lockyer

Too old and not British



Yikes my sense of humour returned

There isn't a clue - it's all speculation.

The point is, if JK thinks he can use that money to get someone who he thinks will improve us - then he will - and with my blessing - however much it hurts at the time, as we become attached to 'our' players.

I really hope it isnt true Brough surely would prefer to stay at Wakey I just hope we dont try and force him out for the money Kear won't but I have never trusted our board. Heres one the crowds seem bigger than what they are ? Hows about thats the thinking from the board to announce low crowds so they have a excuse/selling point for us guys to sell brough for 100 K ???

right at that I bid you a good night and hope I don't have a restless night sleep

And your moniker is 'newgroundb4cas' - so who's gonna get you that then - the stadium elves!

I think the reason so many fans are quick to beleive this sort of rumour is that we have so much form for committing this sort of act.
Skerrett
Keith Rayne
Kevin Rayne
Toppo
Andy Kelly
Colin Maskill
Gary Spencer
Nigel Wright
Gareth Ellis and so on . .

As has been stated earlier, Wakefield Trinity have lost generations of supporters by perpetrating this kind of betrayal.I hope that Ted and Co have learned the lessons of the past, in fact I think they have!
If we are to let anyone go then it needs to be evident to the fans that we have someone better coming in, Ferdinand for Cole at NUFC and Keegans "trust me" speach springs to mind.

Fans are always rightly proud of a player when he has come through the juniors. There is often a greater value to retaining such players. I think we should make more noise about the home grown element of our current squad as it often engenders an 'our team' posessivenes in latent supporters. Who might just get their backsides to a game if the team was seen as more home grown.

Only us Wakefield fans could find such a negative when things are going so well. I really do give up. PATHETIC.

Things are going well, thats the point JT.

How can it not be a negative to have our squad disrupted at this stage of the season.

Phil, my rant is not about the possible sale of Danny Brough. I don't care who we sell if that sale is to bring in better players that will improve the team and it is with the knowledge and blessing of John Kear.

My bitch is about the poor attendances and my opinion that we need to improve our marketing. I understand that Castleford are marketing the Barnsley area, Bradford used to market in Wakefield - where are we marketing. We have an excellent Community Programme which we can build on but I feel that our marketing is not up to scratch - just an opinion and happy to be put right but we should be getting more people coming through the gates - we can't just sit and expect people just to come and watch, you have to work at it and speculate to accumulate.

I was also thinking along those lines. Recently I was in a builders merchants in Barnsley. I go there quite often and usually the talk around the trade counter is football. However this time the conversation got on about rugby league. I hung around a bit to see how it went and I was suprised to hear that two of the guys went to watch cas and one went to watch Huddersfield. There was no mention of Wakefield whatsoever.

I know our team do a great job around the schools in Wakey but I would be interested to know how far out they stretch do they put the same effort into places like Crofton, Hemsworth,Royston.

The main reason why Wigan get good crowds is they have the total monopoly of rugby league fans north of Wigan. I know a lot of people who go to watch Wigan just because they are the nearest Super League team, often from twenty miles away and more, even though they have no connection at all with the town of Wigan. We should have the Barnsley area sewn up.

Was chatting to a Barnsley football fan a few months ago at a football event for one of my lads. I was wearing a Wakey jacket, and he started reminiscing about the Oakwell terraces being dominated by Trinity chants in the eighties, and how all the Barnsley fans used to watch Trinity.