Quote: jeffvickers "Any news? Is it going to be fixed? Surely it can't cost much to re-lay cement & fittings + install some breeze block toilets. Halifax Town are only 3 games away from a possible tie with a Premier League Club! Would be a shame to see an empty North Stand for this, plus there is the Huddersfield RLFC deal for 2011.'" I wonder what Town are going to do for the Mansfield FAC match with the away fans? I know it will cost a few quid for the Council to fix the North Stand but I really hope they look at the long term picture, with a fully open North Stand the Shay can bid for RL World Cup 2013 games:- www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... d_Cup.html Why not it is a RL town and would draw a decent gate. Plus Huddersfield Giants could play most of the SL clubs next season when they come down apart from maybe Leeds, Saints and Warrington down here. That would mean some significant income to pay for the works as they own the stadium now!

Quote: jeffvickers "Any news? Is it going to be fixed? Surely it can't cost much to re-lay cement & fittings + install some breeze block toilets. Halifax Town are only 3 games away from a possible tie with a Premier League Club! Would be a shame to see an empty North Stand for this, plus there is the Huddersfield RLFC deal for 2011.'" I wonder what Town are going to do for the Mansfield FAC match with the away fans? I know it will cost a few quid for the Council to fix the North Stand but I really hope they look at the long term picture, with a fully open North Stand the Shay can bid for RL World Cup 2013 games:- www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... d_Cup.html Why not it is a RL town and would draw a decent gate. Plus Huddersfield Giants could play most of the SL clubs next season when they come down apart from maybe Leeds, Saints and Warrington down here. That would mean some significant income to pay for the works as they own the stadium now!

As for Mansfield supporters I would guess they will go in the Skircoat.

Oh and the Council have owned the stadium since the late 80's.

Russia and Lebanon are unlikely to meet in the WC. The 11 seeded teams are
England
Australia
NZ
PNG
France
Samoa
Tonga
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
Fiji

Another Nation rumoured to be Cook islands due to getting to pacific Final after beating Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. However still to be confirmed

Then there are 2 places that will be open to 2 Nations that have qualified. As I understand it they will be
Then Europe (Serbia, Russia, Lebanon and Italy) will have 1 to make it
Then RoW (USA, S. Africa, Jamaica) will see 1 make it

As a man who lives in t'udders, and practically lives in Halifax, I love the place, and really back you to get into SL next season, as FCHT aren't ever going to get the place buzzing like it is when the RL team's doing well, the town'd respond to Super League, I know it!

Why don't Marshalls help provide some free materials and am sure some local builders would be happy to carry out some work for nought

I think it would be a good idea getting a local firm involved like Marshalls, however i think it would be wrong to expect them to do it for nothing. If they carried out the work, the stand could be named after them for a set period (sponsorship).
I think the council is really missing a trick here, maybe the stands names should be sponsored, we already have the Southdale Stand and even the rename the ground aswell. I know i maybe shot down in flames by our football fans here, but bigger clubs status wise and financial than both of our clubs have renamed there grounds. It just makes economic sense. People may say Liverpool wont change the name Anfield and Manchester Utd wont change Old Trafford, but you are talking massive clubs that generate more money per game than both our teams put together, they have no need. Clubs who do need the money have done.

I agree with Naming the Stands that sounds like a good Idea to me, However changing the Name from the Shay is not something i think should be looked at, It is and always will be the Shay in my eyes, Home to the MIGHTY FAX !! and i football team, Apparently !!

I know its a difficult one, sentiment, emotional attachment all tug on them heart strings, to say no its The Shay and will always be, and yes i will always know it as The Shay. But sentiment aside it makes commercial sense to get someone to sponsor the ground. I dont think the council are in a position not to explore every avenue, to help the stadium be self sufficient.
If having all the stands named and having a new stadium name (not the new shay, worse name ever) goes somewhere to help develop the skircoat stand so the ground is completed, then its a scarifice i am prepared to make.

Sadly Calderdale Council and Commercialism do not go in the same breath mate.
But maybe in the new world they may have to do?
We can only hope eh?