Wakefield are reaping what they sowed some years ago imo.

They over spent, broke the cap and did all they could to not finish bottom, whereas Hudds made sure they laid the foundations for building the club to long term success.

Maybe if Wakefield had kept their promise to the RFL when they got into SL they wouldnt be in this situation now.

The icing on the cake was when they rejected even the concept of ground share.

Edited for accuracy

HTH

This.

Whatever you think of franchising, this is not an issue that the RFL forced onto Wakefield three years ago. The club has held onto the coat-tails of other, more progressive clubs since their entry into Super League. The only tangible change to Belle Vue since their entry to SL has been the "construction" (if that's what you can call the process of putting one Portakabin on top of another) of the Costa del Crappy apartment block.

Throw in that fact that this is a club that has previously broken the salary cap, a club that took the proverbial Michael with overseas quota loopholes, a club that has several run-ins with HMRC, a club that has one of its board members subject to an Individual Voluntary Agreement and a club that, all in all, has failed to make any sort of tangible progression since 1999 and you have a club that isn't deserving of its place in an elite competition.

where were the wakey fans complaining about franchising when they got a license off the back of one of the dogiest franchise applications

welcome to SL widnes youll make a fine replacement for wakey

bye bye wakey, good riddance

bingo

if relegation means wakey die off well bad luck

widnes, cas all went down and came back

wakey have to live with their continued history of failed promises

Why would relegation kill them off? Sure, their ground is worse than most championship clubs, but there's a reasonable expectation they'd still get 1500-2000 people every week, as they did in the second tier in the 1990s. That is plenty enough to run a part-time team on a £300K salary cap.

Will they be missed?

I doubt it, a bit like you really

Them ever so little financial matters are being overlooked

Full steam ahead

As a Wakefield fan, unfortunately i cant disagree with most of what you put, but to use Huddersfield as an example is laughable.
This is Huddersfield that have a wealthy backer, a recent 'merger', a ground built on the back of the towns football club and who happened to manage to stay in the league whilst finishing bottom. A luxury that would not have been offered to other clubs.
Nothing against Hudds at all and i dont blame them for taking advantage of all of the above, (i am obviously jealous of there position right now) but using them as a shinning light is a bit much.

Like i say, the rest of what you put, i cant disagree with and if i was an outsider looking in id say we were behind Cas (stadium permitting) and maybe even Halifax for the franchise decision, unless plan B comes up trumps.

Wakefield put Plan B into action....

* Ten years ago. Tell that to the Sheffield fans. Still a nice lump of cash received
* Tri- partite. Obviously without the football club, the ground would still have been built!
* Wakefield would have been relegated i assure you

As i tried to point out, i dont blame Huddersfield for taking advantage of any of that. They are a fine example of what can be achieved with the right backing, but that was not the original point made.

They have already sold BV though I believe and spent a lot of the money they got from it. They have already made it clear that this year will definately be their last at BV and so if they lose their spot in SL then nobody seems certain where they would play. Groundshare with Barnsley has been mentioned but would be a huge drain on their finances which will already be massively reduced if they drop down a league. That is the worry as to why relegation might 'kill them off'.

Without hijacking this thread into the same old debate, it will suffice to say you dont have a clue what you are talking about in any of these regards.

1. the merger, no one wanted it, it was everyones last choice. Its more complex than that and has been told ad-nauseum.
2. Without the rugby club the football club wouldnt have got a new stadium either. It goes deeper than that, but without the ruby club the football club wouldnt exist any more.
3. Pure speculation. No one was fit to come up, so no one would have been relegated is the facts as they stand. If Wakey were to have been relegated in that situation, its because they shouldnt have been promoted in the first place.

Everything that is happening now is born out of the choices the Wakey board made a decade ago, and continue to make.

Quite why they outright rejected even to do a feasibility study around a ground share is beyond me.

OK



"Everything that is happening now is born out of the choices the Wakey board made a decade ago, and continue to make"

Now that bit i cant argue with.

"no one was fit to come up" ?

says who?

the teams that won the league EARNED THE RIGHT to promotion, this is how real sports work!

yep - just look at how well all the teams that won cricket's minor counties championsip did when they played in the counyt championship the following year

The championship clubs to the RL Conference clubs?

Your the one hijacking the thread squire by bringing your club into it because it would seem that its the only way to come across with your point, so its you that does not have a clue.





Well somebody must have wanted it, was it more complex or just convenient for your inability to defend the outcome.



I'd ask why, but this will probably be more complex as well, probably covered by the official secrets act





Are you making this up as you go along here, speculation or facts. So if Wakey had finished bottom of the league they would have been relegated because they should not have been promoted for winning the league the season before, sounds like a reasonable basis for an argument that.



You might not agree with me but thats the only sensible comment you have made in this post





As you quite rightly put it is well beyond your comprehension, but don't let that stop you from making a comment on something you know absolutely nothing about hth.

I haven't seen an announcement anywhere, and I fail to see where the money will come from. Granted, I'm not claiming to know Wakefield's financial situation, but from the sidelines it looks pretty bad still.

The rules agreed by all the clubs. That is how REAL

sport should operate.

they will need to have a 3 year deal (so they have a stadium for the whole licence period if planning permission is not granted )

Out ofinterest what are wakefields and castlefords highest average attendance for a season?