So you;d sacrifice consistency for two or three games? And also the inevitable trouble that comes with it. IIRC, the HJ host Liverpool reserves, and they had nothing but trouble a couple of years ago.



I'd settle for 4k union fans over 300 football fans.

There will be a definate lack of interest in St Helens - jeez its hard enough getting the public off their ar5e to watch Saints when they have been top of the tree. I know I for one wouldnt be remotely interested. Not sure that masses will follow over from Sale if they make a move - are their current crowds particularly big ?

7 - 8,000

They are averaging about 6,000 I think and I went on the Sale forum and a lot of them said they would not go to watch them if they came to St.Helens so what would their average crowds be like then,4,000 tops if that.

So you reckon that Liverpool playing the likes of Utd,City,Everton,Chelsea,Arsenal etc would only attract 300 football fans,don't think so mate more like probably 3-4 thousand.

What good would that coverage do us? None. If Sale RU fans wanted to come and watch RL more would have done so following the cross code games we have played against them.

We'd benefit from rent charged but that would be it. And they'd destroy the pitch.

They didn't get 3-4,000 when they played at KR. What's different now?

Even if they did, that's two games a season Utd and Everton. The rest would have 300-400 like they did last tiime they played at St Helens. They don't play Arsenal and Chelsea IIRC at that level.

It depends on whether you look for the potential opportunity, or the negetive.

If you don't seek the opportunity, it will not seek you.

I don't see opportunity bar rental income.

I can't see them being tied into a deal where we receive a ldecent amount of their hospitality income, which it would need to be to be worthwhile.

You are probably right but to get back to the point I just don't want anything to do with union at our new stadium.
Like you have said if they did play union at the new stadium it would rip the pitch to pieces so no thanks.

Have you seen the state of football pitches mid season?

To be honest I don't want any team but Saints playing on the pitch.

Good idea. We'll win every game 80-0

You know what I mean and if we do win 80-0 every home game I would be happy with that.
It would be a mixture of Ian Millward/Daniel Anderson era combined,best of both worlds.

football is much harder on pitches than either code of rugby because it is concentrated around the penalty areas, with pathetic sliding tackles, both codes of rugby use all of the pitch, so it would be in better condition.