Taken from the club site:

"If the BBC decide to film the game in the same manner as Sky generally do, the entire Skircoat stand will be unavailable for use"

In which case it could be incredibly hard to get a old of a ticket?

Will season ticket holders get priority? Should the club incentivise going to the previous home match by allowing those that do priority hands on a ticket?

Discuss

Not much to discuss just yet. There's a meeting between Fax and the BBC on Wednesday, and we'll find out the situation after that.

I take it that there's no chance of getting the North Stand sorted by then?

Why the hell should the BBC need to close a whole stand for their setup? I thought Sky only did it to force everyone into the South and East stands for effect.

It does sound like the North stand won't be available. I can't understand why they need to close the entire skircoat stand. It doesn't look good on us. Makes it look like we can't even manage to open 3 stands when cameras are there. And we'd be limiting capacity massively, also looking pretty bad

Would be the same situation with the camera gantry, although I'm surprised the Shay hasn't got a dedicated gantry already?

TV companies need to pull their finger out and think outside the box when filming at The Shay. What's so hard about sticking the main camera where the Club video goes and having interviews in a little hut in the bottom corner or something. If Halifax had 9,000 season ticket holder the Skircoat would be open and they'd have to do something then. If there's nothing wrong with the South, East and Skircoat then get fans in there and tell the TV lot to jog on.

I'm not sure if it's still the case, but in previous years the RFL have had access to a cherry picker where they have filmed from in lieu of a proper gantry, though I don't know enough of the layout behind the Skircoat as to whether that's an option.

Would it not be possible to build a gantry on the grass banking near to the offices next to the stairs?

That would solve the issue of a matchday studio but not necessarily where they would use for the main camera angle during the game.

We have a main camera gantry that we use for FAX TV which is why I don't get the fuss.

Have you seen the size of the entourage for a live broadcast though?

Does Nosey Parker still have that gig?

A camera's still a camera shirley?

The 'main camera angle' is just the one in the middle of the pitch and thus the one in the middle of the stand with the other angle ones down at pitch level.

Come on Matt we're all waiting ?

You generally need other camera positions along the same side as well, not just for the TV coverage but for the video referee as well.