about how that might slightly increase the gate next week. You do get the feeling from some that they'd rather the team were struggling.

So, we have a place called Coventry. Has a football club with a long history, gets an average gate of nearly 11K playing at its lowest level in over half a century, down from 21K just a few years earlier in the 2nd tier of English football. Then we have Northampton, a smaller town with one...

Behave.

Lots of alarmist guff. A winning team will tempt hundreds back, not thousands, so no need to panic. Equally, I still think we'll be back in Coventry before Christmas. Those who say we will 'never' come back are being hysterical.