Once again a rugby team playing in a football stadium gets the boot.
Huddersfield giants are to play there next three home games at The Shay Halifax, to allow for pitch repairs and grass growing at the Galpharm stadium.
This to me is a team who can't fulfill there home fixtures in there home ground and not a muffle from the RFL. IMO this is wrong VERY wrong.We have had Wigan at Sale and now this. Do you think the FA would allow this kind of thing in the premier league. What ever the RFL should NOT.

I don't see the issue as both are just temporary grounds until they can find somewhere suitable in Sheffield.

Blackpool FC had to rearrange their fixtures to have away fixtures for first few weeks of their season as their ground wasn't ready. They worked with the FA to do so. Surely our sport's teams should be able to negotiate fixtures to suit ground needs prior to the start of the season.

Isn't there a game between Sheffield and Dewsbury (it may already have recently been played) where Bramall Lane and The Don Valley stadium aren't available and the new venue is a school playing field. Now that is wrong.

Both evil and genius. A sort of 'evil genius' if you will.

I've replyed before and got my head bitten off,if it wasn't for Huddersfield Town A.F.C giants wouldn't have existed.

I don't really know the history of it - did Ken Davey intervene to save the footie club and just pick up the Giants as part of the deal?

Thought Dean Hoyle owned Huddersfield Town?

Things like grass and stuff do tend to grow better/faster in the Spring and Summer than at other times of the year, so whilst we could look at the wider implications for the sport, we could also just accept that it's all down to grass growing when it grows best... i.e. now.

Agreed, can't see an issue with it.

It is quite a posh school with very good facilities. The pitch I presume they will be playing on is in an ampitheatre with seating round the ground - but even so, is it suitable for pro rugby? Hmmm, not in my view.

I heard a radio interview with Warren Jowett and he was complaining about the lack of facilities ie no dugouts, no turnstiles etc but he also stated that they had a bar but not a very big one


I don't know what kind of school it is, but the one I went to didn't have a bar - not even on the windows

…yes, but Rugby League will die because of things like this. Utter nonsense.

not quite a case of the Giants been kicked out !

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Ken Davy has been the Giants chairman since 1996, HTFC were about to go out of business until Ken stepped in and bought them at the last minute (2003) as no other offers were recieved for the club !!, by doing this he basically saved the Galpharm Stadium as at the time the Giants alone couldn't afford the rent /upkeep of the stadium on there own.

So if it wasn't for Ken Davy the Giants might have not been around not Huddersfield town as per previous poster..?

Do you honestly think that Davy saved HTAFC,....Town were having problems financially ,so they say,Giants didn't contribute one iota to the running costs of the galpharm and never will with there poor support .

have you looked how much it costs to fund a football team in comparison to a Superleague team even a Division one team still will cost far more money to run.

We own 20% of the Stadium !!

Actually Ken Davy owns 60% of it from what i am aware of.

Town were on the verge of bankruptcy and about to go under thats why Ken bought them , without him they would have gone !

Nope, probably not!! Ken bought us out when we were heading into Admin for the 3rd time in 10 years ..........HTFC were doing ok back then as far as i am aware

Where do you think money comes from to fund ,pay wages etc for SL side also stadium running costs,not from 5000 bums on seats,it comes from Towns gates.

does it heck , the 2 clubs are run as, always have and always will be run as seperate companies. if either was dipping into the others pockets i'm sure the IR and the sports' govering bodies would have said something by now............oh and by the way were upto 8000+ gates now !!

And Towns gates aren't that much higher these days.....they may announce crowds 'much' higher but thats becasue they count season tickets in every crowd regardless of whether there actually at the game !

I don't see the issue of moving a few games while the pitch is being done, as a previous poster said they can't do it in winter and it should give Halifax some revenue. As for sharing grounds with town its the only way that teams can survive in this day and age.

Why don't they just merge with Halifax.

There is only a couple of miles between the grounds and obviously Giants fan doesn't mind going to The Shay.