: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:43 pm  

a.n Other wrote:

I dont think so...you probably wont need to win to stay up at that point - seeing how poor Doncaster and Batley have been

Batley beat us.

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:45 pm  

I love this game !!!

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:54 pm  

we should field a few youngsters and treat it as a warm up match for the final

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:59 pm  

I must admit that the predicted away support from Widnes for this sunday is very commendable, and it will make for a fantastic atmosphere.

Now, I am not the brightest bloke on the planet, but I struggle to see what difference the issuing of tickets to Widnes prior to them travelling across will make.
They will still have to enter the ground through a turnstyle, granted handing over a ticket is slightly quicker than a 20 pound note and waiting for change but how much difference will it really make?

The parking of the coaches is a totally seperate issue which hardly warrants a press release from the Widnes club. Clutching at straws in an attempt to increase the hype and tension prior to the game. I thought that was the sort of things that people did on the fans forums, not professional rugby league clubs.

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:05 pm  

didnt we manage previously when we were in super league? when we were getting crowds in excess of 6000?

Cant remember any problems with "tickets" or parking then!

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:11 pm  

Precisely Griffax. It's just nit-picking from nervy Vikings.

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:13 pm  

Standidge wrote:

I must admit that the predicted away support from Widnes for this sunday is very commendable, and it will make for a fantastic atmosphere.

Now, I am not the brightest bloke on the planet, but I struggle to see what difference the issuing of tickets to Widnes prior to them travelling across will make.
They will still have to enter the ground through a turnstyle, granted handing over a ticket is slightly quicker than a 20 pound note and waiting for change but how much difference will it really make?

The parking of the coaches is a totally seperate issue which hardly warrants a press release from the Widnes club. Clutching at straws in an attempt to increase the hype and tension prior to the game. I thought that was the sort of things that people did on the fans forums, not professional rugby league clubs.

Now that is exactly the point I was going to make. Really not sure what the point is Widnes are trying to make. Plus there will be four times the amount of Widnes fans also paying to get in - shall we start the queue now

Where to park the coaches is actually a police issue

Moaning scousers - quelle surprise!

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:41 pm  

the press release by widnes is really surprising and unprofessional.

i hope nobody from the club tells them anything rinning up to match day and get them to change in the new changing rooms (unfinished) in the new stand

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:47 pm  

I can't wait to engorge myself on the fear in the eyes of the travelling scousers as I sail by the country mile long queues with my season ticket

: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:02 pm  

Typical scousers feeling hard done by, they probably only want tickets so they can make forgeries.

I hope to god none of them were to get arrested, there'd be the whole town coming out setting up Protest Groups on Facebook and producing Tee Shirts ect. And Gerry and the Pacemakers or somee crappy scouse act would be releasing another song.

At the end of the day, I don't think 15 coaches have been brought to Halifax by any club (football or rugby) for many years. And its not upto Halifax to provide parking for the coaches. It's going to be chaos dropping off and picking up that many fans onto that many coaches on the streets around the ground as there's no real easy place to park coaches and load them up. If they're parked (on the double yellows) on Shay Syke that'll delay cars getting out of the Hunger Hill Car Park, And its very unlikely they'd be allowed to park along Skircoat Road after the game. so where they're going to go is beyond me