Top 8 easy, top 4 will depend on injuries and squad depth same as everyone else.
I reckon Wakey are one of half a dozen clubs with a definite chance of silverware.

thats not true as about that time Horwich and Leigh were on about combining which happened and Leigh got loads of money for ground sharing

WTF are you talking about? I read a lot of excuses and conspiracies about the council and various developers scamming you, but the real reason is decades of mismanagement, which allowed you to find yourselves in the poor position you are in, frankly.

You invalidated your counter by going on to attack us about sharing a stadium with a football team, it's benefited us on the whole. I count two "professional" RL teams in your city and a semi-pro RL team (a small football team too?), why don't you give sharing a try? It might move you all out of the 19th century.

Feel free to come over and speak to the Council and give them a plan.

I seem to remember you playing second fiddle to Wigan Athletic when they were PL. Oh and remind me the state of Wigan when you were at the Riverside? Who bailed you out Tescos was it? Don't patronise Wakefield about ground shaes etc. etc. it will get sorted one way or another we have the best chairman in the league who has the upmost integrity, if Wakefield fail so be it. The gamecwill be worse off for it you can play Sts everyweek then!

I think you've got the wrong end of the stick, I was comparing what Wakefield Council was going to build in Thornes Park, where there is already an athletics track and big gym to what Leigh has, that's all.

Nah WTF are you talking about. You said this.

That's what you said and what I was mostly replying to so don't backtrack now. If you're talking about stuff you've read on the forum it's just that fans sounding off about the lack of action on the developments, like I said that was rubber stamped by the secretary of state about 7 years ago.

Can you genuinely sit there and say if you were in our position you wouldn't be kicking up a fuss, especially as it was a Community project as well? I mean seriously did you not read what I typed or just read the first paragraph and got all y.

Again the FACT is we were promised a stadium 7 years ago because a developer was getting 10's of millions of pounds of green belt land. You can check it on the Wakefield Council if you can be bothered, so I'm not sure where we have lied. The Club went to seek Legal advice and threatened action because of the complete lack of work being done on the site because the Council kept saying it wasn't anything to do with them when it obviously was. Then the Council suddenly have come out now and said they are developing Belle Vue with the money that was to be made on Newmarket, no there's nothing shady about WMDC. You would only know if you've lived here all your life though.

As the poster above said, there has been no offers or plans by the Council to build a stadium for everyone to share because they haven't the money, that's what they say anyway when the subject is brought up and why Trinity and Cas are trying to get Stadiums built attached to other developments, so again wtf are you talking about.

As for invalidating my point because I went on an attack on your ground share, no I just pointed it out that you had a decent sized football team to get in bed with and it was you do doing all the slagging off. If only Wakefield had one hey, I bet we'd have ours built years ago like you. Oh yes, I forget we have Ossett Town/Albion in the NPL North League LOL?.

True the Club was run crap in the past but so was yours at one point and maybe previous owners could have gradually done something but we've never had a wealthy owner or really been in a position to build anything new or properly update Belle Vue ourselves. Like other stadiums that get built nowadays, they usually have an S106 agreement behind them or you attach yourself to a supermarket build, or in some cases the Council sort you out.

I feel I just wasted 10 minutes of my time because it will fall on deaf ears.

You're confusing the City of Wakefield with Wakefield Metropolitan District. And there is no objection to ground-sharing. Location has always been the problem. Wakefield won't play in Castleford and Castleford won't play in Wakefield. It would be commercial suicide for whichever club lost its location. The two proposed grounds are in the other's territory. Would you share a ground with Leigh if it were in Leigh? It's the same argument. Both proposed new grounds are piggy-backing developments, so they are led by where the developers want a development, not where the clubs would like a ground.

The issue about mismanagement is a red herring. Even if it were the best run club in Super League, it would be a tough ask to conjure up 12 million for a new stadium. It would be the same situation. Name a sparkly new ground paid for by the club that plays there?

PS: there is a very strong argument that when you take into account its available resources, it is in fact the best run club in Super League.

Anyway....back to the original post....Wakefield once again looked good today, ground down a strong Huddersfield in less than great conditions...we are in for an extremely tough Sunday afternoon next week. I see Wakefield there and thereabouts this year pushing the top 4 very hard probably alongside us.

Should be a decent game at your place. Looking forward to it.

I’d have Wakey as favourites next week due to the size of their pack. It’ll take a big effort from our forwards to match them but if we can I’d back our backline to cause them some bother.

MASSIVE test for our props this week.

Sutton, Club, Flower, Isa, Tautai vs Hirst, Fifita, England, Pauli, Huby.

The size difference is evident.

Imagine us having fifita instead of Tautai or FPN.

Second best defence in the league, although I agree that you are our real test, as we've played four games we would normally earmark as potential winners. We haven't had to face a Sam Tomkins or George Williams yet.