Or just buy a chimp. Training it should keep him occupied till next Thursday.

Same. I only got about 2 hours sleep Thursday night. Just couldn't get the loss out of my racing mind. Some health and physical injury problems I'm suffering with at the moment pale into insignificance.

You could get him on your permutation system for the top 8 finishes, that would sort him out for the time being

I used to get anxious at games and get involved at shout the team on I used to be in the seated area and one day I got up shouting with joy of a last minute drop goal that Sykes did and could of passed out feeling that dizzy I stopped doing that as scrapping me off the floor

I still have my days feeling sick of the thoughts of a win of the big time, call me gullible I still think we can do it I still believe any team in the top 6 can win the super league title, why think anything else, already wishing it was Thursday

The great Hunter S Thompson wrote once 'buy the ticket, take the ride' and that philosophy has always served me well enough. You've got to live it a bit to enjoy it.

Devastated at full time the other night, 10 year old fighting back the tears next to me. These are the games we want to be in, great times are here. Enjoy it

I go through a cycle. We have a few years of mediocrity and you during those times, I am just grateful for a win and take defeat as a familiar friend. But when we get an occasional sniff of something, yes I am a nervous wreck but only for about 24 hrs in advance. It took me 24 hrs to get over Thursday. That was a REALLY tough one to take. My expectations have lowered a bit now; The Grand final is more remote now. It would be lovely to take it to the last weekend by beating Hull. I will be bricking it on Thursday!

After sixty one years watching Trinity through good and (mostly) bad times I've witnessed most things. I keep telling myself that I won't get upset if we lose, but it doesn't seem to work out that way, even after all this time. Like last Thursday, it wasn't so much losing but the way we lost. I often wonder if the players feel the losses in the same way that the supporters do.

I really feel for the young 'uns who've never had the thrill of seeing Trinity pick up the cup (any cup), or seeing the team bring the cup through the packed streets of Wakefield. Marvelous memories. I was stood in the crowd at Westgate station in 1960 and followed the Beverley's brewery lorry all the way up to the town hall. Great days!! I wonder if we ever will see them again.

I feel we are closer than we have been since 1979-81 when we had the 2nd best side compared to this one, since the 60's, which I am just too young to remember as a 1963 entrant to the world. We have the best management team and owner in all my 47 years and, again, my deep gratitude goes to the work and commitment and money of Michael Carter and the work of his team for some great achievements. We have an entertaining and quality side that appears to be improving by the season. We have continuity if players which I really like. We have a great family atmosphere at the club and I do think that we just might win something in the next 2 years if the momentum can be maintained and....I won't say it...the G word is the main issue. Sort that, and we WILL be cheering at the Town Hall I reckon, though after their 'input' I would take the celebrations somewhere else!

I got taken to my first game in the mid to late 80s by my dad, I've never really seen success from Trinity. The best I've really seen is avoiding mediocrity. Except this last 2 seasons have been different, it's the first time I've been really happy to say I'm a Trinity fan!!

Don't forget t'Yorkshire Cup

That was the first time I'd ever been in a football stadium, I though it was absolutely enormous (my only reference points at the time being Belle Vue and the handful of away days)

A plumber did a job for me a good number of years ago. He told me he followed wakey in the 60's and if they lost he used to go home and cry! His name - John Burke. I didn't ridicule him- as a young kid I think I might have shed tear once or twice!

You wouldn't have dared ridicule him!

Haha exactly. I knew John A lot of years ago and witnessed his temper when he decided to sort out a mouthy workmate.
My point for OP is that your not alone mate, we all hurt but only till the next match. It's worse when we lose like we did the other night, in the last match of the season!

I used to be like the OP - a bad result or a crap performance would wind me up for days - then a sense of hopeful optimism would start to creep in as the next game approached... bit of a rollercoaster. I'm a bit more circumspect these days - I try to enjoy the game one way or the other, then get on with real life until the next one - it's much less stressful.

Also did some plumbing for us back in the '70's...my bro was only talking about it at the match on Thursday how we came home from school to find him working away in the bathroom and we were both gobsmacked, unlike our parents who didn't have a clue who he was

Pardon my ignorance but I don't have a clue either.

John Burke was a hard, old fashioned prop forward, in the days of proper contested scrums. He signed for wakefield at the same time more or less as Bill Ashurst.
All I can say is, he wouldn't be out of place now and with todays fitness regimes he would be awsome.

From Wikipedia...

John Burke (birth registered January 1948[1 — 9 June 2013 (aged 65)) born in Wakefield, was a professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, and 1970s, playing at representative level for Great Britain (non-Test matches), and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Castleford, and Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 852), as a prop, he died in Wakefield.[2[3[4

Did/does he hold the record for the number of red cards?

Hmm...not sure, but I did think he got sent off a few times !!

Including on his debut for us I think? Away at Hull KR?

Arguments used to rage as to whether it was John Burke or Widnes' Jim Mills who had been sent off the most. Ironically they came up against each other in the 1979 Wembley final . One of his greatest games was against St Helens in the semi and I recall him being carried off the field aloft by his team mates - a GREAT player. I also remember him as a kid and he was a little b****r. For all his aggression on the field, off field he was as gentle as a lamb.

JB made his debut for Trinity in the 'A' team on Wednesday night and got sent off, the following Sunday he made his debut for the first team and got sent off. I don't think that he got sent off for us again. As others have said, a cracking, straight forward, no nonsense prop was John - the opposition new not to mess about with him!