YORKSHIRE will give their own version early next week of the row which has erupted between themselves and their Headingley landlords over the county club's intended purchase of the cricket ground.

They were stunned on Thursday when Headingley boss, Paul Caddick, announced that Yorkshire had pulled out of the 14-month-long negotiations, a claim which Yorkshire chairman, Robin Smith, has strongly denied.

Yorkshire will hold a management board meeting on Monday to discuss the crisis and clarify their own position and they are expected to lay their cards on the table at a press conference the following day.

Caddick has implied that he called the Leeds CFAC's press conference because information was beginning to leak out from Yorkshire that they had ended negotiations.

But there do not appear to have been any "whispers" coming from the cricket side of Headingley stadium.

There is a viewpoint that Caddick may have acted unilaterally in an attempt to shock Yorkshire into concluding negotiations which have now dragged on for 14 months.

Updated: 12:08 Saturday, January 15, 2005