Agreed - we had a name on the roll of honour today and it was a very touching moment; I appreciated that. Everything before and after it though seemed a bit clumsy and cack-handed (including the team performance, but that's well covered in other threads)

I don't know if it was common knowledge. As although I'm a Wakefield supporter I travel from South Lincs to home games, so tend to be out of the loop somewhat; although I understand from other family members that there was something in the Wakefield Express about the nature of the minute's silence.

Francis S told me that the club had had many requests to remember fans, from families etc, so today was a result of the club listening to fans and trying to help. I think we need to really celebrate the things we do right as a club.

My dad wasn't one for the limelight, so would have liked the idea of being remembered along with other fans.

Yes it was.
Yes it was.
Yes we should celebrate this IMO.

A great idea, but surely it would have been a good idea to announce this in the build up to the minutes silence so that everyone at the ground could have been aware of what was going on.

I am sure I was not the only one confused by it all as not only myself and dad but a number of fans from both clubs commented on the slightly random to us nature of proceeding.

I think on a sunny day with the game going our way you may have all thought differently about the events the club put on.
I always aprove of a minute's silence (but didn't really know why it was happening as the speaker system in the stands is shocking), and I actually enjoyed the whole 'kick for gold' contest. To be honest it was far more entertaining than our team's performance!

The kicking for gold was an ABSOLUTE JOKE today ...

The threads about Kicking for Gold - so forget the silence (or clapping as some of the crowd did!!!!)
The Kick comp was an absolute farce and an embarassment. Setting a competition which is in fact impossible to win is probably illegal.

PR gone to far, I knew there was going to a minutes silence and thought there was too many past hero's mention for a second time

if your going to put a kicking competition at least give them a chance if you really want some advice on PR then listen to the fans

Some of the crowd clapped because Mr Smith blew his whistle at the wrong time; it was meant to be names - reading - Last Post - minutes silence, ended by Mr Smith's whistle. Instead, the daft get blew his whistle after the Last Post and some people in the crowd got confused and started clapping.

That, coupled with the Wigan players running straight through the Dolls whilst they were still 'performing', pretty much summed up how the pre-match stuff went.

The guy on the microphone did state that the minutes silence would start on the referee's whistle after the last post.

Got to say I was a little dissapointed with the club yesterday. My lad was the one in the pink Stanley Rangers shirt who kicked for goal, he is 10 yrs old and had absolutely NO CHANCE WHATSOEVER of making that kick. The guys who organised actually wanted them to kick from FURTHER BACK!!! It was only after some discussion that it was moved to the 25/30 yrd mark. My lad was gutted, after practising for an hour on Sunday morning from a reasonable distance, he thought he might be in with a shout of winning the boots. I actually told him before he kicked it that I would be buying him some boots myself because he had no chance of kicking it anyway

Very shortsighted of the club imho, I am a box holder at the moment, but don't think I will be next year. Still smarting about it today

It was a great idea in theory ... in practise it flopped, badly!

Shame really.

Felt for the little kids, they had NO chance.

What a farce, why not offer a million pound prize and make them take the kick from the other try line. Because they would have just as much of a chance of winning. If they are going to do things like this , at least make it look professional, not the shambles it was yestreday.

only at wakey

Its probably our way of finding young talent if a 10 year old can kick it, sign him up

I thought the kick off was a complete joke too, made me cringe!