St Helens Town are at a level where they should be playing at an 18000 capacity stadium. 180 would be fine.

Perhaps Saints could arrange for a local pitch to be rented for them instead and put a basic club house/ticket office and stand in. I'm thinking a fence around a pitch with a carpark, plus a couple of portakabins here, nothing too elaborate.

Something about the size of LSH ground would do them.

Would you have the same opinion if any grants like Sports Council have to be repaid immediately, there most be ways of running the stadium less than £5,000 per game and the idea behind a lot of stadiums were the community gets involved is for it to be used as much as possible.

The stadium is already being involved in the community. The second St Helens 10K charity run is starting and ending at the stadium. I can't imagine Saints charging Ste Prescott for the privilege somehow.

You'll get some problems with any new build. Disappointing I know but it'll be forgotten once you attend for the first time. As I've said before, LP will become the best purpose built RL stadium in the country. It looks great and I for one can't wait to visit.

You'd have thought so, and as a community stadium such funding issues should have been foreseen prior to the build.

This is not a new problem.

perhaps if we give them the opportunity to play there it will give them a better profile and get better players then more will watch and they can pay their way. nothing wrong with another sport doing well in the town.

anyone got pictures of the club crests that went up on the south stand yesterday?

they were bare white this morning with only the writing on ill try and pop in on my way home and get some pictures if they are complete

There is everything wrong with soccer doing well anywhere! We gave them ten years for free. If they can't build up adequate support in that time with no rental to pay then they aren't going to do it now. There are plenty of soccer clubs in the region. We're a rugby town. For me they can go and find somewhere else to play.

well said SaintsFan

What sounds like a hurricane has just blown into St Helens. I wonder how our stadium roof will cope?

I bet it's flooded after a squall like that.

you need to get your facts right, they never played for free, and you will find that we got a grant from sport england, which we got on the back of using the stadium for the benifit of the community. personally i think we should use it for more things, as long as they dont wreck the pitch, anything which benifits the town is good

Since it is Saints who have stated that they played for free then if you don't mind I will believe the club on that one. And yes, I know we got a grant from Sport England because we allowed them to play at KR for free. Whether we got money from Sport England is irrelevant to whether they paid rent or not. They still paid no rent.