Oh that white elephant of a stand. I remember when it was being built and they were lauding it over us as it was a sign they were a "big club". They always have been obsessed with stadium capacities and attendances.
When I readd your post I thought of the John Ireland 'white elephant stand' of the 80's and decided to have a look for articles from the time.
But why go back that far when stumbling across this peach of an offering from Neil Moxley in the Daily Mail dated Feb 2011?
"...........Morgan wants a legacy. I don't know how many people will have noticed this (and I've got a vested interest because I bought some shares in his company) but the Wolves chairman is back in his day-job, running Redrow, the firm he started with a £5,000 loan from his father.
He has returned the house-builders to profit (hurray!) and he thinks it's a good time to develop because materials are cheap.
If he is at the sharp end and wants to go ahead, then, if I were a Wolves fan, that would be fine by me.
Fifthly, this is not dependent on Wolves staying in the Barclays Premier League. Cashflows would have been worked out......This is not another white elephant John Ireland Stand that's going to bankrupt the club as it did in the early 1980s.
The counter-argument to all of this is that money should be invested in the team. My answer is that it has been.
I'm not going to say that I think Wolves did great work in the window. But a £15m outlay is no guarantee of success. (Spending money as a policy didn't work out for a decade until Dave Jones got it right.)
And what if Wolves do stay up and prosper and pack Molineux out, week in, week out? Everyone will be calling for it to be redeveloped to fit in more punters.
All in all, I just think the bigger picture should be looked at here. If Wolves were relegated to the Championship, it's still being run on the right lines. If you keep making good choices, you stay out of trouble. In life, in football.
Let's face it, what's the alternative? Stand still and allow lesser clubs to overtake you?
I think this development plan is right for all sorts of reasons. And good on Morgan, Jez Moxey and the rest of the board at Molineux for trying to make it happen".
Comedy gold, and black of course
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Fookin' hell, wonder what he thinks now?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1358310/Molineux-moaners-look-bigger-picture-Wolves-stadium-plans--The-Midlander.html
