chapylad wrote:
So you would rather watch a team that has won very little lately to a team that has constantly performed on the big stage becoming SL Champions and WCC winners?
Maybe some of us Leeds fans who were born in Leeds prefer to watch and support the Rhinos but for different reasons.
Our cup finals start in August whilst yours start on Boxing Day.
Well said dj and Clan
The thing is chapy, it is not a case of right and wrong. We are not wrong to be supporting a team who has had less success than your team, just as much as you are not right for doing so. We all have our reasons for picking our team. Enjoy your team for what it is and leave us to enjoy ours.
There are differences is our experiences because of the way our teams play. Your supporters seem to demand success and leave well before the end of the game if it isn't going their way, no matter how close it is. We moan about our team a lot but equally we glory in every small thing we do, whether it is a win against a "big city club" or even just a good effort from the guys against the odds.
I watch lots of sport. In particular I enjoy watching football on Sky Sports. I enjoy it because I have no team and can watch as a neural and can switch sides if I wish. Its a good game and presented especially well on Sky.
When I watch Wakefield I am watching 'My Team'. That is different. I share in their trials and tribulations and feel great when things are going well and sometimes the opposite when not. I am passionate when we are toughing it out and feel agrieved when there is an injustice on the field. I look for small glimmers of hope when we are down because I want them to do well. I share a bond with the other fans without really knowing most of them (and some I would try hard not to in any other area of life!)
I look forward to the day when we win the Grand Final in glorious style but it will not cause me to question whether I am right to support them if they don't. If we finish 5th and don't make the final, I'll treat it as a victory. If we just make the 8 beating Cas in the last game I will wallow in the experience and enjoy the banter with the Cas fans........and if we lose our franchise and end up playing Batley or Dewsbury in our big local rival game, I'll still feel the same.
That's how it feels to watch 'My team' rather than just a team that wins things.
#justsayin'
There is something about a small club like Wakefield Trinity with its huge history and tradition that has made me want to go and support them. I'm proud to be from the city despite now living a distance away.
