Favourites

Stade des Minimes, Toulouse. Great atmosphere with the brass band playing. The most amazing half time hotdogs I've ever had. Even the journey to the ground on the driverless Toulouse Metro was something to behold. Shame it was £5 a pint.

Mount Pleasent, Batley. Nice big area around the back of the main stand for fans to have a beer together. I love the quirkyness the massive slope gives the place, like the stand that has half a dozen more rows at the halfway line than at the top of the hill.

Least Favourites

Halliwell Jones, Warrington. Looks like it was picked out of an IKEA catalogue, just boring, identikit and soulless, ran out of beer when I was there last which is unforgiveable.

Catalogue Stadium, Br*dford. A big hole with terracing in the bigger hole that is Odsal which is in the even bigger hole that is Br*dford.

whats your favourite away grounds. describe them all then rate them out of 10.

odsal (bradford) - Good for parking, good atmosphere 7/10

stade gilbert brutus (catalans) - Not been

the racecourse (cru) - Not been

the jungle (cas) Great atmosphere, good banter with the home fans 8/10

headingly (leeds) Great atmosphere, been rained on a few times though 9/10

galpharm (hudds) Good atmosphere, shame there aren't more home fans after the achievements of their team 7/10

kc stadium (hull fc) Great atmosphere, fantastic if we win (obviously) 8/10

new craven park (hull kr) Home - great for us, needs improving north and south stands for home/away fans

saints - Had good (not many) and bad times here, sad to see the traditional grounds go hope the new stadium (looks good) will keep the same atmosphere 7/10

the stoop (quins) Not been

halliwell jones (wire) Great for the play off final in 2006, great ground still 9/10

dw stadium (wigan) Love it! Good parking. Great view. Always take a few and sing our heads off 9/10

the willows (salford) Old ground close to the pitch, another old traditional ground still enjoy going 6/10

belle vue (wakey) my least favorite for atmosphere and view but again still enjoy going 5/10

I actually preferred the ground at Blagnac rather than Minimes, though that might be to do with the novelty of watching a game on some decking above a flowerbed

Associating Warrington with Ikea? Er...actually, you're right.

The beer problem happens fairly frequently, but then it's also happened to us both times I've been to Salford and on my one trips to Knowsley Road.

- dump (3/10)



I have rated on the basis of I don't give a toss if there are baby changing facilities, carpets in the bog, al a carte restaraunts or any other fancy gimmick, I rate on whether I enjoy WATCHING rugby in them. Cas for me has always been my favourite place to go for away games and I will mourn the day they move to a 'clinic'

odsal (bradford) -
Complete shiit-tip. No atmosphere and far too big for what it's needed for. The council ought to rent it out for landfill, and use the cash to build a new ground.

stade gilbert brutus (catalans) -
Never been. But I don't like it because it's French, and too far away.

the racecourse (cru) -
Not bad, actually, and close to the town centre, so handy for the post match booze up, for which Wrexham comes very highly recommended, particularly if you're a single bloke.

the jungle (cas)
Never been, for some reason. Not sure why. Never got around to it.

headingly (leeds)
Marvellous ground. Good selection of pubs round the ground, the food and beer aren't all that bad. Corporate facilities are good as well, and the on site hotel is fabulous, and not only for the eight free cans of ale that were left for me, compliments of the management.

galpharm (hudds)
Can't stand the place. A nothing stadium in a nothing town, ocupied by two nothing teams. Boring.

kc stadium (hull fc)
Great ground, but the pies are rubbish. You can't half tell the council own it - it's full of rules and regs, and the staff are over-zealous as hell, as evidenced by the jobsworth who refused entry to a long-established RLFANS user for being drunk, by giving him some politically correct diatribe about him being a risk to not only himself, but other stadium users. Conversely, at the DW, the steward would simply say "eff off, yer p155ed, yer not comin in". Very pretty blue lighting around where the roof meets the rear wall.

new craven park (hull kr)
Clearly a shoe-string effort that looks a lot older than it is. Built in 1987 I believe, but looks about the same age as the Willows. In 1987 it was perfectly possible, for instance, to build a cantilever stand, yet they chose to support the roof using steel uprights IN FRONT OF the seats!

the stoop (quins)
Never been.

halliwell jones (wire)
Smashing. Little. Ground. The two pint pots are inspired; even the women like them - one particuularly dim specimen near me was particularly excited as she shouted to her husband "ooooo! Look at the SIZE of them pints!"

dw stadium (wigan)
Better than people - Wiganers included - give it credit for. Sort the pies out, and reinstate some terracing when Latics get relegated, and it will be as damn near perfect as you'll get.

the willows (salford)
I really like it, in a 'going back in time' sort of way. Awful burgers.

belle vue (wakey)
Like the Willows, and a conspicuous-by-its-absence Knowsley Hole, you get a damn good atmosphere despite the lack of facilities.

Don't think thats very fair. Have you had a balti pie yet

The RFL should read this thread, it's quite evident people don't actually care about new stadiums as long as you can watch the game and have a pint

Headingley. Love the area, old fashioned stadium mixed with new, good atmosphere.

The Crumbling Terrace is probably the worst accommodation on offer to visiting fans anywhere in Super League (bar KR's option of some scaffolding or some crumbling terracing in the next county, where you can't even see the pitch from)

Fully agree with this - appalling view on the West Terrace IMO - can barely see the corners. Parking is pretty rubbish too. Inexplicably though Leeds v FC is the first game I look for when fixtures are released.

Except for the huge fairground area next to it that can park thousands of cars, as well as the actual stadium car park itself.

Other than that, no. You can't park anywhere near the ground

So that's two he's got wrong so far then …