can someone please explain to me how having the magic weekend in this format that they intend to run in 2015 is going to work, how do they select who will be playing who without someone feeling they get a bad draw

The clowns win OK I have no problem with Wakefield Trinity I wish them well
But I have being losing interest in the game for a number of years in the main down to the Muppets who run the game Sky and the idiots Stevo Hemmings and Clarke
So it is with an heavy heart that I have decided to walk away from the game at all levels I have cancelled Sky I have cancelled my 1873 and wont be renewing my season ticket I have watched my last game of RL live or TV I will not support a game that has lost its soul It was fun for 40 years but all good things end and I have my memories that will stay with me for life the 79 semi the Wigan 7s win in 80 43 10 v Leeds at home Ashurst Toppo Smith Kelly Ella R Price Dave Smith Julith etc etc
Good luck Wakefield
Also got to laugh at Danny Broughs comment I don’t want to finish top IDIOT
THE FANS DO

You are not alone with that mindset i'm afraid.

Nope he isn't.
I really struggle with Fri night games and Thu night games are even harder to get to.

Its my last season as season ticket holder, and that's only because I've already bought mine.

Shame to hear this mate, good luck and good health to you.

You'll not be alone sadly.

And they shouldn't be dismissed as a small percentage having knee jerk reactions, there are many disillusioned fans considering the same

I was discussing this the other day and was thinking of a thread to start. I might just start it as it seems there are a lot more people with mixed feelings than I thought there would be.

He's certainly not a knee jerker and he's been through enough it seems.

I totally agree with you. My dad took me to my first match at Belle Vue in 1962 so I saw the greatest team in Wakefield Trinity history. My dad who is in his mid 80's now went to the RL Cup Final at Wembley in 1946 & can still tell you the team from that day.
When we saw these new proposals we both laughed and said this is the end of Rugby League for both of us. Now we can sit & read a good book rather than listen to the idiots on sky & bbc eulogise about the game.
At least we both have brilliant memories & we can both say we saw the great Wakefield Trinity teams unlike the youngsters of today.

Very depressing to read all this from seasoned campaigners!
I love my days out at the game, but meeting the boys and having a few pints has long since been the main priority over the actual RL.

Agreed, people actually walking away from the club and sport because of a structure change?

For me its all about getting away from the norm, meeting my friends and cheering on the trinity no matter what league we are in. As long as I have a team i'll go watch them. Some comments ive read today are so petty and ridiculous.

That wasn't my point to be honest.
What i was saying was that much of the passion i once had , had gone and the main objective was to see the mates and have a few pots and get out the house for a few hours. Sadly i can do that down the boozer and it wont cost me a ST and a load of hassle either.
The thing is it gets to you, all the stuff with the club and all the stuff with the bent rfl and the bent league.
So i don't think for a minute the posts are petty or ridiculous, i can totally see where those points are coming from, i'm just not as far down the track as they are.

Each to their own, but there is only one thing you're going to hurt by walking away, and it isn't Nigel Wood or the RF or indeed other SL clubs.

Sorry if my post offended, it wasn't the intention as its not my nature.

Just dont understnad why people would walk away from the club when at this moment they need the fans more than ever. But hey if thats how people feel then fair enough.

I don't underestimate the passion or disappointment felt to say you would walk away from watching rugby league but it wouldn't happen to me for these reasons.

I might not watch if my family commitments got in the way or I had to move out of the area for work but the change in league structure makes no difference to my enjoyment of watching Wakfield. I want to watch them play rugby. If that was in the second division I'd still watch.
I may not go to Whitehaven like I have when I had more free time but I'd certainly go to a lot of games.

Each unto their own but i think there is a lot of negativity towards the structure because if the way the RFL deliver the message rather than the pros and cos of the system.

Sadly this is so true.

No offence mate, didn't make myself clear thats all.
Why do 1/3 (or whatever the quoted figure is) of marriages end in divorce?
Things change, people change, things change people...
Its all personal, but i would never question any supporter of our club who had seen enough, they would have my deep empathy and sympathy.

Don't like the changes one bit. As a former sponsor it will also affect revenues there as well, how can you command as much from them when they don't kbow what they are getting?

I notice SL has a new sponsor now, First Utility. Quite apt i thought. Welcome to the Futility superleague.

Most on here are adults and have a free choice. Whilst I can sympathise with those who see the changes in a negative light, my own choice is to continue to support the club and the City it represents in the best way I can.

I look forward to the season ahead - backs to the wall, up against it, heavy duty hard graft to prove a point, once again, to those that doubt us as a club - and then to the following season, be it in the top 12 and pitting ourselves against the best in the game and trying to find a way into the 8 - or even finding ourselves in the middle and then being challenged by the Championship clubs strutting their stuff and fancying their chances of taking our place on the perch, or indeed being one of those clubs and looking forward to taking a few SL clubs down a peg or two!

I really don't see what the problem is - the game is what counts and the athletes who play it - whilst they are there and there is a club in Wakey - bring it on!



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As a spectator sport we are badly let down and without spectators we don't have a game or need for athletes.
I think i'm having a bad day

For me and I suspect for many others this isn't just about the recent structural change, it's about a string of poor leadership decisions stretching back for too many years to bare thinking about.

Just off the top of my head and by no means a definitive list, far far from it.
The dropping of GB and tours
Dual registration
The erosion of youth pathways
P & R
Wigans escape from relegation being 'ahem' allowed
The diminished importance of the CC
Franchising fiasco
Bradfords iconic status and double dealing by the RFL
Fast tracking Celtic Crusaders
Merging Sheffield and Huddersfield/ Hull and Gateshead
The Stobart deal
No SL sponsor
No World Cup sponsor
Denying Wakefield entry into SL then allowing it but without funding
Denying Hunslet entry into SL
The double standards, look the other way of accommodating London
The RFLs development Officer redundancies while BG Nige awarded himself a payrise taking his salary to almost £300K

And so on....

Like I said, by no means a definitive list.

I'm disillusioned by it all...

Show me a light, offer me some reason to beleive that things will improve because I'm falling out of love....

I think I was one to give you some flack the last time you came on here threatening to pack it all in

I find it hard to criticise your comments

sorry Phil but this stiff upper lip backs to the wall comments are fine but its no good with them fingers in your ears, I'm up for a challenge too but I only see more financial problems to the sport

The most disappointing aspect with this thread, aren't the comments from disillusioned fans that are going to jack in with the game (and the are sad to read).
It is the fact that the paying public are having changes forced upon them that they just don't want.
The promotion relegation issue has been ignored and fudged since the inception of SL but, instead of introducing 1 up 1 down, the clowns at the top table tell us that it will be better and "more meaningful" to change the whole bloody concept of playing within a league structure.
Fans of our great club are now torn between following their club in a joke league or walking away.
Most of us will continue to support Trinity but this is in spite of the governing body and certainly not because of it.