I suppose that's one way to describe it

Remember it well , he went on a rampaging run and ran himself into touch ,thankfully he did a fair bit better from then on .

Anyway, back on topic,
I got Tini's shirt after the game - what a great guy he is!
Had to swap him my White British Coal 1989 shirt for it though!

Is it?

If you say so.

No, you said so!

You can’t have it both ways, if Huddersfield get called out for their merger with Sheffield 2 decades ago, you can’t bleat about it being 20 years since we benefited from Administration.

The problem here is I didn’t mention Hudds, rewind and I think you’ll find that was another poster.

But Vasty, if you rewind you'll find Avenger was responding to that poster. You were the one that jumped in.

No I didn't do any such thing. I don’t get the relevance of either. He can’t accuse me of wanting it both ways when I didn’t want it either way. I no longer care about the rights and wrongs of what Hudds did. I certainly don’t blame in anyway the current regime for what Pearman did, I don’t even blame Ted for that. The latter was my only point.

But you commented specifically on his, which us why he defended it.
As it happens I agree with you. Its a long time ago and we'll past time to move on.

Bit pedantic but anyway let’s move on.

That’s exactly the point.

I don’t think people seem capable of looking forward at the moment. We’ve just had 12 million pounds invested into our club! Ok it’s all off field but that’s more money than has ever come into this club before and it’s free and it will pay dividends and quite soon imo.

I’ll say it again, £12,000,0000! That's a roll over lottery win.

For heavens sake folks get a grip. Sure the timing has thwarted us a little bit but only three years ago it looked like we’d get zilch. And all apart from the terminally dumb knew that with zilch we had no future.

Now we do. Yet posters on here, even some I know and respect, seem determined to find fault with every tiny issue and blow it out of all proportion.

We the fans are the clubs best salesmen after the team but if potential new fans read these forums you’d think we’d lost the twelve million not gained it.

People need to give their heads a shake, be positive and move forward.

As a side note in Murphy and Hall we’ve probably got the two best twenty year old backs in the completion.But instead we concentrate on losing a modestly promising prop. Sure I'd have preferred we didn't but let's get a sense of proportion shall we. I have a feeling that in five years time the names of Hall and Murphy will be the more famous and with a bit of extra revenue they may still be wearing the RW&B.

That's quite unbelievable isn't it. £12 million invested in Wakefield Trinity.

Yes it is and it's been invested directly into the club, not into the pockets of players and their agents.

I keep using the term free and I do so because it is totally free and I'll keep on banging home that point.

We didn't own NM, Yorkcourt always owned it. We tried to get a stadium on the back of them wanting planning permission. To do that we got the support of WMDC, who sadly messed it all up. Yet it's important to note that Trinity the club never put up a penny toward the project and lost nothing in cash terms other than a few marginal expenses.

The club and its fans were not the victims with NM, the Council or more to the point its ratepayers were the actual victims.

However that's history. What matters now is that we have the 12 million, money we had a very marginal moral or legal right to have as a private company. This would be different if the stadium were to be owned by the Council, but effectively it's actually being owned by as I say a private company which is highly unusual. A master stroke for the club and technically probably the best option, but if I were a non Trinity supporting resident I might think very differently.

Hence we have as a private company being gifted 12 million pounds or there about's to do with as they please in terms of infrastructure. I'd have said that deal was impossible if you asked me four years ago. I'd have said that we were living on borrowed time and that in short order we would soon become another Oldham.

Without whats happening now we would have no future, we'd be out forever. Losing Batch and Aydin would have been totally irrelevant as we'd have lost everything anyway. So if in the end the only thing our club has had to pay for cementing a future is the short term loss of a few good players then I say suck it up as it's worth it.

The minute that East stand opens, if run right, it's a cash cow and will be from day one because we don't owe a penny, we got it for free. I know if someone gave me most of the kit I needed to start a business I don't reckon it would be long before I was doing quite nicely.