Funny how people see it differently. I thought when Charlie and Korki came back on they moved us forward and although Katy was good in flashes he wasn't good as a hooked, he was just another backrower. Rinaldi showed him how to play hooker. Wish he would stay and turn the clock back a bit.

And there is the problem.

I was listening to both J.D & J.K’s comments post match. They both alluded to the fact that it’s going to be difficult recruiting players for next season when they may have on one season left in S.L!

I made the trip over, knowing full well we didn’t have a hope in hell, mainly just to applaud J.D, thanks for the memories, especially getting out of his own in-goal at Bradford.

This team has been on life support for much of the season, mainly due to the fact it had its heart ripped out.

It doesn't seem to bother other teams who are recruiting players on 2-3 year contracts that may also be struggling to get a franchise next year or have we had the nod already that next year will be our last in super league

this time last year wakefield academy were crowned champions,i saw them take apart a castleford u18s side that so far has had at least 6 players make their super league debuts this season and not looked out of place.

surely this was the season to get some of these kids playing first team,im sure the loose forward anakin and southernwood had he been given a chance not only would he still be at wakefield but applying himself with credit.

i know its true that cas and wakefield will struggle to recruit with the threat of not getting a franchise and its been impossible for cas to get anyone from the nrl of any note because of this.so has a result it kind of forces a clubs hand to throw in the kids and can only have a positive affect that the club is producing players which is a major factor in any franchise bid.surely then the rugby brained people of wakefield will find a few losses easier to take knowing that the local kids are been given a chance to shine its certainly something in cas we are very proud of that we can bring kids through the ranks.

Who are you to criticise who turns up to matches and who doesn't? Moaning at people that don't turn up isn't exactly going to entice them to come, is it?

Some people have work to go to, some people have family events on, some people can't afford the expensive gate fee, some people can't justify the long distance they may have to travel to get there, some may just not feel like it due to the way the club has been recently.

At the end of the day, the club has to entice people to come and watch them play. If the product isn't exciting enough for people to pay their well earned cash, then people are not going to turn up.

I hope that this is a wake up call to the BOD and those running the club, showing them that they are responsible for our 'experience' when we come to BV, and that fans should be treated with respect when they turn up and that the players on the pitch should at least look like they care about what they are doing - recently many people on this forum do not reckon that is what they are getting from a match day at BV.

As for getting players in for next season and beyond, we managed to recruit players before when relegation was an issue, so why not this next season? They will all have release clauses written in anyway, so I don't see what the issue is. Its all excuses, and a lot of people are not happy about it.

Nope - trin are useless and so why turn up

5500 wasn't that bad what with the performances the team have displayed in recent months. Come on Trinity sort it out for next season

change your shirt for a fev shirt. seems fashionable

i'd agree with you 100% there and hope rinaldi does decide to stay next season far better than tevita. latu is too eratic. poor distribution and has too many problems off the field. salford are welcome to him imo.

Rinaldi is contracted in France for next season I believe. Player-coach job.

I hope there is someway we can get him for next season, best hooker we have at the club.

How dare you critisise me for not going to the game today?



Maybe you should make as much effort next season as you did today.

What were you expecting? 9000 die hard Wakey fans cheering us on like we were top of the league? I don't think we have 9000 fans in the whole world!

Why not did Hull FC fans walk away last season Do HKR back their team to the hilt Cas have had 2 relegations and they still average more than Wakefield. Maybe the fact is the City of Wakefield do not deserve a SL team, The Wakefield public don’t appear to care one way or the other.
And for the record imwakefieldtillidie I will buy 2 gold season tickets for next season I have missed more games than I wanted to this season due to being away from home with work that situation has now changed
I have said in the heat of the moment that’s it no more over and over again, this season has being lousy but I can’t walk away
I will be at Bradford and on holiday for Salford

I am far from happy with how Ted and his hangers on run the club. I would love to know who the idiot was that set the match day entry fee at £20.
I am far from happy with on field performance
But now is not the time to take our bat and ball home

Lets face it we all know the great sporting public have their true priorities.

1. Prefer to watch sport for free on the telly
2. Better still if the telly is in a pub
3. Their darling team is LUFC

Yesterday was the perfect situation so that may have accounted for some support.

