Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:33 pm  

headhunter wrote:

You mean the council owned and funded Leigh Sports Village?

Sorry, didn't realise there were stipulations on how to achieve these goals. Is it only Supermarket funded facilities that count?

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:48 pm  

Hillsborough Lad wrote:

No way on earth was there anywhere near 3890 in that ground tonight!! 4165 v cas with four sold out stands, plenty of room tonight and only 300 less? How many does the railway end hold - minus 500?

How ironic....why dont you concentrate on thinking of ways of boosting your own attendence figures before having a go elsewhere? The PR team at Fev should be applauded for the job theyve done promoting this game for the past few days

I see the chain was oiled on your tandem as it appears you made it to the game and back - 100 sheff fans there if lucky tonight

Wow of a game though, both teams had it won and lost it - a privilege to have been there to witness it, a credit to championship rugby, a few SL supporters from neighbouring clubs came tonight taking adavantage of the cheap ticket offer, lets hope they were impressed

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:03 pm  

headhunter wrote:

Really? I can't remember any ground developments taking place in 2007, but I might be wrong.

IIRC We did the pitch and floodlights the year before and bought the golf stand on gaining promotion.
The East stand extension followed a year later.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:06 pm  

Michael_Ward wrote:

Sorry, didn't realise there were stipulations on how to achieve these goals. Is it only Supermarket funded facilities that count?

No, but what you posted is totally inconsequential to anything since Leigh Centurions don't own the stadium and AFAIK aren't involved in its construction or maintenance.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:15 pm  

headhunter wrote:

No, but what you posted is totally inconsequential to anything since Leigh Centurions don't own the stadium and AFAIK aren't involved in its construction or maintenance.

Right. You fail to explain why that matters.

We've got great facilities and a secure tenancy. A different model was used to achieve the goal, as where could a club like Leigh possibly acquire the money to construct such a facility? It would have taken 20+ years of the clubs turnover to fund.

A club needn't heavily burden itself to get better facilities, and it was all conceived, planned and construction was begun during the P&R era.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:31 pm  

Michael_Ward wrote:

Right. You fail to explain why that matters.

We've got great facilities and a secure tenancy. A different model was used to achieve the goal, as where could a club like Leigh possibly acquire the money to construct such a facility? It would have taken 20+ years of the clubs turnover to fund.

A club needn't heavily burden itself to get better facilities, and it was all conceived, planned and construction was begun during the P&R era.

Yeah, so it's completely inconsequential to the thread. It's about as relevant as claiming that the DW Stadium and KC Stadium are also victories for P&R. Good for Leigh, the council built them a stadium, that's great but it has nothing to do with a club like Featherstone investing in infrastructure and development rather than short-term on-field success.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:38 pm  

headhunter wrote:

Yeah, so it's completely inconsequential to the thread. It's about as relevant as claiming that the DW Stadium and KC Stadium are also victories for P&R. Good for Leigh, the council built them a stadium, that's great but it has nothing to do with a club like Featherstone investing in infrastructure and development rather than short-term on-field success.

Not to mention that Featherstone will own and run their improved stadium and therefore stand to benefit financially in the long run.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:08 am  

ThePrinter wrote:

And would this have happened if we stuck to promotion and relegation?

Who knows, but they did build a 2000+ seat stand back in the days of P&R.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:29 am  

It didn't look anything like that big a crowd on tv.

Re: Fev Rovers looking promising : Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:37 am  

Mr Dog wrote:

Who knows, but they did build a 2000+ seat stand back in the days of P&R.

Not the only thing they developed at the stadium when P & R was in existence.

They improved the disabled facilities, built a study centre amongst other countless things.