O/T News : Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:16 pm  

http://www.therfl.co.uk/home/news_item_top.php?id=19263

http://www.therfl.co.uk/home/news_item_top.php?id=19263

Re: O/T News : Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:09 pm  

So Widnes its then

Re: O/T News : Fri Oct 08, 2010 6:06 pm  

It looks like a one horse race when you read the average attendances for 2010 of the clubs who have been sent an application form to be considered for a Super League licence
The minimum crowd critera is the applicants must have a minimum average home attendance of no less than 2500 during season 2009 or 2010

Featherstone 1932
Barrow 1823
Widnes 3147
Halifax 2364
Batley 1456

[Jemmo]

Re: O/T News : Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:43 pm  

I thought Halifax had managed to get their average over 2500 by some creative accounting when they played Batley, where an extra 5 million people were reported as attending *exageration

[Wanderer]

Re: O/T News : Mon Oct 11, 2010 3:41 pm  

Jemmo wrote:

I thought Halifax had managed to get their average over 2500 by some creative accounting when they played Batley, where an extra 5 million people were reported as attending *exageration

Yes, I thought they had too.

Re: O/T News : Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:29 pm  

If they do manage to fiddle the attendance criteria.

They will fail on the rule that says each applicant must have a stadium with an operational capacity of 10.000
the capacity at the New Shay is 6561

[Jemmo]

Re: O/T News : Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:04 pm  

According to wikipedia it's capacity is over 10,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shay That might have been before the stand was finished

According to wikipedia it's capacity is over 10,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shay That might have been before the stand was finished

Re: O/T News : Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:30 pm  

The offical AFC Halifax web site posted the following on August 17th 2010

South Stand 3211
Skirtcoat Stand 2330
North Stand 1020

Total Capacity 6561

Re: O/T News : Tue Oct 12, 2010 9:13 am  

Are there not four sides to a football/rugby ground?

Re: O/T News : Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:52 pm  

formerlyseuseuwho? wrote:

Are there not four sides to a football/rugby ground?

At some of the games that are televised they often only use three sides of the ground & in some instances they only use one or two sides of the ground