SWAG and I_A for me!

We survived by selling players off. Poching (I think we got a bit for him?) Westwood, Wood, Ellis, Atkins.

If Newton, Tronc & Brough had stayed last year, what state would we be in now?

1. YORK COURT No YC no units no stadium

2. WMDC No council to bring YC on board and try and smooth the way NO stadium.

3 WMDC No council no £2 million loan on land

Depends when 'recent' begins I guess. This era, much like many post-'68, has been full of false starts. Not getting to Wembley, not turning up against Catalans...the best part of this era was the run in the play-offs under McNally, the performance at Wigan was the best in Super League.

2004 was by far my favourite year supporting Trinity.

Amazing season that I thoroughly enjoyed. We seemed to blitz the opposition in the 2nd half and Belle Vue
was a fortress.

It seems like 20 years ago now.

What money ?

Since mid 2009, the budget has been slashed with the following players leaving, Peterson, Rooney plus Pitts and Atkins with a transfer fee in return. 2010 we started with a smaller ( assuming cheaper) playing squad than in previous years while we had inflation busting admission fees. From the 2010 squad we lost two high earners in Brough and Tronc. In this period we have received half the payments for the sale of Belle Vue, naming rights payments for Belle Vue and money from new shares issued in 2009!

So where has it all gone? Certainly not on our tax bill considering we still a big amount. All I know is that this has happened in the time that Teds personal financial problems have hit home.

Takes some disagreeing with that.

So you are ' surmising ' that he has been taking money out of the club to help out himself financially , but you don't actually know what the situation ' financially ' the club was in before that time , the club might well have had debts that were guaranteed personally by your BOD , believe me that would not be unusual

The bottom line is you don't know , and probably never will , how long has he controlled the club ? , usually the crooked ones don't last long

That may well be the case, if so it makes a mockery of claims on here over the years that he was the saviour of Wakefield Trinity. All along he's been racking debts up in the clubs name not investing his personnel wealth.

Of course nobodys knows, with the wall of silence all we can do is try and work out whats happened with the facts we know. All I know is what I posted is what we know.

I love that term ' Investing ' , what you actually mean is ' throwing away ' ! Trying to make up the shortfall because of the apathy of fans who would rather watch the footy or Leeds/Bradford and the like and spend their money on beer in the pub , but as soon as Cas are in town , they are lifelong loyal every match fans

what money ?

Well we I suppose the proper terminology would be an emotional investment!

As for the rest of your post...an amateur attempt at fishing! Please try harder