Vastman. You have it spot on! Reckon wakey are going about things the right way, slow build up rather than spending beyond what’s sensible. What is disappointing is as you say you have RL fans out there that are already RL fans but need tempting back! Sadly that’s where Sky tv games hurt clubs! We want more TV exposure but that can result in fans taking the easy and cheaper option of sitting on the sofa.
Stadium! Moving to a better purpose built facility does not always work, salford are testimony to that.
As for london! I certainly hope we can punch above our weight this season we need too, last season surprised me, but goes to show what a bit of confidence and a good team mentality can produce, were we punching above our weight? Actually don’t think so in the end.

London face a number of problems! We don’t have those community club embedded in the area that produce the number of players that you have. And tempting established players in is very very hard in comparison to a club close to home for most UK RL players, commute over the Pennines or move
Fans wise! The south IMO has thousands of ex pat northerners with RL ties, unlike you, where your stay at home fans are actually wakey fans, we are trying to convince, Leeds, wigan, Saints , wire fans living down here to come and watch what is actually a rival team, so even harder to get em in.
Getting people to convert to a new sport! Even harder.

Guardian have you down for 5th spot this year with us 12th, don’t think they will be far off, would like to see you top half of the table, but just hope first game cobwebs get to you more than us and we take the points.
If we start well, it should be a decent game and reckon we might take it.
If your lot score a couple early on we could get blown away.

NB is the shot clock 30 or 35 seconds?

30 for the goal line drop out
35 for scrum

If like me you enjoyed Sundays game. The LBSA still has space on the coach to Salford, join them for the top of the table clash.

Go back to the days of winter rugby and 99% of forwards had a fair amount of grease on them particularly when playing on hard grounds. I suspect it was more to do with the surface than anything else. There's a picture of Kevin Ward coming out of the tunnel at Knowsley Road back in the 80's covered in the stuff.

No complaints from me about the defeat, apologies for the few s that seem to latch onto Wakefield particularly on awaydays.