Lovely ground, absolutely superb. Everything a new rugby league ground should be. The Saints Gold bitter was nice and less than £3 a pint - Salford/Azure take note. Just shows what can be done when you own and control everything.

Bit annoyed that the programmes sold out, but I suppose I should've got there earlier.

The stewards, police and toilet situation at the end was a joke. Apparently they can't tell the difference between a football crowd and rugby crowd, but hey ho. The copper eventually let me through to the loo after a couple of minutes of protesting. I really don't know what they thought would happen? Shame because up until then the stewarding had been really friendly.

Still, belting away day, I'm looking forward to future visits there.

Its a long time since I have been called young but I will entertain you.

The IRONY is the fact that your well established pitch is at best a beach at this time of year. Yes it is our 2nd game on the pitch but there were blowers on it for 2 nights which has the effect of drying it out the hence the less than green areas. I would suggest that our new pitch will show up on TV a damn site better than yours next Friday. So jog on yourself.

Yes, I was a bit bemused by being shepherded out along a line of stewards/police - completely unnecessary IMO

The poor grass on the pitch was explained in the pre amble on sky. Pitch was frozen to 18 inches, so we had to put heaters on it to get the match on and so it was burnt in places because of the heaters.

Saw a bit of a discussion outside the gates post match and wondered what was going on.

I think the police may have spotted you GT in the toilets at half time and thought you liked the place so much you didnt want to leave. You and Mclennan were like a pair of women using the bogs for a bit of a natter.
Good job Billinge Lump and my good self dragged you out of there, otherwise i suspect you would both have missed the second half.

It's because you were "goading" away fans and pointing them out for fights or so they said. RL could do without thugs like you.

Complete OTT reaction from the police must admit.

Fair enough I didn't see the pre-match stuff, just started watching at kick-off. Someone asked about the stadium and I simply gave an observation, to which one of your petty 'fans' decided to get touchy and turn the thread into a Leeds/Saints tit-for-tat.

I just said the pitch looked questionable for a new ground but as you have pointed out it was just cosmetic. Looking forward to visiting myself.

Saints ground was impressive , in reality the fabric ( breeze block, Steel & cladding ) is similar to ours but the location , near to the town , and and the little touches, colour scheme, memorabilia pub signs adjacent to the kiosks worked.
parking was pretty easy , £1 to park in the centre car parks after 5pm , just a 5 minute walk away. Beware of the retail park parking across from Tesco , they had stooges out threatening to Ticket anyone parking for the ground.
There seemed to be an overreaction by the stewards / Specials to the group of Salford supporters in the north stand , at least from where i was looking in the east stand. one wonders how they plan to cope with larger away support (= everyone bar Broncos & catalans )if they are spooked by a few fans singing,
enjoyed the game all the same even though we were steam rollered late 2nd half.

Looks like they could have used the heaters in Catalan too, www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

Looks like they could have used the heaters in Catalan too, www.sportinglife.com/rugbyleague ... ml&BID=480

129 to be exact .....

I'm going to guess that you're going off the tickets sold from Salford's ticket office there. Considering plenty of people I know bought tickets on the day or directly from St. Helens I'd say you need to add a few more on. We had 200 there at least, maybe a few more.

can you also provide the numbers of the trains through St Helens jumction and the buses as well you most exciting person of the year.

Saints new stadium is much closer to what I was hoping for for us than us Barton is. It's clear that the RL club have been involved from the start whereas the exact opposite is true for us.

Probably my favourite of the modern RL stadiums.