Mr Carter! You were quite willing to contribute your feelings about one thing or another freely on this forum a few months ago.
Now, as the season is coming to an end, I challenge you (perhaps following next week's game) to reappear and give your own honest opinions about the performances of Wakefield Trinity this season. Do you think the paying fans have had value for money, have you made any policy mistakes etc etc? I'm sure the fans would love to hear your thoughts.

It's the fans fault.

if brian smith is building a team for next year for mr carter i think he should take further advice from the fans

Ah yes, Brian Smith. The messiah.

In all fairness to the fans the majority would have stayed well clear of some of the deals we have done regarding Cas rejects.
Many fans have been around a long time and seen it all before, in all fairness 'collectively' know far more than some people give them credit for.

They also know when they are being sold a pup and that's why more and more are staying away.

So don't blame the fans, they are the ones that care and suffer the most from the abortion they witnessed today.

For most of this season I have questioned my sanity keep going to watch this garbage days like today away to a team of part timers who will be at work tomorrow make me question it more. As for value for money do we need to say anything on that score

This household won't be wasting any more money on this club, whatever the outcome on saturday. I'm afraid they have sucked all the enjoyment out of it for me and under this regime it will be a case of same again next year. Good on anybody who can stomach that but its not for me anymore.

Interesting that we get loads of retweets from MC when we win but nothing when we lose.

That's a bit like the rest of us at work on a Monday morning.

For my money Mr Carter should not post on this site facebook or twiter fans tend to have a go when things go wrong and Mr Carter often fights back it helps nobody
At the end of the day the clubs live blood is the supporters and Mr Carter would be better working on a plan to get the stay away supporters back to BV and not engage in cheap slanging matches
The same goes for all the players

Problem with MC as I see it is not the deals he’s done - I assume he takes advice from his coaching team who are clearly crap.

He’s done some good stuff especially the BV deal.

It’s his attitude and his style that bother me. I really don’t like his angry dad routine. More Importantly is his management style as I see it that worries me. As someone who’s job means he works for many companies I meet a lot of Managers and a fair few CEO’s at some of the smaller outfits. For me there are broadly speaking two kinds of managers in my experience. Reactive and pro-active.

To me MC seems very much reactive as indeed most accountants are by nature.

Here is an example of what I mean. Monies tight because of attendances dropping lower than budgeted for mid season. MC’s response - sell a good player. That’s fine in pure accountancy terms as it instantly balances the books. However IMO it’s no use to us. What I would like is a pro-active response at least first

This would be something like ‘where else can I make the shortfall before selling the family silver”. I know, a share issue, ask Squadbuilder to put on a dinner dance, come up with some sort of imaginative promotion for the fans or businesses. I can’t be exact because I’m not the CEO and perhaps there were no other options - however I firmly believe he probably never even looked because his default setting is cut cut cut and never ever speculate.

Basically not a businessman but a decent accountant - in which case we will probably always have some sort of club but not a winning one.

I could be a million miles off but it’s certainly the impression he gives off and it seems to rub off on the players who are a defeatist and negative as he seems to be. MC yes you do need to balance the books but remember this - no one ever supported a club because it's double entry book keeping was exceptional - true in most other industries it would get you brownie points but not this one so stop going on about it it's not helping - sorry.

One thing I am certain of is that he has no natural ability to engage with fans or push what little positive PR there is. His desire to foliow up a good news story with a bad one is staggering. Best performance of the year against Bradford and he spends all week chasing up a none story about abusive fans. Bloody hell Michael forget about them and push the positive - sort that one out quietly in the background. It doesn’t matter how right you are or the need to appease the RFL what matters is making people want to support the team.

I think the kindest thing I can say is that MC is probably very good at running the club day to day but is pretty poor at leading it which is a very different job.

Do I think I could do it any better?

Yes actually I do for the very reasons you suggest Prince - how much better I don’t know - but although I do have the pound required to buy it that’s where it stops.

So I live in hope that like Ted MC eventually learns the ropes, because as both you and I know it took Ted a few years to stop being mugged by every passing Aussie.

Vasty

One things that jumps out from your post is about the engagement with fans. Remember the audience with nights, well the arrival of Brian Smith was a huge opportunity, Cats would have been packed out for that one and the club would have made a few bob on the evening.

What we need to complement Mr Carter is someone with Rugby League 'nous'. Leeds have it with Caddick and Hetherington. We appeared to have it with Carter and Hetherington (Mrs) but it didn't last. One to worry about the books and one to run the rugby side to ensure we don't get our pants pulled down by every Aussie & British agent.

Thought that Trinity's already poor state took a downward trend when Uncle Kath went. She was good for the club during her tenure. Doubt that we would have signed Tansey and Moore if she'd still been around.