Until said investor comes, we are potentially running £1 million behind a lot of teams. Think we’ve spent £1.7 million this year. Sadly so far it’s showing.

It's a reflection of the football situation I'd say. Certain clubs dictate the premiership, promoted clubs come up and struggle and eventually most go back down!
I know a lot of football supporters and they all say the Championship is more even and competitive.
Wouldn't bother me one jot to be honest if we go down, let's face it our core support shouldn't drop that much - we wouldn't be like Bradford losing thousands of supporters because we haven't had that many for donkeys years!

About 4 years ago, MC was on rugby AM, and he quoted that we were around £450k on the cap. In todays money, the limit is £2.1m. If it was that then, we were operating at £1.65m.

If we are at what you say of £1.7m, then we've several overpaid and under performing players on our books. It feels a lot lower than that, looking depth and quality wise.

We are also earning £500k less than those days due to reduced Sky money. So spending £1.7m doesn't seem likely.

I’m sure I heard MC say we are at £1.7 m this year, I could be wrong though. If it is lower, which like you say it does feel, then we are certainly around 1 million off the likes of Warrington, St’s, Wigan, Leeds, Hull fc etc with the Marquee rulings.

£1.72 million is the figure Carter gave himself when interviewed on Trinity TV pre-season.

Then great, they've managed to increase income since 4 years ago. Great job.

It is when you consider how much Sky revenue has fallen over the past 4 years, even less Sky money for Trinity due to the penalty imposed by SL due to poor state of our ground.

Let’s not forget the wages of uncle Chester’s 2 long term signings still clogging the system up , coupled with Atoni , who is either massively unfit or massively uninterested, Kelepi who hasn’t broke sweat for many a month now , and you have a fair bit of wonga wasted at this present time . Glimpses of Taufau and proctor , but tough going when the team is constantly changing and can’t get into any kind of groove . How many players will have the same passion and fight going into our next game as the fans that will be cheering them on , I wait with baited breath .

Benefactor is probably a better term for anyone crazy enough to put money into a Rugby League. Investor suggests that there will be some profit/payback down the line.

Totally agree. Unless there is a hardened multimillionaire Wakey fan out there willing to lose a considerable amount of money investing more in our squad, to hopefully gain a better league positioning which would potentially improve our crowds.

Quite probable.

However, an initial investment in the squad should make is more competitive on the pitch. A more competitive squad could make for increased crowds, and possibly a bigger pot at the end of the season, if you still get prize money depending on where you finish. I do think crowds will increase initially when the upgrade is finished, though that would be temporary, unless you can engage the fans.

Furthermore, we don't know what extra revenue we can generate from the upgrade.

With those thoughts in mind, any investment could be more prominent at the start, and we may be in a better position to be self sufficient

Game is on Trin TV if anyone fancies watching that 1st 40 minutes.

They were incorporated into Tate Travel of Barnsley, now operating as Globe Holidays running Route no. 96 Wakefield/Barnsley et al.

Walking home along Ings Road after the game we would always comment to each other when the Stanley Gath Mob passed. It seemed such a weird name at the time.