Long day and staying in a crappy Travelodge on the M4 near Reading.



Off to bed now and maybe some sleep if the family of banjo-plucking halfwits next door ever settle down.

don't get me wrong, i like going to wakefield, even if the ground is a dump, but can't help feeling if they were the same distance away as harlequins they too would probably get 3-4000 crowds, its only because they are close to other clubs they attendences float around 5-7000

In keeping with the thread it sound like you're already in Wakefield not Reading!!

Would really love to see the loacls rally round Wakey this year give them a 7000+ av attendance, then go to Oakwell (if need be) next year and do a Bulls like season ticket offer and get some 14k+ gates....

whats the chances? you go all the way to Reading and end up staying in a room next door to agar's clan

I like Wakey and hope they're ok but to say Wakefield is not a big city isn't true. The city of wakefield has a population of over 300,000 - they really should be able to attract more than a hardcore 3/4,000.

Wakefield 70.000ish

323,900 in 2009

Wakefield urban town has a population of 76.000ish.

If you want take in the district, and count the likes of Fev, Ponty, Normanton etc, fair enough.

So, Hull "urban town" is only slightly larger?

Genius

Yep.

fair enough

personally I think Wakey are finished, they never kept their promises and it's an awful ground.

I like Wakey but at the moment I don't give two shiny ones for their problems. We have problems of our own that need sorting.

Your probably right.
Awful ground but I enjoy going there.

Rovers promised a 14000 capacity ground by Feb 2010

indeed, and they will be one of the next clubs to struggle, they are skint and the new east stand is not going to do what they had said.

10 team SL by 2020

Wakefield have been on the way out for a long time, unfortunately for them.

Their attendances have been woeful for a "heartland" team. When the only visiting fans to not out-number the home fans are Catalans and Quins, and Catalans is probably borderline*, then there is something very wrong.

Financially they've been going the wrong way for far too long. Don't forget that's how we got Steve Prescott back that last time.

Never a truer word.

very true

What im a bit confused about is the new owners have come in and promissed money for new players.

So their going to run the club at a loss again, have they got a bottomless pit of cash?

dont forget their pit village mentality too

you wish

new owner new vision

as for awful ground just remember where your club came from before the council helped you out

which thirty year ago stood side by side to fight any campaign which need support, its heart ripped out by a thatcherite government that couldn't care less for the working man

I don't blame them for the demise of the game but years ago the working man used to walk to the games after a few shears at the pit,,

oh how the times have changed and not for the better

You dredged up a month-old thread for what, exactly?