Can anyone explain why the official website failed to make any mention of Johnston winning man of steel young player of the year and now has failed to mention Jowitt winning Albert Goldthorpe young player of the year . Could it be because our players win so many awards it hardly deserves a mention ? At first i thought it was because everyone at the club was on holiday but the website is making plenty of noise about a halloween party and what that pathetic capitalist american import has to do with our great game i cannot understand but maybe i am just a cudmudgeon .

Although they didn't make a big deal about, even though they should have imo and can't think why not. They do mention it below about Johnstone winning Young Player of the Year, but the article is mostly about him becoming an ambassador for our community department

[urlhttp://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news/2016/10/johnstone-becomes-community-ambassador[/url

Hopefully they'll update the website about Max, as he's only just won it and do a piece about them both this year. We should really be raving about these 2 players, especially on our own website.

Not being pedantic but Max got the Medal for Rookie of the year.

The Trinity Halloween Disco got advertised a couple of weeks ago and is just a reminder tbf and yes your a curmudgeon

. Like it or not the kids love it and it's been around years and gets the kids in and around Trinity as well as makes the club a bit of money

Agreed there should have been more recognition of the achievements of these youngsters on the official club website. We seem happy to complete short match reports of heavy defeats so we should shout out about the good things to. Johnstone and Jowitt have been immense this last season and as home grown products of the club we should boast highly about them. With regard a comment from the original poster, Halloween is not a tradition which began in the US, it has many origins some of which are attributed to Ireland. (flightsandfrustration.com/what-c ... halloween/). I admit though that it doesn't feel like a very British tradition, compared to 5th November. Just a sign of our commercial times.

Agreed there should have been more recognition of the achievements of these youngsters on the official club website. We seem happy to complete short match reports of heavy defeats so we should shout out about the good things to. Johnstone and Jowitt have been immense this last season and as home grown products of the club we should boast highly about them. With regard a comment from the original poster, Halloween is not a tradition which began in the US, it has many origins some of which are attributed to Ireland. (flightsandfrustration.com/what-c ... halloween/). I admit though that it doesn't feel like a very British tradition, compared to 5th November. Just a sign of our commercial times.

It's the trick or treat bit that the yanks have exported.

I think they're in the process of updating all the social media to reflect the rebrand back to Trinity.

This may include a brand new website so could possibly explain the lack of news recently.

It was all over social media.
I saw both updates on Facebook.

I'm sure that's right. The online shop is virtually empty.

The Twitter account appears to have changed to @WTrinityRL too, although it must have some kind of redirect on, or else I've followed it without realising.

From a businiess perspective it's very amateur. Not only do the lads deserve recognition but it's a massive selling point for next years season tickets. They should be shouting it from the rooftops and plastering it all across the city that two of the best young talents in super league will be on display at Belle Vue next season.

Yes, I do agree that they should be using the likes of Jowitt and Johnstone for advertising campaigns, especially for season ticket and lottery sales

The site has an article about Max up now.

[urlhttp://www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/news/2016/10/jowitt-named-as-the-albert-goldthorpe-rookie-of-the-year[/url

Agreed 4foxsake.

Regardless of new merchandise arrivals, the club shop in The Ridings is absolutely appalling. There is virtually nothing in it. Apart from the selling of season tickets the club must have made little or no money over the last month or so.
I suppose shopping is often about temptation and persuasion.... summat like :
'Can I have a season ticket please?'
'Yes, of course you can. And is there anything else we can interest you in ?'
'Er, no.'
'And why is that sir, are you sure?'
'Well, there's nowt ere!'

I know Leeds have so much more than us but when I went to xmas game last year the club shop had security on the door cos it was so busy and there was a huge range of merchandise. The Castleford club shop is also a very busy outlet as well.
Quite indicative as well that they have shops at their ground. I tell thee, it's surely not rocket science . At the moment , correct me if I'm wrong, the club has no CEO or general manager and no commercial/ sponsors/ promotions positions. Championship clubs have some if not all of these job roles.
And of course the club website at the moment offers little. Other club sites are vibrant, full of up to date info, and try hard to engage. Ours doesn't !!!

