Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:05 am  

Well both Dewsbury and Hunslet were refused entry to Superleague due to stadium issues including capacity and seating etc as well as lack of attributable finance so a precedent has been well set.

Castleford and Wakefield have been constantly threatened with demotion if they don’t deliver a new ground and either London who’s ground looks like something you’d play on at a sports centre 3,000 capacity and Toronto who have barrier less terraces (sorry they ain’t seats), looks like it is only part constructed, a crazily marked pitch, less than 10,000 capacity and nothing behind the goals will get automatically promoted?

Oh I forget RL has a life changing North American TV deal??

Sorry but Fred Carno’s Circus looks more sensible than this and don’t say London will rent a ground when needed or Toronto will play there games in The UK.

All this and one team that can’t play at home for almost a quarter of the season... and they said you can’t replace the Chuckle Brothers

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:03 pm  

Scroll down the link below which lists of populations of UK towns & cities and you will see how many there are with populations above 50,000 that dont have a professional Rugby League team. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countr ... on/cities/

Scroll down the link below which lists of populations of UK towns & cities and you will see how many there are with populations above 50,000 that dont have a professional Rugby League team. http://worldpopulationreview.com/countr ... on/cities/

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:56 pm  

Never mind the surroundings, that pitch they play on should not be allowed in SL. They should be made to change the markings. And it’s very questionable whether that pitch is wide enough!

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:07 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

Never mind the surroundings, that pitch they play on should not be allowed in SL. They should be made to change the markings. And it’s very questionable whether that pitch is wide enough!

Anfield pitch wasnt to RL and international requirements, do you think the rfl will question toronto on that?


as for fans complaining about the rain, did clubs like bradford in their glory days get 18000 fans into the seating stand? no



stop grasping at straws and looking for faults, it is what it is....get on with it

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:15 pm  

GeoffRoebuck wrote:

The question was does the Lamport Stadium meet the required minimum standards criteria issued by the RFL

Lamport has been approved by the RFL for Super League, with some modifications. I don't personally know what those mods are, but Lamport is in a fantastic location in the city and one of the main reasons we can attract so many fans. Speculate all you like, but if we make SL we're staying at Lamport, end of.

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:17 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

Never mind the surroundings, that pitch they play on should not be allowed in SL. They should be made to change the markings. And it’s very questionable whether that pitch is wide enough!

It's a brand new G4 pitch. Ask the players, they'll tell you it's way better than the pitch at Widnes, who also play in SL. Oh wait ...

Lamport is a community pitch used by local sports teams for football and lacrosse as well as rugby. Just stop moaning about the markings, we can't change them as long as the city owns the ground.

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:22 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

I suppose if it a problem in the future there are alternatives available in Toronto not that I think it will be the case it’s the pitch I don’t like with all the different markings it reminds me of school

Wolfpack will tell you that they've looked at all the possible alternatives. They looked at renting BMO Field early in the season and would have had to pay an astronomical rental fee. There's nothing remotely close to downtown that is affordable to rent and that has the right kind of goalposts (that is, not gridiron goalposts.) Wolfpack have recently said that they are staying at Lamport and will make improvements if required, working with the city of Toronto who own it.

Wolfpack aren't going to move to a rugby ground 30 miles out of town and dump all their downtown fan base in order to satisfy UK TV viewers who don't like the pitch markings.

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:56 pm  

pandamonium wrote:

It's a brand new G4 pitch. Ask the players, they'll tell you it's way better than the pitch at Widnes, who also play in SL. Oh wait ...

Lamport is a community pitch used by local sports teams for football and lacrosse as well as rugby. Just stop moaning about the markings, we can't change them as long as the city owns the ground.

Hull City and Wigan Athletic are made to paint over the football markings on their pitch before Hull and Wigan can play rugby on them.

That pitch in Toronto looks bloody terrible and is a distraction to what’s going on in the game.

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:16 pm  

Psychedelic Casual wrote:

Hull City and Wigan Athletic are made to paint over the football markings on their pitch before Hull and Wigan can play rugby on them.

That pitch in Toronto looks bloody terrible and is a distraction to what’s going on in the game.

It's not paint, it's coloured plastic. We would have to rebuild the pitch every game. The players don't have any trouble with the markings and nor should you.

Re: Toronto Lamport Stadium : Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:52 pm  

pandamonium wrote:

It's not paint, it's coloured plastic. We would have to rebuild the pitch every game. The players don't have any trouble with the markings and nor should you.

In the recent game v Widnes a kick went up in the air and the Widnes winger planted his foot behind the goal line to take it on the full for a 20m restart, only it wasn't the try line but some sort of Lacrosse end of pitch line about 1m in front of the try line. I wouldn't say that was the players coping with it.

On the Widnes pitch they manage to "paint" over the other lines on it before each game, be that football or rugby, surely Toronto can do the same?