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Hey @stuntpeggnieve thanks for covering Wakefield AFC! We are really a community club and Decca, Emma (COO), Andre, Gabe Mozzini, Gav, Junior and a lot of dedicated volunteers run the club while managing family and careers. It is a labor of love, we really believe in it, it is doing well and keeps growing thanks to a fan base that doubled this year (average of almost 500 fans per game) and an incredible fan group that pushes the team forward home and away. We have also established Wakefield Juniors and went from no junior football to more than 350 kids playing in Wakefield AFC colors. We also have a Women's team playing 5th division (6 above the men). We can't think about Football league at this point but we believe that if we grow in a sustainable manner this can be an asset for the community for many years to come and we will, with time and a lot of hard work, keep climbing the pyramid. Thanks again and would love to have you over for the playoffs in late April!
Just a small Canadian lad here; With each passing video, I'm learning more and more about a sport just 6 or 7 years ago I knew nothing about. I love history and storytelling in sport, and had been struggling to find my way into the richness of both in the sport of football. This channel has ignited a fire within, and I'm taking in so much, and I just wanted to say thank you, and keep going please!
@@stuntpeggnieveNieve, my would be half Italian friend. My other half, the Welsh, have saved your other half, Italy, for last, in the Rugby. We just gave it away against the French again, in the last few minutes, so I won't hold it against you, or be surprised, if you beat us. May the best other half win, next week.
Because of where they are they'll be up against it, between the Rugby League teams nearby (Wakefield Trinity, Castleford, Featherstone, Dewsbury all a short hop away, I'm sure I'm missing others) and the football team that play up the road in Leeds, you've got a lot of folks who've already nailed their colours to the mast. One saving grace is the fact RL is a summer sport these days so they could fill a sport-shaped gap for some during the winter months!
Not just the rugby league but you also got Huddersfield and Bradford for more round ball sport teams, and the funny ball sport with 30 men all trying to dive a ball over a line under some bits of metal is, it's hard to explain how massive rugby league is in the North of England unless you are from there. Then again, Wakefield is going to have an uphill battle for n association football team. That town is rugby league through and through and that ain't changing any time soon. I can't think of puns this early, I'm not awakefield enough for thatw
I love your videos, because they show the history of English clubs, I'm from Brazil and I can say that the atmosphere of stadiums and clubs in England, sometimes I imagine myself walking through the beautiful streets of England going to watch an English club's game one afternoon on Sunday, a hug from Brazil to all our English friends! 🇧🇷💪🏻🏴
Englishman here, Wigan rugby league season ticket holder go to games home and away. Wakefield are a big part of our sport, shame to see them go down doe this season but they'll be back again next year, no doubt we'll be 6 time world champions by then 😉
@@JDS07 My Undersetting is that there won't be traditional pro/rel Between the Super League and Championship as its being replaced by a licencing system.
I have only recently found your channel and videos. I am absolutely enjoying getting caught up on them and learning from them. Your sense of humour and the information keeps me coming back. Thank you from someone with a love of your country living in the middle of Canada!
Nice to see you in the area. The challenge any small club has round here is that the local sport is Rugby League (Castleford Tigers, Wakefield Trinity, Featherstone Rovers) and so they are up against a sport that for small communities is in their blood. We are a rugby league hotbed and so most folks support football as a second sport. Maybe that's just my own personal feeling. I grew up watching and playing football but rugby league has always been my love. The number one working class family sport in the area. Its accessible for all and is chiselled into us through the generations.
@@tigerwarsaw99you do realise that Canberra was an Aussie Rules town before the Raiders were formed. And Newcastle was a football stronghold. KB United used to draw up to 18000 to games. ⚽️
Massive coincidence, I started up a Football Manager save with Wakefield a few months ago, taken them to League 1 by 2033. Hopefully attending my first game before the end of the season, will only be the second game of any club i've attended in my life.
That’s the coldest stadium I’ve ever watched rugby from. Feb 2017 Sheffield v Toulouse. The fog literally rolled into the stadium before half time. -6 and I could not feel my toes for several hours.
Hi StuntPegg I just found your channel last week - I LOOOOVE your style, your videos - I will watch from beginning to last, and follow you along as you post more
I found your channel not so long ago and I must just say that I really am obssesed with your videos. The football knowledge combined with your sarcasm and jokes are just perfect. Love it!
Love this. Come buy a club with us Pegg! Football Club Group is buying a club with the intentions you stated - community and club first, not for personal profits or personal glory. For the collective glory of doing it together! 🙌🏼
StuntPegg - you need to get behind and involved in this club. You want to own a club one day? Then start there at the bottom as their Marketing Director. Pull a "Wrexham A.F.C." and get the ball rolling...build it!
It's always weird seeing places you live on RU-vid videos. I'm glad they finally play in Wakefield now, hopefully more people will go to support the lads. When they played at Post Office Road in Featherstone, that would've put a lot of supporters off going. Long way to go but here's hoping we see them in the Football League. It might breathe some new life into the city which is desperately needs.
