Scarlet we had no money then, and I would guess were already deep in debt.
We may not have money to throw about but I suspect our debt is more under control now than it was then.
I'm afraid it's a catch 22 situation. The only way to spend is with money we would have to borrow, that wouldn't guarantee success and the money would have to be repaid. How many times have we been down that route? We don't have large sums of money thrown at the club as others do, we don't get large crowds and at the end of the day, it's like everything else, you get what you pay for!

I agree, it took years actually and we had to endure some horrible stuff but we got back up eventually - with little money I would guess!

I would think the transition wouldn’t be as difficult if we were to drop down next season. We would even with our modest crowds in SL be able to run a mostly full time team minus some big earners.

I dare say we would see some fans returning on the terraces and it would be a refreshing change to be one of the front runners in the league. Of course I wouldn’t want us to finish bottom but I don’t think it would be the end of Wakefield trinity at all.

I wouldn’t expect us to be front runners in the Championship
Teams like Leigh, Featherstone and Halifax are far better funded than we would be

If you think some of our players look disinterested now wait until they have to play Barrow away on a cold dark rainy night in March or go to Batley and play up the hill against a team who know how to play a slope.

Just because we climbed up once before means nothing, the games changed massively and the competition isn’t fair and even as it was in 98.

I think we would be a part time outfit and middle table. There will be teams in the league with backers to provide the cash which we don’t have at the moment so there’s nothing to indicate we would be any different in the lower league

Highly doubt that. We wouldn’t have the backers but we wouldn’t necessarily need them.

We would have the largest fan base and attendances. I dare say some success of winning games would bring a few fans back.
We would receive a parachute payment I think.

The worst thing we could do is go part time especially first year down. That would be a huge error. If we go down we must set our stall out to come straight back up.

The best thing to do would be stay mainly full time (or your initial 21 man squad full time with rest made up of part time/academy prospects.

I’m not too sure but I think sometime in the past michael carter said we wouldn’t be going with a full time squad if we were relegated

He did if we lost to Bradford.

I don’t think we would. We don’t get great attendances now.

We getv roughly 3-4k fans in SL. Half that and that's what we'll get in the Championship. Bradford, Leigh/Featherstone, Widnes will have bigger crowds or similar.

Rather than have to battle to try and gain promotion, we need to throw all that we have into staying up.

Running a FT squad in the Championship, capable of gaining promotion doesnt come cheap and IIRC, the monies given to Championship clubs will be massively reduced from next season.

It looks highly likely that either Fev or Leigh will be promoted this time around, both of whom looked better in the 1895 cup that we do currently, plus maybe York.
A couple or few seasons in the Championship would be horrendous for the club.

Attendances would likely drop to 2-2500 which doesn't seem enough to fund a promotion chasing side ?

You get it however some still believe relegation will result in a golden period it will not.