Get a train to Ashburys its a ten minute walk
Picadilly to Ashburys its about 5 mins on the train but saves about 20 mins walk

I'm still reeling from the news that someone is considering watching the 1st and 3rd game on Saturday and NOT watching Warrington play. It's like being in Shea Stadium when the Beatles came to town and deciding to nip out for a fag.

Doubt it. Walk to Piccadilly and get the bus from there. Failing that, "Charles" it up and get a taxi. It's only money.

Cheers.

I got the 45 min walk from google maps.

I certainly wont be 'Charlsing' it, need to save my money for my £4 rat burger in the ground.

Is it FOOK, you're good but you're not THAT good, jesus you y fans need to get over yourselves, Beatles at the Shea in '65 was a once in a lifetime opportunity for some (despite the following years performance), you can watch a very good team in primrose & yellow play every week if you really wanted to but comparing it to one of the very best music groups of all time in an iconic stadia such as the shea is overegging your importance, you're not even the best team in SL atm

You Sir, have just made my day. They should put this post in the dictionary next the word "Whoosh".

If I were you, I'd delete your post before someone quotes it.

He's got a point though!

Those who attend early on Saturday need to be posting details of what they are allowed to take in. You never know, it might be different on the day.

Oh, that is an absolute whopper. Like, the sort of catch you used to get in the early internet days, before people wised up.

having tasted the stadium food before, i can assure you there are lots of health reasons for bringing your own

Quote away I say, life is too short to worry about anything said on this fora.
We can all play the irony card when it suits huh? Frankly I was half thinking that your fans are so far up your own s that one of you might actually think you were something special, given the bollox that comes out of some fans mouth's it wouldn't be the first nor the last time that some self important $h1te was spouted.
Still in the interests of completing the circle of irony & just to be sure I thought I'd wade in with a handful of my own you know just on the off chance and all that. I guess I made the classic faux pas of not using emoticons to show that my reply was ironic also?
Should one have used one of these

or indeed one of these

I'd hazard a guess that maybe that wouldn't even be enough for some of the afflicted here

Perhaps if the RFL could have been ar$ed to answer his email, he wouldn't have had to, quite legitimately, share the response from the Etihad on here.

This shouldn't take any more than a mouse click to answer - standard answer referring them to a web page listing stadium rules for the day. But then maybe that's a little more complicated than organizing a p-up in a brewery and thus beyond Mr. Wood's capability to sort out.

One superb reason for slipping away from the stadium (or even arriving late) are the excellent ale spots in the Northern Quarter.

One of the stewards works with me and he's looking forward to this event: he knows what rugby fans are like from Barton stewarding.

ROAR!!!

You didn't make the faux pas of not using emoticons. You made the faux pas of having no wit whatsoever and taking the suggestion that watching a Rugby League team was like watching the Beatles seriously. You then followed this up with a mega bite. You then made another one by not understanding what irony means and then you finished it off by claiming that you were being ironic.

You're right about one thing though - life is too short. Stop taking yourself and life so seriously and take your medicine.

Ground Rules

[i"With the exception of authorised press representatives holding official passes, the taking of photographs or cine/video photography inside the ground is prohibited."[/i

Was anyone planning on bringing a camera? Don't know whether to take mine now?

This is a generic regulation in all stadia due to copyrights, you'll be ok with a personal camera ie a non SLR type. I doubt the thousands of Man city fans were denied capturing their own personal memories the other weekend! Besides how many of us carry phones with camera's integrated!

reading through the posts, am i right in thinking you can leave the stadium, after the 1st game, but only stay within the grounds, (city square), but not allowed to walk back to manchester city cente then back to the ground for the hull derby?

Some of these stadium rules are a joke!

Q: Can I bring bags, rucksacks or suitcases?
A Luggage items larger than A4 size are not permitted into the stadium for security reasons. Appropriate discretion will be used for ladies' handbags, baby changing bags, etc. which will be subject to the standard security checks

So does anyone actually have a bag thats A4 size? Or can anyone lend me a Sport Billy bag to put my kids jumpers,jackets,ipod,suncream,hats and sunglasses in. I wonder what they do on city matchdays when people use the clubshop do they supply special bags?

You can go wherever you like, on or off the stadium premises as far as I can tell.


As long as you're not taking in a suitcase or one of those huge hiking bags then I can't see it being a problem.

Both Cardiff and murrayfield had the same "no food" stipulation in their t&c's but did not enforce it

Can't see how that could be enforced. City square isn't enclosed

I wish folk would stop sensibly answering these questions and allow me to invoke my right as an RFL to GET REALLY ANGRY AND SAY THAT IT'S A FARCE.

Weather will be too warm. Risk of heat exhaustion. Been saying it for years but we really ought to switch back to winter rugby.

Anyone know if drums can be taken in?

Only after they've been smashed on their owner's head and pulled down over their shoulders to prevent them moving their arms.

P.S. I don't like drums.