And well done the franchising in Wales. Don't forget that. It's important.

i cant help wondering were franchising would be without local govenment money.

Dunno but Fax would be out on their ar[is[/ie.

Up Calderdale Council i say !!!

Just out of interest looking at those pictures from France , they seem to build stadia differently to us , they raise up the seats higher to give a better view , whereas we tend to have seats right down to pitch level , the only stands like that over here that I can think of is the one at New Craven Park , and a stand at Ashton Gate , Bristol

We're too fat to climb the stairs.

Or your legs are too short

The two permanent stands at Hamilton Academical are above pitch level. In fact, it'd make a great venue for Scotland RL games.

The front row at the Reebok is also above pitch level by the way, but that was to allow for capacity increases rather than a better view. Certainly nowt close to how much higher some of the French grounds are though (great for hanging flags as well!)

Aye, because putting local government money into developing professional rugby league isn't going to come back into the community economy in the future.

its a great idea putting money into local sports,
but propping up franchising in SLE ?.

Cheers, that looks really intimidating being right over the pitch with steep seating, should be a great atmosphere.

Ok, here's what a council (and anyone with common sense) sees.

If they invest £xm now, the long term stability of this SL Franchise will bring in £xm over anything from 3 -> infinite years. Shall we invest?

The answer is, they'd be f***ing stupid not to.

That is probably what our council thought when asked to underwrite the LSV , they probably looked around , saw all these old decrepid stadiums , listened to the RFL stating that the licencing proccess would be done fairly , and thought , if we build this they will put us in SL

Problem is the council obviously dont know that Red Hall is full of bull sh17

www.hullkr.co.uk/article.php?id=1417 piks of hull kr's north stand

www.hullkr.co.uk/article.php?id=1417 piks of hull kr's north stand

Starbug, you know very well that the issue of franchising hadn't even been raised when your council decided to invest in LSV. Are you ever going to lose the chip on your shoulder?