It could be that the players in key positions just have not cut it, and that along with they either didn't want to stay, didn't have the guts for a scrap or found a club to take them on next season.
The performances have been crap and players in key positions like hooker , full back, half back just aint performed.

Apart from Collis none of the players who have left concern me as I think they are all replaceable  . what would is if the accountant has already agreed to dispose (cash in) of our home grown talent to his friends  . I think the biggest mistake was the off season recruitment  Webster was allowed to do

I've never heard so much garbage. If MC was getting ready to finish off the club why would he bring in Smith ? Why not just keep Webster ? Why bring in Arundel, Moore, Tansey, Sio, Kavanah, Howarth, Locke, Walker, Mullalley, Tupou and Lee Smith ?

you might upset Websters little fan club.

Agree with the recruitment.

Hall - crap.
Kirke - crocked.
Miller - headless chicken.
Ashurst - where is he?

Simon has been solid I admit. But on the whole the recruitment was poor.

That's surprising the time you spend on here

the Bard of Barden Road would have you believe it's just a ploy on behalf of agent Carter to de stabilise the club and bring it to it's knees rather than admit it's a supreme effort to keep us in superleague by backing the new coach, who on the face of it has identified the players he cannot rely on and has brought in players who are available to give us a better chance of survival.

Yes - I was exaggerating a bit there Chiss.

Well I might as well and to your 'world is going to end' list.....
Mr Carter says someone has made Box an offer to buy the stsdium/land.
He doesn't think anything will come of it but that's not good news for us.

The stadium land at Belle Vue or Newmarket?

Them long winter nights must fly by,I wonder how many posters on here have girl friends

As far as WMDC are concerned Newmarket is nothing to do with them and the BOI own BV so why on earth would anyone be making an offer to that slippery eel?

Belle Vue

Is there a reason why the club, with the Council acting as a Guarantor, couldn't get a mortguage on the ground and buy it back from BoI over the next 20 years.

I'm sure BoI would like to get it off their books and it's a step in the right direction for the club in owning their own stadium again.

The big question would be what we do with it then?

Well first of all, we play in it and stay in Wakefield, beyond that we either look for ways of developing it or we continue to chase Newmarket as a long term solution.

If we were to get the ground back and the council stuck to their promise of providing scrubland nearby for parking then maybe a payoff from YCP would be enough to start renovations and maybe one big grandstand.

Maybe it's a non starter right from the off and the club getting a mortgage is never going to happen, but just a thought.