they ill be lucky to get 500 kicking off at that time

Are we going Michael? I have a pass from the FPO!

I think a trip out may be in order! Always enjoyed a trip to Haven

I'll swerve it

I think he was trying to explain that Haven's floodlights are not very good and could be the reason for the kick off time.

It is not just to make it easier to watch for the speccies but also will help the players.

Whether it's a 7 o'clock kick off or not, the floodlights would still be needed as it will be dark by then anyway. It would need to kick off much earlier to avoid the need for lights, whether they be good or bad.

thought it was Sparrow who had no lights?

Perhaps they have to kick off at 7.00 to use the Economy 7 Electricity band

Don't tell em that or kick off will be 11pm

Maybe you could lend us your begging buckets to pay the electricity bill. You know, the ones you walked around our terraces a couple of years ago?

3 years ago now to be fair. You can't have them anyway as we need them to help raise funds to bail a couple of our players out of a spanish prison. What we like hey? Laugh a minute over here.

buckets, bail out, could have used them last week at haven.
so who else to bail out of prison?

IF, and Its an IF results go the way that Whitehaven cannot qualify for the latter rounds, and we are already qualified, if that is a possibility (ive not looked at the table) What could Haven realistically expect the crowd to be?

EDIT- Having looked at the table, thats a possibility, could be a very low attendance, 9 pts will see us through, as the only Sheffield or Hunslet can catch us and they play each other, unless Whitehaven can manage a win at Oldham, who recently beat them 50-0

I hope you put some money in. If you did and in light of what has happened in the intervening years are you

A) Completely satisfied with your donation?
B) Disappointed that we're not in SL
C) kicking yourself and would now rather have given it to Dick Raaz

May I take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your time on this survey.

Haven fans should be the last to be criticising other clubs over financial matters after they went in to administration and left creditors unpaid. The sole reason for their administration was to clear their debts and now they can boast that they are debt free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plenty of relevance once you see the state of them. You'll not be able to see the other end once it starts getting dark, and that's speaking from experience when we played them away on a Thursday night in the play-offs a few years ago.

I did warn you...!

Match abandoned after 9 mins, floodlight failure!

How prophetic !!

What a hole.

No, it wasn't.

Power sub station conked out throwing the surrounding are into darkness as well as half of the Haven ground. Word has it that the power went out as Nigel Wood took his seats in the main stand. Coincidence?

Sorry - was typing that on the terrace at Whitehaven before we knew the reason for the floodlights going out

Given that half the floodlights stayed on, at the time it looked like it was just part of the ground that was affected

I reckoned they'd fired up a bank of microwaves to get his half time snack ready, and the resulting powersurge caused most of north west cumbria to black out

No problem, mate. I received a call from one of the backroom staff at the game to tell me about the lights going out and as he was on the phone to me the match commissioner told him the game was abandoned and that the reason for the power cut was due to a sub station fault. I couldn't put it on the forum at the time as I was away from my pc. Some of the lights stayed on as they were on a different circuit to those that went out. A bit like your lighting at home having a separate circuit for upstairs and downstairs.

Some of the lights stayed on, but mainly on the other side of the pitch, I think the changing rooms and main stand also lost power, in the bar after the match later on (where power had remained for a while) the lights went on and off once or twice. Probably while United United utilities were working elsewhere,