hi, Wakefield fan coming in peace.

i was just wondering what supporters of other clubs thought of our players, chances this year and as a club overall. i just find it interesting to look at how we are perceived elsewhere. im not here looking for an argument im genuinely interested so be as honest as you like!

best of luck this season.

You are looking good but let us wait until Saturday when you play Catalans the bookies have you both on scratch you should finish in the top 8 don,t think you will finish 5 are above.

I was talking about Wakefield at the weekend with some mates and I have them as genuine top four contenders. They’ve quietly and efficiently built a good side with very few weaknesses and some real game breaking players. They already had some players who performed brilliantly at times last year in Grix, Tupou, Miller, Fafita, Ashurst etc and the signings were good. I like Horo and Hampshire looks hungry. Add in Johnstone on the comeback trail and it looks a pretty good side.

I doubt many clubs will get an easy game against them this year.

Top half of the table certainly, i'd say, at least. Decent squad and coach who seems to know what he's doing.

I think a strong top 8 side, not top 4, but not too far off. A well coached team, very difficult to play however the performance last weekend wasn’t as expected. No longer a team who you look forward to playing against (not that recent results have helped that).

I’d all but give a limb to take Johnston and Fifita off your hands.

You've got a good chance this season and I wish you well. But, as a club you are a joke. How many long have you lied to the RFL and SL about your ground now? 5 years? Longer? Are you building a new stadium or re-developing Belle Vue? I forget so many lies have been spun. Isn't the last thing a conspiracy involving Wakefield council or something?

Your facilities are a joke, so much so, that I actually enjoy an away day to Belle Vue as it's a step back in time. Crumbling terraces, porta-kabin "boxes," half a roof over half a stand and that "grandstand." The vitriolic and really quite aggressive fans in the corner add a bit of zest too.

You're never getting a new ground (face it) and the slow, inexorable decline of your club will continue unabated. I'll be a little sad once you're gone, but SL needs a club that actually brings something to the table, rather than just barely surviving.

Well he said to be honest



In truth as much as Wakefield are a good side now by superleague standards, those standards have been driven down rather then up the league pleasing teams such as Wakey when they in fact should’ve been making teams improve and get up to the levels that Saints, Wigan, Leeds, Bradford, Wire etc were at.

People begged for years for a more even competition and now we have it but it’s even because the standard across the board is so poor. I can only hope that the delay in announcing the format for 2019 is due to somebody growing a set and driving a ruthless approach to which teams are and which aren’t suitable to drive the game forward.

I'd say underrated, but actually judging from the comments on here maybe not. I'd say good enough for the Super 8, not good enough for the play offs. Chance of making the CC final if you get a lucky draw, not something I've ever thought about Wakey before.

I think wakefield have built a good side which, providing they can remain fairly healthy will make the top 8 and have a chance of pushing for top 4.

As a club I’m not sure what the longer term future will hold, with the league probably looking to add the likes of Toronto, one or two US sides and possibly another French side I would imagine wakefield would be high on the list to drop out. Even if the stadium actually becomes a reality I can’t see the club attracting enough fans to sustain a SL side in the long term.

Good side to watch but it’s time,more than time for a stadium to be built,share if needs be,the current ground simply not fit for 2018

A big powerful pack and fast backs will give Wakefield a decent season.
Liam Finn can earn a couple of league places with his quality goal kicking.
There seems to be a good balanced team there with a star player in Tom Johnson and Finn to add the two.
5/6/7 placed at the season's end.

Sorry to the other posters because it's O/T but the highlighted bit especially needs putting straight

Cool story Suzy but just to clear something up for you, as you're throwing around some lies about. The Club have told no lies about a new Stadium ever, even going back 15 years or so when the Council promised to build a Leigh like sports Village in the park and then backtracked and said it was too expensive to do. Usually, when your Council and the government says a development is going to happen, you put that news out as fact. You also can't beat a supporter of a team slagging another side off because of Sadia, especially one that shares with a football club. Anyway, anyone with even a little understanding of how a new one gets built will understand the club are very much at the bottom end of things when it comes to one being built unless it's self financed and very few are. Have a look into Castleford's supposed new stadium is getting funded if you can be bothered.

It must have missed your attention that a developer got given about £80m worth of green belt land in Wakefield at Newmarket under a Section 106 agreement, which means they have to build something for the Community to get their hands on the land to build warehousing 7 years ago (it's how many stadiums have been built in this Country) they put in for planning permission for a brand new Community stadium along with 2 full-size MUGA pitches. They achieved this off getting 15,000 signatures agreeing that the Stadium and other community facilities would be good for the City as we have basically naff all. The Council passed it but it got called in by the Secretary of State but he then signed off on it and it was supposedly all go, Stadium built within 4 years. The deal was they were allowed to build 60,000 square feet of warehousing before they started on the Stadium etc.

Anyway, nothing got built for several years, on whats been called the best piece of commercial real estate on the M62, due to its situation and land available. Then amazingly without no one even at the Club knowing the developers put a separate planning application for a huge NewCold building that measured over 25k sqft. This somehow didn't count to any trigger point for the stadium, which the Council firstly didn't have to pass and secondly the didn't make it part of the trigger point towards the stadium. So in 7 years, they've built 1 warehouse that doesn't go towards the trigger point and created only 120 jobs, when we were promised by them and the Council a new Community Stadium and Facilities plus 2000 jobs. In the intervening years we've had the head of the council saying the whole project is nothing to do with them, then suddenly when our ground got sold to another developer, it does have something to do with them and at one stage told them to either get on with it or let another developer crack on with it. As a ratepayer in Wakefield, all this shows, at the very least we have a council that's at the least incompetent and secondly doesn't give a stuff about the people it's supposed to represent.

Now all of a sudden, after the developer Yorkcourt renewed their planning, which is still the same with the Stadium etc, we get offered some obvious money-saving offer to redevelop Belle Vue. This new offer was promised by the Council and the developer that owns Belle Vue along with Yorkcourt. They now say are they are going to front the money so Belle Vue gets done and recoups it off Yorkcourt off that development and space where the Stadium and 2 4G piches were going to be built, which was meant to cost around £12m in 2011. Why though when we have a stadium backed by the S of S supposedly getting built. Seriously you couldn't make this up and these are the guys running Wakefield and the people they do business with. But as Michael Carter said on the Radio Yorkshire Rugby League show last week, he's had no paperwork or anything from them to even look over, not a thing, even though it was promised for the end of January. So who's lying and promising things and not doing anything about it, it certainly isn't Trinity.

ATEOTD though even if a few million got spent on doing up Belle Vue the Council have let a developer get away with murder and that's why the Club was taking legal action against the Council, till this latest Belle Vue redevelopment suddenly came up, what a surprise hey. I bet if our owner doesn't hear some definitive plans in writing soon, I wouldn't be surprised if legal action will be taken.

If we end up getting nothing it won't be the complete fault of the club at all, they and a bunch of supporters who set up a Trust so a Stadium could be built have put in 1000's of hours free to get this thing done but for some reason a development that was rubber-stamped by the Secretary of state 7 years ago isn't gonna happen, ask yourself who's to blame. How come the likes of Leigh and Widnes can get Stadiums sorted (or whoever else got one built with the help of their local Council) but a City bigger than both can't?

So long story short, you're talking rubbsh. It's a long way to fall from that high horse Suzy.