Quote: nadera78 "Without wanting to upset anyone I do consider Wakefield to be punching above their weight. AFAIK they're some way off the salary cap, so to have had the seasons they've had recently is a good achievement. From this distance Michael Carter seems to have done a very good job in righting the ship and running them along sustainable lines.'"
That is all true but that is not my definition of punching above your weight. If you want an example of that then just look at yourselves, now that's punching above your weight! In our case it's just good budgeting and good planning. Wakefield are actually quite a well supported club with a lot of good sponsors, we are only really held back by a poor stadium, which limits revenue and puts some potential fans off.
As for on the pitch then I don't think you've truly grasped RL geography and I don't mean that in an insulting way to yourself. We are smack bang in the middle of what IMO is THE RL hotbed. We have never had a shortage of players just a totally inability to develop them properly. Unlike yourselves we have no excuse for not producing top players, they are quite literally on every street corner, certainly when compared to yourselves.
And if we can't produce a certain player ourselves then we are surrounded by clubs who can and despite the ramshackle look of the club. attracting most most of them isn't all that difficult - again compared to yourselves and a few other clubs.
I know it's a cliche but Wakefield are a sleeping giant and have been since the 1970's and that is almost totally due to our own innate ability to shoot ourselves in the foot time and time again.
Sad thing is that we didn't actually need a genius or a sugar daddy to move us back up, just someone competent. MC is just such a man, not especially rich, no previous experience in the game, not even from Wakefield but in fact a football fan from Hull!
As far as I'm concerned we are still not punching to our weight, Wakefield is a positive garden of Eden where RL is concerned, with a large group of people not needing to be converted to the game but just needing to be tempted back.
If a few more kids make the grade and if we get to a final and above all if we sort BV once and for all then I reckon we'll go like the clappers. Its all there it just needs unlocking.
PS: Losing to you would from bitter experience be for my clubs typical response to my up-beat reply
PPS: I'd take the salary cap thing with a pinch of salt - there are a lot of players on some very long contracts at Wakefield and with that comes it's own rewards if you know what I mean
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