Annual? Make him a co-presenter. And he keeps cutting Nieve off mid-sentence with a completely unrelated pun about a football club. "This is the story of how Juventu--" "Hull City's not very interesting is it, it's more Dull City." "Thanks Rob, now back to what I was saying..."
As a big football fan and rugby league fan my suggestion is that both clubs work together to create a fanbase that benefits both clubs. Wakefield is a massive League town but I also know that Wigan RLFC and Wigan Athletic FC share many supporters. Definitely a way forward for the north of England. It's about supporting your town NOT any particular code of football.........................just saying
If, for some reason 007 wants to name a stadium after himself, he can call it the Daniel Craigfield Great video! Informative and couldn't stop laughing the entire time
I'm not a soccer (football) fan. But I've been watching the vids here, and I see the epic nature of the community. The history and community ties of some of these clubs make me want to see these teams first hand. She's doing a great job of spiking the interest of us 'non-believers'.
As a neutral in these matters haddock is a better fish than cod but l would not give either to the cat. Coley, ling or something like that and in my opinion never basa. It’s not fit to eat
You two are brilliant. I love your quirky sense of humour. Hoping you'll do more together, you make me smile. PS Have they thought of launching a crumbly chocolate confection, which they could sell as 'Flakefield'? (I'll accept 10% of sales for the rights....)
Great to see Robbie Knox, was always a staple on Soccer AM. Great vid you two, and Wakefield deserves to have a team of its own they cam be proud of, rather than just nearby Leeds.
Just one hour after upload... this video already had well over 8k views and over 1k likes... do these people all sit and wait for her uploads? Shows how well loved Stuntpegg really is. Love her sound knowledge and love of the game paired with her wit and hilarious facial expressions. Thanks Neve for yet another cracking video... when's the next coming, i'm waiting!!!
Well people probably click the bell icon, so that any time she uploads they'll get a notification on their phone telling them, and so they immediately watch it. She's hilarious, so I'm glad she's getting so popular. Easily one of the best football channels on RU-vid. And completely unique too, there's no other channel quite like this. I'm constantly learning things about football I had no idea about, because she makes videos about them. She knows her stuff.
You learn something everyday, never knew they had a football team. Always been a rugby team due to the area. Just never got the new ground promised. Played Sunday against Featherstone in the mud bowl. It was horrendous weather but fun to watch.
Well, if there isn't the making of a regular podcast with Robbie there, then... well, there isn't. But, erm, if you did, you could have a rolling section where you take on a different club each week and hunt for some new local business opportunities with some rhyming puns. The "Punderland AFC joke shop" is an obvious one that immediately springs to mind. Then there's the "Charleston Athletic Dance School"... and the, err... Aberdabberdoo(deen) FC Flintstones Memorabilia Museum". But I'll stop there because, well, those were really bad. But you get the general idea.
First of all, fantastic video. Secondly, I have always been keen on football reporting and uploading stuff, but I’ve always been shy and maybe not confident in my ability (especially since I’m not the best at writing or journalism!), even if I do feel like I love and know a lot about football and the EFL. What are your best sort of tips for getting onto the scene and improving your confidence and that?
Wakefield Trinity is my club, I’ve been supporting them for years now. It’s fantastic to see the growth of Wakefield AFC, hopefully onwards and upwards. I do feel it might be difficult to grow a large fan base as most people in Wakefield are either Leeds United fans or (like myself) Wakefield Trinity fans. Hopefully the club find a way! Up the Trin❤️🤍💙
Great story about Wakefield. Inconceivable that people prefer watching how Drake squealed. Watching you guys is healing me like cake filled. Robbie and Nieve - best team. ❤
Wakefield AFC will have to compete with Wakefield Trinity for support and interest. Some fans might go to both teams but people don't have unlimited money. Next year, the Super League, the highest level of Rugby League will decide the teams competing by a scoring system, a system that Trinity possibly wont fair well with when the final decisions are made.
How does that work? So teams don't get to compete based on if they got promoted, but are chosen based on some arbitrary points system? What are the points based off? Stuff like attendance?
@@duffman18 well attendance is one aspect, but also finances, community engagement, social media popularity, quality of stadium and of course performance on the pitch. It wasn't that long ago there was no promotion or relegation though.
I'm from Wakefield, born and lived here all my life. Most people here (ignoring the Prem glory hunters) support either Leeds or Huddersfield, with a minority of Barnsley fans of which I am a part. I think the fact they're now at Belle Vue, and that they have a bit of money and a more professional aesthetic than previous incarnations might allow them to hold onto a slightly larger permanent fanbase. I seriously doubt they'll ever be big enough to compete with League Two or even National League sides regularly.
love your videos, another informative watch. do you fancy doing a small tour with me in Cornwall and Devon, of non-league grounds (tier 6-10)...? not much coverage of Devon and Cornwall lower leagues but we have a lot of strong local teams and excellent non-league grounds
Wakefield area has a lot of rugby league teams so the football never really took off. In fact Wakefield afc played at featherstone rovers rugby club ground up until this season which they have moved.
