I should have added, if it’s the same investors, which is what’s been suggested, then I suspect you see where I’m coming from regarding a hybrid game. Overnight you have a truly national game that could start to rival football. I’m guessing that’s how these people think.

I don't think they'd bother.
If they really wanted one game they would just kill ours.
Why alienate all the RU fans? The hybrid wouldn't be accepted by them either.

I would agree I dont really see an angle for the investors if its solely just RL based, other than we are a low budget sport with potential to grow. That aside if the club did get a windfall then it presents an opportunity to fund redevelopment, and I would hope this is where it would go rather than mercenary marquee players.

An astute investor however, would question why, if we had that potential, hasn't it already been realised?

Although they (investors) may not be prevalent in RL, for most investors, a chance to buy when something is cheap and not maximising it's potential should be the ideal time to invest.
Buy cheap, invest and then sell at a profit.

For me, RL is still one of the best sports on the planet and "our" inability to sell this to the masses has been a mystery.

Are those at the top frightened of genuine competition and happy to be "big fish" in a small pond or, is there really no appetite for the sport outside of the established pockets of interest.

That's pretty much what I meant, basically RU with perhaps a few minor tweaks to speed it up a little, the term 'hybrid' was perhaps a little generous.

Going back to our new stadium and i know it as been mentioned before and i think one of the football teams did it, The name on a brick for
£100 if and that's a big IF, If we could get the hardcore fans 4k to invest £100 for their name onto a brick that's £400.000 towards the help of the new ground surely that's needs looking at doing.









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I can easily explain that it's Northern and it's genuinely working class. For all the woke talk in the South by which I mean London regarding inclusiveness, the two things they despise the most are northerners and the working-class in general, both of which we possess in spades. This is not a political thing, it goes far deeper than that. Added to that, our own 'Northern' politicians are even worse possessing a kind of inverted snobbery stroke embarrassment regarding the most 'Northern' of games, just look at Box, you could see he despised our oafish game with a passion, only paying lip service to Cas to garner votes.

Sammy Davis Junior once said after converting to Judaism that as a black midget Jew the only way was up, he really should have added being a RL fan for true pathos

We tried that about 15 years ago and we got about 30 donations or something like that. It's a great idea in theory but to get most Wakefield fans to part with a £100 would be the equivalent to parting the Red sea. If you raised 10k I would be utterly amazed, sorry to dampen your spirit but if you're hoping that the good folk of Wakefield will chip in, forget it would be my advice.

I'd chip in on that.

For you - and a very limited number of other people - that may well the case; but 'the masses' clearly don't agree, and never will. Football is the big draw, and RU has the oval ball market sewn up - RL will never, ever come anywhere even close to competing, hence the only 'investment' we ever see is rich fans looking for a plaything, and Sky filling up space when there's no footie.

Sad but true - RL is a niche, Northern sport, that has been ground underfoot by the much more 'establishment' version of the game.

Anybody remember when Rugby League, Rugby Union, Football, and yes, even cricket, were SPORTS and not high-flying business commodities quoted on the stock exchange and in the ownership of mega-millionaires? it seems that the lust for more and more profit has eaten into the game that all of those who post on here love, and the sports have become a form of super Monopoly and nothing else........SAD!!!!!

I support a football club not a million miles from Wakefield that was taken over a couple of years ago by a Chinese/American group of "Investors"
It has become quite clear to supporters that the investors have nothing more in mind than to take as much money out of the Club for themselves by signing promising youngsters then selling them on in a couple of years time and pocketing the profits without any respect for the feelings of the fans and the heritage of the area or the club. Success on the field seems obviously of second importance to the new owners than swelling their pockets.

RU don't have everything.
They have the money and the International brand.
We need to sell our game as the club setup and show that it has mass appeal.

The value of an investor is that they'll bring someone with knowledge.

For me the strength of RL which also happens to be its weakness is that lie football it’s tribal. At club level union has nothing to compare with the great rivalries of RL. Even a modest derby like Cas v Wakefield is beyond them.

Problem is it doesn’t transfer into the national let alone international sporting arena as well as it should.

The main reason for me is that we have never truly consolidated the heartland and until we do we won’t grow, the roots are not strong enough.

We need to be more confident in what we have, the M62 corridor is bigger than Wales and Scotland combined, it’s a country in its own right. If Northerners were as proud of the North as they claim we wouldn’t need to expand in the same way the NRL doesn’t need to, it does so because it can because it remains strong where it always has been strong.