That's a very fair point Pop Tart, and a little two faced of me.



I have certainly in the past complained about not hearing from the club. I guess when things get this bad and tensions are high, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.



I think from my point of view, it was more a raising of expectations and then dashing them. When I read "Open Letter to the Fans", I thought here we go. I guess I was just disappointed to find there was nothing about the team or the coaching setup.



But as I say, a very fair point well made Sir.

Without wanting to start a group hug here, I do agree that the false raising of expectations is a problem at Wakefield.

We don't have people who are professional public communications experts so often make gaffs unfortunately.



They aren't bad, but the very fact that MC is so vocal on social media and brings emotion in to it, imho is not very professional.

Sometimes it hits the right cord but when it's important comms that really needs to be exact and correct, it can sometimes miss the mark.

I respect Mr Carter for the honest, open and forth right response to the fans. I'm sure the vast majority of Wakefield supporters admire and respect the excellent job he's done since coming on board. He strikes me as an honest and hard working man who is doing what he feels is in the best interests of the club.



If Mr Carter's made one mistake, IMHO it was giving the inexperienced Webster the deal he did. I felt this was a bad move then and it's clear for all to see that is also currently the case today. I think Webster over achieved last year and huge expectations we're therefore established for the season ahead. We caught 2 teams cold game 1 and 2 this season and since then we've been well and truly hammered on a weekly basis showing no sing of improvement.



Carter's loyalty towards this man could cost him and the club dearly and undo all the good work he's done at the club.



The squad we have is good enough to retain SL IMHO, the harsh reality is the coach and his support team are not up to the job. The players are not blameless either but the book stops with the Coach. They are simply not getting the best out of what we have. We're getting worse not better. Even London last year as bad as they were seemed to show more fight and spirit than we are currently.



If we lose against Leigh which as much as it pains me to say it I think we will, then I feel Carter must act immediately and replace Webster if we are to stand any chance of retaining our SL status.



Rather than "can we afford to do so?", I'd flip that question and ask, "Can we afford not to?"



I suspect we have an interesting few weeks ahead.

Yes, that's a fair point.



I guess when you are passionate and it's from the heart, it can hard to bite your tongue.



I have also slated what Webster said about not playing until the 8s. This though, was said straight after a very disappointing result when emotions were high. I think the guy was just saying what was on his mind. It certainly didn't help the cause though.

You mention the spirit that London showed last year.



That is all I want to see from us.



We are where we are and the table doesn't lie. But, we have been here before and turned things around by digging deep and showing spirit. If I saw just a little of that, I would believe we could turn this thing around. Even if we fell short, I would know that we gave it a go.



I think we will beat Leigh. I have no idea what I am basing that on, just gut feeling I guess.

IMO it's just papering over the cracks. I actually felt a bit deflated reading that.

This open letter means nothing now. Absolutely nothing.

The open letter means nothing now. Just what did it mean last week. NOTHING THEN NOTHING NOW.

Time to stop writing letters to the newspapers and start writing P45 s



And you can make that 51k below salary cap next year (5 in our house not renewing )



Grow a pair and sack the ginger whinger !

To be fair it meant very little last week, today it truly does mean nothing.

All very quiet on Twitter tonight.

It was always a load of guff to try and deflect attention to the disaster that is taking place on the field. I see the u19's shipped 50 against Huddersfield as well this week. Seems endemic. If he thought he could pull the wool over peoples eyes with that then he was very naive. Todays events have just blown a bigger hole in the entire damn thing.