Re: 2016 Membership : Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:41 am  

Bulliac wrote:

I've now got a figure, which covers my Wakefield ticket, taken from my card account in the name of - the rfl.co.uk

I guess it was an RFL promoted match [as distinct from a normal Wakefield home game] so I'm assuming the Bulls have passed on the card details to the RFL and they've taken it. I hope..

That's exactly how mine came through albeit with a seat number and a match date sometime next September:-)

Re: 2016 Membership : Mon Oct 19, 2015 4:20 pm  

Are the club able to take card payments for memberships yet?

Re: 2016 Membership : Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:22 pm  

dddooommm wrote:

Are the club able to take card payments for memberships yet?

They said they are on Facebook

Re: 2016 Membership : Mon Oct 19, 2015 5:37 pm  

Bulliac wrote:

I've now got a figure, which covers my Wakefield ticket, taken from my card account in the name of - the rfl.co.uk

I guess it was an RFL promoted match [as distinct from a normal Wakefield home game] so I'm assuming the Bulls have passed on the card details to the RFL and they've taken it. I hope..

I've had nothing charged yet, hopefully they've forgotten about it.. bit like I'm trying to do about the match result!

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:31 am  

Has anyone bothered buying a season ticket yet?
Maybe it's just because this forum is completely dead at the minute, but it still feels like the club (and the fans) are struggling to pick themselves up from the mpg defeat.
It's not helping that there is pretty much zero positive news coming out of the club at the minute, all the t&a seems to be doing is running articles reassuring fans that contracted players won't be walking out on the club!
I mean, why are we even needing that kind of reassurance in the first place? I don't see any other clubs having to confirm that their best players aren't leaving. It all just comes across as completely negative and defensive to me.
There are pretty much zero rumours about signings right now, the coach that a lot of fans don't rate looks like he's staying....everything just feels so flat.

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:04 am  

Nothus wrote:

Has anyone bothered buying a season ticket yet?
Maybe it's just because this forum is completely dead at the minute, but it still feels like the club (and the fans) are struggling to pick themselves up from the mpg defeat.
It's not helping that there is pretty much zero positive news coming out of the club at the minute, all the t&a seems to be doing is running articles reassuring fans that contracted players won't be walking out on the club!
I mean, why are we even needing that kind of reassurance in the first place? I don't see any other clubs having to confirm that their best players aren't leaving. It all just comes across as completely negative and defensive to me.
There are pretty much zero rumours about signings right now, the coach that a lot of fans don't rate looks like he's staying....everything just feels so flat.

Totally agree without the drip feed of ood news and silhouettes of new signings like last year could be a truggle getting peopel up for it needs a real big marketing push in my eyes

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:34 am  

The biggest fillip would have been showing Lowes the door. Does anyone think next season will be anything other than 2015's mediocrity? It makes parting with one's hard-earned difficult.

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 8:37 am  

Nothus wrote:

Has anyone bothered buying a season ticket yet?
Maybe it's just because this forum is completely dead at the minute, but it still feels like the club (and the fans) are struggling to pick themselves up from the mpg defeat.
It's not helping that there is pretty much zero positive news coming out of the club at the minute, all the t&a seems to be doing is running articles reassuring fans that contracted players won't be walking out on the club!
I mean, why are we even needing that kind of reassurance in the first place? I don't see any other clubs having to confirm that their best players aren't leaving. It all just comes across as completely negative and defensive to me.
There are pretty much zero rumours about signings right now, the coach that a lot of fans don't rate looks like he's staying....everything just feels so flat.

I understand where you're coming from, but I don't get your point about players staying being defensive and negative. The reason other clubs don't have to do it is because they're in SL. We're in the championship where let's be honest, good players don't want to be. The fact Gaskell, O'brien, Mullaney will be with us next year is much better news than any signing.

Also they probably won't be many signings. The general moan is that the squad is too big and needs to be trimmed down. So therefore they won't be many coming in. I also expect the club is trying to negotiate some releases to free up SC space.

Our season only finished two week a go. The club were in a difficult position to sign players as players wouldn't have known what we're signing up for.

As is always the case half the rumours will be true, and then there will be one or two signings come completely out of the blue.

[Bulliac]

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:49 am  

Nothus wrote:

Has anyone bothered buying a season ticket yet?
Maybe it's just because this forum is completely dead at the minute, but it still feels like the club (and the fans) are struggling to pick themselves up from the mpg defeat.
It's not helping that there is pretty much zero positive news coming out of the club at the minute, all the t&a seems to be doing is running articles reassuring fans that contracted players won't be walking out on the club!
I mean, why are we even needing that kind of reassurance in the first place? I don't see any other clubs having to confirm that their best players aren't leaving. It all just comes across as completely negative and defensive to me.
There are pretty much zero rumours about signings right now, the coach that a lot of fans don't rate looks like he's staying....everything just feels so flat.

Yeah, got mine on Monday morning - card machine is working btw.

I think the defensive stuff is down to the fact that much of what has been written by fans, on various forums, has been of the "So and So is definitely leaving" sort of rubbish. I sort of think it might have been best to just to take the high ground and just ignore it, but sometimes [just ask the Labour party] if you don't counter the tripe, after a while, when it's repeated often enough, it just becomes accepted as true.

Re: 2016 Membership : Tue Oct 20, 2015 11:20 am  

Bull Mania wrote:

I understand where you're coming from, but I don't get your point about players staying being defensive and negative. The reason other clubs don't have to do it is because they're in SL. We're in the championship where let's be honest, good players don't want to be. The fact Gaskell, O'brien, Mullaney will be with us next year is much better news than any signing.

Also they probably won't be many signings. The general moan is that the squad is too big and needs to be trimmed down. So therefore they won't be many coming in. I also expect the club is trying to negotiate some releases to free up SC space.

Our season only finished two week a go. The club were in a difficult position to sign players as players wouldn't have known what we're signing up for.

As is always the case half the rumours will be true, and then there will be one or two signings come completely out of the blue.

Other thing that maybe being overlooked is that it was widely rumoured that a few of players that came down from SL with us took lower paid contracts last year and higher paid ones for next year, presumably on assumption we'd be back in SL with a higher cap. We now have to accommodate those higher wages within championship SL cap. Suspect that will have as much to do with reduction is squad size as anything.

Think there will be two or three signings over next few weeks and departures of some of fringe players. I think club has probably waited until issue with Card service provider was sorted and they were back in position to take card payments before starting with signing announcements to try and build some momentum. Rumours re Gaskell/Obrien etc needed addressing before they became entrenched IMO.