Hi Duckman, thanks for that definition.

Yea my memory was that the in goal areas were really short.

Groan.

Quote ="bobsmyuncle"Hi Duckman, thanks for that definition. Yea my memory was that the in goal areas were really ">short.'" No worries, yes the ingoal last time was only about 2 or 3m and then straight into the advertising boards, and we shortened the "10m" from the 50 to the 40 so it wasn't the full 10. I remember one of our first games at VP after some snow and frost and a few players sliding into the advertising boads through the ingoal area. The pitch is not ideal but I'm certain the RFL would allow it again.

Quote ="bobsmyuncle"Hi Duckman, thanks for that definition. Yea my memory was that the in goal areas were really ">short.'" No worries, yes the ingoal last time was only about 2 or 3m and then straight into the advertising boards, and we shortened the "10m" from the 50 to the 40 so it wasn't the full 10. I remember one of our first games at VP after some snow and frost and a few players sliding into the advertising boads through the ingoal area. The pitch is not ideal but I'm certain the RFL would allow it again.

Quote ="Duckman"No worries, yes the ingoal last time was only about 2 or 3m and then straight into the advertising boards, and we shortened the "10m" from the 50 to the 40 so it wasn't the full 10. I remember one of our first games at VP after some snow and frost and a few players sliding into the advertising boads through the ingoal area. The pitch is not ideal but I'm certain the RFL would allow it ">again.'" That was always a worry at VP. A player chasing a ball to the back of the in-goal is only a couple of feet away from, not just the boards, but the very solid wall they are fastened to. This very clear danger to players, plus the obvious fact that the RFL are trying to get all clubs to have a full 100m between the posts, has always been my big concern with the ground.

Quote ="Duckman"No worries, yes the ingoal last time was only about 2 or 3m and then straight into the advertising boards, and we shortened the "10m" from the 50 to the 40 so it wasn't the full 10. I remember one of our first games at VP after some snow and frost and a few players sliding into the advertising boads through the ingoal area. The pitch is not ideal but I'm certain the RFL would allow it ">again.'" That was always a worry at VP. A player chasing a ball to the back of the in-goal is only a couple of feet away from, not just the boards, but the very solid wall they are fastened to. This very clear danger to players, plus the obvious fact that the RFL are trying to get all clubs to have a full 100m between the posts, has always been my big concern with the ground.

behind the goals at Valley parade the advertising boards are free standing and not attched to the wall. the wall is a couple of metres further back.

that is also the case down the east side (midland road). however, on the main stand side the adverts are mounted on the wall.



the main objection is that there isnt the 3 metres clearance around the pitch.



many Sl and other pro and semi pro RL pitches shorten the area between the 40 meter line and the next line. there is no such official marking of a 30 meter line. there should be a line 20 metres from the goal line, and another 10 metres from half way.

Quote ="af"Temporary ">stands.'" temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="af"Temporary ">stands.'" temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" Since you surely cannot be a muppet, you must be trying to make a point there. Your point is...?

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" Since you surely cannot be a muppet, you must be trying to make a point there. Your point is...?

As an fan who travels to almost every Wigan away game I hated Valley Parade.



We were sat almost at boot level in seats with very little legroom (and I'm only 5' 8"icon_wink.gif



We couldn't find any decent pubs near the ground, much prefer Odsal and the Red Lion on Manchester Road.

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"As an fan who travels to almost every Wigan away game I hated Valley Parade. We were sat almost at boot level in seats with very little legroom (and I'm only 5' 8"icon_wink.gif We couldn't find any decent pubs near the ground, much prefer Odsal and the Red Lion on Manchester ">Road.'" thats because bradford arms apart ( and its a stretch calling that decent) there arent any icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"As an fan who travels to almost every Wigan away game I hated Valley Parade. We were sat almost at boot level in seats with very little legroom (and I'm only 5' 8"icon_wink.gif We couldn't find any decent pubs near the ground, much prefer Odsal and the Red Lion on Manchester ">Road.'" thats because bradford arms apart ( and its a stretch calling that decent) there arent any icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" Isn't the laughing smiley overused these days? I'm sure it's only meant to be for jokes that are actually funny.

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" Isn't the laughing smiley overused these days? I'm sure it's only meant to be for jokes that are actually funny.

Quote ="DILLIGAF"Isn't the laughing smiley overused these days? I'm sure it's only meant to be for jokes that are actually ">funny.'" Maybe we should have temporary smileys for temporary senses of humour icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> PS these smileys will self destruct in 10 mins

Quote ="DILLIGAF"Isn't the laughing smiley overused these days? I'm sure it's only meant to be for jokes that are actually ">funny.'" Maybe we should have temporary smileys for temporary senses of humour icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> PS these smileys will self destruct in 10 mins

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> =whitewa nker

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> =whitewa nker

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"As an fan who travels to almost every Wigan away game I hated Valley Parade. We were sat almost at boot level in seats with very little legroom (and I'm only 5' 8"icon_wink.gif We couldn't find any decent pubs near the ground, much prefer Odsal and the Red Lion on Manchester ">Road.'" To be honest, and I`m no lover of playing at VP, the one thing the ground has over Odsal is the number of pubs in `reasonable` vicinity of the ground. Most of the pubs in the town centre for instance are within ten to fifteen (if you`re slow!) minutes walking distance.

