Quote: snowie "For me it's got nothing to do with the stadium I watch the game not checking out the facilities, I suppose if you stunted in growth it is difficult to watch from Belle Vue but try watching a team that you know will never reach a super league or even get the opportunity to grace Wembley all because we're not rich enough to afford the better players that the top clubs can get,
you wonder why some fans leave the game when they see clubs bend the rules to clamber up the league leaving you light years behind.
Then add the the lopsided refing that makes a mockery of the game whether it's televised or not,
then the bias to the richer clubs being on sky the most,
then you get the snobbery of fans that used to play out of holes but have forgotten about their past and get helping hand by their council's or latch on to football clubs but bleat on about ours
And you wonder why fans of the game are getting peed of with the game'"
That's a mighty rant....I'm sure you and me both would, and have, and still would watch games stood on a pit heap (didn't Post office road have an unterraced banking of pit debris behind the sticks at one end?)**** But if we want the crowds we need to have the facilities - for the ladies if the loo's are a tip that's enough for them to refuse to go. ANYWAY.....
We have to put up with Leeds, Wire, Wigan and Saints playing for all the trophies decade after decade, but one thing I think we may forget is that wasn't there a time when they received "dispensation" because they moaned they could afford to buy big talents from Australia that would "grace the game" and the cap blocked this?
So this is the "
better players" thing?
That Leeds or Wigan can stick another couple of hundred thousand on their "cap" and buy top Aussies may also mean that when top kids in Wakefield are ready to join an academy, they don't join Wakefield's but go to Leeds and yes Wigan?
I'd agree the cards are stacked against Wakefield.....Probably both ways......
Odsal's banking at the far end was a mix of rubbish and cinders from 100 years of coal fires in the city, I can remember pulling out empty BYB beer bottles out of that tip....