Now I know people work on the pitch and we share it with the football team but the pictures I have seen today of it which made it look frankly terrible,(couldn't make it today due to being ill), but what could be done to make it good for both us and the footy team?

Might need to bust a drug grower and use their lighting system, could help to get some green stuff out there.

It's ok. The football fans are buying it and sorting it by booting us off

Kick the squatters (FC) out!

Its terrible and needs sorting out both clubs are paying for something tat is not fit for purpose, its like the pitch used to be at Rochdale until they invested and got it sorted out, the Council need to dig it up, get a properly drainage system in and it will last for years, its false economy just tinkering every year as its wasting money because it will need to be redone year after year and with the same result, a poor pitch come Christmas time.

with us not having another game at the shay until 6th april, we'll see the impact that just football has on the pitch

The 2 groundsmen were winning awards for the pitch 3 or 4 years ago.
Fax have been playing on it for the last 17 years along with the footballers.
How come it's only been an issue for the last couple of years?
It seems obvious that the problem is with the half hearted repair work and not the amount of use the pitch gets.
It is not caused by either the football or the rugby, so let's back off each other and focus on a solution that suits both sides.

Even if one sport did do more damage than the other it is irrelevant. It is a shared stadium and there are still many (OK, probably more on the football side) who still dont accept this.

I seriously wish there was a way to draw a line in the side for all the rubbish which has gone on over the years and everyone to move on together, united. Because I think we all agree that having two successful clubs would bring nothing but benefits to our town.

Who are you and what have you done with Bubba?

Seriously, I couldn't agree more.

There is never going to be any middle ground. A small minority of football fans from the Town forum would try and implement the rugby club in the killing of JFK if they could think of a way to do it.

Daft as it sounds, Sheffield United use them. Probably a lot of others too.

That sounds a bit flippant and i hope it turns out that way.I just hope the board sort out their differences with the council soon as this threat is very real and very serious.

Its really not. Even the council as bad as they are know when they are dealing with complete idiots.

I was being genuine, apparently the local cops passed some on to Leeds and they are using them at Headingley. The South Stand keeps a large area out of the Sun for a massive chunk of the year so it needs some artificial assistance.

So is it a fact that someone associated with FC Town has approached the council and promised to sort out the pitch if the Rugby club are removed form the stadium as part of the deal?

It's a 100% fact and the amount of support the council has for it is becoming worrying.

I cannot see how that would wash with the council. I believe the council already makes a loss on the Shay with two tenants. What sort of rent would FC Halifax have to pay to make the stadium break even as sole tenants. Unless Copley Beach volleyball team is moving in with them? That would explain the lack of grass and all the sand!

town do not need to pay any extra to make stadium break even. the council needs to sort out its act to get the stadium to break even.

The consortium's bid pays the council 10 years rugby rent in advance.

Its a load of balls! Any serious businessman wouldnt leak details of his bid prior to any water tight agreement being in place. Its not the way serious business is done.

Thanks to our friend Bubba the stadium is an asset of public interest. So any bids that are made for the stadium would have to be made public and rival bids considered.

Wouldn't be the first would it.

The 'supposed' bid has nothing to do with anyone purchasing any of the Shay estate.

So they are going to give the council 10 years worth of rugby rent and get nothing in exchange for it other than turning a loss making stadium into an even bigger loss making stadium, whilst inviting lawsuits from the rugby club. Sounds like a brilliant idea.