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Quote: upthecats "Looking back now it must have been ridiculously hard to make those decisions which have ultimately put us in deep waters.....

Chasing the dream of top 8 success and building on that while at the same time aiming to please the RFL....

Put yourself in the position of those who had to make those decisions.....we'd just finished the season on a real rollercoaster.....seven consecutive wins, put in a great effort at Headingley against the reigning champions just missing out on progressing.....

There will have been teams sniffing last year for the likes of Kirmond....Amor, maybe Smith and a few others........there will have been players who will have played their way to improved terms......Now imagine the fans reaction, on the back of that end to the season if someone had foreseen the problems we are at now and decided to sell a couple of our star players.....how would fans had reacted then......they maybe thought they had to bury their heads in the sand a bit and hope and pray we could build on what we had done the previous season...

We bowed down to pressure in costly ground improvements, that with the benefit of hindsight have done us absolutely no good whatsoever.....

To try and keep building attendances (maybe another thing to impress the powers that be) we went with the cheap tickets again......another thing that could have paid a huge part in crippling us......It's ok people saying.....how come we are struggling when our attendances have gone up so much and we are averaging around 8k......well.....8k sounds good, but if you break it down and think of the cheap adult tickets that works out at probably less than a tenner a game, and then the amount of concessions.....oap's.....junior tickets......how many of that 8k crowds were juniors?.....at £25 a season ticket that works out at under £2 a game from what i'd say was a decent number of that 8k.....

Then, at the start of the season our main sponsor going belly up! In tough financial times with companies struggling up and down the land you would have put your house on the scrap game being as safe a bet as any to be doing well.....

These things shouldn't have happened, but times are tough out there.....I work on an industrial estate and in the last 12 months 3 of the units around us have closed down, probably to the tune of about 3-400 jobs.....

Trying to deliver a top 8 side with our resources has nearly killed us.....chasing the dream.....I can see why it happened when you take everything into account....

It also worries me that with the knowledge before the Cas game of what situation we were in that the crowd was only 6,400.......I know people have questioned that figure but there was a lot of empty spaces in the North Stand......Cas brought as good a following as any team has to Wakey this year.....the place should have been packed to the rafters.....the fact it wasn't in our hour of need is surely a very, very worrying thing.....Do the people of Wakefield really want a Super League team, because if they do things need to start happening now....'"

Completely agree and have said exactly the same. Running a RL club just isn't the same as running any other business, not when fans and expectation are added to the mix.