The exciting thing about this season is that I think a team can finish in the bottom 4 and have played well, couple of real stand out teams, a couple of teams who have one or two stand out players, other than that I hate to say it but it looks like a very competive league. By the way Vasty just because in my opinion looking at the squads I think that on paper, without a player getting injured, without knowing which team has generated a great team spirit and which hasn't , that we will finish in the bottom four does not make me negative, its just my opinion. Remember finishing in the bottom four in the top league in the country means we are very high up on the UK RL pyramid and that can be celebrated.

Why does anyone still give Millward a platform, he's been irrelevant for years and hasn't got a clue about the relative strengths and weaknesses of English teams

This message board is absolute minority snapshot of the total number of Wakefield supporters. If anybody thinks the few that post on here are in the majority are well mistaken.

Who cares what people predict? They're seldom right. at the start of every winter some numpties predict the most severe winter for years, as they did for this one - well wrong again!
Millward was a failure really, so why listen to him, Schofield is another, (overrated as a player in my opinion but people again get upset by his comments)
Until we prove we are genuine and consistent top 8 material, we are easy meat to predict bottom.

Don't get your meaning. Surely it's a representative sample of the general support? Positive, negative and apathetic. Probably the latter are the least likely to bother posting?

I get what he means. Ateotd this forum has about 20-30 regular posters at best, that's a tiny sample size of Trinity support and I'm not sure it's totally representative. Most of the younger supporters don't come on here, they tend to be on Facebook if they post anywhere at all and are generally more upbeat imo.

Saying all that, like I mentioned before I'm yet to see anyone really talk down our chances this season on this forum (much like it is across all social media) and I think the vibe is generally good. I think most would agree we're in a good place as a club, that's leaving the Stadium issues to one side.

I love to come on here and read through the threads as there seems to be much more sense spoken than on most of the other boards. But the comment above about Gary Schofield being overrated completely bemuses me. You must not have seen this guy play the game. I am as anti Leeds as most Cas/Wakey/name your team fan but if Gary Schofield was one thing, It wasn't overrated. There is not a 6 in the world game that could lace his boots.

FWIW I predict you will finish 6/7/8th depending on injuries (like all of us). Good luck for the season and here is to a couple of cracking derby's.

In the pre-season preview in this weeks League Express, they are predicting us to finish 11th with Widnes bottom.
More motivation methinks !!

He's an idiot that Millward, I mean, Not putting Leyth in top four. Unbelievable

I have to agree about the Schofield comment. Go back and look at the videos, against Australia and in Australia for Balmain especially.
You may not like him as a pundit but you can't question his playing ability. There are are few that compare to him since his retirement in the British game.

edited: just seen the "not a number 6 comment"........I don't agree with that bit.
Wally Lewis was pretty good at that time.

That's a pretty bold statement to make we had one at Wakey called Topliss not to mention a couple at Cas called Hardisty and Millward who'd give him a good run for his money.
You must have only watched him play at stand off then because Scofield was a far better centre only in my opinion of course.

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On the subject of Schoey, he predicts us 9th.Others on Radio Yorkshire had us 6th/7th/8th.

Yay! Hate it when Dimward predicts us to win stuff!

John Wells also predicting us to finish 12th - although his reasoning is:

"The recent departure of Anthony Tupou leaves a significant hole and I’m loathe to say it but a lot of their new players seem to have “arrived” at Wakefield rather than having been “recruited” by Wakefield"

Sometimes I wonder if any of them actually watch the games!