Well there's no surprises in there, and yes, we are in a difficult situation - I have not denied that, but I am aware of what is being done to remediate the situation, which is more than is being achieved by the constant infighting and sniping.

I will very happily lend my support to the new owners, if/when we find them, so this is not a love-in with Ted, although I do have a lot of respect for a man who led us to SL and has kept us there for 12 years - against the odds!

We are a laughing stock - agreed.

However, as Phil says you can either revell in it or get behind the club (Wakefield Trinity, our club, not the players, the BOD, the admin staff etc etc).

I'm still getting a season ticket for next year and while we have a club I shall be part of it in whatever way
I see fit.

This isnt a rally call either. Attack all you like doomers but despite us being a laughing stock I dont want to lose Wakefield Trinity forever, as I know 99% of people on here dont either.

But aren't a number of the challenges we have faced over those 12 years due to inept decisions made by Ted and his fellow Board Members?

I am sorry, but I don't see anything to thank Ted for, under his stewardship we have lurched from one disaster to another, and if he saved us when the Pearman debacle happened (again he was only rectifying his own mistake).

He has hung around for too long and we now appear to be at a fork in the road. One way sees the club fold and the other sees us heading for the Championship in 2012. As I say nothing worth congratulating Ted etc about.

Not even a new home?

Not that I personally think that that is the only thing to thank him for.

Ted pulled the various parties together. He was the architect of the team and the proposal and has subsequently devoted most of his time towards driving the scheme forward.

All the parties involved need each other, but my role only exists because of our supporters - I am merely one of them and have nothing to offer but a big gob!

We’re the laughing stock, the fans? I don’t think so.

We turn up week after week, year after year, whilst our club, lurches from crisis to crisis. We aught to have a fricking medal!

I have no idea who is the financial guru at the club, but, they have performed like the 1st team has.

We don’t have a Sugar Daddy ala Quins, Hudds etc, therefore, if the total revenue for the club is £xxxM the costs should not exceed it, and certainly not at the expense of upsetting the tax man. Someone needs to go in and do a root & branch evaluation at the club & cut the wages bill to suit, whether, its playing staff or backroom staff.

But the Wakey fans shouldn’t be a laughing stock, Leeds fans worrying they might not win a fourth GF, St’s fans might not see a trophy this year, and Bradford fans bemoaning a couple of lean years - FFS – give me a break.

As a Cas fan I don't like to see what the uncertainty is around Wakefield and I hope that you come out the other side intact.

Fully agree with everything here. We spoke to Danny at Fev last season and he said he'd play for anybody so long as he was playing regular first team rugby.

The season has been a complete disaster, probably our worst in SL yet.

i concur

so do i and im sure you will be ok

forgive me the odd chuckle though, im sure you would yourselves if it was cas

What is so bad we are releasing players i dont agree with latu but they are players who needed to go far as im concerned george and blanch and even blaymire should be added to the list. We are creating space. Brough/Tronc its done we need to get on with it now. Ted has put the club up for sale which is good as he obviously cant afford to run the club anymore. Our new ground is progressing nicely . new backers , new ground getting rid of dead wood whats wrong ??? I think things are looking rosey.

If anyone has some old surgical/welding gear, half of TRB and half of Mopsey stuck together in a bit of a panto horse scenario, wouldn't be a bad thing.
Mopsey although a bit of a dramatist and depresive usually has a kernel of sense to his rantings, while if TRB could see beyond his belief that ted isn't a catastrophe, could aid a more constructive dialogue between fans and BOD.
All of which wouldn't harm a club with limited finance, that may foster a real community club.