It just goes to show how important timing can be, even with catastrophe and bad news. Case in point being wakefield's financial problems coming out early enough for them to make the signings that they have in contrast to the bulls and them trying to hold on/out and now being picked apart with little or no time to replace.
I wonder if you might end up with the Aussie/Polish lad wakey were after; siejka (sp).

Sammut practically begged for a new extended contract but FC said he had to prove himself and earn it - I mean fancy telling one of your best players if not the best he had to prove himself absolute joke

Wonder what Jeffries and Hargreaves are up to these days?

^ this
Take a good hard look at yourselves bulls fans. Wonder how many of you ingrates would have stuck by your employers in similar circumstances. You expect blood from the players but don't respect them in return.

Let's get this thin in proportion. He could be brilliant or go missing. What we need is a team of consistent players so we know what we are getting each week. Sammutt is a good player to have if you have 12 others on the park of sufficient quality to cover for him when he goes walkabout.
On a more psychological point, he is a bit like the dead albatross. He was at Crusaders and they went belly up, he came to us and we went belly up twice. best of luck Wakefield.

The worst bit of this is we've let him go to a relegation rival, seriously why would any club do that? surely there would have been other clubs interested who we could have negotiated players swaps with.

Losing him at all with a thread bare squad is bad, losing him to a rival is plain stupid.

what a way to start a season.

Sammut didn't even play for us in 2011

Fully agree - It's like nailing your own coffin!

It's the timing that is the issue. We are leaving ourselves with no chance, like it said earlier if they haven't TUPed across and can legally walk then fine, but we seem to be selling with nothing else happening. The squad was small, so we let players go. It was always a worry offering Gale another contract if that has been the trigger in Sammut walking. If Scruton is legally contracted to new ltd co and we let him go, to me, that is surrender. The disappointment with the players is the timing as they could have gone in Dec. Nothing yet to say they were TUPed onto less money so we can't blame that

Players would not agree to TUPE on less cash - then watch the club offer Gale a new contract.

Hell. thinking about it, poor Luke Gale

Ok, he and the majority of players stuck by you when you last went into admin.
If you are going to pull me for having my dates out, you are nit picking over the point I was making.

I know the last person you want to hear from is a Wakefield fan but I think you are underestimating Gaskill in some way. I think he'll be really good for you guys this season.
I was kind of hoping that keeping Sammut would mean you let Gaskill go.
Happy with what we got but would have been happy other way round too.

Having been through this sort of crap many times i know how it feels and its not nice.

Maybe you'll come out of it stronger.

You should write a letter about it to league weekly.

Don't forget to base a lot of it on a massive lie.

Always happy to hear from a Wakefield ( or any other club's ) fan who makes reasoned comment. It's the gloaters and those full of insults who annoy me.
By the way not only do the T&A repeat the comments regarding Wakefield's exemplary conduct , they suggest a fee was paid.

I love the measured approach you take when someone tries to make a reasonable post.
Maybe I should just write about how i am loving that some of your fans are still living off past glories and refusing to accept that you players are not untouchable for other clubs and that you think that you can get fees for them with the season on top of us and most clubs getting near their cap!

So you follow up a lecture on showing humility in the face of losing a big name player to Bulls players by admitting that you're actually totally motivated by small mindedness and one upmanship.

Bit iconic sorry ironic (there's that word again you forgot to use it in your post).

oh billy anchor you know nothing! guess what i was correct about carvell and adin..and sammut and guess who is next!! you know nothing !! and have proven to be a FOOL!!! so feel free to abuse me again..while we just laugh at you! ..

Who's next then?

Not really, you continue to believe your BoD.
They have led you up the garden path and left you stranded.

your players were tuped on same terms and conditions!

Changing the subject to make a totally unrelated comment about me. Based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

This was my actual comment on this:



You're now moving into the realms of jibberish simply to try and win an argument.

Anyway best of luck for the season ahead to Jarrod and Wakefield Trinity Wildcats. You stay classy

Gutted.

Well done you were right about a few things, we are going down we'll get over it, go back to supporting Wakefield, an irrelevance to rugby league since 1969.

Think we've already established it's Scruton