Just remember it is the lets say the 2500 season ticket holders who purchased them within the last two years who you will need to convince to renew not the 1500 who would buy regardless. With the news emanating from the club and this forum should they read it will think I would rather wait to see the sort of team we have and how competitive they are rather than buy a season ticket and finding out we are like Salford this season. These are the ones you need to convince not those on the forum.

The cost of running the junior set up has always been way more than the money brought in by 1873 - so the question is irrelevant.

That cost includes all admin / coaches / training facilities etc.. not just player contracts.

I think you make a good point here; whilst MC's honesty about our situation is a refreshing change and will probably have a ring of familiarity to around 50% of SL Chairmen, it could be time to start changing the tone of the conversation a bit. If the wider (non diehard) Wakefield public start hearing some positive stuff about the future of the club under new, transparent, sensible stewardship, they may be more inclined to get on board.

And when I say positive, I don't mean the 'these deals won't last forever' double-glazing kind of positivity, that was the trademark under AG; "we're doing it tough and we need your help" is probably about right - "we'll sell all the players if you don't get on board," not so much.

Having helped out at Salford last year every payday was a nightmare. It is not just the players wages you have to find each month, but also the payments to The tax man. In the months when there is very little income coming in, this is a nightmare as your debt to the taxman start to build again. I am not trying to be negative, just pointing out how things are. But in my opinion Wakey have some of the best and most loyal fans around, so your club needs revenue streams NOW. Buy your season tickets, and whatever else brings money into your club, and do it now. Good luck, and see you next year.

Thats not what he asked so it is relevent!

Pretty sure he meant does ALL the money raised by club 1873 go towards junior development or is it/can it be used in other areas? Whether the junior development is supplemented by other funds isn't the issue, but does all that money raised go to the kids or has some payed the bills?

None has paid any bills as there has always been a substantial shortfall to cover junior development.

I only get to 3 or 4 matches per year due to work and distance.

Was MCs meeting with Sir RW  yesterday or next Wednesday

We're doing it tough and we need your help

Very droll!

Would you consider a weekly update on the website, or perhaps sending something out with the Lottery results email, so we know where we are?

Yes it's just physically finding the time to do it at the minute. I'm also a single parent and my little boy still comes first for me. Spoke to Andy Morgan today about putting something out and want to do another piece with Wakefield express next week

Stop messing about on here then and get summat sorted.

Ha ha. I'm having time out watching hudds play hull at cricket apparently. 54-6. Don't think they will avoid the follow on

Possible hundred?
Nah....

I prefer the horse racing analogy; where's the vet?

Good morning Michael hope you are not too stressed with all that is going on.
A thought came to me as I sat in the canteen at work as a certain Wakefield lass appeared on the TV screen - have you thought of approaching Jane McDonald for help? It may not be wholly help financial but she always gives big raps to the City and has mentioned the team now and again.
Just a thought

An audience with Jane McDonald night?

I think MC needs to use his PC Amos contact for another football match at Belle Vue with the soap stars again!

Does she still go off singing on these big Cruise Liners?

Maybe she could tap up some rich old man who has nothing better to do with his cash?

I've also offered to try & get some media exposure on a local radio station.

This still stands.

She seems to be on loose women a lot these days (so the wife says) and apparently still lives in Sandal.

Perhaps she could tap up all the "celebrity" guests on there then. A few celebs supporting the cause wouldn't do us any harm.

Get Lucy Jo Hudson (Ryan's sister) to do "an evening with". She might bring her hubby from Corrie along with her - Alan somebody ? That would sell some tickets.

Radio (apart from those at BBC Leeds) always seems to have been treated as a poor relation to the Wakey Express by sucessive regimes at Belle Vue, forgetting that it's on the air 24/7 rather than published once a week. Never understood why, unless they love giving that "exclusive" to the papers time and time again.

Cas and Fev seem to have realised that over the years, we never really have.