Just a bump to this website [urlhttp://www.calderdale.gov.uk/leisure/venues/shay/index.html[/url as I for one forgot it was there. Didn't realise it had monthly updates on it either, not to mention ShayCam!

I didn't either. The updates are good.

Can't wait for the update: Opening of the East stand.

I've learnt a new word from it as well!



Vomitory (or vomitorium) - a passageway in an ancient Roman amphitheatre that connects an outside entrance to a tier of seats.

No prizes for guessing what I thought it was.

Does that mean we have seen the end of hotdogs and hamburgers and they will be replaced by strolling vendors shouting "Lark's tongues. Wolf nipple chips, get 'em while they're hot".

Just out of question. Does anyone know the expected finish date of the stand? I know it says October 2009 but it would be great if we could get a play off game in it.

And

Does anyone know the capacity of the stand. With the big amount cut out it doesnt look as though it will hold as many as the Skirtcoat stand.

3500

Think it might just be big enough

If they go ahead, later, and close the Skirtcoat stand for re-furbishment, which is likely to then take 8 years, will the ground be big enough when we are playing Leeds / Bradford / St Helens at home in 2012?

i cant wait to reserve my seat in that stand

December 2009 if all goes to plan
February 2010 if they find an unexploded WWII bomb
April 2012 if they find the remains of Robin Hood and student Archeologists take over the site.

do you reckon the skircoaters will embrace it?

will the skircoat become really unpopular?????????

Oh yes..... I am a skircoater and I am really looking forward to the move.

1. It is freezing cold in the skircoat stand, even when the sun shines on everyone else.

2. There are posts in the way of your view and you end up leaning left and right over other people.

3. A lot of the seats are missing and its quite drab there.

That said we will have to go prepared into the East stand because the sun shines directly at this stand. Peaked caps and sunglasses are a must for every game. The club should make a point of this and get marketting their peaked caps.

good idea about the marketing, did you read this?
[urlhttp://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/mailbag/The-39Patience-is-a-virtue39.5100427.jp[/url

Does that mean we have seen the end of hotdogs and hamburgers and they will be replaced by strolling vendors shouting "Lark's tongues. Wolf nipple chips, get 'em while they're hot".

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No the we are the people's front of Judea!

Fair point - hadn't considered that!

That scenario would give the RFL another reason to exclude us from Pooper League

Haha I like that Life of Brian

Why is the East Stand called the East Stand when infact it faces South? Also the South Stand faces West. Anyone else notice this alarming fact?

Is this correct?

If so there IS ONLY one option. Pull down all the stands and put them in their correct cardinal points. If this jeopardizes our 2011 application then so be it.

Good job it's not a mosque.

Are you sure about that? All maps point north and it appears that all is correct if google maps points north too.

I think Tony has been on the pop

not bothered which way it faces, just get the thing finished

surely its common sence? its not where it faces it just where it is



north stand to the north side of pitch

Exactly! So if google maps face north, then the stands are in the right place.

the popular peoples front of Judea?

Splitters!!