LyndsayGill wrote:
Like a lot of the older supporters I've seen some good times and some dross over the last forty odd years, but like many I'm still turning up. As a fan/supporters all I can do is turn up home and away , pay my entrance/season ticket, buy a bit of merchandise and trust in those who have forgotten more about Rugby League than I'll ever know, to do the best for Wakefield Trinity.
I try not to slag off ( Aussies bag, I slag 'cos I'm English) players as they are doing something that I was never good enough or tough enough to do. A Rugby League pitch is no place for a faint heart so 99.9% of all players have my respect for stepping over the whitewash.
I think sometimes as supporters we are guilty of setting our expectations far too high so when the disappointments come the lows are harder to bear.
Its funny you mention the expectation side of this after 40 odd years of watching there hasn't been much hope or expectation, taking more from our ability to overcome adversity and survive when everything is against us - league, money, various chairman, the ground, .... list is endless. But this last season or so have travelled with genuine expectation mainly on the back of a stable squad and a stable financial situation.
So i started the season with genuine expectation of top 5 or thereabouts, even with ten or 11 players out we were still getting an odd win and there or thereabouts - so once we got pretty much a full backline out and a decentish pack I thought we d be back on track - which makes the last dozen or so performances doubly upsetting -
Think it just shows that we are a team of tryers with three or four genuine top quality players - brough, fajita, johnstone and tupou who are the players that can greet generate magic, lacking them at 100% we really do struggle.
If your leeds you can sign 11 new players to effect a turnaround we just aren't in that position so guess we have to make do and mend its just frustrating
