NickD

Been past ground. Seats still red, amber and black

I’m afraid that bit is almost certainly true. MS suggested it was a combination of running their own business and the arrival of babies, the combination of which meant training four nights a week was just too much. Fully understandable for me.

I believe the freehold is held by Kirklees. Maybe a bit of confusion.... Historically, the leasehold for the FLAIR Stadium (Crown Flatt) site was held exclusively by Dewsbury Rams RLFC (Holdings) Limited. [1] However, under the major stadium redevelopment and groundshare agreement announced in August 2026, control of the stadium assets and the long-term lease has been transferred to Ken Davy and the Davy family

We don’t know the new structure as yet. Maybe we will after today. But yesterday MS suggested one possibility was a Yorks / Lancashire split with play offs at the end of the league round.

Agree and it was slightly worrying to hear PM talk about needing ONE half back . That said, they are like gold dust of course. As someone said last night though half backs need a strong pack so your first point about 3 big lads is probably even more important.

Our tackling ?

Absolutely. And that’s why it’s such a good deal. Having our own ground was crippling us financially. Did you not hear that bit? From now on we still get money coming in (guaranteed from Huddersfield) and have offloaded a massive amount of expense. Maybe it wont all be there to be spent on players but we will be “alive” Win win win.

Well said Coolie

You must have been at a different forum to me. For a start we were told categorically that we would continue to have a heritage / mural section. We are not losing any income from the car boot / other commercial activities and will not have to pay the stadium costs. That’s gotta be a win? For me however the main point is that whatever happens in the future we will have the ability to play rugby at the ground for at Ieast 50 years and let’s face it, without this deal, we wouldn’t even be around in ten years. Hard to know if we will become a feeder club but I remain optimistic that this won’t be the case for a few years at least And, alongside all this we will have a far better stadium with the associated faculties and game day experience.

Takes a lot of stick form some Dewsbury fans but MS deserves a lot of credit for pulling this deal off and securing a future should anything happen to him. Can’t think of a single negative tonight.

It will be well received by me. we played 12 home games I think and won 3. Couldn’t care less who picks the team if it improves on that

First signs of jealousy creeping in. I’d expected it to happen a bit earlier. Could t care less. let’s get the whole stadium painted claret and gold if it helps our on field woes

anyone predicting the score

Some crazy voting if you check the Rams website (IMHO). Time to go back to voting at a game if you ask me......

I suspect he’ll be pretty lonely on the Saturday