Just had a call off the mrs who's at the game saints have confirmed that all games next season will be played at widnes

Oh dear!

As expected

Can't wait for the ques to get tickets for the derby! Scramble!

how come they are allowed to do that i thought the terms of being in the superleague is that you had to have your own ground

the attendance is going to drop really bad , I only live down road from saints and i know hundreds of ppl who walk to all home games from surrounding areas . they wont be doing that next season un less saints put free coaches on

Not at all, you just need a ground of suitable standard that you can play in. The DW is not our ground, we merely lease it.

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what if Widnes get in superleague next season

why would they? Isnt the next franchise 2012?

Yes the question is will saints put coaches on from there ground to widnes for free?

It's not the fans fault and imo saints couldn't have handled this whole thing any worse

This is pretty embarrassing for saints but as expected there was no way it would be ready for next year they haven't even started it yet!

Hopefully they are in a financial position to absorb the financial loss of a chink of their income going away as you know for sure even if the attendances are the same they wont be getting all of that income

Could be a financial disaster for Saints this, their attendances will be down, they will have to pay rent and most likely won't get any income from food and drink on matchdays.

All those years when they've said 'it may be our shed, but at least we own it'

Chairman Eamonn McManus said: "[iKnowsley Road cannot function for another year but the Halton Stadium is only a couple of miles from St Helens[/i.

its 9.7 miles..............not a couple.

Every saints home game is effectively away

They will have to put on free buses or something!

[url=http://www.saintsnewstadium.com/Looks like they could be changing their name to 'Saints RL' with a badge change aswell[/url

We're not changing our name.

It's only 5 from my house.

They probably won't be walking to the new ground either.

The club will have to put some kind of transport on, but I don't see why it would have to be free.

13,350 capacity, not sure how they will gloss this up.

we are lodgers for one season,after which we will own our brand new stadium,you lot are full-time lodgers,,getting told to change matchdays for the mighty latics !!!!

Why do we need to? It just means you'll get about 250 tickets for the derby next year

Well its more than a tad embarressing, season ticket sales down, match day ticket sales down, no revenue from food n booze, new shirt sales down. Going to be a costly year.

good point,,we might not be able to cover costs,honour players contracts,seal major sponsorship deals,,we might have to sell our ground to a major supermarket chain and move in as lodgers with the local football team,,,,no things could never get that bad

Why's it embarrassing?

We knew we were going to have to take a hit financially, we also (well most) knew that we were likely to have to play at Widnes or Leigh for all/most of next year as Knowsley Road [ihad[/i to be vacated at the end of this season.

It'll be embarrassing if we get gates of 4,000 next year, but that hasn't happened yet.