Quote ="Rogues Gallery"As an fan who travels to almost every Wigan away game I hated Valley Parade. We were sat almost at boot level in seats with very little legroom (and I'm only 5' 8"icon_wink.gif We couldn't find any decent pubs near the ground, much prefer Odsal and the Red Lion on Manchester ">Road.'" To be honest, and I`m no lover of playing at VP, the one thing the ground has over Odsal is the number of pubs in `reasonable` vicinity of the ground. Most of the pubs in the town centre for instance are within ten to fifteen (if you`re slow!) minutes walking distance.

Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans

Quote ="Skelmanthorpe Giant"Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans'" And Cougar Park for the other 50% icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="Skelmanthorpe Giant"Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans'" And Cougar Park for the other 50% icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="berro's best mate"temporary stands for temporary fans.... icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" />

Quote ="Skelmanthorpe Giant"Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Why don't you hand over the Galpharm and you can relocate to sheffield ?

Quote ="Skelmanthorpe Giant"Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Why don't you hand over the Galpharm and you can relocate to sheffield ?

Quote ="Bullseye"And Cougar Park for the other 50% icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />'" and belle vue for the other 50% icon_confused.gif" alt="icon_confused.gif" title="Confused" />

Quote ="Bullseye"And Cougar Park for the other 50% icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />'" and belle vue for the other 50% icon_confused.gif" alt="icon_confused.gif" title="Confused" />

Various quotes: The Shay? Local stadium for 50% of the fans Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans And Cougar Park for the other 50% and belle vue for the other 50% I think there is something going wrong with the maths - you don't get these people to do Bradfords books do you icon_eek.gif" alt="icon_eek.gif" title="Shocked" />

Various quotes: The Shay? Local stadium for 50% of the fans Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans And Cougar Park for the other 50% and belle vue for the other 50% I think there is something going wrong with the maths - you don't get these people to do Bradfords books do you icon_eek.gif" alt="icon_eek.gif" title="Shocked" />

Quote ="Dreamer"Various quotes: The Shay? Local stadium for 50% of the fans Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans And Cougar Park for the other 50% and belle vue for the other 50% I think there is something going wrong with the maths - you don't get these people to do Bradfords books do you icon_eek.gif" alt="icon_eek.gif" title="Shocked" />'" we all applied to be Ken Dodd`s and Lester Pigots book keeper icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="Dreamer"Various quotes: The Shay? Local stadium for 50% of the fans Galpharm? local stadium to the other 50% of the fans And Cougar Park for the other 50% and belle vue for the other 50% I think there is something going wrong with the maths - you don't get these people to do Bradfords books do you icon_eek.gif" alt="icon_eek.gif" title="Shocked" />'" we all applied to be Ken Dodd`s and Lester Pigots book keeper icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Don't forget that 50% of our fans used to support Batley!



But's it's ok because 50% of Leeds' fans used to support Bradford.



Surely that means that 50% of Leeds fans used to support Huddersfield, 50% supported Halifax, 50% supported Keighley, 50% supported Wakefield, 50% supported Batley etc. etc.

Quote ="Ewwenorfolk"icon_lol.gif Why don't you hand over the Galpharm and you can relocate to sheffield ?'" we`ve never do that yet icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Quote ="Ewwenorfolk"icon_lol.gif Why don't you hand over the Galpharm and you can relocate to sheffield ?'" we`ve never do that yet icon_wink.gif" alt="icon_wink.gif" title="Wink" />

Yeah but they're all secretly HKR away fans.

Quote ="childofthenorthern"Yeah but they're all secretly HKR away ">fans.'" Can you remember last year when they brought 50 trillion fans to Odsal?

Quote ="childofthenorthern"Yeah but they're all secretly HKR away ">fans.'" Can you remember last year when they brought 50 trillion fans to Odsal?

Quote ="Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza"Can you remember last year when they brought 50 trillion fans to Odsal?'" yeah could barely move tripping without over the bugg*ers icon_smile.gif" alt="icon_smile.gif" title="Smile" /> God knows what will happen when we have a nice shiny new 18000 capacity stadium icon_exclaim.gif" alt="icon_exclaim.gif" title="Exclamation" />

Quote ="Maccbull_BigBullyBooaza"Can you remember last year when they brought 50 trillion fans to Odsal?'" yeah could barely move tripping without over the bugg*ers icon_smile.gif" alt="icon_smile.gif" title="Smile" /> God knows what will happen when we have a nice shiny new 18000 capacity stadium icon_exclaim.gif" alt="icon_exclaim.gif" title="Exclamation" />