some fantastic memories from the good old days.......something that the modern day drum bangin booing RL fan will never experience, they were crap but a nice crap and added to the occasions

One of the things I do miss is the different food you used to get at different grounds. Now it is all soggy chips and plastic hotdogs. Couldn;t beat a cup of Bovril on a Feb Sunday, or pie and peas properly cooked, not microwaved. I used to buy burning hot gobstoppers form the sweet shop opposite old craven park and when it got so cold I'd lost feeling in my fingers I'd pop in a gobstopper and warm up!
Ah the good old days

i used to love the cups of tomato soup they did from the food van at Fartown - 30p and it was absolutely red hot and obviously burnt your mouth severely - but it was gorgeous when you finally cooled it down enough and was just what was needed in the cold winters of the late 80's !

Thirty pence for a cup of soup.... in the 1980's?

Yes - a polystyrene cup of soup for 30p !!

Ken Davey owned a tomato soup and polystyrene cup factory. Hence, his millions

Bit expensive isn't it?

I had heard you could by a 2 bedroomed terraced house in Ashenhurst for 30p back then.


Actually I think I would have chosen the soup too.

Ok.....strange person

I was as gutted as the next man when fartown went but it was for the best, it's terrace might have had the best view in the game but it was falling down

But now we've been in the Galpharm for over a decade, a generation has come to the Giants not ever having known that great old ground and its our home and now I have some great memories of great great games there.

I'll agree with the sentiment about food in new stadia which is ubiquitously overpriced and rubbish. Mind, it is at Most old ones now too...


Also, Leeds is the worst place in the game to watch RL.

No. The difference is I put it down to the fans.

If the fans wanted that kind of atmosphere then they would make it. They have moved to the new grounds and just don't bother anymore.

Knowsley road was my favourite ground to go to because of the atmosphere we would create there, but it was the fans who created that atmosphere and not the ground. The atmosphere was just as good last year at warrington.

Sounds like the food in the old stadia was grotesquely overpriced too if Huddersfield were charging 30p for a radioactively hot polystyrene cup of tomato soup back in the 1980's.

other than leigh every club that has moved to a new ground has had a massive increase in gates

further im sure corproate revenues have skyrocketed with the many corporates boxes new grounds have

no contest really

if english RL wanted to grow the quicker it got rid of old grounds, the better

and the process is almost complete now with wigan, warrington, hull all having new grounds, craven park and headingly getting upgrades and saints, salford in the process of building new grounds

if you want memories open up a book

the game needs to attract more types than just middle aged men, and many familiies wouldnt go to those old c%%pholes

i read so many good things about those old grounds, and only saw black and white photos which made them look better

those colour photos were terrible

I don't think anyone i ssuggesting we go back to crumbling terraces! Call it nostalgia, call it poor memory or remembering the good old days, but there was something special about some of the old grounds and the atmopsphere did seem to be better than the new stadiums. MAybe it was due to standing and being packed together, maybe because it was winter and you tried to keep warm who knows.

Besides as a fan of old grounds in the NRL I thought you'd be right into grounds out of the last century!

It would be great if you could have the best of both like at Headingly but the game has to move on. I still say that the fans make the atmosphere though.

yeah i understand the emotion over history ...

but i want to see RL as strong as it can be

new grounds are going to play a big part of the games growth

and even our traditional grounds have received lots of money being upgraded

eventually there might not be a place in the nrl for small grounds as crowds get too big for them, other than the odd nostalgia type game

ive heard lots of good things about station rd, but in reality it was a tip

so was tattserfield

lets be honest here, im sure you as a KR fan are happy with the improvements to Craven Park and look forward to further improvements.

lets get as many new fans as possible coming, including families and kids

these old grounds are intimidating for new fans to go too

the games future is more than the middle aged male demographic

we need much more kids, and women to attend games as well

edit : for example is wigans fans nostalgia for central park the ground or the team they had from the mid 80s to earlu 90s?

if they had that team today playing at the JJB what would the atmosphere be like

the jjb is a fantastic stadium tbh