Good news that we've avoided the T V. Hopefully, a few more fans will get off their backsides and support the boys at the game.

we are going to make one in

What's the date of our game? Thanks

Also don't forget they finished bottom of the league and we're not relegated multiple times

It's great to see huddersfield fans getting what they deserve over the last few seasons, they are terrible

True SL fans will never forget the merger no matter how often the hardcore 27 fans including the pan chant fartown, very few other team opposition fans were as abusive towards wakefield fans on here as the shudds lot when they were doing well

Something I will not forget, it makes me laugh they are no where to be seen now

All being well they will get relegated and then the few fans they do will have something to actually moan about

Not decided yet, but my money would be on Friday 11th May as Town play Arsenal at home on the Sunday (or swap the fixture to BV?)

Don`t the FA have a 48 hour pitch rule? Meaning that even if it was played on Friday night then it still would not be allowed. So looks like either Thursday night or it will be played at BV.

But we play on the Sunday before, good chance this will be held at BV?

Good point! We would be mad to agree to playing on the Thursday.

we did get relegated in the end though and served our punishment and won promotion.

those years finishing bottom of the league damaged the club no end, we lost a generation of fans..not many 20/30yr olds come watch the giants, they were lost, it wasnt good watching the team get thrashed every week believe me!

i could throw back at wakefield that they have been done favours by the rfl in recent times with the stadium not being upto sl standard so shouldnt have been given a license.

players come and go from clubs its just the way it is, wakefield havent done so bad from us in recent times.. kirmond, grix, huby , wood etc

we have a really good academy nowadays and are producing our own which we have done for a while now crabtree, mcgillvary, cudjoe, lawrence, jake connor, leeming, mcintosh and more in the pipe line (two 17yr old twins played the other week).

giants doing it tough right now and competing with a thriving football club but things will change again... be a few years but we have had some good recent times with two cup finals, few years of semi final play offs and a league leaders shield.. wakefield cant still only dream of these.

Whilst I understand your post, I do have to take issue when you talk about players coming and going between the 2 clubs.
However, there is a world of difference in players moving clubs in the open market and the likes of Huddersfield "working with the administrator" and getting players on the cheap.
In fact, some were so cheap that it could be argued that you club helped make the hole deeper for Wakefield.

As far as the license went, Trinity only survived due to Crusaders withdrawing their application at the very last minute and we all know that Trinity may not have been alive at all, had they (Crusaders) found some cash.

The ground issue is well documented and right now, Trinity are "fined" around £200k per season for the state of their facilities (money withheld from their "share"icon_wink.gif
I'm not sure this helps one of the poorest clubs in the comp.

Given our record against Huddersfield in the SL era, you should be wanting Trinity to stay in the comp for as long as possible.

Kirmond, Grix, Huby , Wood... Really?

Kirmond was a bit part squad player at Hudds and made his name at Wakefield, Grix and wood were slated by your fans and Huby you wasn't too bothered about either after half your squad fell out with him when his team mate did the dirty on him, basically what i am saying is that in your clubs eyes we did you a favour taking those players off of your hands.

When it comes to our players for years you cherry picked our best young performers year after year waving Kens money in front of their faces. Its almost as if Wakefield was the only place you could source players.

If we cant pull our game against KR forward then it should be Sunday that way we play 3 Sunday’s on the bounce with a weeks rest between games. Maybe kick it off earlier to avoid clash with any TV game as well.

Aren’t Kirby and English from Wakefield amateur clubs?

isn't Christian Akroyd from Illingworth amateur club and didn't we have a lad from Cumbria Liam Paisley for a while,
lads will play for who they want and what they get offered, you can't force someone to play for you

be thankful that we still have players wanting to play rugby in this area

Any idea when the fixture venue and date will be announced, It's under a fortnight away!

Remarks like this will only fuel the keyboard warriors. Wasn't it well understood that Rimmer (or Solly) said that our application was not the weakest and it was a misconception that we would have been booted out had Crusaders not withdrawn.

Correct, think it was Blake Solly who said it.

If every club owned their own stadium we wouldn't have all this.

knowing our luck it will probably be the first game with their new coach!

we still get them surely!

confirmed for the friday and yes the new coach will be here for his first game

If this is right, I stand corrected


However, it was notable at the time that Trinity were the ONLY club keeping the press out and whilst Solly may have said that we weren't the worst application, do you not think that, in saying this, he was perhaps deflecting fire from himself.
Say what you like but, at the time, we appeared to be on our way out.

That was the perception and the story line the media and other fans revelled in. It is not backed by fact though, there are NO facts to say that it was a correct assumption to make. If Solly said we were not the weakest then we need to defend that.

I'm sick of fans of other clubs having a go at us and throwing up incorrect statements like we would have been out had Crusaders not withdrawn. If our own fans support their incorrect assumptions then it just belittles our club.

We get enough stick as it is about things out of our control. We should be united in presenting the FACTS and not letting people purport a misguided agenda.

Dont want to labour the point as this is all water very much under the bridge now.
However, I wouldnt have taken his words quite as literally as yourself, as they were made in response to the likes of Halifax not getting the gig rather than a glowing recommendation of Trinity's application.

As I say, what occurred means noting now and with the fall from grace of Bradford, that all come under the category of "bygone era".

Back to the game and it seems that we may be facing a somewhat less injury ravaged Huddersfield, revved up by their new coach and our game could be his first.

Will it be a televised game????? hope to watch over here.

I don't believe so. The televised games have already been chosen and we weren't one of them.