As a fan of a club who came up in 1999 and were instantly branded as cannon fodder I can tell you it is possible to defy the odds.
However right from the off Wakefield did have a core of SL/NRL players, probably just enough to tip the balance and so it stayed that way for the first four years.
I’m nervous about posting this because we have the poison chalice of playing you first. Added to that trips to London have not always gone well for us in the past. That said there has been a woefull lack of signings on your part so you must be nervous.
It’s not so much the big names it’s that core of hardened pros who make the spine of a team. These players are not flashy but they are important.
I do understand that a club like Trinity finds it easier to coax these players into the team. The distance and cost compared to moving for perhaps one seaon to London is a massive factor. All the same it’s got to be worrying.
Odd as it sounds beating us might not be a good thing for either of us tbh but then I would say that
