Wakefield Trinity • Leeds the game
Wakefield City wrote:
Correct, the generation who were lucky enough to witness the great 60s team, Leeds were and still are the local rivals they don’t even recognise cas. Me starting watching Trin in the mid 80s I’ve always classed cas and fev as main rivals although my Dad’s dislike of Leeds RL has rubbed off on me. Get Belle Vue done up keep progressing as we are and we can be big again.
Up the Trin
It’s not just RL though. When I first move to Wakey in 1975 things were different. although Leeds was clearly a bigger city it was nowhere near as marked as it is today. Wakefield no longer has the population or the business sector to match Leeds.
We have to be honest Wakefields credentials as a city have been severely eroded in recent years and I can’t see that changing as super cities take over - see Manchester.
We can be a great team again and we can even avenge that final but we will never match Leeds in income and thus buying power. They are in truth the only big city team in RL, all the rest even Wigan are essentially town teams.
We will have to be shrewd and play the long game and take our chances where we can. But with Leeds buying power they will still always have a huge advantage no matter how well we do. They will always be able to sustain themselves no matter how much they underperform. We on the other hand can’t afford a single slip.
Chemical town on the other hand really should be well within our grasp.
Statistics: Posted by vastman — Sun Feb 14, 2021 7:12 pm — Replies 27 — Views 2176