Yes, I pretty much agree regarding this Fergus.

I actually sent an email to the club a while ago, regarding ideas where revenue could be increased.

To this day, I haven't even received an acknowledgement, or even anything back saying the ideas are good or bad

But who in their right mind is going to shell out on merchandise that'll be out of date in a month?

I know I wouldn't. Get real lads.

Is it a prerequisite on here to whinge incessantly if you're a Trinity supporter?

I was about to say wouldn't people complain if after the rebrand we still had the Wildcat merchandise on stock!

This isn't whingeing. I'd call it just business sense.
I would bet that other clubs have a much more seamless transition with merchandise and kit at the end of every season that means there are no periods of the preseason left stagnant in terms of sales - sell off all old stock nice and cheap while selling lots of new gear to all those coming in for season tickets. All of this means people walking around the city and drinking in their local pubs etc showing off their new tops and subliminally luring others into the shop/club to see what they can have !!!!!

Apart from that, at the moment those poor shop assisstants must do very little during the day - a human resource poorly utilised.

I wonder if there is a business plan.

By the way, I love the new badge and hope the shirt is a goodun.

The Wildcat stuff will be the collectors items of tomorrow, get it while you can

Although I get what you're saying. Other Clubs though aren't going through a complete rebrand. Which will effect the shop massively, as well as an updated website that needs developing. If there's nothing in the shop, it's because we've sold everything with the Wildcats badge on it and what would be the point of re-ordering stuff you won't sell, especially as we've changed suppliers to ISC as well.

But what ever Wakey do someone will moan, even if they gave it away

Went in for my season ticket and before I parted with my money, asked if you still got the 'freebie' bag?
When the answer was yes, I handed my coin over and indulged in my car sticker, pin badge, key ring, £5 off a shirt voucher, in a drawstring bag! Sweet!

I guess that means that Season Tickets aren't going as well as hoped then? I'm sure they said they'd only be for the first 1000 members

Wouldn't matter if the club gave away a free shirt, some people would still make excuses not to support the club.
Looks to me like CC is doing the best he can with what he's got and let's not forget he's a Wakey lad and has the best interests of the club at heart.

People will always find an excuse, quite often I can sympathise and understand why they made the excuse. All we can hope for is that enough people get season tickets to pay for what the club planned. Then we can only rely on Chester getting the best from the boys. Hopefully some consistency will start to bring back some of the stay away fans

People wouldn't buy into the club because of the 'Wildcats' tag.
People wouldn't buy into the club because of the uncertainty over the ground.
The club has done as much as they can on both subjects but some fans still expect the club to spend beyond their means to get the easy come, easy go 'loyal' fans through the turnstiles.
If people expect CC to assemble a top 4 side with the money he has and fans will only buy into this when it happens, then we are forever going to have a catch 22 situation.
It took Cas to sell Clarke and a wise investment in players by Powell to start the ball rolling for them.
We don't need to sell our assets and the signings that CC has made are pretty shrewd.

I have actually mentioned before about the club to produce a mini seaasin ticket package om maybe 4-5 games to try to bring stay away fans back through the turnstiless and also new fans.

Other clubs have done this in the past and it has worked.

There will be quite a few fans who didnt renew their season ticket for 2016 following the bad 2015 season. I will hold my hand up I was one. However if they had done this I would have and would have got a second one too. The only home game I missed was Warrington in Super 8s.

Also, maybe if the club captured the postcode when you b.uy your season ticket and then use this to see if there are any trends as to where they are low. If theyre liw in one particular area then target that area to do a bit of marketing there

I think the idea of a 5 game ST is a great one especially as we only appear to have 5 home games on a Sunday and some people won't be able to make it on other days