Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:16 am  

one ex fan wrote:

At the Shay?

The PNG game was at Thrum Hall

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:38 pm  

England did play France in Halifax in the 1950's, but up at Thrum Hall, not The Shay

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:02 pm  

Oops, got the date TOTALLY wrong - April 10th 1937, England 23 - France 9 Info from http://www.com1site.com/FFRXIII/index.php

Oops, got the date TOTALLY wrong - April 10th 1937, England 23 - France 9 Info from http://www.com1site.com/FFRXIII/index.php

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:29 pm  

Bubba wrote:

Sounds like something that would happen in RL

Could you please post the link where you found the info?

Sorry Bubba I can't send a link but I just entered Baseball at the shay halifax into the google search engine and it came up with details of the 1938 world amateur series. Hope this helps

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:37 pm  

I have a book somewhere that goes through loads of venues that were used to hold RL internationals. If only I can find the bleeding thing.

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 6:53 pm  

Two full internationals have been held at Thrum Hall.

1930 - England 19:35 Other Nations
1937 - England 23:9 France

I can find no mention of games being held at the Shay at all.

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Wed Jun 16, 2010 7:07 pm  

one ex fan wrote:

At the Shay?

Silly me, I do apologise

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:38 pm  

Tortured Soul wrote:

I have a book somewhere that goes through loads of venues that were used to hold RL internationals. If only I can find the bleeding thing.

International Grounds of Rugby League by Trevor Delaney, no record of any games at the Shay

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:54 pm  

Thanks for all your comments.

Just what I thought, it seems. The RFL did not know the difference between the Shay and Thrum Hall. So much for their grasp of history.....not that the present heirarchy would care in any event.

Hopefully, though, their mistake can be rectified to some degree in the future with an England game being allocated to the Shay...though I don't really hold out much hope.

Re: Shay as an international venue (in the past)? : Sat Jun 19, 2010 2:22 pm  

bentleyman wrote:

International Grounds of Rugby League by Trevor Delaney, no record of any games at the Shay

That's the one I've got. Good read.