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What’s the company name of M Ellis kitchen business https://www.facebook.com/MKMWakefield/p ... CO%2CP-y-R

What’s the company name of M Ellis kitchen business https://www.facebook.com/MKMWakefield/p ... CO%2CP-y-R

Quote ="Dunkirk Spirit"What’s the company name of M Ellis kitchen business https://www.facebook.com/MKMWakefield/p ... CO%2CP-y-R'" I’m guessing stadium naming rights. Our new owner’s (hopefully) company is DIY Kitchens, totally separate. Up the Trin

Quote ="Dunkirk Spirit"What’s the company name of M Ellis kitchen business https://www.facebook.com/MKMWakefield/p ... CO%2CP-y-R'" I’m guessing stadium naming rights. Our new owner’s (hopefully) company is DIY Kitchens, totally separate. Up the Trin

Thanks for the clarification,

Well if the takeover is going ahead by the owner of DIY kitchens I can’t see them being happy about a large sponsorship deal being done with a major rival.

Maybe DIY Kitchens supply MKM ??

MKM are more of a builders merchants even though they supply kitchens are a total different market, not in competition I would have thought.

Up the Trin

Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary

Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary

Quote ="FIL"Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary'" MKM are small kitchen retailers. DIY Kitchens are huge scale kitchen manufacturer/suppliers.

Quote ="FIL"Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary'" MKM are small kitchen retailers. DIY Kitchens are huge scale kitchen manufacturer/suppliers.

Quote ="FIL"Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary'" Maybe they are associates of each other. First and foremost, they are part of MKM Building, a building supplies company, who have a kitchen department. Maybe that side is oursourced to DIY Kitchens. Regardless, they are a huge company, with over £800m turnover on the last set of accounts, and this can only be good thing for us. If that is the case, well done in getting this one over the line.

Quote ="FIL"Not sure...just had a look and found these... https://mkm.com/kitchens/contemporary'" Maybe they are associates of each other. First and foremost, they are part of MKM Building, a building supplies company, who have a kitchen department. Maybe that side is oursourced to DIY Kitchens. Regardless, they are a huge company, with over £800m turnover on the last set of accounts, and this can only be good thing for us. If that is the case, well done in getting this one over the line.

I'm not sure anything is over the line is it? They just implied they have something linked to rugby.

And they already sponsor Hull's stadium.

don't worry captain mainwaring all is in hand and hopefully all of these who have ruined the club will soon depart ( yes all of them ).

You need to save your little gleeful dance and read back. We are not talking about Ellis.

For what its worthDavid Kilburn (MKM'S founder) is on the newly formed Hull KR board of directors. Yes, they sponsor Hulls ground (football interests more than anything) but the fact he saw more potential investing in us than Hull is amusing for obvious reasons.

You are right they ruined the club They will leave us with a state of the art pitch ,big screen, revamped North Stand ,New East stand, New floodlights .And when they took over,wiped over a 2million pound det off owed to creditors , and stoped the club from folding Think we're we would be if they had done ok

It is absolutely disgraceful and totally out of order the vitriol and hostility aimed towards the present Trinity board. Yes mistakes have been made , but can be counterbalanced by obvious positives.

Some people on here have a massive grudge against MC and JM. They are incaple of looking at the overall tenure of the current board and viewing it objectively.

You can view it with the squad and on the pitch over the last three seasons. It is success that brings increased crowds and more importantly retaining our SL status.
What do you think of of the way the squad has progressed under the current incumbents objectively.

Reminds me of the Monty Python Four Yorkshiremen sketch ` There were 150 of us living in a shoe box in the middle of the road. Cardboard box etc etc .`
2 Million pound debt ; looking at the accounts to November 2022 we should be so lucky. God knows what the accounts to November 2023 will show.

Indeed. I really don't understand the view.

By all means criticise the on field performance but I don't think Carter or Minards has missed a tackle yet.
Yes they recruited the team and coach but 1) they did it under the financial limitations of the club and 2) they weren't to know how injuries and performance was going to affect the season.

But even with the on field stuff, they are doing a job, no-one else wants to do, for no financial gain.....and then being stalked by people who just like to take pot shots. Some on FB don't even go to the games (not Mopsey).

I'm happy with both their efforts.
We are in the absolute best position as a club that we've been in in my life time.
If it means we have to have a season in championship to sustain our future, then so be it.

Wakefield is the proof that a more successful team does not increase crowds significantly. Lots of things impact that.
Retaining our super league status is no longer about just success on the field.

Not totally true PT.

In 2018, our last season we finished in the play offs, we averaged 5244, and in 2022, we averaged 4613, a decrease of 631.

With that decrease, if those were adult season ticket holders, you would be looking at around £150k of lost revenue, in comparison to 2018.

That’s after limited flirting with playoffs. If Trinity were to get a couple of sustained years of playoff rugby crowds would rise above 6k and then some imho. The potential is there but not the investment. It would take 3-5 years to full transform the club.

This is exactly why I firmly believe after a few poor struggling years we are down to our core support. It won’t go any lower and if we end up in championship and invest enough to have a strong winning team then the fans will start to return. It wouldn’t surprise me to see higher attendances in the championship if we are winning that this year in SL.

I would only be worried if we drop down but don’t invest to come back up. The plan would have to be stay full or mostly full time to win games, challenge for finals and bring back the fans.

Mitigation factors for the current decrease in season ticket holders. The 2 years of Covid lockdowns, the number of deaths due to Covid, and the age demographic of our season ticket holder, one of which I’m getting near the end myself. These are factors beyond the club’s control, and with poor on field results in recent years has indeed lead to a decline in attendance. Hopefully, new management = new ideas, at the moment that’s the best we can hope for.