Will this be open for Thursday or are we squashed in with your lot?

We're opening the stand for you - with trestle tables, bunting and party hats, copious amounts of lardy pies, pasties and suspicious looking meat. 8,000 cans of Londis lager are also up for grabs - first come first served.

All the above provided free of charge. Like Eddie & Stevo say - "It's just keeps getting better and better".

The North stand will not be open on Thursday 19th March 2009

really. they opend it last year for the match against widnes in the play off match and that was on a thursday what is different about this match.

i suspect they will bring the same amount as that game as well there simply wont be room for them in the south stand and the west stand will be a bit busy.

the way i see it they have no choose but to open the north stand.

malfax will know if its not been open, plus they would have to move the scoreboard again

I hope the Junior Barmy Army who caused a load of trouble outside after the last Widnes game don't turn up. Last thing we need with a potential big crowd with plenty of families seeing that scum.

Jeez - does that mean that i may face the prospect of standing next to Vikingman?

The North Stand will not be open for the Widnes game on Thursday 19th March. We have spoken to Widnes who have given us estimates of the travelling support - also Sky vehicles etc will be using the car park by the turnstiles for the North Stand therefore access will not be available to the public.

However we will be opening the North Stand for the non televised Widnes cup game on Friday 3rd April and also the multi storey car park behind that stand.

Booooo, squashed in with all the dodgy yorkshire folk.

well i trust there will be extra stewarding at the top of the stand?

Wonder how Widnes know just how many would come over on a Thursday as opposed to a Friday? Is it because most of their fans have sky & cant be d coming over?



fwiw, i'd imagine that there would be enough of them coming over to open up the North Stand on Thursday

wasnt the play off match last season on sky or am i mistaken.

although i can see why they need to put the sky people in the entrance to the north stand as the car park for the south stand seems to get smaller every time i go down there for a game.

No they all cancelled it when the franchise decisions were announced, They refuse to drink Irn Bru now and won't buy those new Super League Pies in Morrisons.

Come and have a cuddle!

Nobody better be leaning on my railing on Thursday or else

Is going to be very cramped in South Stand might actually get some crowd entusiasm towards my end for a change.

That happens all the time at Old Trafford whereby they close the Stretford End so Sky can park their vans

There was plenty of space to park the vans with about 30 mins to go on Saturday!!!

This was nothing to do with the any of our young lot they have read this and are hurt by the aligation it was infact the group of yobs who stand just behind us the same bunch that lobed the bottle at the salford fans please, please DONT use the name Barmy army when talking about them. Thanks

Usually the Sky vans go in the main car park, but as over half of it is shut they have to be parked elsewhere. I think a bit of disruption as the East Stand is finished is inevitable isnt it?

I would have thought in terms of crowd numbers there will be by far more people at the shay for the league match than the cup match. The CC matches seem to be a massive turn off for all clubs these days. If the North Stand is not really required for the league match, I don't see the point in opening it for the cup match.

I apologise in that case, mistaken idendity

They stand in and around that same area, should have called them the "burberry army".

In the case of the SKY vans, is it to do with the development of the East Stand that they have to use the North Stand?

Care to explain that remark. missus?

Nah lol, it's like the living dead where I stand usually

Dont worry about it Haighy I think the idiots you was on about tryed to tag along with us so easy mistake to make.

Why don't we put the Viking fans in the North End of the Skircoat Stand? Then it'll look full to the Sky Cameras?