I was one of Teds lesser cronies, doesn't bother me in the least. However I do not know Carter so I can only take what I see as a club first stance.

Must admit I do feel uncomfortable naming Carter in particular but he is the only point of reference. I had no such issue with Glover as I think many will recall I called him a fraud very early on. The problem with this guy is he’s very hard to actually pin down. Other than his obvious desire to balance the book he’s offered very little in the way of a vision for the future both in word and deed. I just don’t know what if any ambition he has for the club. It’s clearly got under his skin else he wouldn’t be here but what that pans out to in terms of a future remains a mystery - unless you know something I don’t.

His stance on the ground is matter of fact with no emotion, to me he clearly sees us as a franchise rather than a club that represents Wakefield and I think people need to wake up to that.

Carter could go on to be our finest Chairman ever but at the moment I’m struggling to see how - and I genuinely hope he does go on to great things.

In all honesty I just don’t get the guy.

Ahhh those were the days.... Garen Casey leading the singalong, Adam & Ian Hughes, Roy Southernwood, Martyn Holland etc etc, decent solid pros who gave everything, leading to that never to be forgotten September Saturday at the McAlpine was it then?! Celebrating in the pubs in Huddersfield, promotion to the promised land......

You are right, in simple terms, no fans buying season tickets, paying on the day = no club. I don't to profess to know what it takes to run a 'successful' RL club, and of course success is relative to lots of things within that particular club, but I don't recall the club as a whole being at such a low ebb as it is right now, it's a real shame that people are almost 'turning' on each other on here, relationships strained in reality also at the current situation. Apart from a very select few, there won't have been many so called experts who would have given us a cat in hell's chance of surviving this long? What has it been, 16 successive seasons in the top flight? When you think about having probably the worst ground, always behind the eight ball when it came to funding, player recruitment, odds always seemingly stacked against us in so many ways, maybe we have done pretty well, even though some of our 'problems' were of our own making. Maybe that was us being successful in relative terms, simply being here in the top flight, refusing to go away and p*****g off the majority into the bargain Last chance probably tomorrow, if we lose I think that's it, we have had it, and we'll have to say, it was good while it lasted, then we enter the unknown..... If we win, we still have hope, live to fight another day, win some more and we may just do it, stay up, and, enter the unknown.....?!

Think we will win, probably the hard way as per usual......28-22.

I don't know Michael Carter and have never met him but I really feel for the bloke. He's caught between a rock and a hard place.
Does he follow previous regimes and spend money we haven't got going for some moderate success (e.g a couple of top 8 finishes over 16 years and a cup semi) or does he make painful decisions and get the club on an even keel financially and surviving in whatever division that may be?
I like most on here thought that Glover was the 'saviour' but at the end of the day he was all fur coat and no knickers and for the second (third?) time the club nearly went to the wall as a result.
In my opinion he made mistakes hanging on to Agar and Webster for too long but that was, I feel, born out of loyalty, a commodity sadly lacking these days in all areas of business, so I won't knock him for that. Tough decisions had/have to be made but he's the guy along with CB who put his money where his mouth is to save the club so the guy has to feel something for the club otherwise he wouldn't have done it. I'm sure he's not as niaeve to believe he would ever make money out of it.
The club does need to engage with the City of Wakefield again, how about half s dozen volunteers in the precinct on a Saturday asking questions. e.g
1. Do you Watch Wakefield Trinity?
2. Have you ever watched and now stopped?
3.Why did you stop? (have a selection of answers . eg Price, lack of success, other, etc)
4. What would it take to get you back?
5. Do you care about professional sport in Wakefield.
These might be crap examples but I'm sure minds far superior than mine could come up with something. Heck, I might even take up a clipboard myself. From this we may learn what we need to do to re-connect with the support.

Just a thought.

The weather looks great this morning, perfect for an entertaining game of Rugby League.

Belle Vue is a great venue when the suns shining and we might not have too many more opportunities to follow Wakefield Trinity at our historical home.

Don't watch it on SKY having to listen to the muppets ruining the game with their inane rambling and negative spin. Get yourself down to the ground, get in the North stand and make yourself heard along with many other proud Wakefield Trinity supporters.

Agreed, the sun is shining. Perfect day to watch RL live.
We need to adopt a seige mentality at BV today.

Yep, perfect day for watching RL.

Anyone know if the club have been out in force trying to entice the Wakefield public in the run up to the game? Lots of parents looking for something for their bored school children to do.

They have tweeted about it, and posted on facebook.

tweeted and facebook gates locked half an hour before kick off then.

If your a Wakey supporter you will know that the people of Wakefield couldn't give a toss about Wakefield having a rugby team. You can throw as much money at advertising as you want and it would not make any difference at all.
Sadly the only thing that works is a winning team and due to the players not performing this season for reasons only they can tell us we will not get the fans back to the games.
The people to blame are the players themselves yet we are looking at them to keep us up God help us

A poor few minutes from Trinity ends in Bradford crossing for a try.

Walker on from the bench has given 2 consecutive penalties away, Lee Smith made a lovely beak but then ignored his support and got a bit indulgent, should have been 36-0

Overall a superb half of rugby from Wakefield, we lost a bit of go forward when we spelled the starting props and we got a bit cocky with the ball, thinking it was a cake walk meaning we've bombed at least two certain tries

Get back to the game plan and do the things we started out with!

Easy win I'm the end. Certainly far easier than I expected. I didn't realise how poor Bradford were but credit to Trinity they never let the Bulls a sniff.

Agent Siejka worked wonders (remember him Scarlett)

Sort of related is thee fact that Smith has got rid of some very ordinary players who offered nothing. Whilst at last managing to get the best out of what quality we have, Also all his signings bar Tansey are looking better than the players they replaced.

Lee Smith was great in the first half (though clearly not good enough for Sandal) - I like Sio and Topou and Mullay and Walker,

Jeezif we'd have advertised and got Smith when Agar went we'd be top 8 now.

Anyways vast improvement though still a bit shaky in defence and prone to going off the boo; - all be it for much shorter periods.

Is that the best you can muster?

No mention of a near faultless first twenty minutes that blew Bradford away, you must be absolutely gutted this evening.

We still need to pack in gifting penalties with silly ball steals – note to Timmy.