I agree with that, don't get me wrong I don't respect what Brough did - I would much prefer more people were loyal like JD has been. I agreed with the other names you named as being nothing much before their Wakey days, we have severely contributed to their career progression.

Really? Which clubs?



I'd rather have done as Ellis, Westwood and Poching did, and Atkins may do in a fortnight - leaving for bigger, more professionally run clubs to win trophies than stay with little hope of that if I was a player.



Loyalty is very over-rated.

if he had done you would probably have been one of the first to call him. loyalty is a quality that has to be earned and jd has earned it in bucketfulls at wakey. all the afore mentiond players, ellis westwood poaching, atkins etc kissed the badges and talked the talk but none of them actually stayed. when the money was offered jd walked the walk stuck with wakey through thick and thin. . you might think that that loyalty is over rated but its a good job evryone does not think like you .jd certainly doesn't

I think the word 'apathy' sums up the people of Wakefield nicely (absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement or lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting.)



We're also good at blo*dy moaning too. Members of the public have already slagged off the new Bull Ring, Hepworth Gallery and even the sodding road near the new Trinity Walk development - it's too sharp the corner. Well here's a solution - slow down!



I'm afraid people of Wakefield like to get p*ssed, grab a kebab or watch sport on the TV (in a pub) rather than support something local (rugby union, football club etc etc.)



I've dreaded going to games this season but I always tell myself after another defeat that it's going to get better next week!



I already can't wait for this campaign to finish and get stuck into the next one.



Shame JD didn't have more to see him off but 5500 at the end of a poor season for the club is actually better that I anticipated.

Are you saying youre a player?!?



Atkins has already left and gone to a bigger club, that being warrington



Are you saying that JDs loyalty to the club and fans doesnt contribute to his status as a trinity great?



The above aside my message seems to be getting lost here



Jason to me is the biggest legend of the SL era to trinity, what sets him apart from many other excellent players who have played for us and moved on is that he stayed when he was offered a contract/s else where

TBH 5,500 is not bad considering how Wakefield are playing at the moment, i feel sorry for JD, he was let down by his team mates not the 5,500 who parted with their hard earned cash to watch that peformance yesterday, if the Players had as much passion for the club as the fans do they would have made more of an effort for a Wakey legend namely JD and sent him off from BV with a bang.......

How can you make a sweeping statement like that?

OK the crowd wasn't the best but after what has been offered by the team, not just last few games, but since Good Friday, its no surprise. We all applaud JD for his service to RL & Trin but the standard of play he and most of the others have been putting in recently makes it very hard to justify £20 for 80 mins of total boredom & frustration.

You might have made the effort - good for you. Some have chosen not to go. Live with it.

Fans ask for pride/passion and effort from players wearing our shirt, we've had this for the past god knows how long from this guy yet some find excuses for not turning out at BV sunday and saying good bye.



You want it, you get it, and then you find a reason to turn a blind eye.

That is fair to say about JD, but unless I am missing the point. People pay to go to matches to see two teams competing, not to watch one man with pride and passion carry 16 others in game against 17 other players.



Nobody as I can see has said that JD has not shown pride or effort. What people are saying is that they are not prepared to part with hard earned cash to watch that shower week in week out. Look at it how you want but that is not turning a blind eye it is living in the reality of the team haven't given the effort we should expect from Professional sportsmen. We have been a playing like a beaten side for months.



To put it in simple terms (as an example) if signed up to a dvd rental package and then after a few months the company sent you copies made from somebody with camcorder in a cinema instead, would you carry on paying for it? No you wouldn't, the same principle applies if people are not getting value for money from a team then people are unlikely to pay out for sentiment.



The simple fact is that at the beginning of the season we were promised McDonalds and finished with a broken down burger van.



Before anyone starts with nobody could have forseen what was going to happen (we started the season with two hookers and a third coming through from the Academy, that negates the need for Newton. It was said on this forum last winter that Brough was going to leave, couldn't we have cashed in then and found a replacement. As for Tronc the club went for a big name when we got rid of a more than capable player in Stosic) or Kear saved us speech (maybe if he had been captain of the Titanic maybe it wouldn't have sunk)

Am I alone in thinking there looked to be more than 5,500 there yesterday. I thought 6k plus?

I thought there were more, but guesstimated 5.5k based on previous announcements.

Yes, true enough.