These are the nights Matt Ellis dreamed of bringing to Belle Vue when he took control of his boyhood club three years ago: but not even he could have imagined all of this could be happening quite so quickly.
For the first time, Wakefield Trinity are 80 minutes away from the Super League Grand Final. This is a club who have spent most of the summer era residing in the competition’s lower reaches, which culminated with relegation to the Championship in 2023.