I don't think anyone i ssuggesting we go back to crumbling terraces! Call it nostalgia, call it poor memory or remembering the good old days, but there was something special about some of the old grounds and the atmopsphere did seem to be better than the new stadiums. MAybe it was due to standing and being packed together, maybe because it was winter and you tried to keep warm who knows.

Besides as a fan of old grounds in the NRL I thought you'd be right into grounds out of the last century!

It would be great if you could have the best of both like at Headingly but the game has to move on. I still say that the fans make the atmosphere though.

yeah i understand the emotion over history ...

but i want to see RL as strong as it can be

new grounds are going to play a big part of the games growth

and even our traditional grounds have received lots of money being upgraded

eventually there might not be a place in the nrl for small grounds as crowds get too big for them, other than the odd nostalgia type game

ive heard lots of good things about station rd, but in reality it was a tip

so was tattserfield

lets be honest here, im sure you as a KR fan are happy with the improvements to Craven Park and look forward to further improvements.

lets get as many new fans as possible coming, including families and kids

these old grounds are intimidating for new fans to go too

the games future is more than the middle aged male demographic

we need much more kids, and women to attend games as well

edit : for example is wigans fans nostalgia for central park the ground or the team they had from the mid 80s to earlu 90s?

if they had that team today playing at the JJB what would the atmosphere be like

the jjb is a fantastic stadium tbh

Have you been? It doesn't really have any character which is a shame.

I liken it to owning cars. I've had classic cars that I've loved and that you have a special relationship with, and I've had some very nice new cars that are easier to drive, more reliable, more comfortable, more economical etc yet if someone asked me to name my 3 favourite cars I've owned I'd name the classic ones every time.

Times move on, modern stadia are the future, the game will be better for them, but I will always miss the nostalgia of the "good old days" and cherish the memories of being at a packed Thrum Hall, Boulevard and old Craven Park.

The difference now is that the fans of some of the clubs whose stadiums are in those pictures will never see their team compete and beat the best , I have seem Leigh beat probably all the clubs currently in SL at Hilton park , I will never witness that at the LSV , thats why I preffered Hilton Park , it was all about the sport then , it was sport then

yep

terrific stadium in real life tbh ...shame nrl teams cant have something that good

thats a fair post i guess

but the RFL has to do whats best for the game because where it was before SL was stuffed ...

some clubs will adapt to the new circumstances and prosper others wont ...thats life ...

the good old days arent going to get clubs anywhere today ....the sooner the realize this the better

The ' good old days ' had every club occaisionally beating anybody/everybody , now they wont , so the future of these clubs is what ? ,

I am sure there are people who remember Broughton Rangers winning games but times move on.

Yes maybe Broughton Rangers are the future we are looking at

Whats up Durham , Am I getting to near to the truth ?

Was there ever a worse ground than Alt Park, Huyton?

It's a good job threads like this exist!

There was I thinking that RUGBY LEAGUE was all about what happened on the field and everything else was secondary.

Don't you learn something every day!

the good old days lead to a club game which was bankrupt ....

the club game in england has never really been this healthy ever ....

and this can be the case for clubs outside SL as well, as widne clearly show, and maybe fax ...

so you havent heard of the franchising system then huh ...where you been the past 5 years or so ....

RL games are determined by the best team on the day combined with luck, injuries and refs calls

but entry into SL and indeed success in it depends solely on a clubs achivements off the field

My you have short memory, i always thought Cougarmania was about the matchday experience and marketing and that the RL played was secondary to that.

Maybe we should go back to the days where we all turn up at games with our flat caps on, in troughs, dont let wimmin into the grounds, drink bovril, get rid of tannoys, forget music and cheerleaders, dont put games on telly except for the CC final and pay the players 2' 6p and a pie if they win the game.

In all seriousness I'm all for a couple of those points.

Which ones? I'm genuinely intrigued.

The 'forget music and cheerleaders' and the 'drink Bovril' points jonny.

I love Bovril.

oh hes a keighley fan is he ...

well thats a brilliant response then lol

Me too, wouldn't fancy it on a baking hot day in July mind! Don't mind the music before the game, annoys me when they play it over the PA after a try. Cheerleaders don't bother me either.

The NFL do cheerleaders well.

The NRL do cheerleaders well.


Superleague DON'T.


The Americans and the Australians have great looking sunkissed silicone enhanced blondes with perfect white teeth without an ounce of fat on them.


Superleague cheerleaders generally speaking are either deathly pale chunky single mothers with hair dyed blonde using a cheapo non permanent hair dye from poundstretcher or bright orange skinned black haired moonlighting hairdressers with a couple of cheap tattoos and half a bog roll stuffed down their tops.

Both have as much rhythm as a dalek with a wonky wheel and they should all be sacked immediately.

I think you'll find you're wrong.

At the height of Cougarmania Keighley had a fine team, playing entertaining expansive rugby as was demonstrated against Huddersfield at Old Trafford in the final. How many tries did Huddersfiel score

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And did Keighley have a fine team because they had the MONEY ( from Cougarmania) to make that possible