It died like liverpool's title chances.

I think the Wigan game in June will be played at Goodison.

What about the fans without season tickets? Shocking decision!

If you click on the link in the previous page taking you to the Halton site then you will see a reference to 'executive' section (or some other word for 'section'; I can't be bothered clicking on it again) in the West Stand. I have no idea why the allocation is smaller than the capacity of the stand; I simply suggested that the existence of an executive something or other may be the reason.


They might have but whether that is true or not is another matter. All of the Halton's facilities are superior to Knowsley Road, that goes without saying, but if the East Stand's facilities are superior to the West Stand's then heaven knows what the West Stand's facilities are like! Basic, to say the least. I hope our new stadium doesn't look like concrete bunkers!

be loads of places in the saints end anyway.

just buy those tickets... problem solved

there could be a lot of people (ie not saints fans) in that stand so might wait, see if i can get a wire ticket after the ST have a go. If not assess how many are going in the saints end and buy a ticket.

40% of saints fans who went to Knowsley Road have never ventured out of St Helens in their life, so won't be going all the way to Widnes

11k saints fans, not a chance, we will end up with 4/5k tickets.

Warrington will be given the whole of the West Stand. The initial release of 2,500 tickets will generate immediate sales due to the "panic" and "outrage" that will spread across the internet's messageboards. This will give the club some nice cash flow for a few weeks.

The remainder of the tickets will be "released" once the majority of the initial 2,500 are sold.

I also understand that the seats being held-back are the ones covered in bird-e and dust as the only times they have been used in the last 4 years were when we went there for our semi-final maulings of Wigan and Catalans.

Is the 2 semi finals the only time the halton stadium has sold out.

you are aware that Warrington have beaten saints in the super league era, but lets ignore the fact anyway eh?

saints should play us at home at the DW. Anyone agree?

Once, when Basil sent a bunch of teenagers to your place.

You haven't beaten our first team in 15 years. But I can see you doing it now that both Longy AND Cunningham have gone.

We'll do the double on Saints this year.

Er, no! Check out the lineup from that match:

Anthony Stewart
Dwayne West
Steve Hall
Paul Newlove
Anthony Sullivan
Tommy Martyn
Paul Wellens
Sonny Nickle
Keiron Cunningham
Wayne McDonald
Chris Joynt
Peter Shiels
Paul Sculthorpe

Mike Bennett
John Stankevitch
Tim Jonkers
Vila Matautia

Probably!


Calm down! I was just winding you up. You Wire fans are easy prey.



(I don't even remember Peter Shiels and Steve Hall ... they must have been teenagers ... )

exactly seb, 2nd team, full of youngsters who would never get near the saints first team!

Our lads threw everything into that game . . . . the week before the cup final

I was just glad that Hoppe, Iro, Long, Fairleigh etc made miraculous injury comebacks for that final - who'd have thunk it? Wellens at 7



I'm surprised you managed to find a team sheet, so few of our players turned up to play.

Well it's near enough to a team of teenagers as far as Saints Fan is concerned, which says more about her than the team.

For the first time in a long time I am actually confident that we can beat them this year, not only just once but twice. Very odd to say the least but I will stand by my confidence and say that we can do it.

Actually I bet a fair few of them were teenagers given it's 15 years ago or so we're talking about.

I remember that game vividly. Newlove was sent off for a high tackle and after that I don't think we made another tackle such was their fear of the referee making them miss the final.

The match was in 2001. Here are the ages of the team:

Tim Jonkers - 19
Dwayne West - 20
Mike Bennett - 20
John Stankevitch - 21
Steve Hall - 21
Paul Wellens - 21
Tony Stewart - 22
Paul Sculthorpe - 23
Keiron Cunningham - 24
Wayne McDonald - 25
Peter Shiels - 27
Chris Joynt - 29
Paul Newlove - 29
Tommy Martyn - 29
Sonny Nickle - 31
Vila Matautia - 31

Average age of team - 24

Nope, not teenagers - which is why I said I was winding them up (as I was).

Looks similar in age range to the one we have now, actually. Except Meli is about 40.

No, not at all. We've seen enough "wandering wooden" posts of yours to realise that you haven't a clue what is or has been going on at a game.

You are one sad man. But your efforts do make me laugh.

Is it sold out yet?