Quote BillyRhino="BillyRhino"People, what Clarkey and Wiggy were articulating last night, is simply the considered view within the game,=#FF0000 that the years of under achievment, both on the pitch and the boardroom have finally caught up with Trinity.'"
But this is not true is it mate, this is the thing. You can't argue with the boardroom quote and I suspect that nearly every Wakey fan would agree with you but then the rest???
So they never been out of Super League, never finished bottom and have better playing records than Castleford, Quins, Salford & Catalan and Crusaders throughout the SL era. They get better crowd averages than all those bar two and then it is only slightly less. They have a good youth set up and in 2009 won the Academy Grand Final. Their community set-up is arguably best in the whole of Super League.
They do have a crap ground and it the worst in SL.
Now, when you take away the fact that Quins, Crusaders and Catalan are untouchable, it just leaves you with Cas, Salford and Wakefield. Now that Salford have the council and Peel throwing £20m at a new stadium that is being built and will in all probability be ready for 2012 and if the RFL tried to kick them out, would find themselves in front of a high court judge in heartbeat, they too can be added to the list! So it leaves Cas and Wakefield, who are both working as hard as they can in the worst post war world economic downturn to deliver new stadiums and both clubs are better in every department than at least three of the teams who will not be touched.
So explain to me how this is fair again. Also, please don't bang on about Widnes, if you support Widnes coming up and Crusaders now staying then you have no argument IMO.
The thing is the RFL needs to bring up Widnes and leave Wakefield and Castleford alone until half-way through the 2013 season. If new grounds are not being built and not going to be ready for the 2014 season, then you take-away there and then their right to even apply next time. Then from 2018, we go back to P&R (when hopefully the RFL will have it's £700k back from Crusaders).