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Caused a lot of confusion for visiting teams,as the singular support post was on the dead ball line. So obviously anybody crossing the try line and looking for the post as a reference would put the ball down over the dead ball line.
This happened on more than one occasion ,to the amusement of the home crowd.

Thought we were skint, a million smackers for a new pitch I would rather see the lodgers depart which would take some pressure of the pitch.
Also a million pounds could go into the south stand devolpment .

I remember the "sticks at the Greyhound Stadium". They caused loads of problems.

I used to be a ball boy (and also helped out selling programmes and doing the score board).
Always wore my Leeds shirt under my tracksuit, whilst being ball boy. The worst job was have to retrieve the ball from the track and then having to wipe the 'muck' of the ball. Greyhounds are not fed normal dog food, the 'muck' was more like a bright coloured weetabix that had been left in the milk too long.

Was told off most weeks for my boots being covered in it.

Who has ever said that???

The club might be introducing a 'buy a rugby post' scheme shortly.

Limited editions obviously.

I'm guessing they'll have one interested party at least

The club could be missing a trick here by not selling rolls of turf, I could have got one for Tads head

Just get a load of tarmacers in they would lay the cricket club carpark for much less than a million quid!

dont give them any more ideas ,but no doubt hve sing up his sleeve

An impressive investment by the club.

Something that will be delivering benefits and paying back for many years. In commercial terms this is really a zero-return investment...

Also nice to see we've gone for the full works with undersoil heating etc. Would have been easy to miss this out for cost cutting purposes only to regret it over the next 50 years or so...

Lets hope that with this seemingly our "winter project" that next year or year after we see a new stand...

If Leeds build the South or North stands in the next few years, will this ruin the pitch?

We want 66 footers like they were at Station Road, Swinton (and later Eccles)

How has a discussion on posts got this far without mention of the JPT final at Central Park in 84?

Or indeed McAlpine in 2000

The posts at the KC Stadium yesterday looked shockingly short, especially for one of Foster's conversion attempts.

Not as shocking as Fosters "haircut"

Keep the posts tall and of stature...... but outside investment is also good to gain for the club...... Thank god that they didn't opt for a pitch like Widness...Rugby and fake grass just does not mix

Due to Rugby League games being played in 'Summertime',the main beneficiary of the underground heating will be the union team.Given the poor attendances at union games ,will it be worth spending fuel costs on heating?.

There are 2 seasons in this country. June and Winter.

The inclusion of the undersoil heating is a sensible move given the size of the investment being made. The winter usually bites around our pre-season and the launch of the new RL season and there is always the Boxing day fixture to get on for those who appreciate it - I'm not amongst them but I'm sure others do.

Our season starts in Feb when its recently been the coldest month, and most likely for snow. In terms of revenue etc lost when games are cancelled I think it would pay for itself over a fairly short period

The other problem is pitch recovery & it taking until late summer to get the pitch looking anything like top quality... just at the end of our season in time for the new RU season! The reason is of course the ongoing drainage issues, caused by the old under soil heating, but equally the now lack of under soil heating is further adding to the problem. The pitch is spending quite a bit of time covered in frost sheets during the winter to keep it playable for the RU boys, meaning it is just not getting the sun and air it needs during winter.

Last season the pitch, as we all know, looked ok on Boxing day, but then it spent much of January & February under frost sheets. I seem to recall Jason Booth saying that he was only able to take the frost sheets off the pitch 2 or 3 days throughout the whole of January. In March, as the weather warmed, it was in bad as a condition I have ever seen it and again Jason just got the pitch back to something like in late August!

So, yes, the under soil will be of massive benefit to both teams, given that our season starts in February but also because when we do start back the pitch will be in much better condition from the winter so far, and equally would expect the pitch to be looking at it's best from spring right through to the end of the RL season.