Comin from Milton Keynes for the game...how's the pitch and the weather??? Wasn't the town game cancelled due to water loggin?? That's like tree loggin with water!! Lol...

lets hope it is with everything the club as planned,,, should imagine in will be very heavy with all the rain we have had, this sun will help dry it out if it stops out all day

Cheers!! Still think i'll call the club before settin off!!

Apparently, there was a double-jeopardy with the footy match getting called off due to water-logged pitch on tuesday this week.

Part one goes something like this:
The footy club supporters have for a long time had dreams of being the first members of the Calderdale community to make use of the East stand facilities since we the squatters arrived a mere 10 years ago and were adamant that their wish would come true, so in their quest, they prayed for an awful winter/spring with lots of terrible weather and postponed matches meaning that their mounting fixture pile-up would guarantee that their odds of first use would increase. In other countries they have the equivalent and it is called a rain dance.


But they didn't take into account part two of the charade.


Part two:
As the RFL pantomime got wind of this, they permitted the Leigh club to remain in the championship after their season of woe last year and allowed them to avoid relegation by demoting GatesHull instead for their financial indescretions. To make sure the Leigh situation was fully utilised the RFL fixture computer spewed out the dates and venues as per normal and as fate would have it this weeknd was the given date, nothing sinister there one might think, but AHA .....

The Hilton Park hosepipe extensions were hooked up, the tap switched on and left running and on tuesday evening the surge of surface water magically made it's re-appearance, not at Hilton Park but at the Shay stadium, rendering the pitch useless for footy, a mere hour and a quarter to spare before the planned kick off.


Phew, that was a close run thing

No. We did a rain dance to ensure our game was off and the rugby club were the first to use the stand. Afterall, there will no doubt be teething problems with it being the first game and we prefered to get them out of the way before we use it.



Good luck this aft Fax. Hopefully a return to winning ways.

Actually Bubba, I was told that the reason that Town were to use the stadium first was to test everything off before it it's first propper use.

Town had about 50 diners, were using 2 of the corporate boxes and would only require 1 side of the stand opening for their game last Tuesday. This small scale test would then ensure that everything was working for the 250 sell out diners, the 6 sell out corporate boxes and the 1000+ people who will use the stand today.

I'm sure you knew that though?

3,100 there today, all boxes sold & all diners packages.
Good away following as well, I'm sure Town wouldn't have got anywhere near any of those three figures.

No. But we would have probably won

Shudda set those hoses up last night!!!

We don't do raffles.....

Or rugby league?

No, we still show rugby here at the second tier level. The Shay does put on wendyball but i'd need a cake the size of the one at Dawn French's wedding to show you which tier it is.

No, that's the other lot so you're wrong again mate. We follow rugby league....

You're not barred from the Town forum are you mate ? You seem to spending a lot of time on here lately.

town forum has thread on loss. sad as they are. www.theshaymen.net/phpBB3/viewto ... f=2&t=6179 annoys me when support both clubs. also after applying for password for site etc, still heard nothing. and they say not a closed forum on there.

town forum has thread on loss. sad as they are. www.theshaymen.net/phpBB3/viewto ... f=2&t=6179 annoys me when support both clubs. also after applying for password for site etc, still heard nothing. and they say not a closed forum on there.

Have been on here for years. Admittedly I dont post as often as I used to.

Quote ="swifty62"town forum has thread on loss. sad as they are. www.theshaymen.net/phpBB3/viewto ... f=2&t=6179 annoys me when support both clubs. also after applying for password for site etc, still heard nothing. and they say not a closed forum on there. '" That thread is just utterly pathetic.

Quote ="swifty62"town forum has thread on loss. sad as they are. www.theshaymen.net/phpBB3/viewto ... f=2&t=6179 annoys me when support both clubs. also after applying for password for site etc, still heard nothing. and they say not a closed forum on there. '" That thread is just utterly pathetic.

What do you expect? To be honest it's not their sport and they've always felt downtrodden. Personally i can't stand HTFC but for some weird reason i want them to get back into the Football League. It probably has something to do with the name attachment - Halifax. It would give the town a higher profile if they could climb higher than the 14th tier of English wendyball or wherever they're languishing at the moment. The same goes for us being able to jump just the one tier back into the top flight.

sure is. they are getting more childish each week.