Does he hell! He’s a stooge for agents

He had Kopczak leaving a year earlier then he did and us signing Martyn Ridyard !! I’m sure I could find more

Of course there's going to be ones he gets wrong, and he covers every club not just Wakefield. All I'm saying is that he's actually employed to cover RL, and is a lot more credible than someone like Mick Gledhill. It might prove to be wrong, but it certainly won't be just made up on a whim for attention or to increase his Twitter following.

It will be put out there because an agent has told him too, to create interest and pressure on finalising a deal elsewhere

That's a shame if that's true but I'm still happy with what we have.
Other clubs would be envious of out 3/4 line at their best.

I think we already have 4 really good centres anyway

If he signs it’s a brilliant signing because he can play anywhere in the back line .perfect fit imop

I’m tending to agree with Jose on this one the more I think about it.

Because this loophole applies to all clubs I suspect there are a lot of interested parties. I can see a fair few clubs with bigger drawing power than us being in the hunt.

If you wanted to up the anti as an agent, you’d pick the least desirable club as your Patsy. Tell the world Trinity are nearly there to add urgency whilst reminding everyone that he is non quota, it’s what I’d do.

Now I’ve said all that I fully expect the signing to be announced on Monday.

This may be true but, most clubs will have their squad sorted by now and the bigger boys, generally speaking, will feel that they have better players on their roster.
John Kear always said that, you cant have too many pivots in your squad.

Having said that, who knows, it's all conjecture at the moment.

Right now, I'll be happy to have some RL to watch, even if we cant yet be there in person.

We are currently about an hour in to watching all of our tries from the '98 promotion season on Trinity TV....well worth a watch

I've watched it and enjoyed it. Have to say though the quality is dreadful even for VHS, I've copied VHS to digital in the past and although it's not pin sharp, it's a lot better than that. Is there a reason for this? Just interested, as I'd gladly explain how I did it.

Yep you don't realise how much of a difference there is between then and now until you watch some old footage like this BUT didn't we have a good team that season ??....forgot just how good Wayne Macdonald, Roger Kenworthy, Roy Southernwood, Adam Hughes etc etc were for us that season

We did and at the start it didn’t seem all that special but Kelly kept adding as we went along. Shrewd as he was every signing saw a marked improvement. Casey was an inspired signing but Kenworthy to scrum half from wing was genius.

Some old stagers and local lads were also added who made a huge difference.

Goes to show that every season Is a fresh start and just how daft predicting can be.

At the start of that season I was expecting mid table, play offs at best. In fact in truth I saw us as a second tier club for many years to come.

I bet two years ago when MK left Salford their fans never expected their two best seasons in decades.



When Trinity finally get back to winning I’ll guarantee you it will be when we least expect it.

Adam Hughes was class even in the higher tier of Super League.

Never forget the commentary from David Wandless when Hughes took the ball down the wing beating several defenders to score a try at Headingley. DW just shouted "Adam Hughes" over and over getting louder and louder.

Wonder what happend to players like craig rikka, simon hicks chris judge. Played parts in season never made final i dont recall hearing of them since.even bostock although i know he got a bad injury not long after

Casey was a quality signing but like kenworthy moving casey to 6 was an inspired move like could you imagine right now billy and reece been our starting halfbacks

Quote ="Luppylad"Wonder what happend to players like craig rikka, simon hicks chris judge. Played parts in season never made final i dont recall hearing of them since.even bostock although i know he got a bad injury not long after'" Craig Rika became a police officer and believe it or not actually came onto my team for a few years before switching to the 'dark side' and joining CID, but he got fed up with that in 2016 and went back to the family business... https://www.barproductsandservices.com/senior-team/ Not sure about the others.

Quote ="Luppylad"Wonder what happend to players like craig rikka, simon hicks chris judge. Played parts in season never made final i dont recall hearing of them since.even bostock although i know he got a bad injury not long after'" Craig Rika became a police officer and believe it or not actually came onto my team for a few years before switching to the 'dark side' and joining CID, but he got fed up with that in 2016 and went back to the family business... https://www.barproductsandservices.com/senior-team/ Not sure about the others.

Kenworthy, Southernwood and Casey were class for us. Brought back a lot of great memories of that season.

Bostock the winger we signed from Balmain was an enigma. He had complete confidence in his game and his ability to just run over the defence. I was at his first game which I think was Rochdale away in which if I remember correctly he scored five tries.
He was exciting to watch and unpredictable but good box office. I think he left us to go to Oldham but injured his knee in preseason training ending his career.

Quote ="FIL"Craig Rika became a police officer and believe it or not actually came onto my team for a few years before switching to the 'dark side' and joining CID, but he got fed up with that in 2016 and went back to the family business... https://www.barproductsandservices.com/senior-team/ Not sure about the others.'" Oi what do you mean dark side

Quote ="FIL"Craig Rika became a police officer and believe it or not actually came onto my team for a few years before switching to the 'dark side' and joining CID, but he got fed up with that in 2016 and went back to the family business... https://www.barproductsandservices.com/senior-team/ Not sure about the others.'" Oi what do you mean dark side

Its a fair point tbh.....

More importantly, surely we’ve signed Chase Stanley by now. Everyone was adamant we were in ‘advanced talks’ which should have concluded by now surely

Quote ="REDWHITEANDBLUE"Oi what do you mean dark side '" Sorry Inspector Grimm...didn't mean to upset you, sir.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63RSzq ... kinsonLive

Quote ="REDWHITEANDBLUE"Oi what do you mean dark side '" Sorry Inspector Grimm...didn't mean to upset you, sir.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63RSzq ... kinsonLive

We've all backed off that as you pointed out it was a publicity stunt for his agent.
I'd be happy if he came but realistically we should stay with what we have.

FIL's post on the other thread mentions Chester's interview and Chase isn't mentioned so I imagine it's not on the cards for us now.

Quote ="FIL"Sorry Inspector Grimm...didn't mean to upset you, sir.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63RSzq ... kinsonLive '" Underrated show. “My ars3 is on the line and you better pull your finger out!”

Quote ="FIL"Sorry Inspector Grimm...didn't mean to upset you, sir.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63RSzq ... kinsonLive '" Underrated show. “My ars3 is on the line and you better pull your finger out!”