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| Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "A Super League club can’t be sustainably run on numbers like that. It’s only a matter of time until someone has to throw you a few quid for Bill Toupou or Tom Johnstone IMO, unless Carter has some serious money behind him, but I don’t believe he does.'"
That by the way is not our typical attendance figure but don’t let that bother you. Not that it matters because as far as I’m aware this is a RL comp not an attendance comp. So long as the team is competitive it’s only an issue to sh*t slingers like you.
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| Quote: JonnoTheGreat "Wakefield remain a nothing club. Never done a thing in decades. Won't be doing anything for decades and have a 'ground' which is so embarrassing it makes Castleford's look a palace.
They should be removed from Super League on the basis of that shed of a stadium.'"
Michael Carter has gone on record saying he appreciates we require an urgent solution on the ground front or our place in SL will be lost. Unfortunately in the current climate getting a stadium built is no easy feat unless you have a supportive local council and a good developer who intend to honour their commitments.
As for your other comment, there are plenty of other clubs who have done nothing for decades as you put it, and If we finish in the top 8 again this year, that will be 3 years in a row despite being one of if not the lowest spenders on player wages
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| Quote: PopTart "You are getting a lot of bites on this but I find it hard to see how we are an embarrassment compared to Bradford.
You had it all and threw it away. We had nothing and made something pretty good.
I'm pretty proud of that.'"
Well said
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| Quote: JonnoTheGreat "Wakefield remain a nothing club. Never done a thing in decades. Won't be doing anything for decades and have a 'ground' which is so embarrassing it makes Castleford's look a palace.'"
Yet people still go & watch!
St's fans get panicky if they don't make the play-offs, you don't have a clue what it's like to support a rubbish team, it's just the cards your dealt.
Quote: JonnoTheGreat "They should be removed from Super League on the basis of that shed of a stadium.'"
Yeah, because the main reason you go to watch a game is to sit or stand in luxurious surroundings.
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| Quote: Tricky2309 "Michael Carter has gone on record saying he appreciates we require an urgent solution on the ground front or our place in SL will be lost. Unfortunately in the current climate getting a stadium built is no easy feat unless you have a supportive local council and a good developer who intend to honour their commitments.
As for your other comment, there are plenty of other clubs who have done nothing for decades as you put it, and If we finish in the top 8 again this year, that will be 3 years in a row despite being one of if not the lowest spenders on player wages'"
I don’t think you are one of the lowest spenders on wages, I wouldn’t be surprised if you are close to the salary cap, which is why below 5000 crowd figures are not sustainable for you.
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| Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "I don’t think.'"
No, you don't.
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| Quote: Sir Kevin Sinfield "I don’t think you are one of the lowest spenders on wages, I wouldn’t be surprised if you are close to the salary cap, which is why below 5000 crowd figures are not sustainable for you.'"
I believe we are making small incremental increases in our playing budget year on year but we are not spending to the cap. Michael Carter has said previously we would need average gate of 6,000 to do so and that was before we started getting money deducted from our share of the tv deal due to the ground being sub-standard.
The only other clubs I would imagine aren’t spending to the cap are Salford (who clearly were whilst MK was there), Hull KR (because I suspect they deliberately kept some space free to strengthen before the split) and possibly Widnes. All of the others are full cap with a few using the marquee player exemption as well.
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| I guarantee Wakefield have been spending the full cap for a number of years now, it is a case of smoke and mirrors in terms of "Look at us we are over achieving". Small club with a small club mentality.
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| Quote: ScouseViking "I guarantee Wakefield have been spending the full cap for a number of years now, it is a case of smoke and mirrors in terms of "Look at us we are over achieving". Small club with a small club mentality.'"
You can guarantee that can you? Do you want to supply the figures so we can all see where the money goes?
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| Quote: The Devil's Advocate "Yet people still go & watch!
St's fans get panicky if they don't make the play-offs, you don't have a clue what it's like to support a rubbish team, it's just the cards your dealt.
Yeah, because the main reason you go to watch a game is to sit or stand in luxurious surroundings.'"
