The rules can't have been changed to keep Leigh out. The RFL refused to acknowledge the LSV existed and wanted to inspect Hilton Park for suitability for 2009. Thats how .............. they are and will continue to be.

I'm sure originally 10,000 capacity was the threshold but they increased it to 12,000 and I remember one of your directors saying so.

I agree it was irrelevant anyway given what happened subsequently.

yet Sky do sex wee's over the LSV, it is by far the best and easiest RL ground they have ever been too and worked in. FACT !!!

The variance is/was absorbed in the North Stand Terrace which has not changed in design.

Originally, only the bottom half of the terrace was to be used; a temporary herras fence had been erected halfway up and the crush barriers excluded. However, not long before the stadium was complete it was decided to open up the whole terrace and complete the barriers.

In theory the terrace could hold over 5000, taking the capacity to something like 14000 but this far exceeds the stadium planning permission. It would be 40% greater than the associated infrastructure had allowed for.

What the Corpy have set the current limit to I do not know (bear in mind not all of the infrastructure and work on the village is complete).