There are a group of posters on here and fans at the ground who seem to take great pleasure in being negative and pessimistic. It’s a perverse pleasure that I’ve never really understood. This season has been a nightmare to most of us but to them it’s been nothing short of a cornucopia of delights. Week in week out defeat after defeat to nourish their strange fetish. Most seasons they hope for the worst and don’t get, this year all their christmases came at once, whoop de doo.

I’m not on about the many who have voiced legitimate and heart felt concerns about the club this season, frankly who wouldn’t. I’m on about the serial moaners and underminers who only ever come out from under there stones when things go wrong.

It’s a free country and if they want to be like that then so be it. However I do get annoyed when they peddle their half truth in a deliberate attempt to drag us all into their pit of despair. As far as I’m concerned there is no point in supporting a club if you can’t at least be optimistic in the closed season so lets not let them get under our skins.

So here are four of their standard dooms day myth exposed.

This team will be relegation fodder next season with the players we have. RUBBISH. Throughout the history of team sports many a failing team has been turned around with a new couch and a few crucial signings and gone on to do great things. McNally did it in 2004 with a team that was poor the previous years with the addition of two players (Domic and Solomona) and a new attitude. Kear took a team that just like this one was derided as rubbish and saved it from relegation and then again with the addition of a few new face gave Trinity it’s most stable and competitive team for the next 3 years since the sixties. Likewise this lot. Whether it happens is up to the clubs leadership but to say it can’t is utter BOLLOCKS.

Smith didn’t Improve the teams attitude and performance. Well sorry but he clearly did. When he arrived we didn’t even have a team just a bunch of men in matching shirts. Last Saturday we had a team, not a great one I concede but none the less for whatever reason it pulled together and grafted a win despite a turgid week off the field. Take a bow Mr Smith yours was every bit as big a miracle as Kear’s. Kear’s teams was poor and under performing, yours was non existent.

We are not SL standard because we failed to beat any SL teams in the play offs. NO WE DIDNT but against HKR and Salford we came pretty close. When you consider that both were away games against teams who could no more afford to lose than we could then this was a mighty effort. When you also consider that up until Smith arrived we were conceding between 30-50 points again then enough said. Yeah we lost to Sheffield, big deal. There is IMHO no way the Webster led squad would done as well and IMHO they would have lost the million pound game though I can’t prove it.

Finally the club is badly run. Well it isn’t. It’s not run the way I’d like and I don’t personally like a lot of what Carter does but I do accept one thing - he’s not an idiot as some would suggest. This year has been about as steep a learning curve as you can get and even if he’s only learned half the lessons it will make him a far better RL chairman next year - and I reckon he’s learned a lot.

No one can promise us a good team for next season that I accept - but to suggest it’s not possible is born of pure spite. So may I go against the false prophesy these people attempt to create and suggest you enjoy the closed season, re-charge your badly drained batteries and look forward to a much better season next year - and stick with that until your eyes and not their hissing mouth tell you otherwise.

Cheers

Should get them in tizzy

Bloody hell talk about light blue touch paper and stand well back...INCOMING....

About time, don't know about you but I'm bored of this misery gig

It does sometimes feel like a few folk will continue to spout prophecies of doom in the hope that they are eventually proved right - which seems perverse, given that we all (ostensibly) support the same team.

That said - I'm not for censorship or hounding people out - but it does get annoying when the negativity seems to get more oxygen than the vast majority of sensible opinion, which is that some things are good, and some things could be better.

It's been a dreadful year - which ended with relief more than joy; it's done now and we live to fight another day. As ever, I'm hopeful that things will turn around next season, but I'm very aware that along the way things will happen that I don't like, or don't agree with. It was ever thus, and ever will be.

Lets look forward to next season a couple of new faces in a couple of spots and we could see a big difference from this onwards and upwards as you say vastman its getting a tad boring the doom and gloom..

Not sure who your candidates would be Vasty, but I've got three prime suspects all keeping very quiet atm, due to our success in the play off against Bradford our chairman is relishing a bit of deserved recognition in different measures from the fans, because of this suspect number 1 is unable to find a link no matter how tenuous to spew out the usual rumours and half truths. Suspect number 2 is still sulking because we managed to sustain keeping our super duper league status despite him admitting he'd be quite happy to see us in the championship.
And as for suspect number 3, make no wonder he's a bit quiet despite promising us he'd gone for good, he's our coach's biggest critic that's the one who played his part in our play off success, not mention not needing an excuse to tell us at every opportunity how big a mistake the club have made in giving the man of the match Jacob Miller 2 year contract, I'm sure in the fullness of time things will alter and we'll get back to normal, till then enjoy the silence

I know the season as a whole was generally crap but three after game celebration remain in my memory and will do so for a long time.

Cas away
Leigh away
Bradford home

I'm hoping that Saturday 3 October will prove to be a big turning point in the history of this club. If we had lost we would be now facing oblivion.

Thank god someone feels the same Wollo one massive game and the feel good mojo is back,the Sat night after the Bulls game,the rest of the season was forgotten.

I think you spoke for a lot of us Vasty, we all get disheartened at times and in our case a whole lot more than other teams fans in Super League but the way some of the doom and gloomers post you'd think they lost a tenner and found a quid. I can deal with any adversity, as long as Wakefield Trinity give their all every game I am happy. I've supported them since I was 5 years old and missed the glory years by a whisker so I aint seen a lot to shout about in my lifetime but I still live in hope that one day I will and that will keep me supporting until I draw my last breath. My message is if you love the club then show it as best you can without resorting to criticising at every opportunity. We still have a club, we're still in Super League, we have the nucleus of a decent team, let's see what happens now over the next few weeks, positivity now is the key.

Well said Emleycat from another Emley based supporter.

Sums it up for me Emley..

...... and me.