Wakefield Trinity are currently bottom of the league.
Right now their aim is to secure survival but coach Mark Applegarth has said overall the club needs to break their cycle of always being in the bottom three.
“I’ve never hid away from the fact, and I’m pretty blunt in this because I don’t think enough people are realistic. It’s been a challenge for Wakefield Trinity for the last five years because of where we’ve been finishing in the league,” he said on BBC Radio Leeds.
“That’s no different. We’re trying to break that cycle of being in that vicious cycle of always being in that bottom three. I think it was 2017 or ’18 the last time we were in the play-offs, that’s five years ago now.”
He also revealed that Wakefield have two plans in place – one for the Championship and one for Super League.
He said:
“We’ve got to put two plans in places, there’s no two ways about it. Personally I think we can stay in Super League but I’m not going to tell you otherwise, I’d be an absolute idiot not to be planning for both outcomes.
“So we are putting two squads together in terms of budgeting but we’re still talking to players and telling them the project that we’re after.
“If anyone think it’s been easy recruiting for Wakefield Trinity over the last few years then they’re kidding themselves.
“If a player does get an offer to come here then they’re coming here for the right reasons because gone are the days where we’re getting a player in because there’s nobody else.
“We really want to move forward as a group and a club and ultimately as an organisation. It’s the dawn of a new era with a new stand being built and whilst it’s rocky at the moment, you’ve always got to have the club at heart and sometimes that means coming up with difficult decisions.”
