The Avenger wrote:
A move out of Belle Vue without a signed and sealed, water tight contract to return to the City of Wakefield in a Super League standard stadium is a virtual death sentence for the club.
Firstly, by all accounts the RFL have ruled Dewsbury is acceptable for 1 year only, what then if there’s no deal to return to Wakefield in a Community Stadium
Secondly, if we intend to stay at The Tetleys Stadium who’s going to pay for the multi million pound upgrade to bring it up to standard.
Lastly, if neither the building of a Community Stadium or an upgrade of Tetleys Stadium is going to happen and staying at Belle View isn’t possible then maintaining Super League status looks unlikely if not impossible.
If that’s to be the case it becomes imperative that we stay in the District and find somewhere to play Championship or Championship 1 fixtures.
The alternative is to turn the lights off, send some memorabilia to Wakefield museum and consign Wakefield Trinity to the history books alongside Wakefield Rugby Union Club.
So for those advocating the hard line and giving Wakefield Council the middle finger, I would say stop and think again. Swinton & Oldham should act as cautionary tales to anyone advocating a move out of the City with no plan to return.
Maybe it’s already too late!
I think you've answered your own point. It is in many ways to late and I suspect you're possibly right about moving out of the area.
However you're fundamentally wrong on one point. It is not Trinity ie the club, it's fans or indeed the Trust who are giving the miidle finger it's WMDC. If ou can't see that or you think there is any room left for negotiations with WMDC then you are mistaken.
THEY DO NOT WANT US, THEY HATE US - END OF.
I have to ask why people would question the motives of those involved - not saying you are.
I can just and I mean JUST about see how some weird conspiracy involving MC and CB gaining something from all this might work though personally I find the idea presposterous and insulting.
The Trust however have absolutely nothing to gain personally and everything to lose. Standing up and fighting WMDC in the courts was the last thing any of them ever wanted. These are not hot heads, that's one of the reasons I'm no longer active in SWAG - I'd have swung for Box by now (though I'd have probably missed because I'm not a very good fighter
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TRB and IA by nature are clam people, beyond reasonable on occasions - this is not natural territory for them and absolutely not what they wanted.
However they have a case and they have the guts and the desire to carry it through - THAT IS NOT STICKING UP THE MIDDLE FINGER!
The Dewsbury thing is clearly a fall back, we have to have one but I agree it's hard to see any positives in moving there if things reamain as they are.
It sums RL up for the ludicrous sport it's become that the governing body would bite MC's hand off to take his club to Birmingham where the club would probably last a season. Yet they wont let us play 400 meters outside the bounderies of a city that has a good core support and a potentially massive one - it's cretinous IMO.
We are being squeezed in every direction and we have few friends. Is it any wonder that people are angry when the RFL bought the 'iconic' Odsal but never offered to buy the oldest RL ground in the country - how bent is our sport!
No I'm sorry this is it, do or die. We have to back MC and CB and the Trust no matter what even if it's blindly on occasions because they are the only chance we have - and it's a slim one imho.
The one hope we have is that Box is a bully. He's OK in Council and behind the scenes running his corrupt empire. Court though is a different place. There he is nothing, less than nothing. He can't lie and bully in court. There are no yes men or lackies there, every statement he makes will be torn to shreds - personally I will love to see him squirm in court and with a little luck he may even break. The guy is rotten to the core and we have seen very recently what happens to those sort when their ego takes them to far out of their comfort zone.
We are a dying man, a dangerous opponent - we have nothing to lose. I don't say this lightly and if it's settled out of Court I'd be delighted but i mean it all the same, BRING IT ON.
