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.

When Aston Villa went up into the premiership I don't know how people get to know these things but the Barnsley owners then became the richest owners outside of the top league, and probably richer than half of those in the premiership, but to be fair to the owners they have never made a secret of what their intentions were from the start and that was simply to make a profit and not pour it back in, hopefully nobody comes knocking from tomorrow for the next month, not sure if your aware redders but that same rumour mill says they've got £6million to spend in this window

aye I'm same as you I'll believe it when I see it

6 million, you might get the left leg for that

Quite right wayne, lad. The owners of Barnsley FC have, as you probably are aware, already been the owner of a quite successful French football club ie Nice, and asset stripped the club, left it floundering and now abandoned it. Chien, Conway et al have absolutely no regard for the club and what it stands for other than it being a cash cow and increasing their billions. The sad part of the new Barnsley ownership is that one of the owners is the son of the former owner, Patrick Cryne, and he seems to have bought into the "buy to sell ethos".
Anyone who "invests" in Wakefield Trinity from outside this area would treat the club in a similar manor. I'm sure that anyone wishing to "invest" in RL would certainly put Trinity at the bottom of their wish pile.

Its not in the too distant past that we had people taking money out this club by way of inflated salaries.

And nepotism.