However having said all that I think the second half of the season has been terrible
It has not been entertaining or enjoyable and people have just had enough.

Well, Cas' Academy could be said to be more successful than ours then. The true test isn't winning meaningless pots, but producing Super League quality players.

For all the criticism of the Club's management with respect to attendance I am at a loss to see what more it could do. It has assembled one of, if not the most innovative and hard-working community teams who have tried everything they can to increase interest in watching the team with a sound approach. The vast majority of the thousands of people who must have made one off visits (at subsidised prices) to see the range of additional spectacles (x-factor acts etc) have simply not come back. The elite game is at the top of an ever weakening pyramid in terms of rugby league in the City as fewer people than say 20years ago are involved in the amateur game.

But by far the biggets issue is the fact that the majority of the City's population could not give a fig about WTWRLFC and professional rugby league. I think general malaise is far more of an issue than £20 entry.

Not much point coming on this forum and moaning about numbers turning up to this game and that. It is the people on here who do go to the games on the whole. It is the wider public who need shaking up and that is not going to happen without you know what.

Lets give one a two a go to find out if they have potential.

I though the same re the crowd, I was dissapointed that the crowd wasnt larger for him, although of us that were there what an emotional send off for jas

A text on radio leeds for me further hightlighted what an utter legend the guy has being for us,

Unlike all previous players for trin in recent years who've turned up as nobodys then hit form and made a name for them selfs (ellis/brough/poaching/atkins/westwood to name a few) then being offered big money by the likes of leeds/wire/wigan have left without a thought,


Jason stayed with us when the oppoutunity was there for him to leave,

For me JD is the biggest legend of trinity in the SL era bar none

To say that its a poor attendance and call people like me "so called supporters" is totally unfair tbh.
I feel the attendance was actually good considering the string of, lets face it, performances. People can say, oh it was JD's last match at Belle Vue, and yes i will thank him for his effort in the years he has been here, but lets face it to think people are going to turn out for just that reason is stupid.

And for what its worth, ive supported wakefield all my life and yes ive seen the relagation battles, play offs etc, and i have to say this team and the performances from this team are arguably worse than the ones from the teams of 2001, 2002 etc, because the sad thing is weve seen this team, even without brough, tronc and Newton can play with performances like Hull Fc at home and Quins at Home.

I will be back next season, with a season ticket and most of all hope. As for this season its finished and the pre season already looks bleak.

Btw, this is my first post on here, so take it easy

Brough was already a Challenge Cup winner when we had him, and he already had a big name in Rugby League, its just that some teams didnt want to touch him with a barge pole or already had players in that position. He hardly made his name at Wakey.

So you realise that some people cannot attend every single game.....

Hull have more fans than Wakey ever will have.
HKR have more fans than Wakey do.
Cas fans have prob seen their team win more than we have over the last five or six years or so, (partly helped by winning NL1 games - but winning is winning, and draws in fans). They traditionally have higher attendances than Wakey anyway.

What you serve up on the pitch is crucial, you could play out of a golden palace but if you watching crud on the pitch you end up not wanting to turn up. Team/performance next season is important or attendances will stay low.

if that was the case and wakey hadnt have taken him on where do you think he's have being playing? he would have ended up in the championship,

Ricky Bibey won a CC medal, as have many otheres, a medal doesnt make you a great player

Brough came back to us as some one with potential, he left us as one of, if not the best british half in the game, regardless of that though......

When he was offered better money in what ever form, he left

JD did not

He would have found somewhere. You say Bibey won a CC medal, but he wasn't an influential player in the Final as Brough was. Brough had more than potential, he was still a player that Sky Sports raved about when he was having a good game.

I'm not saying that JD didnt have a different approach, just that Brough had a higher reputation before he came.

Maybe, but ours seem to be dropping at pretty much the same rate as yours. In these financially tight times people will prioritise where they splash their cash especially leisure-wise as demonstrated by a feeble 8k at the Jungle on Friday...for the price of admission you could buy a good few pints in a pub showing the game live. At the very least punters demand value for money but very rarely get it from either of our clubs at the moment. If the quality of the teams we are putting out continues to deteriorate next season even the unmentionable merger wouldn't help because we couldn't raise a decent side between us.