Wholeheartedly agree.

After the disappointment of Cas and then Leigh fans are obviously looking for someone (or everyone) to blame.

The thing is Minnards has been outstanding in getting the off field improvements done. Carter is leaving his role as CEO but has completely rescued the club in the past. Mash is clearly a talent (though possibly not head coach but I'm not fully convinced of that)
To just burn the house down in a rage doesn't help anyone.
There is still plenty of opportunity to fix this in terms of number of games but right now, this team can't do it.
I think the best thing Carter can do is use his skills to negotiate a fee with Atoni and use the money for one of the stand offs in France for a short term rescue contract.

The bottom line is that the 17 players selected and the game plan they were "following" didn't work and they weren't good enough to secure a win (or register a point).
Of those 17, not one of them would get a starting spot in any other SL club and this tells you everything you need to know.
Quite simply, we cannot afford ant SL quality players (Murphy and Tangianoa aside).
The performance of our overseas contingent is bloody embarrassing and you have to assume that they are busted.

After watching through thin and thinner for over 40 years, we are fast becoming an embarrassment. It's heart-breaking

Turning up at games, already knowing that we wont win and probably wont register a point is no longer worth the effort..

Your fans deserve all they get for the way you hounded out Chris Chester, a man doing a very decent job at the time.

Since you got your way and he went your club has sunk like a stone, which just goes to show what Wakey fans actually know.

You piled pressure on the club to get rid because you thought your club was something it wasn't and too good for Chester, you finally got your way and now relegation looms.

Wakefield fans have therefore played a massive roll in the club's current demise.

The fact remains that the players we put out on the pitch yesterday have very little chance, if any, of beating any other team in the comp. That is the 1st thing we need to see change. For starters, Atoni needs putting away in the same box that Lineham has been shipped off to, both offer negative input on the pitch.

On a different note: Will people stop using the word invest. Its a sugar daddy we need who just wants a bit of kudos.

Yes great post, but you failed to explain that if you are short of money why would you recklessly waste what little you have.

A well thought out response BV.....and I am being genuine when I say that!

Some maybe vendetta's but as time goes on, there are more and more, as someone who has saved the club, he has a lot of vendettas against him, you do start to wonder

I have always tried to be as constructive as I can, whilst being critical. If people look back, I have in the past praised his efforts. He was what we needed in 2013, but in reality, I think he should have only been a short term fix.

People use the word respect a lot in life, but I was brought up with the morals that respect is a two way street, and it needs earning, but can also be lost.

He has verbally lashed out in the past on social media, and on here, myself included, and then to have another dig in front of other fans in Perpignan, back in 2019.

Sadly from that day on, he lost all the respect I had for him.

Whereas, fans can say what they like?
Can't have it both ways.

Yes but we are the customers, how many business owners look to alienate their patrons. I am sure you remember what happened to the moderator who no longer attends game over a bottle of pop and the attitude of the club.

It's ok comparing us to other teams that have been relegated in the past such as leigh and how well they are doing now but the difference is as I understand it there will be no promotion at the end of next season. So we will be down and no way back. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hi Cris

we sacked Chester because he won something like 2 in 18 games, his time was up

Agree tbh, maybe with the exception of Minnards who has actually managed to make progress on the ground.

The squad Carter has put together this season is unacceptable really. Proctor and Atoni offer less than nothing, Dagger is poor (and we lost our only exciting young player to gt him in), Smith also contributes nothing. Langi the only signing who has looked semi-useful. Yes the central funding has been cut and it effected us massively, but I find it hard to believe with our budget a better squad could not have been put together. Having less funding just makes the recruitment/retention mistakes more impactful. A well run club would not be crying poverty one minute and offering Proctor a lucrative deal the next.

On Proctor btw it was genuinely sad to see the crowd turn on him yesterday. I think he tries, his body just can't play rugby anymore. Atoni on the otherhand..

Mash and Ford I felt sorry for initially, and still do to an extent for the squad they are working with. That said, even with poor players we could look well coached, and we don't. We don't have an attacking structure at all really, and our end of sets when on the opponents line are pathetic - it really does make you wonder what they work on through the week? Its also baffling as to why Proctor and Atoni are still getting picked, neither look useful or capable of playing many minutes, yet we have Eseh not making the squad. Butler offered more

Salford don't have a rich owner or big crowds but always see to put a decent squad together. That's because they have people the club who can spot a good player and do the research rather than just watch a highlights reel. Look at the highlights reels of Tafua and Atoni and they look world beaters!

No doubt they get some gems from the NRL and are getting a lot out of players previously written off (sounds familiar in years gone by) but there are good reasons as to how they have the squad they have when they don't have rich backers. 1, no academy, 2, don't pay the full rent due on the stadium and 3 have just asked for a £350k loan to cover operational costs.

There is probably £500k right there, enabling them to secure Broady Croft for 8 years.

Salford are a great team, and are great to watch, but as a club they are teetering on the edge.

I wish we were teetering, better than being over and falling rapidly