And what exactly have St's fans got to do with me?
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| When did Wakey become super league's pariah club?
Honestly it's no wonder this forum is in rapid decline with one clown posting bilge under 10 guises.
I see Salford, Saints, Cas, Wigan and Widnes fans have all given this site up. Dying on its .
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| Quote: ScouseViking "I guarantee Wakefield have been spending the full cap for a number of years now, it is a case of smoke and mirrors in terms of "Look at us we are over achieving". Small club with a small club mentality.'"
You can guarantee that can you
I can guarantee that we aren't if that helps.
It's actually a really simple formula. You bring through or bring in players who are relatively cheap and then follow your gut instinct by signing the ones you like on long term deals before anyone else has noticed them. If you know your players and you know you can trust them as people then it rarely goes wrong.
It's not even new it's how teams used to be built and how the NRL still does it. It's only wally's like you who are obsessed with reputations and which shirt a player wears who don't get it. There are tons of good players out there in all three divisions just looking for the right club to give them a chance.The fact that people like you are obsessed with yesterday players with big reputations and even bigger wage demands is where SL falls down.
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| Quote: Kippaxer "When did Wakey become super league's pariah club?'"
Weird isn't it? I don't see the match report thread for any other team hijacked to belittle and condemn the winning team - but it seems that's what happened in this case. Although you're right - it's a false positive when half of the bull$h1t posts are made by the same person under different user names.
This site is indeed in decline - I am beginning to understand why the fans of some clubs decided to make their own.
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| Quote: Kippaxer "When did Wakey become super league's pariah club?'"
When Leigh were pushing for Super League we had vitriol from some of their fans, then from some of the Bradford fans when we beat them in the MPG, then from the faux Frenchmen last season when Catalans were garbage. Now that Widnes are in free fall, we've got ScouseViking hanging around our board and VT threads like a bad smell.
There's a kind of complex developing where if one club believe they should be doing better, they aim their vitriolic abuse at Wakefield fans because 'it should be Wakey who are in the , not us'. It's become a barometer for which clubs are struggling - just see which club's fans are slagging Wakey off.
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| Quote: bren2k "Weird isn't it? I don't see the match report thread for any other team hijacked to belittle and condemn the winning team - but it seems that's what happened in this case. Although you're right - it's a false positive when half of the bull$h1t posts are made by the same person under different user names.
This site is indeed in decline - I am beginning to understand why the fans of some clubs decided to make their own.'"
Indeed, yet both you and I agree that to be the wrong answer. I understand it but all it does as you yourself have stated is create virtual echo chambers or gettos where no opposition exists to the perceived opinion of the supporters of that particular club and that is not good for the wider game.
The Cas forum or nut job forum as we call it is 90% harmless but 10% of it is vindictive and utterly untrue yet it goes virtually unchallenged. It does so because it's what some wish to hear whilst those who know better prefer not to challenge for fear of becoming pariahs.
These forums for all their faults offer alternative opinions even if some are clearly bonkers, that is whats being lost.
I can just about take the ludicrous half truth and bitter claptrap posted on here, this forum has always had that. But this multiple identity crap led by arch sad case and attention seeker the faux frog that is what's really ruining it. It's totally unfair and morally despicable IMHO to post in support of yourself and your agenda without other people knowing for sure if that poster is who they say they are or whether your just another stooge poster. It's the verbal equivalent of the bloke who waits for someone else to throw the first punch then puts a snide kick to the head of the victim as falls to the floor - utterly cowardly.
Arguing your case on here is part of the fun, arguing with multiple incarnations of the same person is both tedious and stinks of snide dishonesty.
Finally the ludicrous assertion by the mods that these multiple log ons don't exist is frankly insulting our intelligences. Apart from it being obvious to everybody but them I also know for a FACT that technically its a piece of cake to do. Any IT expert will tell you that an IP address means nothing if the poster has a basic grasp of the technology, proxy servers, non static IP's, multiple location devices, all just off the top of my head.
I'm not sure tbh what the site can actually do to stop it but pretending it isn't happening is most certainly not the answer.
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