I think they were hoping his missus came as part of the deal.

lol !

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the actual game is not bringing in the public of Wakefield.

I'm only interested in the rugby aswell, but we have to look at the bigger picture.

We need to do everything we can to increase attendances. That to me (other than the new stadium) is number one priority. Bigger attendances = more money...more money = better chance of growing as a club and achieving success.

So sorry for slipping with the date aswell, maybe it's because that date is etched in my memory as it's the date my mum died. So sorry for the slip...we have no home game until [size=20014th May[/size


There, that better?

I'm interested in whatever brings a crowd through the gates!

Can't be doing with this postive news, goes against the grain for me.

Expect club wakey to be rushed out with about two weeks notice at the end of the season

I'm fairly ambivalent toward the pre match and half time entertainment, but then again I don't think it's aimed at the likes of me or most others who use this forum. The club have 'got' us we've all been watching for ten, twenty, thirty or forty years (or more) and will probably all keep going till the day they carry us out (unless we merge, but that's another argument).

We aint going to last for ever and will all need, sooner or later (hopefully later), replacing and the fact is the ones who are going to replace us are the generation who want the total entertainment package. If and when we have that then we will pack them in and be able to charge twenty quid or more.

When I was a kid we got a game and very occasionally a Brass band at half time. Times change and Wakefield Trinity will have to change with them. If we can get them now they'll follow us to the Promised Land at Newmarket, if not it will be very hard to tempt them through the doors at Newmarket.

At the end of the day, like you it's the game I go for, but we will eventually become part of a dwindling minority who 'only' want to see the actual 80 mins of play.

Dont agree with the total entertainment package stuff at all, what gets people through the gates is success in sport, and then the half time jugglers are a complete waste of time, as they always were and always wil be,

see the following examples

test cricket
Hull and barnsley football clubs
even curling and ics skating ffs!

you go to see the main even be intresting/exciting/ and hopefully sucessful because we are an entertainment industry, and the RL is the main act.

heres an idea keep all the money we are spending on half time and xfactor tools in next few years and give it to danny brough, oh too late never mind.

My wife say's "stop messing around with back room shuffles" and sign some players.

You chose well alan!
give her a present!

someone said to me that the back page of the express this week could be

"wildcats react to loss of 3 star players with signing of quality administrator"

We are both pleased James is back at the club but unless he's brought Clint Newton with him it won't help us on friday.

www.wildcatsrl.tv/ horrific quality,

www.wildcatsrl.tv/ horrific quality,

exactly Al
sadly, exactly right.

Get some oil on that door hinge

We are in competition with Grannys????

bloody hope not, on current form theyd beat us!

I quite enjoy the sumo's at half time, and the mascot races. Beats the X-Factor every time for me.

so amateurish but funny with it, it has come part of getting through to the fans but has to done on a more frequent occasion and lets get a sign on the door filming in progress

i think everyone needs to realise that the community team at the wildcats do everything they can and work extra hard to put things on like x factor acts to bring new people through the gates. all the money spent on the acts is made back through they hard work on ticket sales aswell as their day to day jobs. people should have a little more respect for the people who do these jobs. no one is saying that the rugby isnt important!

yes welcome back james!

or living on preston road

The community team have being doing well, James however, being CEO will also have to concentrate on:
Retail, Commercial, marketing, team affairs, community, Academy, etc etc...If he is to be CEO,
Where does that Leave Franny Stephenson?
Who will answer to who?
Seem like a lot of chiefs

I have no problem with James I have had dealings with him on a number of ocassions... CEO calibre.. maybe one day!

I have an increasing problem with the club being used as a family business.

Also every organisation I have ever been involved with has has a CEO or a Managing Director, to work with the Board of the company... we have both! yet are unable to afford new players... the club have created a management structure that I dont understand in business terms.

Who is in charge and who does the work?

Doesn't the MD handle the day to day running of the business, then the CEO overlooks the MD and everything else?

The FD takes care of the monies (...i'm calling from your bank) which again the CEO overlooks.

Thus, those 3 are the operating board, who work with non-exec directors who advise them on business matters and represent the shareholders.

Then there's the Chairman who sits on the board and everyone has to report to.

Or something like that.

Is your name Gerry Robinson underground?



He used to love the word 'Nepotism' in the programme he used to do where he went into failing business's and told them where they were going wrong!

Seriously, there's so many little things that could be done so much better IMO..

First starting point for me would be the advertising boards around the City...absolutely scandalous the amount of time it takes for them to change!