“I feel sick” – Wakefield Trinity fans heart broken after relegation

It’s been a rollercoaster season but tonight confirmed that Wakefield Trinity would be relegated from Super League ending their 25 year stay in the sport’s top flight, with Trinity falling 20-19 to Leigh Leopards after golden point.

Heading into the evening it was a case of Wakefield needing two wins from two and hoping that Castleford didn’t win either of their remaining two fixtures, the pair being separated by four points and minimal points difference.

Castleford’s clash with Wigan finished earlier than the events at the Leigh Sports Village and their 48-6 hammering left them vulnerable should Wakefield manage the miraculous victory.

The Tigers heavy defeat saw Wigan score 10 tries with Lebanese winger Abbas Miski scoring five of them himself, taking him to top of the Super League try scoring charts.

Meanwhile the action at the LSV saw Wakefield come back from 16-6 down to tie the game up at 16-16, before the match eventually went to golden point at 19-19.

With the game closing in on a draw Leigh kicked the drop goal to end Wakefield’s stay in Super League, a cruel way for Trinity to lose after having missed multiple drop goals themselves.

Fans of both Wakefield, Castleford and neutrals from across Super League have taken to social media to react to the dramatic fashion in which Trinity got relegated.

Among those who did react were Leigh themselves who cheekily made reference to how they’d helped out Castleford Tigers.

https://twitter.com/LeighLeopardsRL/status/1702790715082723798?s=20

Wakefield fans were pick to share their emotions on social media during the game and also following the full-time whistle:

FFS, wakey again, disciplinary problems have cost us massively this season, never known out like it, APPLEGARTH HAS TO go, simply an awful coach, zero clue how to get A SL winning games to garner enough pts for survival, go down, and have a complete reset/clearout!!💩💩💩

— 19🏆* (@LFC4evamli) September 15, 2023

Feel sick 🤢

— Paul Howard (@PaulHoward22) September 15, 2023

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— Wakefield Trinity Heritage Podcast (@WTHeritagePod) September 15, 2023

Been desperate for this moment since 2006 but now we’re here Wakefield are the least of my worries & couldn’t be any less relevant to me.

We’ve dodged a humongous bullet in 2023.

We’re not better than Wakey, we’re marginally less worse.

Time to put it right @CTRLFC

— Danny lund (@dannylund889011) September 15, 2023

However, Castleford Tigers fans, and even the club themselves, were quick to share their joy at the result at the Leigh Sports Village:

Guess what Cas fans… 😏#COYF pic.twitter.com/6j8mIy9F0Y

— Castleford Tigers (@CTRLFC) September 15, 2023

WHERE DO YOU WANT YOUR STATUE, GARETH O’BRIEN

— The COYFCast (@COYFCast) September 15, 2023

The game at the DW stadium has been done for 30 minutes, cas are having a fucking party wow #COYF pic.twitter.com/BV02WzEnLj

— Josh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@josh_ctrlfc) September 15, 2023