I noticed that there was a guy in that area last night presumably to retrieve the balls from the touch finder penalties. Last game we had three balls stuck in that restricted area but didn't get any last night.

Was the attendance announced? as per you couldn't hear anything in the North Stand.

Must have been at least 9,000?

9,002 just after the hooter.

Pardon. I agree about the lack of pa system in the North stand. In terms of H&S, I would have thought it was illegal not to have a fully functioning pa system.

What’s happened to the other 3,000 or so that we used to have?

I didn't hear to be honest either. But we were talking to a very pleasant steward before the kick off; he told us that Hull KR had sold their allocation of 1000, and at their briefing earlier in the day they'd been told that there were less than 250 of Wakey's 3500 tickets unsold - and they expected them to disappear quickly.

We were chatting about the ground too and he said there were 1500 in the North Stand. (1502 at the end

)

Wonderful, wonderful evening - not sure if the numbers are correct but they came from a pretty good source!

As I said in my post it was all conjecture and guesswork based upon the figure quoted as 3,500 capacity for the North stand when done.
The amendments to the terracing there are disappointing but I was mainly trying to stress that they're not as bad as some were making out and we won't be reducing capacity by 2,000 from these changes as some have stated.

If the council are so worried about the H&S on the north terrace why didn't they do something about it when they owned the ground

Two points.

They did, new pilings were added, but that was the Pete Box council.

The restrictions were far less then.

The problem this time it was a full inspection of our processes and did not just involve the H&S but many other bodies were represented I believe. I would suggest the sudden reduction in numbers would indicate we did not do too well based on the speed it was implemented.

Wrong

What about this...... Well done Richard Shaw-Wright https://youtu.be/13qWrBrF6wk

What about this...... Well done Richard Shaw-Wright https://youtu.be/13qWrBrF6wk

New pitch be down in no time!

Looks like odsel now

Quote ="PopTart"What about this...... Well done Mark Wilson https://youtu.be/13qWrBrF6wk'" “Not moving to some soulless box in the middle of nowhere” How true, and thank god for the memories

Quote ="PopTart"What about this...... Well done Mark Wilson https://youtu.be/13qWrBrF6wk'" “Not moving to some soulless box in the middle of nowhere” How true, and thank god for the memories

*Richard Shaw-Wright

Hmm. It is. And I'm not even sure where I got the wrong name from.
I've changed it to give Richard the credit.

they work together regularly on radio and on podcasts

Anybody got a drone they could send over for some footage?

And before anybody says anything, I don't mean *insert name of annoying contributor*

Someone does, they have in the recent past put drone videos over BV on the forum and trinity twitter page. I just wish the club would put photos/videos just once a week, to update everyone, a lot can change in a week.

Don't reckon there is much to see yet to be honest. I think it will get interesting when the steelwork goes up. Then you will get some idea of the scale. I reckon it will shock people just how large this new stand is.

It is in truth a 3000 seater stand but because they have fitted in the players/coaches/directors/media/disabled/corporate the capacity is lessened, but in a good way.

Although I accept that the ground will be far from perfect, most noticeably the West terrace - on a bright summers evening you will walk in off Donny road and see before you a facade that we can finally be proud of. We will at last look like a club with one foot in the 21st century and a right to be in SL.

As Buzz Lightyear said

One small stand for mankind, one huge stand for Wakefield Trinity.

Sometimes the contractors will arrange drone footage/time lapse cameras as part of the promotion of their work. I'm keeping an eye on Morgan Sindal's LinkdIn page for that reason. A quick snap from the flats and a post on twitter or Instagram should be easy enough for the club to do in the meantime though.

Was told something rather amusing about the new pitch today!

Now it's been scraped, channelled, gravelled, and new soil on...it's 2 feet higher than the old pitch.

Makes sorting the West terrace viewing sight-lines even more important.

Must have built a 2 foot high wall all way around the pitch then, otherwise the pitch will just collapse around the edges.