Anyone going and having to stay overnight Travelodge sale is on here www2.travelodge.co.uk/index.php. Just picked up a room in Salford Quays for £12

Anyone going and having to stay overnight Travelodge sale is on here www2.travelodge.co.uk/index.php. Just picked up a room in Salford Quays for £12

I saw that as well nut i don't think others here fancied a trip up there. First time for ages I've not got up early to book Friday nights for away games.

New stadium - got to be there. Same with Saints later in the year (Cas next year and Wakey - god knows when

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Booked-£14 with a visa charge!

These new soulless grounds don't appeal to me at all. A trip to The Willows would have been far more appealing to me.

Is it not about the game? The Willows was past its best.

Well according to Paddock the reason to be there is because of a new stadium. I still might go, but its nothing to do with the ground. I agree, all about the match, hopefully a winnable one.

I agree with your comments about soulless grounds. Maybe modern is the term for 4 smallish stands. Warrington(although they have linked their stands), Leigh, Widnes possibly Quins are like this

I'll settle for souless if it means I can have a leak at half time without needing industrial grade wellies and a gas mask! I still shudder at the memory of the River Caves at Central Park (although 4 pints in Billy Boston's beforehand probably didn't help!).

Surprise Surprise, another negative post from Lister.

FFS, cheer up you miserable bar stard.

Shock horror, Riverside Red jumping on one of my posts



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How are you going to call it soulless before you visit it?
Surely you should visit it first and then decide if you hate it or not. I'd want to go to experience their new ground, a trip to the Willows doesn't appeal to me at all, (mostly because of the locals though)

Are you expecting different fans at the new ground- Salford is Salford

Amazingly, Salford has more green belt than anywhere in 'Greater Manchester', there are some very nice places in the City, several Man Utd players live in Worsley, for instance. They may get better gates because it is 'safer' than Weaste. I will be there. As for gas masks, it is squeezed between two sewage works I understand!

PP it can have as much green belt as it wants, as I said Salford is Salford!! I used to live within punting distance of it!! for many years!
My dad took me to the Robins bar at the Willows when it first opened as it at the time was the mecca of the north for entertainment ! in the days when cabaret type clubs ruled the north.

Some time later he took me to this modern "thing" called Yates Wine bar which had infiltrated the north in Urmston.

How times have changed.

The stadium's disappointing for me. Completely lacking in character and artistic merit. A real come down from the early hype and artists impressions. Good for Salford and RL no doubt but doesn't excite me in any way. Saints ground looks great though, and looking forward to improvements at Wire too.

No one fancy the Travelodge Central, right in Town £19 pn with great bar and loads of life around it, you all need to get out more, booked anyway, i, myself and three other beds, so Mr Smith, all sorted, boogie tyhe night away at sashas

What RL team actually has the finance to build a ground with any architechtural merit?

Priorities
1. A pitch that has drainage
2. Toilets
3. A stand with a roof

any thing else is a bonus.


Was at Brentford yesterday, and IMO that pitch is not capable of having rugby played on it, cut up badly, far too much sand on it.

Orientwesty- 2 of the Sidcup massive (the good looking ones

) booked into same Travelodge as you. Will be over our Jan detox by then and ready to party.

Paddock - I'm about to book for the Purdo dinner. Read your pm when you get a mo.

Friend and me going too. Staying at Salford Quays travellodge though - guessing it will be quiet round there so will probably end up going into town after the game.

Now that takes me back to my youth!

As for the new stadium, don't get back home as often as I like, hopefully that will change in 5/6 years time, but the ground actually looks pretty good. The three smaller stands don't look quite as out of place as they appeared on the arcitects design, but the main stand beats those at Warrington, Leigh and Widnes. Can't comment on Quins, but our main stand looks more impressive - dare I say it - than St Helens main stand.

So we have three smaller and not at all aesthetically pleasing stands, but compromises had to be made and the current layout was designed to help improve the Reds financial position. A local prestiege car company has already used the stadium, for a promotional event. That would never have happened at the Willows.

Doesn't the council own the stadium?

how are people getting there?

I'm taking my helicopter.

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