Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the RFL and Ted towards the end.)

Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the RFL and Ted towards the end.)

Thank you everyone for attending and for your support. Alot of hard work has been done to get us to the point where we are tonight. We hope everyone can draw positives from tonight. I will be writing up the minutes but no chance tonight.



Thank you

Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the [uRFL and Ted [/utowards the end.)'" no it didnt fans were trying to rightly express their concerns,imsure the top table knew they were gonna get some questions.

Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the [uRFL and Ted [/utowards the end.)'" no it didnt fans were trying to rightly express their concerns,imsure the top table knew they were gonna get some questions.

Of course, but once it was clear Ted had said nothing to answer any of those (and what a shame that was for Ted's sake, as well as the people who he's asking to 'care' enough to throw a grand in the fire), and no-one could speak for the RFL, it just went round in circles.



The first half for positive and there's a feeling we can all help the destiny of our club, a lot more than in the past ten years.

Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the RFL and Ted towards the end.)'" I reckon just 2 people dragging it down is a result in a room full of Wakey fans, and they just let off a bit of steam. Most fans seemed to share the view it can only be a good thing and i welcome it, like you say a bit of a positive feeling afterwards. Will enough fans back it, we'll have to see but i reckon they will

Quote t-r-i-n-i-t-y="t-r-i-n-i-t-y"Good meeting, positive feeling afterwards. Becoming a member of the Trust is vital for all, a chance to (hopefully) have a say in the direction the club goes in, or at the very least, get answers from those running the club. www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk is where you should go if unable to attend! (Just a shame it got dragged down into banging on about the RFL and Ted towards the end.)'" I reckon just 2 people dragging it down is a result in a room full of Wakey fans, and they just let off a bit of steam. Most fans seemed to share the view it can only be a good thing and i welcome it, like you say a bit of a positive feeling afterwards. Will enough fans back it, we'll have to see but i reckon they will

No, thank you and the others for the time and effort in getting this far, good luck with it in the future.

i will gladly back it, i think by the meeting tonight that all fans who attended will backit but are very wary of the present bod and their continued involvement

Thanks to everyone who came along to the meeting.



The general feeling was positive and I think the fans were welcoming of the Supporters Trust and what it could achieve. There were a lot of very good questions which showed the level of interest and I hope people found the answers to be frank, informative and honest.



The latter half of the meeting was always going to be a little difficult everyone’s frustration at the lack of information from the club began to show. However, I think everyone recognised that we had tried to get some details from the club but were genuinely unable to offer any definitive answers.

Good.



Thats not a bad thing really, being wary is wise at this stage.

Very pleased it went well.



Good luck.



I fear, and especially from what you say about a BOD that asks for money but won't tell you what is going on - sounds pretty disgraceful - you will need it.

Positive meeting tonight ... After an initial discussion about the supporters trust and an explanation of how the trust works including a member from the supporters institution present, it was unanimously desided to vote in the supporters trust ...



Once the supporters trust is set up i believe some of the key objectives will be to get a ''seat'' on the board to speak on behalf of the fans and understand why decisions are made and make decisions... How do we get a seat on the board ?? we can do this by creating a big enough membership in the supporters trust to be forced to be heard and also by having enough shares within the supporters trust collectively to be listened to... Rough estimates are that we need 10% of the shares or around 53000 shares to possibly force the board to listen to us and there was reasonable conformation that we had that amount in the room...



The chair of the meeting also indicated that there was no intention of buying into Teds offer of purchasing or raising the £500000 as we have no evidence of what the debts actually are and possibly administraion could be very much a posibilty... This could results in our proxy shares being nul and void including many other sponsorships but there looks to be willing investors in the club should we enter admin as they can buy the club on the cheap and still keep us in SL as the admin clause has no been thrown out of the window after the Crusaders affair ... Or we may somehow get out of this mess and have a voice on the board with enough shares within the supporters trust...



That said, the supports trust is a step forward and membership will be looking to be around £50 a year and fund will be set up... Fans to act on our behalf will be voted in by the members and we will also be looking for financial assistance from fans and sponsors and members of the trust with specialist skills... We may be relegated, we may stay up but one way or another the supporters trust is a step in the right direction...

That actually a very good summary of the meeting, one small clarification though, The Wakefield Trinity Supporters Trust will pay a £50.00 fee to Supporters Direct to become affiliated with them.



The fee that individual fans of Wakefield Trinity will pay to become a member of the WT ST has not yet been set but it was suggested that £20.00 per year might be reasonable.

Just to say thanks to all who attended and gave thier support.



Sorry if some felt it went on a bit at the end. I guess it did but I wanted people to be able to have their say and the last thing I wanted to do was cut people short and leave them feeling "short changed". Another point of clarification, the Trust will not be constituted by the time the deadline approaches so it could not buy shares even if it wished to do so, however how can anyone invest if its not clear what that investment will achive.

Well last nights meeting Cleared one thing up, whilst ever the current BOD are in "control" the supporters trust or the fans will not be listened to or given any facts. Has as been stated their were share holders with a 10% holding at the meeting(not including bod) and they were still refused facts.



If Ted is still with holding the fact, then it must be bad, because if their was any positives then surely now would be the time to let people know.

seen as though the wakey express hate to publicise anything positive about us, they may like to make some of these facts (or lack of facts!!!) public, perhaps they dislike ted more than the club?????

Funniest part of the evening was when someone asked if we could afford to play at Plan B(arnsley) and the response was yes we could because we don't pay our bills anyway!





Glad things are starting to look like there is a future if we can move Ted out.



Also, am I right in thinking that the new ST will be looking to unite all supporters groups within the club, and to remove all the political stuff that has happened in the past on that side? If so, that is a big plus. If not, that should be part of the remit. We are only going to get things done by all of working together as one.

I notice that 'Wildcats' was hardly used. Seems that 'Wakefield Trinity' is though. Is this indicative of the thought that whilst Wildcats is a good nickname for the kids etc.. the club should always be known as Wakefield Trinity. Trinity is what we are known as throughout the world, that should be what we are.

Isn't this absolutely appalling? He begs for money from us, makes us feel guilty if we don't, yet this is how he treats people who are previous donators.

This is an absolute scandal, is there any reason this tool is up the khyber and the club too.

He is an absolute disgrace to our great club and far from "giving" up his stake in the club so he can just be a supporter, he should be driven out.

If he wants to be a supporter, let him stand among us, I'll give him 5 minutes!!!!!

Think it was mentioned there were around 21,000 shares available to the Trust by potential members that they knew about, I'm sure a few like myself with 25 shares can add to that and make it bigger fairly easily. That said, they'll be worth sod all on February 1st.

The Trust have secured (by proxy) 21,000 shares already, it was established that to call a Board meeting you need 10% of the share holding which equates to approx 53,000 (530,000 shares issued in total).

I guess with the timescales in setting up the Trust, that even with the requisite number, an EGM would unable to be called before the end of the month?

Unfortunately so,

The next stage is to go through all the legalities and registrations etc.. That will take a number of weeks, but who knows maybe we'll have some developments by then and have a clearer picture of where to go next.

For those who couldn’t make it on Tuesday, the minutes of the meeting can now be found in the Downloads section of the Trust website: www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk

For those who couldn’t make it on Tuesday, the minutes of the meeting can now be found in the Downloads section of the Trust website: www.wtsupporterstrust.co.uk

Good Luck to Everyone involved.

The email address on the website doesn't seem to work. Is it me or is there a different address?