Thankyou for everything you have done for our club so far, for sticking your hand up and saving this great club and for giving the fans some hope again. whatever happens in the play offs next week you have give some respect to our club and to the name that is Wakefield Trinity. Lets kick on again next year and get this sleeping giant back among the games elite. FORWARD is the only way.

thanks MOPSEY

praise indeed . hope this season will convince young players in the area that Wakey is the way

praise where its needed couldn't put any better

well done Andrew

good try lol, he doesnt live in the area but was home last week and came to the game and wherever he plays it will allways be his team.

meant future players in area , know your lad is special and did so well on recent tour, good on him

Well said - couldn't agree more!

Wayne's World type post here:

Mr Andrew Glover.......

WE'RE NOT WORTHY

It does feel like with mr G at the helm we have finally turned the corner!
What more can u ask for than a top 8 finish with your first season incharge

This^^^^^^^
Saved the club and given us supporters something to believe in again.
You have my eternal gratitude.






Righto back slapping over, now get on with making us better or it'll turn nasty!!!

Here, here, thanks Mr G!











There's only One Andrew Glover, One Andrew Glov-er!

And also for letting JE shape things on the pitch with RA and Dav off the pitch with others doing the Community involvement credit where its due the whole club is on the up and others are looking in and some are looking over their shoulders

9 thanks

we are a hard support to please

Nice that we had a little sing song for him at Leigh. Think it's only fair he gets a mention this week too?! Top bloke!

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I know this is from the Casforum site but looking at this you can see how charitable Andrew Glover has been over the last 12 months. Well done indeed. www.casforum.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=23287

I know this is from the Casforum site but looking at this you can see how charitable Andrew Glover has been over the last 12 months. Well done indeed. www.casforum.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=23287

Quote ="Tigerade"I know this is from the Casforum site but looking at this you can see how charitable Andrew Glover has been over the last 12 months. Well done indeed. www.casforum.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=23287'" Naturally where else would such news appear first. It is a large loss and I'm not entirely sure how it was managed but I've not gone through all the thread yet.

Quote ="Tigerade"I know this is from the Casforum site but looking at this you can see how charitable Andrew Glover has been over the last 12 months. Well done indeed. www.casforum.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=23287'" Naturally where else would such news appear first. It is a large loss and I'm not entirely sure how it was managed but I've not gone through all the thread yet.

Wouldn't the loss be relatively large due to the season ticket money being lost to the old regime?

I'm sure we didn't receive hardly any season ticket money for that period, as he honoured those previously bought before he came in. he also didnt get much sponsorship money either, during this time he also payed off 600k the old club owed whilst making improvements to the ground (did not include the roof) inc improvement to bars, asthetics, tidy it up. Also paying for rent of the ground which is a large sum too apparently

I'd say the majority of new business lose money in the first few years with start up costs etc.

Obviously we don't want to continue to do this for a fair few years but I'm sure A Glover knew what he was getting himself in for.

It is a large loss but I would put this down to it been the first year of new ownership. Season tickets allready sold (about 300?) would account for some of this. Still - when you have an interest free loan of 450K from WY Windows it's very generous from Mr Glover and a sign that he his prepared to invest.

Season tickets & shirts, plus all other merchandise bought for xmas etc, was lost. Sponsorship had been paid to the old company along with two sky payments and the millenium magic payment. Throw in major investment in the gym & changing rooms, new shops etc as well as tidying up the rest of the ground then its not surprising that money was lost. Next years figures are the acid test.

It's one hell of a figure and may well explain the drive for large numbers of early bird S/T's
I pressume this figure includes the new stands etc, which would be a fair chunk of the loss, along with some payments made to some of the creditors of the previous regime.
The one sure thing is that, they will need to be the right side of the line for the coming season.
Get spending in the shop(s) folks !

You lot need to get real, its all doom and gloom and the ships sinking fast.

Stop making excuses or offering reasonable debate, in fact abandon ship and man the lifeboats.

It seems a few are scared of what the future holds for RL within the WF postcode and i don't blame them.

First of all I'm not alarmed or especially concerned.

However doesn't this just highlight how gullible even some seemingly intelligent fans choose to be. I have heard people say on here that we are one of the most financially sound clubs - well run - a roll model for how to run a club - utter bunkum. The rules, obstacles and limitations that applied and eventually took down the old club still apply to this one. So let's look at he obvious reasons why we have accrued what is a relatively small debt by RL standards.

1: Due to the sale of half price tickets the attendances have gone up. However the revenue has stayed at exactly the same as the old club were getting with half those figures. It's a trade off, raising fan base v raising income but the early bird is NOT a real money spinner.

2: Big investment in the stadium infrastructure, which is nice for us and appeases the RFL but cost a bomb and with NM hopefully on line not really needed. This investment does not give a return - sure a few more people turn up on the few wet days we play, but with the number of season ticket holders I doubt it even gets close to covering the cost.

3: Unknown but allegedly relatively large rent on BV.

4: No assets ie ground to raise loans against. However before the loons from over the hill join in I doubt there is a club left in the RFL that has any value left in that one. It's a hard world to run a RL club in at the moment.

5: A VERY expensive team that for some reason the club tried to sell to the fans as cheap and for some even more bizarre reason some fans chose to believe.

All this is IMHO reasonable (just) start up costs. However it's not sustainable and without N/M and people willing to pay the proper rates in future the club will eventually fold as sure as eggs is eggs - the next 12 - 24 month are crucial if the Glover story is to be success or failure.

All that said I'd rather be where we are than where Cas are because I reckon Steve Ferres would sleep very well at night if Castlefords debts were as low as 1.2 million.

Andrew Glover is the owner of a second string SL club - he can do his best but he can't work the miracles some seem to think he has or will - he cannot deny the laws of economics that apply to a club like ours. The honeymoon is over and the hard work begins. We need to be realistic, until we move this is still WTRLFC and the problems we face are still the same. For now survival with style is still where we are at IMHO.

I don't think it's an unrealistic amount of money to have lost in the first years trading for what was taken on, remember these figures are for the year ending 31/03/12 so none of the success of this last season has gone in to it, the cost of all the ground improvements and the £450k loan from WYW will be factored in to these accounts, not to mention the debts Mr. glover cleared (which he didn't have to).
TBH I would expect a massive turnaround in that figure for the following 12 months as even though we sold 4000 season tickets for last season we brought in and average of an extra 4000 extra paying fans which is a massive increase on the year these figures are relating too.
Extra investment from new directors on top with the chance that even more investment is on the way, I'm not at all worried by these figures, they just need to be put in to context

I think you have summed that up about right Vasty. With regards to Cas Tigers debt - we are about 2.5 million in the red this been built over many years.