Agree, in 2017 we had Huby, England and even Keegan Hirst who put in some decent shifts for us that year off the bench. With 3 games to go, we had a chance at the GF but it was not to be. As I said earlier, between 2016 when he came, and when the team started to fall apart around Covid when we were in 4th placeQ at the time, we got to the CC semi and had 3 5th place finishes, whether through the regular season or play offs.
As a reminder of that great season there's a nice article and a couple of videos.
[urlhttps://www.rugby-league.com/article/33005/the_rfl[/url

Some nice highlights there.

How many top clubs came forward with the money. If they had wanted him that much they would have stumped up.yes he came back and gave the club a lift but I think there were other influences as well gale ,players coming back. Yes we won 4 matches shortly after his return but we beat Wigan our best result of the season without him .plus we lost last 10 games approximately while he was still here. Think you are being unfair on the team re fitness, they are all professional and from what I saw fitness was never an issue,.
Let's not forget dave was used as impact sub in every game last year and also 2 thirds of his games for us as a whole was from the bench so they do look better than those starting which I think dave should have started more.

Er...
Wire, Wigan and Salford for a start....
Cas last season too.....
You obviously haven't heard of that saying, quit while you're ahead?
(As in you should have done it a few pages ago.....

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I did quit while I was ahead bg but others have brought it up and asked me questions which I kindly answered with ny opinion . Bg think we are all wise enough to know if wire , Wigan thought dave was the top man then money would have talked, always does .

Listen or watch (show me the money ) Craig Harrison was his agent whilst over here and openly stated that Fifita had options on the table from clubs but chose to stop at wakey .I’m not privy to the amounts that were offered but I’d be surprised if they weren’t in excess of what Wakefield were paying him at the time

If he can't find that on Youtube, this link says what he did there.
[urlhttps://www.seriousaboutrl.com/wakefield-trinity-star-david-fifitas-massive-offers-from-super-league-clubs-58579/[/url

OK I will take his agents word but it also highlights that he was our top earner and as such my whole point all along is that money could have been Spread to improve the team elsewhere. Have we been too loyal to him , majority on here will say no which I see and accept but I have different opinion which I have tried to explain so as you say Barnsley I will give up on the subject while I'm ahead lol

It highlights he was "one" of our top earners and even in WT terms that's only circa £150k which brings us back to an earlier question, what quality players could we have got for DF money?

As said he did not get 150,000 K,

All water under the bridge now ,on the did he didn’t he part , its now resigned to the history books . What we should be thinking about is , will there be a marquee player or two coming our way in the near future .Lots of games to be played beforehand I know but we have the personal in place looking at availability for the next stage of our road back into super league.strange saying marquee and wakefield in the same sentence to be honest , but that’s where we need to be to join the elite and compete with them

Not many, well not any when I think about it. For some reason Fifita and Trinity went together like strawberries and cream, that's good enough for me, and it was clearly good enough for him, we were very lucky to find him when we did.