We'd probably need two.
Might have to do that, from what I remember of St Helens there's not a great deal in the way of boozers around the ground.

If that was to happen and he did buy out the rugby league stadium,He would have a hell of a struggle on his hands to get planning permission to do any major building,judging by leeds rl having to modify the original plans for the Southstand,but who would he buy the cricket side from?I though YCC had already bought it from Caddick with the help of a big loan frm LCC

The new stadium is under 10 mins walk from the town centre and main railway station, where there are lots of pubs and even the odd restaurant or two

More adventurous types making a day of it could head to Liverpool, then get the 7pm train from Liverpool Lime street, this would get you to St.Helens central for about half past seven, 10 minutes to then stagger into the new ground and jobs a good un.

Moving forward a few years and the journey times from Liverpool are likely to drop to 15-20 mins because the line is being electrified. Hence Inter city trains will possibly stop at the station on journeys from Liverpool upto Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Something similar is happening of course on the Liverpool to Manchester line, which serves trans pennine trains, and both St.Helens Junction and Lea Green railway stations sit on this line. They are within about 25 minutes walk from the new stadium, and if you dont fancy the walk there are plenty of buses that stop at the stations and which will pass by the new stadium on their way to the town centre bus station, which itself is again only 5-10 mins walk from the new ground.

Langtree Park is at the other end of town from Knowsley Road. The stadium is now about a 10 min walk (max) to the town centre where there are plenty of pubs and restaurants. Especially Chinese restaurants, for some reason.

After leaving Uni my first job was working for Pilkington's in St Helens.
My digs were right at the back of Greenall Whitley's brewery in the middle of St Helens.
The stench on a Monday when they were brewing was dreadful especially if I'd had a skinful the night before.
I do hope for that reason that the brewery has now gone otherwise the ground might suffer from that whiff on a Friday evening.
Does "The Bears Paw" cafe still exist.
I spent ages looking for the "Burrs Paw" when I first went to St Helens.

PS I think the new ground looks really good & I'm looking forward to going there next season.

Do trains run till late on Friday & Saturday nights?

Its the British railway system. the trains always run late

Reminds me of the David Lammy quip he made in the house of commons a few years ago.

Irate passenger to driver: Can't you go any faster?
Reply: Yes madam but I'm not allowed to leave the train.

And I bet you remember Rothery Radio?

I always have to listen more intently to Sintelliners than I do with full blooded Scousers

It really does look a revelation,though.I think we are getting left behind now ..I wish GH and PC would get a move on and get Headingley up to scratch

Opposite the Urdu Centre. That's the barber's shop to you and me.

Blimey. You haven't been to St Helens for a very long time have you! The brewery was demolished decades ago and eventually turned into a bus station.

The Bears Paw as you knew it has long since gone too. As a child my parents used to take me and my sibs there for a fish'n'chip treat. Man, I have never tasted better fish'n'chips since. The building is still there and I don't know what it is at present. It was a bar at one point and it may have even been resurrected as the Bears Paw, I don't know as I don't tend to walk that way into town. But it isn't what it used to be anyway.

Pilkingtons are still around though. In fact, they are about to reinvest in the town for the second time in two years. Us Sintelliners had come to the sad conclusion that we were going to watch the last of our manufacturing industry disappear down the M6 but it seems it turned around and came back.

As for trains, don't even think about it if you're travelling from Leeds unless you plan to stay overnight in Sintellins. Unless you're coming from Liverpool or Wigan (or Manchester at a push) the connections are utter and total crap. Some bugger made the wrong turn in the 19th century and sent the main line to Warrington instead of Sintellins (and now we can't even get to Warrington, except for once an hour during in the day, although that could be seen as a blessing in some respects I suppose).

I also learned that, in my pre-car days, to get around I had to know where the buzz stopped.