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Halifaxjohn

She ain't no human being.

Just driven past Odsal Top and noticed that there is a "Stunts and firework spectacular" at the Provident stadium on Nov 1st.
At first I thought it was a spelling mistake!

No, no mistake. It really is the Provident Stadium

Wow reading this drivel from 'dulls' fans I am now glad my dad made me walk to Thrum Hall from Boothtown rather than catch the bus from North bridge to the top of Odsal.
Even though Northern were a decent side in the 60's I preferred to walk to the blue and White. (Dixon Freeman Wilco, Foggy etal)
Makes me shiver that I may have had to wear the amber black and gold.
"Com on the "Fax stick it to 'em"

I was brought up in Northowram and it was a lot easier to get to Odsal, but thankfully my dad had played for Fax so we went to Thrum Hall. We did go to watch the odd Northern match but the thought of freezing my bits off there on a regular basis would have been horrendous.

And Thrum Hall was well known for its sunshine and paradise like surroundings!

Great to know your Dad played for Fax, without giving your identity away can you tell us who he was?
My Dad boxed Henry Cooper when they were both amateurs in London.

There were no pretensions at Thrum Hall, it was always a delapidated stadium, the highest ground in Rugby League, but no matter what you or your acolyites say, it was a Rugby ground, close to the pitch, close enough to see the steam rising from the pack, close enough to see the bench of both sides, be able to walk around at half time, a lovely bar run by the "taverners" so don't give us that, my ground is better than your ground.
If you really were honest, you would confirm that your ground, including surroundings was the worst in Super League, The Shay is a great Stadium, Fev, Leigh, Doncaster, make your ground look like a ???
No disrespect intended.

JD, I must take you to task over this. You must remember the Eagles of Sheffield-shire competing in the egret of RL that is SL, therefore, surely they must have played at a stadium ( sic ) of lesser SL calibre than ODSAL/RFL

The Shay was always my favourite ground for atmosphere & genuine goodwill between the fans.

PM'ed you.

Nice one Cas lad.I went to the Hudds/Cas at shay t'other year and what a laugh your fans were,especially at Earl Crabtree's expense.

There ya go! All these years being miserable, suddenly you read some 'drivel' and now, like the late Jack Bruce, you're 'glad'!

Does this late-onset gladness make up for all the years of pain, though?

I've really missed the Bulls and the bandwagon hopping plastic fans. I'm finding out now why they have the right to be arrogant. The championship will be a much more pleasant place to be know we all know where we belong

What bandwagon are we hopping on now by the way?

The full time professional squad playing in a ground bought by the RFL to rules designed to get the icons straight back to super league after screwing their own fans bandwagon. Aye, that's the one.

We have never had "years of pain"
After all a roller coaster isn't pain, it's exciting, exhilarating, often makes you sick, but you always get back on for another ride.
We are Halifax, we self implode regularly, but we are proud of our ride, tickets please.
O'h by the way we pay full price for our tickets.

I take it your career in the diplomatic corps. was short lived.

You need to look up what bandwagon means because not a word of your curious post makes sense in that context.

Your right Colin, I missed that one, probably because of these be nice to the Seagulls tablets I am on.



Incidentally Mark Aston isn't fat and he doesn't were flipflops.
These pills are brilliant.

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So that means Huddshay, you and me don't know the answer.
So let's draw a line, what's the point of falling out, after all we are "Rugby League"

I must say, I preferred playing at Thrum Hall rather than Odslum. We left Leigh one midweek in glorius sunshine, only to play Rugby with about 3 meters visibility because of the Fog. I'm surprised it didnt snow at Odsal too !!

Thrum hall oozes atmosphere with its terraced 'shed end' and the slope to boot.

Belle Views a dump, but crdit where its due, it was the best playing surface of the lot !!