Re: Will you stand by this club. : Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:01 pm  

Poynton wrote:

I have watched Trinity for 50 years. I have nowhere else to go at 3.30 on a sunday.. I have watched therm at Huyton infront of a crowd of 200 and still enjoyed the game.If it is a choice between free flowing rugby in the championship or 5 drives and a kick and still getting thrashed in the SL i know which i prefer. This has been the most boring season out of the 50 and JK is the main one to blame. We started with a group of young lads who were giving 100% and although we only won 3 games in the first 10 we were competing in most of them .Then JK started to pick unfit players who did not deserve their place in the team . ( first Jeremy Smith , then the disastrous Hickey signing , then Tadulala ) Young guns realised giving 100% was not enough to get you selected,you need the antipodean accent. There was no point in busting a gut , you needed a beer gut to get picked. I think even the young lads who WERE getting picked every week like Mariano realised the club was a laughing stock and performances suffered as a result. If we had stuck with the early selection policy we may not have won many more games but the games would have been worth watching. Roll on the Championship because one thing we all know is that the likes of J Smith Hickey and Tadulala wont want to stay at championship wages because they are not here for the rugby just the beer money.

I agree with you totally, you have summed up this season brilliantly. What I don't understand is every fan can see what's happening why cant the powers that be see it, we needed to finish the season with some pride by at least competing even if we lose just to be able to say we lost but we gave it our best..Hard times but ill still be cheering them on choose what.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:27 pm  

The Championship, by whatever name it was then, is where Trinity were when I first started following.
SL has been a very mixed affair for us all. Semi CC, Semi play off (robbed), many great victories, and many heavy hearted defeats. Many flirtations with relegation, but never finishing in a relegation spot.

If, as it would seem will happen, we find ourself in the next tier down, then so be it.
It is a very unfair world we live in, and not just in RL, or sport in general.

Over the last few seasons, going to games at Batley, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Barrow, Fev, etc, (not just games involving Trin) and watching our Academy sides,
has given me a realisation that RL life outside of SL is very attractive.

If we go down, it is the staff, players and others at the club who have done their utmost to present a case for continued SL participation I will feel for.
Tomorrow's decision will not affect my job, and I will be able to watch Trinity next season wherever they play.

I will sleep OK tonight, and if by some quirk we remain in SL, I will be so pleased for those that made it so.
If , as I expect, we go down, then I will not hold it against any other club or it's fans.

As a club we have had long enough, unfortunately our new owners have not.

As a footnote, am I right in saying the night we beat Cas to stay up we had 2 players in the 17 who qualified for GB

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:30 pm  

Pilchard wrote:

The Championship, by whatever name it was then, is where Trinity were when I first started following.
SL has been a very mixed affair for us all. Semi CC, Semi play off (robbed), many great victories, and many heavy hearted defeats. Many flirtations with relegation, but never finishing in a relegation spot.

If, as it would seem will happen, we find ourself in the next tier down, then so be it.
It is a very unfair world we live in, and not just in RL, or sport in general.

Over the last few seasons, going to games at Batley, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Barrow, Fev, etc, (not just games involving Trin) and watching our Academy sides,
has given me a realisation that RL life outside of SL is very attractive.

If we go down, it is the staff, players and others at the club who have done their utmost to present a case for continued SL participation I will feel for.
Tomorrow's decision will not affect my job, and I will be able to watch Trinity next season wherever they play.

I will sleep OK tonight, and if by some quirk we remain in SL, I will be so pleased for those that made it so.
If , as I expect, we go down, then I will not hold it against any other club or it's fans.

As a club we have had long enough, unfortunately our new owners have not.

As a footnote, am I right in saying the night we beat Cas to stay up we had 2 players in the 17 who qualified for GB

Thats the most honest thing i've read on here in ages mate

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:40 pm  

"As a club we have had long enough, unfortunately our new owners have not"

Funny I got told that yesterday from one of the games top CE's who also said the RFL could not organize a.... etc etc. Lewis was also said to have surrounded himself with his own cronies and was likened to Blatter and Co in FIFA.
The games run by a guy who prefers Tennis to RL and a company called SKY and unfortunately we don't fit with either.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:42 pm  

I will stand by the club, but not the RFL. Have no respect for them whatsoever.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:44 pm  

Will still go to games in NL1 and buy my season ticket, merchandise etc. Will miss the trip to France/Cardiff but on the other hand will save a lot of money from not going to these. Son-in-law is a Cas fan (steadygetyerbootson) and said he enjoyed their time in the Championship more than SL although I doubt he will be thinking like this today!

My thoughts also are with the people employed by the club whose jobs may be under threat, it will be a great shame if the hard working people in the community department etc lose jobs. Am I right in thinking that some of this is funded by grants so hopefully some things will be able to continue as they are now.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:47 pm  

normycat wrote:

Will still go to games in NL1 and buy my season ticket, merchandise etc. Will miss the trip to France/Cardiff but on the other hand will save a lot of money from not going to these. Son-in-law is a Cas fan (steadygetyerbootson) and said he enjoyed their time in the Championship more than SL although I doubt he will be thinking like this today!

My thoughts also are with the people employed by the club whose jobs may be under threat, it will be a great shame if the hard working people in the community department etc lose jobs. Am I right in thinking that some of this is funded by grants so hopefully some things will be able to continue as they are now.

Ive met him a couple of times and it suprised me that he only had one head, other than that he seemed a decent sort, for a Cas fan

He's a ok guy.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:48 pm  

Well said, Pilchard.

I've not been able to get to many Wakey games over the last three years due to my location (but have been enjoying conference rugby and Sky games - to hell with it, I enjoy watching RL at any level). But Wakey are and will always be my club and it doesn't matter which league they're in.

I think the franchise decision system is a farce but Wakefield as a club have only started to play the right tunes since new ownership. Even then what AG has been able/willing to do is severely limited by the axe over the club's head (in terms of investing in ground development and players, certainly). Sadly, AG has inherited an ill legacy and his best efforts can't erase that from history... it's a pity, as if we had the time in SL to get into Newmarket, invest in our squad and develop our juniors, we could become an excellent SL club. But I seriously can't see past us going down tomorrow.

Instead, I think we're looking at becoming an excellent Championship club. I do fear the "closed shop"... I'm not so sure it will be so easy to get back in at all. But never mind, we can worry about that later. There is some great rugby played in the Championship, and some fantastic clubs to visit with loyal and knowledgeable fans. A great rugby league family.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:49 pm  

In answer to the OP, of course we all will, we have been in this too long and it means too much, we are the best bloody bunch of fans to spend game time with, largely because we dont walk away.

For me it will be the same bunch of nodding acnowledgments next year, people you dont know but you know they share your hope belief and passion for this club.

Tomorrow we start again, wherever that start may be, but this time we have to be realistic, otherwise what we love will be no more.

Re: Will you stand by this club. : Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:03 pm  

Ill be staying - quite looking forward to the championship and a trip to Blackpool for the rail cup then wel be back in the big time and moving forward in SL in 3 years time

We should at least have 1873 supporters shouldnt we !!