Sorry but have you walked through Dewsbury town centre on a Saturday afternoon? I have and Wakefield is posh in comparison!

Dewsbury, not for me in any guise. I'm done after nearly 60 years.

How could we not have a plan b after all these years?

I just cannot see anything but despair. MC and CB will walk away and we're well and truly kna.....d

No wonder the NHS is struggling,multiculturism is so enriching our country.

We are Wakefield Trinity best thing thats happened to our club in years was reverting back to our proper name. If we weren't called Wakefield Trinity I wouldn't watch them.

We are the world famous Wakefield Trinity RLFC

My bad.

I knew there was Ossett Town and "another" club and it's Albion

They might even have been English

Sorry PB got to take you to task there, unfortunately a lot of people seem to get pleasure in talking Wakefield down but I'm not one of them, take away the Newmarket debacle and this is how I see it.

Yes the precinct up to the cathedral is a pig to look at, but.

We have the east Wakefield relief road.

We have the award winning Hepworth.

The Ings road out of town shops have had a great facelift.

Kirkgate station is a hundred times better than it was five years since.

The eyesores on the Kirkgate roundabout are being demolished.

The roundabout itself is getting filled in and the road layout changed hopefully for the better.

There are plans in the near future for phase three I believe it's called for the area from the roundabout on Kirkgate up to close to the Weatherspoons to be flattened and redeveloped.

The Ridings is getting a facelift on the bottom and top floors.

The Bull ring area like it or not looks miles better with the buildings getting spruced up and the fountains.

The awful carbuncle that is the market is going to be replaced by a cinema and food outlets.

We have the Trinity shopping centre which always seems full..

The bars/ restaurants in the town centre just go from strength to strength, there are now four or five bars that do a fair quality cocktail.

If you stand in he middle of the Unity car park you don't have to walk more than 30m to get to 8 quality bars.

Eating out is getting much better in the city centre, long gone are the days of kebabs/curries as the main dish.

My daughter used to live in Leeds, she's been back in Normy for three or four years and loves Wakey as a good cheap alternative to Leeds, not instead of but as well as. A few weeks since a dozen or so of her mixed group Leeds friends came into Wakey with my daughter, just for a change, they loved every minute of it, no trouble, not full of 16yr olds getting smashed and wanting to scrap, just a damn good night. One of the group mentioned to my daughter that they couldn't believe Wakey had such a nice vibe and far more upmarket bars than they expected.

Wakey isn't a third world country, OK it's not perfect but which city, large town is. It just needs people to see that the Wakey glass is half full and not half empty.

End of rant!

Excellent post. Imagine if we had built a stadium in Thornes back when it was mooted, I think that would have made the city centre an absolute cracking place along with everything else. Shame it never happened.

There used to be a football team called Ossett Trinitarians, you could have been thinking of that.

Ossett Town, another twist in the tale, were they not once supposed to be ground sharing with us up Queens Drive until they decided to stay put? Like the rest of the mooted schemes, it came to nothing.

Maybe so Jinjer, but the thing that strikes me most over the last 5 to 10 years as i drive into and also walk around Wakefield city centre on a daily basis is the proliferation of graffiti, tags, etc on BT service boxes,junction boxes at traffic lights and at sides of roads. Numerous commercial properties with businesses still using them now having tags/graffiti on their outside walls,even private housing has them on the brickwork in a few areas close to the town centre.

Hoardings,empty business properties are all awash with this ugly scarring and the council seems to completely ignore it. Along with a host of empty shops,garish brightly coloured shop fronts to a lot of open business premises in the city centre the first impressions are not at all good.

Take Trinity Walk out of the equation and i wouldn't go near Wakefield at all, and i have lived all of my 68 years in the city and enjoyed many,many a good times in the city in the not too recent past, it all adds up to general run down third world feel about it. If we lose our only top class professional sports team, then i'm off to spend what time i have left in warmer climes. Just my own personal thoughts, end of rant.

Nah, one thing you can rely on with snowie, if he says they were Europeans they will have been, he can spot one a mile off