Poynton wrote:I have watched Trinity for 50 years. I have nowhere else to go at 3.30 on a sunday.. I have watched therm at Huyton infront of a crowd of 200 and still enjoyed the game.If it is a choice between free flowing rugby in the championship or 5 drives and a kick and still getting thrashed in the SL i know which i prefer. This has been the most boring season out of the 50 and JK is the main one to blame. We started with a group of young lads who were giving 100% and although we only won 3 games in the first 10 we were competing in most of them .Then JK started to pick unfit players who did not deserve their place in the team . ( first Jeremy Smith , then the disastrous Hickey signing , then Tadulala ) Young guns realised giving 100% was not enough to get you selected,you need the antipodean accent. There was no point in busting a gut , you needed a beer gut to get picked. I think even the young lads who WERE getting picked every week like Mariano realised the club was a laughing stock and performances suffered as a result. If we had stuck with the early selection policy we may not have won many more games but the games would have been worth watching. Roll on the Championship because one thing we all know is that the likes of J Smith Hickey and Tadulala wont want to stay at championship wages because they are not here for the rugby just the beer money.

Pilchard wrote:The Championship, by whatever name it was then, is where Trinity were when I first started following.
SL has been a very mixed affair for us all. Semi CC, Semi play off (robbed), many great victories, and many heavy hearted defeats. Many flirtations with relegation, but never finishing in a relegation spot.

If, as it would seem will happen, we find ourself in the next tier down, then so be it.
It is a very unfair world we live in, and not just in RL, or sport in general.

Over the last few seasons, going to games at Batley, Dewsbury, Hunslet, Barrow, Fev, etc, (not just games involving Trin) and watching our Academy sides,
has given me a realisation that RL life outside of SL is very attractive.

If we go down, it is the staff, players and others at the club who have done their utmost to present a case for continued SL participation I will feel for.
Tomorrow's decision will not affect my job, and I will be able to watch Trinity next season wherever they play.

I will sleep OK tonight, and if by some quirk we remain in SL, I will be so pleased for those that made it so.
If , as I expect, we go down, then I will not hold it against any other club or it's fans.

As a club we have had long enough, unfortunately our new owners have not.

As a footnote, am I right in saying the night we beat Cas to stay up we had 2 players in the 17 who qualified for GB

normycat wrote:Will still go to games in NL1 and buy my season ticket, merchandise etc. Will miss the trip to France/Cardiff but on the other hand will save a lot of money from not going to these. Son-in-law is a Cas fan (steadygetyerbootson) and said he enjoyed their time in the Championship more than SL although I doubt he will be thinking like this today!

My thoughts also are with the people employed by the club whose jobs may be under threat, it will be a great shame if the hard working people in the community department etc lose jobs. Am I right in thinking that some of this is funded by grants so hopefully some things will be able to continue as they are now.