Genuine bids. With as much chance as winning as anything SP puts forward in theory.
My point was the usual practice suggests those who organise the pre-pack usually come out. As it has done this time.

Mr Glover should be praised for his commitment and welcomed to the table, as I'm sure he will be if he still wishes to make an investment in WT. As long as it's agreeable to both parties.

Let the cherry picking commence boys and girls!

Like most people on this site I have to hold my hand up and admit to knowing nothing. The only difference being I know that I know nothing.
Unfortunately the people I have contact with hardly know what day it is so my chances of gleaming inside information is zilch.
I just hope that whoever comes in has Wakefield at heart and the money to back their ambition.
I just want a stable future. I am p*ss*d off with all this and just want to watch rugby.

Most of us know nothing that's why we come on, we also come on to pass on what we know/hear to be true relating to WT.

Some come to brag and find pleasure with-holding information, I prefer to do unto others and facilitate the basic use of this/ any other forum.

As long as people are honest.. Oh wait!

Just a couple of things - I hope our potential buyer honours the season tickets already bought - especially mine (a joke!) and that there is some moner to improve the team because if we don't get a couple of top class props and hopefully a playmaker we're in for a long hard season!

Quote ="G.Price Fan Club"No I'm Mr Prices greatest fan. I'm just stating facts. Nothing that can be linked (as some only credit words that have been printed online- because we all know how credible the internet is!!) But are well known facts to those on the "inner circles". Fact 1: Mr Parkin did offer a pre-pack in November- which was refused. Fact 2: Mr Parkin told WT in Dec he was only interested "if it involved administration" Fact 3: WT went into administration in Jan when it was clear no investor would come forward and pay looming debts if administration wasn't an option. Any more "credible" posters want to disagree with any of my "facts" or can we take it I'm not having anyone on here.'" www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2011 ... ion-order/ Fact 3, not quite accurate: It wasn't January when Wakefield went into administration, it was February. As for 'facts' 1 and 2, I don't see evidence, so I don't have to believe it. Hearsay you could call it, rather than fact, until proof is provided, which I very much doubt will surface.

Quote ="G.Price Fan Club"No I'm Mr Prices greatest fan. I'm just stating facts. Nothing that can be linked (as some only credit words that have been printed online- because we all know how credible the internet is!!) But are well known facts to those on the "inner circles". Fact 1: Mr Parkin did offer a pre-pack in November- which was refused. Fact 2: Mr Parkin told WT in Dec he was only interested "if it involved administration" Fact 3: WT went into administration in Jan when it was clear no investor would come forward and pay looming debts if administration wasn't an option. Any more "credible" posters want to disagree with any of my "facts" or can we take it I'm not having anyone on here.'" www.wakefieldwildcats.co.uk/2011 ... ion-order/ Fact 3, not quite accurate: It wasn't January when Wakefield went into administration, it was February. As for 'facts' 1 and 2, I don't see evidence, so I don't have to believe it. Hearsay you could call it, rather than fact, until proof is provided, which I very much doubt will surface.

If any of what I said was wrong would someone (more connected i.e TRB) not have said so.

None of what I have been said has been discredited by anyone with a knowledge of what has really gone on.

Dealings such as this are hardly things that find their way to being lined online.

i think what you have posted is pretty much common belief so far

I would not worry over the ticket, the money you mention would be nice but lets not forget a couple of weeks back we could have faced having no club at all to support, lets just be thankfull for the time being and see what the future holds.

We are Wakey fans, nothing every goes right for us.

The tide is changing Al, get ashore quick before your swept away by the tears of 5,000 transient trolls!

I am not slagging anyone off mate, and feel free to look back at any post I have place on your forum and you will see that I am more that supportive of your cause. Do you really think that we are that blind, that we don't want Wakey in Super League rather than a team that has been bank rolled over and over again, in a area where it will never work. I simply felt lthat the statement made was one of self sympathy. He/she may have been relating to the fans, but I still don't think there has been much for you to be disappointed about during your time in Super League.

And the reply about not having Super League money for 2 years and seeing what cas would have done ...................... oh dear lord

Any indications yet on how much cash these investors will have to put up?

not yet, and doubt anyone outside of the 4 will ever know

I think he's getting nervous. We're getting a multi millinaire and we're going to raid the leeds team.

Wildcatowl - not so sure it would be the Leeds team I would be looking at to take players - they're on the way down



Id be looking to steal 1or 2 from Wigan and Saints.............DONT BITE BILLYRHINO !

I'd be looking for 2 quality props and a SH, all English, regardless of which team they came from.

I agree bren2k - that would be top of my shopping list as well !

Peacock, Graham and Brough?

And a good full back!!!!

Preference?

It's my understanding that Steve Parkin has submitted an offer for the club and it will be CONSIDERED by the Administrator on Friday when they become OFFICIALLY appointed.

No one can be proclaimed as the new owner until that process, which will include Andrew Glovers bid and maybe others, has been undertaken.

It may well be the case that one bid is or looks to be the favourite or even preferred option but as we sit here today nothing is written in stone.

This is not a pre-pack Administration so this isn't a 'fate accompli'.

Steve Parkin has been involved with the club for a long time (months) and has also been in lengthy talks with the RFL so, for a man with a huge business empire to run, he has invested a lot of time in his quest to acquire Trinity. that suggests to me that he will do what's necessary to succeed in his desire to own the club and therefore I wouldn't be surprised to learn he had won when the news finally breaks.

I would hope that all the potential new owners could find a way to work together for the betterment of Wakefield Trinity that's just me wanting to have my cake and eat it. The situation reminds me very much of the Wigan club back in the early 80s when their four Directors got together to resurrect them after a spell in the lower division had decimated them. Here's hoping that the impact of our new ownership is as significant as theirs.

As for Guisley moving to Wakefield should Steve Parkin be thus successful bidder, I don't see it happening that way. I would be amazed if anyone could take Guisley away from the community it has served and been supported by for decades. It's not just about the first team it's the 20 odd junior teams that play under the Guisley banner. I know what the ambitions of Guisley are and I know their current ground will hold them back but relocating to Newmarket would be a step too far for their fans.

What's more likely to happen is SP will sever ties with Guisley and promote a Wakefield based club to the new stadia and help build them into a credible non-League force which can mirror what Guisley have achieved under Steve Kittrick. Guisley have three millionaire owners so while losing SP, if that's what happens, would be a blow they would still be well financed and supported by their directors.

Great post - agree 100% with everything you have said !



Nail on the head springs to mind

Wouldn't say no to that!

Keating, O'Neill and Davis?

It's a very good post The Clan, if not a little optimistic and fantasy. A lot of Wakey fans seem to be getting carried away with this and thinking you will be some rich mega club going forward.

It's good news for you and well done, but not what some of the dreaming posts are saying on here.

For a start the costs associated with running Guiseley football club are less than those associated with running a Supere League club. Yet this so called mega rich owner, despite having 3 other multi milliionaire a partners, as took them no further than the lower reaches of the football competitions.

Unless you have an owner who is prepared to sink and risk plenty of his own money external to the club finances then it does not matter who is in charged. The only guaranteed way of making profits and have enough financial clout to sign the best players is for the club to be operated in a profitable manner with huge income streams coming into it. By that, whoever is in charge you will still need to continually attract 10k plus crowds in order to begin to compete with other teams.