I would personally like to record my thanks to JK and his backroom team for the last 5 years or so.

It has without doubt been a roller coaster. Sport like fans has short memoties basically the last result and the next game the rest is history!

What a roller coaster this has been the highs the season John came and we kept our SL place. getting to the semi final of the CC the play off games aqll great memories

The lows some of the tonkings we have had but all clubs get thrashed, this season where I believe the staff have had a hand in not two tied behind their backs as far as experienced playing staff were concerned, on a hiding to nothing we have however won 6 games and that could be 7 tonight (most fitting)

The dignity of Kohn and his leadership with others I might add through terrible times and terrible news in particular deaths of players s=tarting during or coming to the end of their careers.

I have read some rubbish on these boards lately with those having short memories, I do a gree though thatthis role has a shelf life and it is time for pastures new it happens to the vast majority of us in life.

But thanks John for some of the great memories and times you have restiored in this club at times when backs were really against the wall.

Excellent post .....could not agree more. I hope there will be a good crowd there tonight to give him a decent send off. Best wishes and good luck JK.

I'll go with those sentiments too.

When JK came we were staring into the Abyss, had we not have won THAT match in 2006 we were gone, and probably not just to the Championship but probably gone as a club. The road hasn't always been as smooth as we all would have wished. But the bloke desrves our thanks. Without his and the players efforts the franchising decision on the 26th July would have been of no interest to us as we wouldn't have been involved.

Many thanks JK. Some great memories and you are set in the history books as a significant coach during a difficult period. Thanks for everything and best of luck for the future.

Agree, a big thank you and all the best to John.

I genuinely believe his appointment has resulted in us being in Super League now because had we been relegated in 2006 I don't believe the Club at that time had the resources, fans etc. to be able to run a full time squad and bounce back into SL before franchising and we would now still be a Championship Club - just my opinion but thats what I think and owe John. But has been said Coaching goes in cycles and its time for a change for both John and Wakefield.

All the very best John in your Media work and whatever you do in coaching, I for one will always be grateful for your time at Wakefield.

Agreed,A real roller coaster ride on the field with some tragic lows off and throughout JK has conducted himself with dignity and always presented the club in a positive manner.For this alone JK deserves our thanks and best wishes. I for one would be a customer for any autobiography,bet it would be a damn good read.CHEERS JOHN.

I would have liked to have seen what he could have done with a better budget, however it was not to be. I think the respect he commands in the game as a whole has helped keep Wakefield afloat over the years he's been here. I for one have never called for his head and I wish him all the best for the future.

I concur - well said.

Couldn't agree more, good luck JK!

Cheers John. Thanks for saving the club from disaster.

Thanks JK. Always be remembered for that Million pound game, and rightly so.

I agree

And I'd go as far as to say that he is one of the most significant appointments we have made since I have been watching. And I go back to the mid 70s

There are milestones in our history such as Wembley days in the 60s and 70s and Wally Lewis arrival etc etc, but possibly less glamorous but equally as significant in our history was the day John Kear came to the club. He steered us away from odds on relegation (from which we would never have recovered imo) and some horrible moments off the field and created a a club and team to be proud of. Through other circumstances that club was dashed for a while but others have luckily picked up the baton.

Good luck for the future John. You'll always be welcome at BV or NM as far as I am concerned.

agree with the senitments of the op. kear should always be welcomed as a returning hero at bv and hopefully before long at nm.

thanks.

Agree with the general sentiment, it gone a bit pear shaped in the last 18 month which was definitely not all JK's fault but that should not over shadow a top 6 appearances, a CCup Semi Final lost on kicks and generally being in the top half of the table for the last 5 seasons - and of course saving us in 2006. Can't think of a Coach in the last 30 years to better that.

Really hope we win tonight as I don't think Kear deserves to end his time at BV as the only coach to finish bottom.

Agree. The new coach has a lot to live up to.

Top six for Wakey is impressive on our (then) resources.

Thanks John

Agree with everyone, amazing start to his wakey career acheiving the near impossible, semi of the cup and our highest ever placed super league finish. Obviously theres been some lows during and after these highs but all in all with his hands tied somewhat he's done a sterling job.

Iv bagged him,asked for his head,but in hindsight it was pure frustration,i doubt if any coach in the super league era has had to work under such conditions,deaths of players,aussie players goin home,administration and these are the public problems we all know about(never mind behind the scenes).I just wonder how far he could have carried us in the cc if we d beat cas.cos since then its been a slow death.So all the best john in whatever you do and i hope its fresh start that works out for all concerned.

Thanks John and good luck in the future. I will never forget the Cas game as long as i live it was a special night. Would also like to say a big thanks to John for something that happened a few years back. I had gone to the away game at Salford and we won easily. After the game i consumed a fair few shandys and missed the coach home. I was chatting with Adam Watene and trying to blag a lift home and to my amazement John overheard my predicament and let me travel home on the team coach which was amazing and made my birthday even better. A true gent!

I feel we have all been a bit over critical with what has happened this year, me included and this is natural as we all as Wakefield fans want to see good entertaining RL, but how many coaches could have done this with the players we had available?

We sometimes forget what the mans done at this club .GOOD LUCK JOHN ALL THE BEST

Many thanks John for taking us through thick and thin over the past five years.
Enabled Wakefield to box above their weight.
Cheers

I'll add my name to all of the above sentiments.
Cheers

Gone stale for me and even a bit sour this last year/18 months, but on the whole done us proud.

Great escape was fantastic and deserves limitless praise for that, but its time to move on now and get behind the new man.

The king is dead, long live the king!

Gave me one of my greatest nights as a Wakey fan and helped the club survive through its most difficult period in history, Should be some kind of life member for me. Thanks JK. Just as a side point when JK was announced as coach i was devestated, i thought it was a shocking appointment at the time and he has proven many wrong with some great times over the the last few years. JK I love you man.

Done a great job for us, under some very difficult conditions. WTW would probably not be in SL if not for JK. Thank you and good luck. Deserves a good send off tonight.

Thanks John, sad to see you go. You saved the club from the brink, and went on to build a team capable of beating anyone on their day, obviously external factors hindered the continued success of that particular squad (start of 2010). Losing all of those players was a bitter blow for us and I suppose we never really bounced back from their losses. In fact the club plummeted after that point with the Public Enquiry and Administration.

I still honestly think JK is a great coach, will always have fond memories of his time here.