Indeed. How dare he want to progress his career.

Club statement https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 6434979907

Club statement https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 6434979907

Amazing that the club waited 24 hrs to come out with the typical pub bore line of "well we actually broke up with him, he didnt leave us"

Am I alone in thinking Ford has effectively jumped ship for next season ? When we are in a struggle that he may well have helped to create?
Is it any wonder the club on finding out have said ‘go now!’ Or words to that effect!

Exactly. I think the club was right to do this.
We need to have dedicated people focused on Wakefield Trinity.

Didnt look good laughing on the telly and not focused on his job ,as they say hope he falls on his sword .

Many people missing the larger point - our AC had already agreed to join the club most likely to be replacing a SL at next season - currently slated to be us.

How can WT have confidence in a staff member who's future looks better if we fail?

As soon as the club found out, they had to act.

I get the impression that the club didn't act at all, they have come out with a nonsense reaction to events that had already happened

Did you actually read it?
They said he told them he had a job for next year and they decided to let him go now.
What's hard to understand from that?
If it wasn't true Fev would say.
It's always been standard practise to wait for the place they are going to to announce first.

Yes I read it, it's very obvious petty nonsense from the club, which is why I'm not surprised to see you defending it

What’s your point?
Would it have been better if the club had said ‘that’s fine go next season we’ll look after you till then!’
What exact did you want the club to say?

Can you explain this then if we accept that reasoning.
How can the club select a player (Jordy Crowther) who has signed a contract with the club who are our nearest rival for relegation. Surely the same applies.

Does the same apply to CEO's who announce they're leaving?!

I've only seen rumours based on the fact he was seen at Cas. Doesn't mean he's signed.
And we are hardly going to let a player go to rivals now.....and they might not have the wages this year.

JC has signed a contract with Cas?

If he has, it will state the same as the contract he has with Wfd = if not in SL the contract is null and void.

Not the same situation with a coach and Fev.

The club can't win with the 'excited' bunch. He stays and we are wasting a wage. He goes and the club had acted hastily. Players as PB is using to his/her advantage, is totally different and they know it! See Miller last season as exhibit 1. There are many examples to smack the club with, this isn't one and by using it as so, you ate losing your argument. The clubs a mess, an intelligent person picks the right fight!

The nonsense part is that he was supposed to start in 2024 but all of a sudden Fev suddenly had the capacity to bring him in early, and that despite Trinity knowing, didn't have any time to prepare for his leaving.

The club is a mess and a coach jumping ship with immediate effect is a symptom of the mess.

There is no evidence of anything you are saying Egg. You are just making things up to fit your conclusion.

Other than Fev somehow managed to instantly find the money to appoint him immediately instead of in 2024 as had been initially planned and agreed....

Which seems more plausible:
a coach tells the current club that he is leaving with immediate effect to take up a new post in a club which has funded it leaving the existing club without a plan to replace him

Or the coach tells his current club that he is leaving at the end of the season and they instead dismiss him immediately, and then wait 24 hours before announcing that he had gone but that they hadn't got a plan to replace him, and that somehow the club he was going to also managed to fund his new post immediately and also announce it.

I know you like to look at everything through your rose tinted glasses, but objectively, Trinity have been caught out by something and then flailed around for a day before trying to pretend it was all their doing in the first place.

If you read yesterday's announcement from Featherstone it is clear that they had a vision of him coming into them this season as it talks a lot about him supporting them in their drive for promotion

As in a top 5 place like we got told when W Poaching went

You can draw whatever conclusion you like. I'm confident it happened exactly like the press release said.
Mine is based on evidence. Yours is based in a conspiracy theory.

Big question is, who comes in as replacement?

I'll admit I don't know who else is on the coaching staff, I think Pitts is the academy coach?

Probably Matt Nicholson, the head of youth, will step up.

Strange how only a month or so ago Mark Cambell their chairman warned that if crowds didn’t improve he would pull funding and also had a dig at fans for drinking in a local pub instead of the ground and that money generated doesn’t come close to matching their wage bill