Someone has just realised Odsal costs a lot to maintain, must let Marc Green know. As stated above, we need to get promoted this year so the cost of a f/t squad and Odsal means prices are at this level. we aren't Leeds were outside income other than that of rugby goes well towards keeping s/t prices lower

Really? There did not look anything like that but not too bad then if true.

I apologise then.

Ok I get that. I just still feel that there were probably better options other than just a sole owner and that's were the Bulls future could have grown from. Hey ho I guess that's all been put to bed and RFL got what they wanted in the end.

I suppose and hopefully, the Bulls will be the team everyone will want to turn over and be a draw for visiting teams. I will pick and choose and pay on the gate.

ps If Hudds had 6k plus I am happy to apologise too

According to Sky, they moved all the speccies out of one stand into another due to the lighting failure. Most fans were in the Kilner Bank stand, behind the main cameras.

No need to apologise to me. One annoyance on forums (don't think we have any on RAB) is the arrogant Attendance Knowall who usually wasn't there, much les counted anything, or has any rational basis to dispute, yet "knows" what the "true" attendance was "for a fact" and will not hear of any contrary view. If you provided them with a video of every punter going through every turnstile, and let them count and check the gate takings, they would dismiss and ignore it as a fake on a par with the Moon landings which they also believe were fake.

It's one of those weird internet afflictions that are sadly endemic. They usually make a higly sarcastic post about the official attendance, on a "How do those stupid folk at X Stadium possibly think they could pull the wool over MY eyes" basis.

They never explain why all the clubs and the RFL would want to declare, and thus pay tax on, people who never bought a ticket. I just find it sad and pathetic.

We're arrogant attendance know alls about other people's crowds. I've burnt through five accounts on Huddersfield's crowds alone.

Other than that though we're pretty chill about it.

My idea was with the new stadiums, they just fit a thin screen to every backrest, if your seat is in the upright position, it automatically switches on the screen and plays a video of you. I have no idea why this hasn't yet caught on.

I've never worked out why they build stadiums with great banks of seats all in the same colour. When the ground is only a quarter full it's just so obvious and looks plain awful. If they put in seats in lots of random colours it wouldn't look anything like so bad.

I thought the uniform seat colouring was to make it easier for refs and touch judges to spot off-sides and forward passes?

I thought uniform seating was done because it was cheaper than having a bunch of different colours

To be honest, apart from the fact that, in a totally empty ground, it is quite aesthetically pleasing, I thought was done to incorporate logos into the stadium design, which does look OK of course, and it also allows the ground to be identified from the air, so it must also be an important aid to navigation for the pilots of low flying jets...

I'd have guessed that the pigments used in the mix to form the colours would be generally the same, to be fair though, but I don't know.

Quote: Bulliac "I've never worked out why they build stadiums with great banks of seats all in the same colour. When the ground is only a quarter full it's just so obvious and looks plain awful. If they put in seats in lots of random colours it wouldn't look anything like so bad.'" There's a couple of stadiums with random seating colours for this reason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1d ... _de_Aveiro en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothie_King_

Quote: Bulliac "I've never worked out why they build stadiums with great banks of seats all in the same colour. When the ground is only a quarter full it's just so obvious and looks plain awful. If they put in seats in lots of random colours it wouldn't look anything like so bad.'" There's a couple of stadiums with random seating colours for this reason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Est%C3%A1d ... _de_Aveiro en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothie_King_

If they painted faces on the seats & played the piped music from the late 80s you wouldn't need to open the ground to species.

Which species are you most concerned about?

I once planted trees at Holmewood. They were a strange breed - the people, not the trees.