Has been awarded runner up for coach of the year. On any other year I dare say he would have won it. An excellent season from trin and Chessie and kear deserve much of the plaudits for it! Thank you!

Mr Powell certainly deserves his award and recognition tonight. But I certainly hope the Wakefield coaches do not fly under the radar!

4 players from the whole of super league voted for a Wakefield player. Just 4 players.

When we think we've done something to change perceptions of the club, this pretty much shows that nothing has changed. Wakefield isn't respected in the slightest, it shows we've been an inconvenience to other clubs this season

I'm ok flying under the radar for another year.

We'll never amount to anything more than flying under the rader. We'll be predicted to finish bottom again next season, won't get anyone in the team of the year, and won't get anything from the MoS awards. We could win the GF and still be completely ignored the season after

Isn't that when we do best, when people think we're an easy beat?

Neither hated or adored, but very often ignored.

Great season by the coach! and you can see he loves it when wakey win not just when the team he coaches win!

Very good that Willzay. I Like it !!!!!

Another year, and if Cas hadn't walked it to leaders shield, he could well have won it.

7 -5 in the votes suggests there wasnt much in it.

We were also nominees for a couple other awards, qhite q good night really

I'm far from pro Cas and totally refuse to join the love in.

That said it would have been a travesty if Powell hadn't won it.

He's pretty much done a Chester but better and further down the road.

When Cas run out at OT I'll still be amazed as to how they have done it. Decent squad no doubt but not exceptional even as fans admit that. As a team head and shoulders above the rest.

Powell has demonstrated what should be obvious - no one is born a Coach or even a player you become one.

Took him the best part of twenty tough years to get where he is now. You'd think that would be a lesson learned but probably not.

Bang on - and that's what gives me optimism; Cas are clearly a very tight knit group who enjoy playing for their club, their coach and each other - and that looks very similar to what Chester is creating at WT - they're just further down the line than us.

If we can keep recruiting the right players and build on the culture and team spirit that's been created, there's no reason we can't keep progressing on the same trajectory; I feel optimistic.

I agree Bren. The reason I'm supportive of Cas (as opposed to being an actual supporter) is that i see us in them. They are clearing the way for teams like us.

MC said on yorkshire radio that they did their home work as to what type of person potential signings are, not just the playing side, and whether they will fit into Trinity's culture.
Tyler Randell being a example.
He also said that most of the squad were roughly on the same money.

Not doing down their achievements, but if Percival was a decent kicker they'd have gone down as the league's ultimate bottlers, never winning the crucial ones.

Players on the same sort of money seems a best fix for a club like Wakey. You could see v Wigan just how much the players have bonded and that must be great for the players and club.
Squad players have the advantage of knowing that the pay structure s been introduced that based on equality without one or 2 players milking the system.
Its been pointed out on the Wigan site that 2/3 players receive the bulk of the wages and that's caused friction.