Re: Club update from JM : Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:49 pm  

There are some very wealthy people in Wakefield. Whether they are happy to lose how ever much a year is another question.

Re: Club update from JM : Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:33 pm  

Thought it was a great interview and gave us alll a insight where we sit .

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:51 am  

In support of Vasty I haven’t head anything new in this statement…. It’s all been laid out before… chapter and verse…

Particularly as from next year it’s not about promotion and relegation .. so we could have the Aussie test team and win the league.. and still get a low B rating… and still have no facilities… our best option is on the path we are taking…

No ifs

No buts

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:57 am  

Great to hear Andy Kelly on the five live podcast bulling not only our pitch up but also our coach , whilst commending our performance against a much stronger giants squad .

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:15 am  

When you listen to someone like JM assessing where we are and with no panic in his voice it does put things into perspective.
We have been ravaged by injuries to key players and played some top teams, certainly not disgracing ourselves against Catalans (which we could have won) or Huddersfield.
Regardless of where we are next season I'll be there and I disagree with some about the Championship will ruin us, there are some great clubs in that league and some good local derbies - I haven't given up but I'm sick of a SL dictated by the same teams year in year out!

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 9:08 am  

[quote="Spookisback"]In support of Vasty I haven’t head anything new in this statement…. It’s all been laid out before… chapter and verse…

Particularly as from next year it’s not about promotion and relegation .. so we could have the Aussie test team and win the league.. and still get a low B rating… and still have no facilities… our best option is on the path we are taking…


Have I read it wrong, I thought you were in jeapardy (sp) if you finished at the bottom? Surely (and this is a ridiculous scenario) but if we finished top of SL with a C grading and the team topping the Championship with a B rating they wouldn’t relegate us? Would they?

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:31 am  

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Yes or at least they would have done had we not started the redevelopment. Unlike Cas for example, BV was not just un-fit for purpose but was about to have its capacity cut to 4,600 (approx.). This would been way below basic SL criteria, but more to the point would have made the club financially impotent. That would have meant that the money spinners against Leeds, Cas and a few others couldn't happen. If 4,600 was the biggest crowd we were ever going to get in 2023 then we'd have had no more money than we have now. But unlike now there would have been no way out of it. At present we have a short term issue, without the re-development it would have been permanent.

Truth is we have to suck it up this season and run with what we have. Nobody is unaware of the risks or the possible outcome, but there simply is no choice. I'm not having a pop at you or most other posters here, I'm being genuine, if you have an alternative I'd like to hear it because I can't see one.

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:43 am  

Kettykat wrote:

Great to hear Andy Kelly on the five live podcast bulling not only our pitch up but also our coach , whilst commending our performance against a much stronger giants squad .

He was very fair I thought.
And lets be honest, (although it counts for nowt) we played better against Shudds than Cas did...........

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 11:21 am  

BarnsleyGull wrote:

He was very fair I thought.
And lets be honest, (although it counts for nowt) we played better against Shudds than Cas did...........

Truth is Wigan apart we have not been terrible, we just lack something. On a better night we could have scalped Catalans whilst Hudds were there to be beaten, they were one try better than us on the night but it could just as easily have been the other way around.

I accept we are dull to watch, but you have to build the foundations first.

Re: Club update from JM : Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:23 pm  

vastman wrote:

What staggers me is that he has to explain any of this.

I'm not MENSA, I don't have a degree, I've never run a RL club.

Yet to me it's all self evident and always was.

However out of all the things he said the most important point is this...

It wouldn't matter how much we spent on players or where we finish this season, THE GAME WAS UP, we'd have been kicked out even if we reached a GF. It's not an either or, the Council had condemned the North Stand and the RFL had condemned BV full stop, and lets be right they have given us 24 years grace!!!

Yes the team is threadbare, we may well get relegated but that's irrelevant because as I say we always would have been. These people spouting on about all the money invested in the ground and nothing on the team need to get this through their skulls. There was never any choice, Ground first, team second.

A Trinity in the Championship is better than no Trinity at all, that is the stark truth - this season is the ultimate last throw of the dice and always was, even if we'd signed the entire Australian Test Squad it will still be BV that decides it all.

Absolutely correct Vastman.