I’m referring to the BoD who don’t seem to give a tish about the club being relegated
Their apathetic approach and frivolous gambling with the clubs playing future smacks of total arrogance and detachment

Their days of playing “money ball” has finally gone balls up and basically put us back 23 years. I still Blame the players personally

I blame the players to a degree, but then some clown:

-Allowed Chester to waste this years budget on crap
- Gave three year deals to Hood, Lineham and Ashurst
-Let Hampshire, a player who actually was committed to the team , to leave and replace him with bargain bionic man
-signed Rob Butler

There is zero chance of staying fulltime. The TV money in the new deal is none existent and believe no longer includes a parachute payment. Sponsorship and hospitality value decreases so imcome there is hit. Ticket prices have to reduce, you can charge premium prices for a second tier product. The list goes on. We are screwed with relegation.

Maybe you have new owners in mind then? Please let us know who

Michael has done what he can with small resources. If I have a criticism, it's around recruitment and failing to try to address key positions but, as he has often said, bring me 2-3 thousand more fans and he'll deliver a better squad.
He has managed to get us to a place nobody has in 50+ years; a modern and renovated ground. Nobody knows for sure what is coming in super league but clubs like ours are invaluable to rugby league and I suspect we are not as unpopular as the paranoia we sometimes feel.
Our luck looks like it has run out. I don't think anyone else could have done a better job with the club since Michael took over post Glover collapse. Between the shenanigans of wmdc and York Court, covid, which is always going to affect smaller clubs more and some rank bad luck with injuries for 4 years, his good stewardship looks like is not getting its just rewards. Thanks for your efforts Michael
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Yes there is no parachute payment all clubs were remined of that this week by the RFL. The other thing to account for is that although new facilities will give a financial boost, once the club stary to use them ,the ground mortgage kicks in. This could eat up all the benefits. If our B.o.D are still around , i really cant see them putting their own money in so part time looks to be the only solution i would have thought.

Well if we can’t raise a team to compete in at the least the playoffs in championship the club will likely end up like Bulls/London. That will be sad.

Look i can see your point but lets be a little realistic. The journey to new facilities started around 2009 before anyone had even heard of Michael Carter. It should have happened well before his watch and with a decent council Ted may have got the benefit. Plenty of reasons for its delay but to my mind Peter Box was the main culprit. I am certain that if he was still been around we would be as far away as ever. That man had no intention of Trinity getting a bean before his beloved Cas. MC was in the right place st the right time and with Box departing things started to move. More credit to JM actually as he has been the one who has steered things through. But Luck and timming have been a massive factor

Well, I beg to differ, though I am probably remiss not to mention John Minards. Luck had nothing to do with it. Michael and the team have had to apply all sorts of legal and political pressure to get the stadium over the line and I don't think our playing situation warrants the belittling of that achievement. It is sad that our playing fall is occurring now but I'm not for catastrophising about it till we know what the situation is, should our increasingly likely relegation occur

The club are the ones generating the income and deciding the player budget. The fact that despite the number of years we have been in SL. We still have the lowest salary cap which is nothing to be proud of but is in fact a failure of those in charge of money generation. We do not have a Ken Davy but not all the clubs do but they are obviously better at raising finances.
We have one of the highest season ticket prices, you have to pay an annual fee to get in the bar and then the bar prices I believe are excessive compared to and I don’t want to say it the con club for example. We have no marketing of matches or if we do I have missed it.
I know Vastman will be disgusted but Castleford manage to attract far larger crowds with increased sales revenue,which allows them to recruit better players.
I like many on here remember the years in the wilderness of the championship it is not the panacea some supporters believe it is. We went for several years seeing our better discoveries leaving for the bigger clubs. I hope I am wrong but I would not be surprised to see us drop to part time to cover the reduced money and maybe we will see other departures.
With regards the game on the radio it said, during the water break Hull KR huddled up to discuss the strategy with an assistant coach whilst we just drank the water.

Quite a few of those players on show today aren’t fit to lace the boots of those players that have gone before , and are an embarrassment to our once great club .

Just to say well done to the decent following from Trinity who made the trip to Craven Park today.

I was relieved to get the win because otherwise we would have been well and truly dragged into the dog fight. I personally hope you stay up because you are a proud and historic club and really all you need is a bit more money to get somewhere near the full salary cap. With the stadium improvements maybe you could achieve this so how ironic if just when you finally get the much needed new facilities you find yourselves in the championship.

It's not all yet over so keep the faith.

I echo this and I couldnt help but think you had 2 sets of fans who went through the ringer today either their physically or on here whilst over in France, I'd be quite certain the vast majority of "Toulouse "fans" probably wouldn't even know the score and having seen French RL fans they really do not 'feel' like English fans. It might sound harsh but they're just ..there and might enjoy what's being served up on the day but yeah..maybe if there was astrong French league (actually there already is but why that isnt focused to get stronger domestically then bringing more Frenchteams here I dont know!) Theyd be more on tune in that aswell.