Correct

The same as they scored against us when we ended their long unbeaten home run in the cup the folllowing year................but at least at OT we actually scored SOME points

Yet another post highlighting you complete ignorance of the British game

Seeing as he lives in Bradford his lack of knowledge is quite incredible

right words youve posted wrong person youve quoted

i was thinking how appropriate theyd apply to your musings on the rfl and franchising lol

although i loved going to those places (Leigh's 'mint-ball' adverts, Thrum Halls hill of a pitch, the weather at the Sheddings!) you can see straight away that those grounds wouldnt have lasted another 20yrs and in many cases, were serious liabilities for the clubs involved.

Really, nothing to do with Leigh being an NL1 side you dimwit.

shhhhh, Vastman, its The Championship not NL1

Well I'm converted

Plastic no frills rugby, played by plastic robot players, watched by plastic people, eating plastic food, drinking plastic beer in plastic containers, going to plastic toilets all in a plastic stadium with no atmosphere.

I've seen the future.

I'm convinced.

Why on earth did it take RL so long to see the light?

Plastic isn't bio-degradeable. It'll last forever.

Hurrah !!!

Matter of opinion - but many elements have improved a lot



who now have the chance to choose to earn a relatively decent wage while taking the risks that they once got paid barely anything for



Hmmm...same people as before, or an admittance that new people have started watching???



same crap food (just costs more)



same beer most likely, just costs more and would be in plastic containers if it was still teh Sheddings, Thrum Hall etc.



as opposed to a hole in the floor. didnt we all love that experince - i know my female family members especially did!



that isnt a health and safety deathtrap and liability costing more to maintain year on year that it could ever hope to make in income and hence, without any scope for improvement.



I agree. What it took in the 1990s was a recognition that the game was financially buggered, with decreasing attendances, run down stadiums and a society that had moved ahead of the sport by a decade or more.

You're another one who just doesn't ' get it ' , do you , if we all wanted to sit down in a comfortable seat with the best views of the game , we could just stay at home and do it , unfortunatley thats what the majority now choose to do

The soul has gone from the sport , virtually all the stadia built now are the same , they lack atmpsphere unless they are almost full , in many you no longer have the choices you had before to stand or sit where you wanted to , which stadium draws the biggest support ? , then one that is almost unchanged for 60 odd years , the one that gives you the option of standing or sitting either alongside or at the end of the pitch , the one with old style food and drink vending

And one last thing , the toilets in new stadia are not plastic , try stainless steel , believe me the females fans at Leigh much prefer the toilets at Hilton park than the LSV , visiting the LSV is very similar to visiting a modern prison in that respect

Mount Pleasant is still the best place to visit in RL. Especially in summer.

Great selection of proper good food, at affordable prices. Decent drinks you can buy without feeling ripped off. A bloody beer garden behind the stand for gods sake

Best away day in RL. Who cares about the slope!

I agree. A great day out. Time before last - they had a rock band playing out of the back of a lorry in the beer car park. Great friendly atmosphere and the stand at the top end of the slope provides a cracking atmosphere. I love this fixture.

Sounds a classy world class venue.

It is the most popular away venue in the Championships , the whole set up is excellent , Real food and beer , priced properly so you actually enjoy it rather than just eat it , a good tidy stadium without being too big to generate an atmosphere with a thousand in attendance

Bazza - you're a prick. It certainly isn't the type of venue which you frequent - Kylie would never appear here.

That's a fair call Nozzy. The set up there is brilliant, pub 50 yds from the ground. Sat outside if it's sunny with the Batley fans and a bit of a banter. Nice tidy little ground too these days and a good atmosphere in the away end.

Always promised myself that i'd go to a Batley-Dewsbury game there if it was a big enough occasion to sell it out. Reckon a Northern Rail Cup Semi would do it or a big playoff match.

I'm not Bazza but once again many thanks.


I have just googled Mount Pleasant (I'd never heard of the place)

The resulting photo leads me to believe they chose the name after a 'Lets find the least likely name to describe a run down looking Rugby League ground somewhere in the north of England' competition



Remind me to avoid 'Batley'....wherever that is.

Bazza , You really are a t055er , I just googled it as well , and you decided to post the worst possible picture that came up , you sad excuse for a RL fan

Actually Bazza - your material wouldn't look out of place at the variety club. It doesn't surprise me either that there's another Rugby League ground you've never heard of.

Time to change your username again . . . . .

To be fair Phipps, if someone posted a picture of the best stadium on the planet you'd still have a go at it even though you've never been there. Notice how you picked the old grainy picture in the drizzle rather than the nicer, sunnier, more modern picture. Which is unfortunately taken from inside the nicest stand at the ground. tims92.webs.com/Batley/Mount%20P ... ic%201.jpg

To be fair Phipps, if someone posted a picture of the best stadium on the planet you'd still have a go at it even though you've never been there. Notice how you picked the old grainy picture in the drizzle rather than the nicer, sunnier, more modern picture. Which is unfortunately taken from inside the nicest stand at the ground. tims92.webs.com/Batley/Mount%20P ... ic%201.jpg

Then you are missing out on an excellent RL experience. Definately one of my favourite away grounds. A good club, playing good RL on a quirky pitch providing a great value day out. Your loss mate.

I get the fact that in the 1990s clubs were on their last legs in many towns and at financial breaking point (many with the liabilities that their old ground represented).

I loved my visits to Thrum Hall (where i watched games against Halifax but also Ovenden in the Challenge Cup), Cas has always been a favourite away visit and I'm thankful that I got to experience Central Park, Wilderspool, Hilton Park, the Watersheddings and Station Road. But...

The Sheddings had barrier tape up around much of the ground on my last visit (in the grounds last year) - it had become unsafe to open parts. Similarly, Station Road was a hefty ground much of which was closed off - imagine the costs of maintaining that with what - 2,000 fans max? These grounds were liabilities - and ever increasing liabilities in many cases as their state of dis-repiar became worse and the standards expected by H&S (and paying customers!) increased. It is probably is not a coincidence that those clubs financially fell apart - not because they 'lost' their ground as an asset, but because their ground was a cost they coudn't afford and had left them in debt. Do you 'get that'? I might have enjoyed my visits but my head told me that those places wouldnt last - they couldn't in the condition they were in and there was no money there to be invested in what would be a sunk cost anyway.

things change - if you want to think that the past was always better than so be it - but that is precisely why the sport needed to change so dramatically just to ensure it survived. FWIW, the sport still has its soul - but is now has better facilities too.

And did Hilton park have atmosphere when empty? not from what I remember! That's just the case for any ground that is empty modern or old - and I remember a bare Hilton Park as much as i know a bare Willows now - the atmosphere can be flat.