This may surprise many on here but I must congratulate the club for bringing back respect. We are now no longer considered anything other than rightful members of super league. I know some still have trouble accepting the new Wakefield Trinity because I was one of them.
I hope that the gamble to play the first season with a much weakened team with the expected results we produced was calculated by knowing that the savings made over the season would be out weighed by the fact that finishing bottom was not an automatic relegation. We then invested to generate a team that could survive albeit only just. The gamble paid off so well done to those in charge.
The team strength has grown in quality and stature whilst retaining the Wakefield Trinity squad ethos since that first season. We have a group of talented young players all signed up to long term contracts.
We are no longer a feeder to others who cannot find their own players preferring to unsettle ours. We now have a squad of players who see their careers actually progressing with Wakefield.
I have always been proud to support Trinity for more years than I care to remember, through the thin and thin with the occasional high. I think the new supporters are very lucky because they have not experienced the financial uncertainty and ridicule many of us have faced. I hope they appreciate what they have because it took over 40 years to get there.
We just need to convince those in charge of the international team that we exist. I know it is strange for them to look beyond the usual teams but I sense it is only a matter of time.
I remain a staunch supporter of staying at Belle Vue and I hope that this one last remaining piece of the Wakefield Trinity puzzle can be resolved.
I will as per usual be in my seat Friday, probably freezing but you can expect nothing less with summer rugby.
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