PT don’t take this too literally

I’m hoping that come Monday and the bulldozers move in that the first thing that happens is that the curse that has haunted this club since 1968 is removed.

As we look at the latest situation where even 12 million is now a tight budget you have to wonder if there really is a curse.

Forget about on field or the endless boom and bust of the last 50 years, let’s just look at the attempts to sort the ground since 2004.

It’s horrendous, its as if the world has conspired against us, again forget about corrupt councils and inept management.
That’s been bad but we are not alone in facing those issues.

The one that really smarts is the timing.

2008 - Thornes on the burner then the world economy collapses.

2010 - when mixed build developments were at their peak we find the only developer who has no wish to do one.

2016 - BV comes up for grabs for a song but we still have Box in office and we can’t buy it.

2018 - Box goes at last and we are in a position to buy except the ground is now a ransom site and we are forced to pay way more only two years on.

2020 - We and the council are ready to start then the world stops with COVID.

2021 - we are back on track again and but costs are up and the club is more skint than ever.

2022 - An angry little Russian man throws the world into chaos and cost spiral to such a point that financial projections that are only six month old require cutbacks.

Had we had 12 million in 2008 we could have rebuilt BV on all 4 sides.

Had we got the cash in 2010 we still could have.

Had we got it in 2016 we’d have probably been able to sort the West terrace as well and still had change. We’d also have a far smaller mortgage.

2018 as above but with a bigger mortgage.

I may be off on the dates slightly but how torturous has our journey been. Not a single lucky break and every obstacle imaginable thrown in the way and a few none of us thought of. You couldn’t make it up.

I understand it when people say they will believe it when they see it. Even though I totally believe it’s going to happen I can’t help but worry what further preposterous obstacle will be thrown at us before completion.

I don’t believe in curses, or at least I didn’t.

A very good summary there Vasty...but I firmly believe that we have the two most astute, financially-savvy individuals running the club that we could ask for (and probably ever have had ??), so let's hope that Monday is the dawn of a new era for Wakefield Trinity

Box leaves and things move on, was the curse all down to one or two people

True, he more or less took charge as the club rally began to sink.

Who knows with a new ground we may have a new ethos about the place - no longer looking at stands familiar with the great 1960’s teams that we just can’t seem to emulate.
We start again, and let’s hope when things come together one day the new ground will bring new memories !

There was also the debacle with Manni Hussain and his purchase of the land being investigated for weeks.

I think you're right about the curse of 1968 vastman it was the end of the great sixties teams and the start of our fall from grace , how the mighty fall fits our story to a tee ,hope when that stand leaves the ground it takes the curse with it.

There is no doubt in my mind that if Box was still on the council we would not be where we are right now. The only reason things moved on is because he moved on.

Speaking of Box, how's his teams ground renovations going?