why would we ever want to keep atkins? small time charlie imho! waste of time for us..great against crap for warrington but when it comes to up the performance against the big boys is once again found wanting..give me smurph anytime !

oh very dear this is another one we agree on old Crowt! and its not Smurph it tole Bandy Legs!!!

Aye - he's a cracking player, but he couldn't stop a pig in a ginnel!

he'd have to walk sideways to get down a ginnel!

We get money from SL at the start of the year money from sky, 3 of our top earners leave Ted a well off bloke come on its utter tripe! But saying that if we are saving money for our new ground then I will take it.

go to the Q & A on tuesday and ask

Looking back i worded that incorrectly. The tax bill was what it was. But with the poor attendances the club may have used the cash earmarked for HMRC to keep the cash flow going. Perhaps money from the expected increase in attendances could've been used to pay off the bill. Obviously this wasn't forthcoming so the club found themselves in a pickle so had to agree a payment plan with HMRC. No doubt this will have been subsidised by the sale of Atkins.

We are not a well supported club even when things are going well. I think the club are operating on a knife edge financially so a little lost income here or there badly affects Trinity.

Finch says no to Dragons www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -v6gm.html

Finch says no to Dragons www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/leag ... -v6gm.html

The facts in my mind are this, 1) the club has left the playing side now Ill equiped to compete, players are looking frustrated as are supporters, this is a mistake caused by the club in failing to secure adequate replacements, we after all were in the driving seat in regards to releasing both brough and tronc.
2) as a result the club has now saved massively in proportion to it's salary cap spend in wages of 3 key players, the club has failed in any attempt to get the supporters on side by giving it's reasons and any plans for this spend should there be any.
3) with previous dissatisfaction among supporters caused by the sale of other players and up and coming youngsters, the club has doubled the problem by simply failing to understand that a little bit of good pr within the support, would have made the situation, perhaps, more stomachable. A failure by the club to Market itself properly.
I here some say, we are in a much better position than we were 3/4 years ago, and arguably at the start of the season we may have been fractionaly ahead, but the margin for a club like this is tiny, but things shift very quickly, and who on here would not be sweating if we still had promotion and relegation?
To me it's very simple, the club to move forward has to get things right, more or less all of the time, and not always big things.
Communication is key in all business, with staff and customers a like, I think we fail almost always here.
The club is fighting for a slice of it's customers leisure/family time, money is tight and choice is plentiful, but it takes it's customers for granted, offering little in the way of value for money, whilste reducing the quality of the product.
Take Kear out of the equation, ok he may not be getting everything right at the moment but I believe he is head and shouldes above anyone else at this club in proffesionalism, the boardroom is full of feckless wonders, running the business like a second rate corner shop, jobs for the family without any of them having any pedigree whatsoever.

Putting it like that it would be very difficult to disagree with your post, sums it up perfectly for me.

Great post Kinleycat come to the audience with night and say your piece my friend . Post of the year !

I am not one to slate the club or critisize just for the sake of it, but at times they do make me wonder with the way they treat 'fans'....

On Friday night I tried to enter the ground through the cats bar with my corporate hospitatlity pass (which costs a fair bit!!) only to be told I could not enter that way and would have to go round the back of the stadium and then enter the cats bar up the stairs!!!!! At the same time my wife and two kids tried entering the ground at the entrance to the right of the cats bar, they had been given complimentry's by the club as the kids we're mascoting for the game and were asked to meet at the bottom of the stairs at that entrance near the players tunnel, and she was told that they would have to walk back up to th turnstyles near Doncaster Road

When i (politely) asked the stewards why we could not enter through the desired points they replied with answers of "no idea mate!", and a shrug of the shoulders

I personally spend quite a bit of money with the club through various means, coporate/kids/clothing etc etc and I sometimes wonder why

They are only little things, but avoidable and pointless.

If we sign a scrum half all will be forgiven


.....or just win a agame

Finch has signed for Cas. Sherwin has joined Catalan today

nowt like jumping the gun.

there is a strong rumour that sherwin will join up with catalans for the remainder of the season and it seems finch could be available..

wishful thinking me thinks