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| Quote TRB="TRB"It doesn't really matter where you are coming from - the reality is that to run the club, even at the level we do, incurs a tremendous amount of money.
Players / Coaches / Admin / Community / Groundstaff / TAX etc.... they all add up to a figure that is far beyond our income from SKY / Season tickets / Sponsorship / Gate Money / Shop Sales. If outgoings are greater than income then we have to be creative and find ways to survive - and yes, that can include selling assets unfortunately. If that gets us to the point where we can move to our new home and, if we manage that move succesfully, then we have a chance to break the pattern of events. If we don't find ways to survive until then - then what is the point?
As for Tronc - are you serious? Did you see him play in his last 4 or 5 games - he was awful!'"
The point is we could do ok in a lower division. So long as we haven't been run into the ground by the clubs apparently terrible managament practices before then lol |
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| Quote recycling="recycling"After being a season ticket holder for the last 39 years, I wont be renewing mine for the next season.
trinity have become a pileof drivel these last few years and are jusat not worth the money.'"
I am starting to enjoy the way people are using the length of time they have supported the club to paint a more dramatic picture of them jacking it in! It'd be more impressive if you said I've been going for 1 season and I'm carrying on next season.
People keep banging on about Kear's loyalty to the club or the club's loyalty to Kear seems the place we need loyalty is on the terraces. |
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People keep banging on about Kear's loyalty to the club or the club's loyalty to Kear seems the place we need loyalty is on the terraces.'"
I agree that we need the fans to stick with the club (and as one of the main baggers of Kear on here - have bought a season ticket for next year). I however. don't blame other fans for wanting to see some signs of improvement from the club before committing themselves to next year.
I believe that a change of the coaching staff would go some way to convincing some people that next year might be different to this one and to renew their ST for next year.
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If we have to rely on the Chairman to keep the club afloat, are all areas of the business running as best and efficiently as they can? Do we employ the right people on the budget we have? Are we over staffed anywhere? Do the dance classes make any money?
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| Quote recycling="recycling"trinity have become a pileof drivel these last few years and are jusat not worth the money.'"
We haven't been a pile of drivel since mid-2006. We've had one bad half-season, and even that was peppered with some big wins and hearty displays. |
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| Quote recycling="recycling"After being a season ticket holder for the last 39 years, I wont be renewing mine for the next season.
trinity have become a pileof drivel these last few years and are jusat not worth the money.'"
'trinity have become a pile of drivel these last few years' are you sure,the reason this season has been so disappointing is the fact in the last few years there has been improvement,from the Challenge Cup semi to finishing 5th last year,until this year there had been visible improvement on the pitch,so I don't know where you get we've been pile of drivel for a few years from. |
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| Quote Shifty Cat="Shifty Cat"'trinity have become a pile of drivel these last few years' are you sure,the reason this season has been so disappointing is the fact in the last few years there has been improvement,from the Challenge Cup semi to finishing 5th last year,until this year there had been visible improvement on the pitch,so I don't know where you get we've been pile of drivel for a few years from.'"
Too right, 3 or 4 years ago we'd have been more than happy finishing 4th or 5th from bottom. I'm not suggesting that we should be happy with that but with the resources we have that's still not a bad achievement.
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| Quote Shifty Cat="Shifty Cat"'trinity have become a pile of drivel these last few years' are you sure,the reason this season has been so disappointing is the fact in the last few years there has been improvement,from the Challenge Cup semi to finishing 5th last year,until this year there had been visible improvement on the pitch,so I don't know where you get we've been pile of drivel for a few years from.'"
Correct. Shocking year but some bloody good years leading up to it.
He is never happy and is obssessed with being a so called Trinity fan and hating them as well.
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| Quote Slugger McBatt="Slugger McBatt"We haven't been a pile of drivel since mid-2006. We've had one bad half-season, and even that was peppered with some big wins and hearty displays.'"
Indeed. Some people have short memories |
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I made the same point several pages ago. This season has been a bad one in the context of the last 4 years. But over the context of 10, 15 or even 30 years this would have been a better than average season.
None of which detracts from my disappointment at what we have seen on the field at times this year but it does help to contextualise the critique of some of our more pessimistic posting peers.
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| Quote Slugger McBatt="Slugger McBatt"
As for Brough, with hindsight, it was maybe the wrong decision. We could have made him stay, make him work for a decent contract for someone else, but remember how he played against Huddersfield in his next to last game, and how we won the Hull KR game with him off the field. Was his bottom lip coming out? Sometimes you've just got to make a decision, and I can understand why they made the decision at the time. What we lacked then was a game-changer, like we used to have Ellis, and then Solomona, and then Brough. But what I don't know anything about is the clubs financial position. Running Wakefield Trinity isn't just about putting a team on the pitch, it's also about keeping it solvent, and that must be like spinning plates. =#FF0000:20366gdjSometimes you've got to think financially.
before i start, dont get me wrong i agree with your post on the whole, however, thinking financially....
would it not have been better to keep brough and have some direction around the pitch and not bother signing cooke. surely this would have enabled us to have competed more... play better rugby.... win a few more matches.... and keep the attendence fuigures higher, therefore earning the same amount of money as we gained from the sale.
on top of this you then have a chance of recruiting better players as you finished higher in the league.... also take into account the league position final standings money (i have no idea what this is.... but surely pro rata basis) which would help counteract the money gained from selling brough. and probably sell more season tickets for next year too....
i feel that if we sat down with brough and said to him 'look, you can leave at the end of the season, just play out this year and play for a better contract at a better club' then i feel we would have still won more games. think how well jeffries played alongside brough. even if brough played crap.... his goalkicking would still have been top quality as usual.
personaly, i think financially they would probably have equate to the same, i just feel it would have been a better season with brough which gives future benefits.
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