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Sheffield’s Stadium - any updates?
Jill Halfpenny fan replied to welshmagpie's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Is this the same ground they were playing at a couple of seasons back? -
I think you've slightly misunderstood me. I wasn't moaning about travel distances, just that as a heartland club with nearly a quarter of the other professional clubs within 35 miles then average round trips of 200 miles would seem unusual. As for next season, if we do meet up it's quite possible you'll be within a couple of miles of being our local derby, Halifax excepted.
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That's actually been done and the contestants won the jackpot.
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Sheffield’s Stadium - any updates?
Jill Halfpenny fan replied to welshmagpie's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Capacity for Widnes is 700, Widnes have 100 tickets. -
I suspect he means Monday night games when you could also chuck in Dewsbury. Strange thing about this league is Widnes only have one club within 50 miles of them and the average trek one way is 100 miles. With regards to the game I'd have preferred someone else to have the honour of opening the new stadium. Sheffield will be well up for it and Widnes can be pretty accommodating when it comes to not being party poopers. I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst.
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Hard as nails was Boxer. Terrific player. RIP.
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Attendances (Multiple Merged Threads)
Jill Halfpenny fan replied to The storm's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I'd be amazed if its more than 100 Jon. Last I heard no coaches were going, don't know if that's changed. -
Attendances (Multiple Merged Threads)
Jill Halfpenny fan replied to The storm's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Can't see Widnes taking many on Sunday. They've sucked all the enthusiasm out of us. I'd be looking at around £40 to £45 for ticket and petrol and tbh I'd probably get more pleasure flushing the money down the loo. -
Yesterday was dreadful, on the back of awful recent performance's against York, Newcastle and Leigh. Now rightly or wrongly Widnes fans believe they should be more than capable of competing with the vast majority of clubs in this division. Instead we are once again heading back to the wrong end of the table at an alarming rate of knots. Year after year we seem to get the recruitment wrong, we seem to have a particular fondness for signing forwards (and backs) who are too small or prone to injury. Batley monstered us all over the park yesterday. Now I'm obviously not privy to budgets but I'd be amazed if Batley (and quite a few others tbh) were spending more than Widnes. What I am pretty certain of is Batley are getting far better value from their spend than we are. From there we move to the teams performances, the first four wins may well have been against what turns out to be the weaker teams in the league but trust me, playing like we currently are we'd be lucky to have won any of them. Defensively we don't move forward giving bigger men more time to build up speed before they crash into our smaller players. thus we go back wards at an alarming rate. We spend the first half hour heroically defending the line before the dam breaks. From that point on its game over. With ball in hand we are no better, our forwards can't break the line, our backs are no better. On the odd occasions we do get to attack the opposition line our creativity is zero, though to be fair we usually manage to mess it up in the first couple of tackles so that does tend to reduce our options. Maybe it will improve when we get a few players back but I'm not holding my breath. For me personally, I did stay till the end yesterday, but only so I could boo them off.
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Thought Nigel Wiskar had some involvement with them.
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I thought that as well.