5500 for Jds last ever home game
All I will say is there are fans and then there are supporters the supporters may moan and groan I have a lot this season but at least I get off my backside and make the effort.
5500 just about sums up the fickle bunch that are the Wakefield public

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I must admit, I was really surprised when I heard the figure. And you guys have got it all to play for as well, nevermind JD.

Whilst I have every sympathy with what you are saying, the truth is that for most - even the hard-nosed ones - this has been a terrible season.

Even whilst we were at least giving it a go today, the opposition were several grades better than us - playing in second gear. But for the forward passes and missed convesrions we would have seen 60 past us today.

As you know, I would so love for this club to be great again, but the challenge is there for the club to enthuse the paying public of Wakefield and to invest in our future on the field as well as off it, because what we have at the moment seems a long way from being a good product. If we don't recruit some better quality players, I fear that the good work done towards the stadium will not be enough!

The challenge is there for the club - either invest in some quality, or face up to the consequences!

Oh - and to JD - thanks, it's been a blast!

In fairness, the people you're criticising are the ones that will make up the mythical extra numbers that some people seem to expect to come out of the woodwork when/if NM happens; JD's last game means nothing to them - they just want to see a decent team winning some matches, something that's been totally lacking for the majority of this bloody awful season.

Don't blame them for not coming - blame the club for not attracting them. It needs sorting.

I think 5500 is good for how we have played this season.

poor turn out for a decent performance

Can't go with that - it was a decent performance compared with many this year - but we were never in the game and never threatened to win the game. I want better than that!

very hard to stomach today's game as it was well against us in the odds, just the fact that it was our last home game v wires was worth the trip to watch as they are proving to be a force now after years of doing naff all, what the difference a new stadium has done to them,

JD can hold his head up for the effort that he has put into keeping in SL and I'm sure he will find another club wanting him soon,

as for the fans, well a neighbour fancied coming today but chose a to go for dinner with the family instead,

It just got a whole lot worse for you though when Ben Jeffries got the man of the match

best I have seen of them for a while. No we were not in the game as such but we were decent in spells.

Agreed, but....

I thought Korki and Charlie were really poor and ineffective. Moore and King were much more dynamic. Latu was one of our best (and he's leaving), and the rest were chasing shadows at times.

However, being a little more positive, there was enough there to suggest that we COULD have a chance in the last 2 games.

There we have it, the true supporter speech. It's been a while but it is back, this along with the Kear saved us statement have to be the most irritating threads.

Yes JD has been a great servant to the club, but so have so many others. I for one can say because I didn't attend today was in no way a lack of respect for what JD has done while at the club, it was simply a financial reason and the logical thinking of why throw £80 away for a disappointing afternoon and a four and a half hour round trip.

FYI

Fans (by definition) are more likely to have been there today rather than supporters.

Turnout was larger than I expected. Bigger than our local derby against dirty Shudds. Well done to all those who attended just to show respect...

I concur.

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.