Me and a few friends decided we would have a meal at the shay yesterday for the first time in a long time (certainly since Karl Harrison took over) and I have to say it was a fantastic day.

I know the result helped but the food was fantastic, little extras such as post match pies etc are a nice touch

Pete Emmet does a great job and was very funny yesterday

One of the main changes since the days of Hall and Calland etc is that all the players and the coach came into the bar, mingled with guests and gave interviews etc - this simply did not happen under the old regime, for me this is a vital part of what I am paying for as a hospitality guest, I want to be able to speak to the players and listen to what the coach has to say

Anyway, a great day, good value and will book again soon

Great stuff - I'm glad you enjoyed it. We are very proud of our match day experience. The food is first class and Karl Harrison always comes in to speak to the fans, win, lose or draw! All the players come in and mingle with the fans and you can always get photographs and autographs.

Interviews are also carried out with the man of the match and the hit man so you always get to see a side to the players that you might not have seen before. We also do interviews with 2 or 3 players that are injured or not selected during the pre match entertainment.

We also get special guests in too and they are interviewed, the other week I had a chat with Karl Fairbank, Mick Scott and Paul Dixon - the fans loved listening to the stories of their playing days.

Hope to see you again, oh and thanks for the compliment - I usually just get verbal abuse!!

Our turn on Sunday.

I thought I would just add my thoughts onto this thread as I too ate in the banqueting suite on Sunday for the Barrow CC game and it was superb . We were a party of 10 and some of the party had not been to watch Halifax play for several years (some were latent season ticket holders)and they all enjoyed it . They thought the food was really good and enjoyed the atmosphere as there was a special buzz about the place due to the Wombat Roadshow being in town .
They thought Pete was hilarious and had them in stitches (but to be fair they were laughing before he even opened his mouth ).The rugby on the field was first class so all in all a good day out , they were surprised however at the size of the crowd and I suppose if you havn`t been for years that is something that will hit you . The ones who used to go home and away every match said they stopped going because of Summer rugby as they have just too much to do to fit rugby in as well.The others were golfers which I can relate to as sometime my hubby is reluctant to finish a match early to go down to the Shay but he does it.
They all said they would come back again and it topped the day off for them when Graham Eadie came over to shake their hands as they were leaving .
Eadie the poster is so right , it`s part of the package to mix with the players after the match as it is quite expensive but to me it is not so much how much it costs it`s wether it`s value for money or not and I would say that now it is.
Everyones favourite joke of the day came from Pete and he was talking about Roy Dickenson geting some new teeth ,which set everybody off laughing so Pete says" No don`t laugh, a donkeys had to die for him to get them" So if anyone wants to treat themselves it`s well worth it but equally if you can encourage anyone to come down to watch a match on the terraces then please do so let`s try to build the crowd up again.

Linda, tell John to start hitting the golf ball straighter & walk a bit faster to his next shot & he should finish earlier.

You see, I can give golfing tips as well as RL.

Mention of tips there ( deliberately ) anyone notice who won last week's ( this monday's edition ) Leage-weekly SL tipping comp with 6/7 correct predictions ?

If it was up to me I would ban golf alltogether ,it`s anti social they always come home in a bad mood.
Oh by the way we think we`ve tied your Jimbo up for the Summer Bash if we can drag him away from Grange over Sands.
I havn`t seen the tipping comp in fact I don`t even buy a rugby paper now.

Can we throw wet sponges at him ?

I was told there'd be a 'photo of son No.2 in this week's lifting the Yorkshire colleges cup, cost me £3 for the both papers & not a chuffing sausage !!!!

Should av gon tu spek safers.

Well you`ll have to get in the Q for throwing wet sponges " form an orderly line please".
First in line all them he red carded.

I dreaded paying the milk when he'd reffed any of the Fairbank lads the week before