PS... I'll be there again on sunday where most of the Huddersfield fans always go on the side terrace where when i used to go to belle vue many years ago there used to be a stand which I think was pulled down !!

I can't imagine the players being booed - we're not Hull FC.

The behaviour of Hudds whilst we were in administration left a sour taste in the mouth of a lot of Wakey fans - understandably in my view; it did leave us feeling like that kid in the London riots, who got his bag nicked by a passerby whilst he was on the floor suffering from a broken jaw.

I dislike Shudds for the week leading up to playing them; it's all part of the pantomime. The rest of the time, I don't really notice them - much like the people of Huddersfield.

You're getting carried away Bren all rugby clubs have struggled and some time or other have had 'star' players taken away. I can name you loads when we were down and out in the late 70's and 80's and when we got relegated from superleague Martin Gleeson and Chris Bridge to name two who were worth around £300,000 on the transfer market but because contracts were voided on relegation we had to let them go for nothing one to Saints one to the Bulls who also took Brandon Costin so stop painting just us as the bad boys we've all had our turns !!

So are you saying it was ok when it was you on the receiving end?

You forgot Ferguson and Wood was a Wakefield Academy player.

Bookies in league weekly give you a 16.5 point start it will be close for 20 minutes then we will pull away !! Your best hope is to do what Saints did on Sunday and spoil and try to slow us down and I never ever thought I'd ever write that line.... Although John Kear pointed out saints tactics on RL full time wonder if your boys will watch the video ??

I dont think 16.5 points will be enough for us, but I have to smile about the "spoil and try to slow us down", talk about pot and kettle. You must be new to the game or have amnesia.
You guys patented the 10 second hold (maybe a tactic from the Crabtree wrestling dynasty), surely they cant have slowed you down any more than that

You forgot that Greg Eden was in our academy before he signed for Cas.

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No I'm not - what happened last season won't be easily forgotten by a lot of fans and as evidenced by your post, neither was it when it happened to you.

The manner of the raid on our promising youngsters by Shudds was unpleasant - we were down and your club kicked us; that's a fact.

That explains his silly mistakes every now and then i guess
Looks a decent prospect though.

I'm struggling to understand why so many appear to give more of a toss about this game than most others? I reckon its partly down to the huddersfield lot trying to manufacture it into a proper rivalry on a message board because they have seen the genuine article between Wakey/Cas, Wire/Widnes, Wigan/Saints etc and they feel a bit left out, hence the stirring of the pot so they can feel a part of something.

Should we get stuffed on Sunday against this mob than I dare say most will feel no worse than when we got beat by FC last week, KR the week before or even Leigh away a few years ago on the telly.......

Keith Mason was wakefield player as well.

I think that's a fair point as far as it goes. However at some point it became more than that, though it has little to do with local rivalry. There was a period from about 2004 - 2009 where it became a humiliation due to no other reason than the large one sided scorelines, or worse the inability to keep a lead. This often at a time in the season when we were usually doing OK - year after year after year. This against a club that should never have been doing it to us, at no point have Hudds ever been a Leeds or Saints yet season after season they beat us far more convincingly than Leeds or Saints did. Yes you're right they have through the use of these forums attempted to create a false rivalry but boy have our previous teams and managers made it easy for them to look good.

I'd love us to treat it the same way we treat Hull or Wigan, but we don't. We are up for those games in a way we rarely are for Hudds. They have targeted us as a 4 pointer for years, prepared for it and succeeded. Whilst we dream of beating Leeds they are getting the points off us and we never seem to learn.

Maybe now that Hudds are at least on paper a superior side to us we may take this game at least seriously even if it's far from the grudge/derby matches we so enjoy with Leeds or Cas. Hudds are not our rivals and who cares about the bragging rights, what they have managed to make themselves is our bogey team - as Toppo used to say they have the hoodoo over us! That's bad enough in the League but imagine if it were a play off game or a CCup semi, it would matter then.

I just want the players to treat this game with respect - winning would be a bonus but losing not the end of the world. It's the fixture I hate, I rarely care about Hudds other than the week before we play them

Honestly cant see us winning but aslong as the effort is there thats all im bothered about. I dont care what so ever how many wakey players they have as most of them obviously thought they were going on to bigger and better things, which so far they have, but i hope the way we are progessing it will turn out to be the wrong move for them.