What do you giants think of our ground thesedays?

Nice new stand with the potential to be a very good stadium. We was sat in the West stand and it was a bit of a squash behind the stand and scary when leaving with 2 young kids with us. Maybe a few more food outlets too would be better as the queue was massive. Otherwise I enjoyed the venue.

NOT GOOD, thats all i can say, i have my tickets for celtic & Dragons but they wont get used! a lot needs improving

Dear oh dear is that all it takes for you take your dummy home!

New stand is good, good views and good atmosphere.

The organisation needs a bit of fine tuning, they just aren't geared up for a bigger crowd, turnstiles opened 15 minutes late and 2 people serving in the food stall, ran out of beer and food.

Oh and the leg room in the West stand is awful!!!

nice ground but in all honesty it showed that its not used to holding bigger crowds due to catering running out and not enough staff to cope !

I wouldn't worry about "bigger" crowds looking at your next two visits to our very nice new stadium......

It's a shame more of both sets of supporters didn't make the effort to attend, I saw loads of fellow 'Fax fans. I was sat in the East stand BTW.

Thought the East Stand was great.

Much better ground these days.

I pity the fools who chose to sit in the crappy old west Stand even if it does have new seats.

It brought home to me that Cas and Wakey should be out of Superleague and Widnes and Fax in.

I'm quite proud of the stadium we play in, we are quite lucky when you look at some other teams, the pitch looked good, the stadium is up to hosting games like that every week. couple of little things we need to do,

doesnt really matter though cause were not going anywhere for a while

get a grip you piece of .........

I was in the East Stand, loved it, sat 5 rows off the front, enjoyed every minute of it.

I have to say i said to my son during the match it was an impressive east stand, i remember the shell of the east stand in my times when i came as a scarborough fan. I think that if we had had a few more in filling it out with a little better atmosphere its a fine stadium but atmosphere is our problem home or in our new (temp) home. I will be using my tickets and for those who say their not coming to the other games get a grip... in many ways we are spoiled at the galpharm I hope that you do make it up as this will be a fixture i would relish attending

Nice ground and a good view from the east stand. Atmosphere could be improved if the singers sat together at the top end near away fans. Cas sounded loud all stood together, we we're too spaced out but I like the ground and the pitch looked top notch.

We were in the East stand which was very good, the pitch looked great. The only downside was the catering. No food and no coffee.
And as for certain fans saying they would not attend the next 2 games there,( what tosh) if we were playing at a school ground we all should turn out to support the lads.

problem with the singers though was because its unreserved we all have to go in together to sit together as yesterday there were about 4 seperate little groups singing and nothing kept going because of all the non singers sat around us

Will have to make sure us singers get in early-ish to get seats together then (For the next home game I can say im part of the 'Us'

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. It was very good.

Getting out of Halifax, though, was another matter! Helz, who parked on the Heath side, was back home while we were still at the top of Salerhebble.

Back in Newsome within 15 mins, you just gotta know the back roads Dave, the lad got lucky

Pitch was in great condition. The new stand looked good but i was in the west stand which is ok. There is also the added benefit of several quality pubs in the close vicinity.

Just one small observation. Why has the area between the west stand and the north stand been left to resemble a rain forest. Surely it would not cost too much to get this area sorted and make the ground look more presentable.

Having said that i have always liked the Shay and the new stand means it is now a better stadium than at least four current Super League clubs

thought the shay was ok sat in east stand and it was good view, seats a bit snug imo but acceptable, catering was ok but i was there early so got mine ok, cracking pastie. few negatives the stewards seemed clueless had to be moved twice from where i sat even though told twice could sit there, turnstiles should have been open much earlier and also even though not shays fault getting away from fax awful took me a hour to get back to shat, bit ironic that next weeks away game at wakey will be closer than our home game.

Was talking with Ralph Kilner after the game, you beat him home ?



Wasnt the lad at H/T from Shat, a belt wouldnt have gone amiss

No thats not all it takes to spit out me dummy, i got to the ground nice and early and got settled down in my seat in the New all singing all dancing west stand, next to the cas dugout area, not able to go any higher in the stand as me and the wife are both disabled, i watched everything that happend on the left hand side of the pitch during the game as my view was blocked by the Cas doctor if anything happend on the right hand side. i bore witness to 2 rather big gentlemen all dressed in black enter the seats next to me to evict a 80 year old man who had sat comfy for over 30 minutes in a seat.

My son and his mate were both thretened by stadium staff with expulsion when they said helo to eddy & stevo as the presenters went to their seats, as the game got underway a young lady (about 7/8ish) found herself at the opposite side of the stand to her parents (due to getting a autograth from Big G) upset she asked a steward if she could go back to her parents just to be told NO! she would have to go out and around, not what any parent wants to hear.


ive no issues with the stadium but the organisation and the heavy handed tactics of the Shay staff is poor & OTT

I thought that the Shay was a fantastic little ground to watch RL in, particularly with the new stand.

The only problem for me is the location. Halifax is an awful place to get to and from when there is few people trying to do the same thing.

We set off in good time (well over an hour before kick-off) and the bypass was already choked. We had to park in the multi-story behind the sticks cos my dad is disabled and neither the Giants or Halifax were able to provide him with a disabled space at the ground (another balls-up of a story that I won't go into!!). However, on getting back to the car, it took us a good 40 mins to get out of the car park. By that time, traffic was backing up from the top of Salterhebble.

Ridiculous to think that we went to Old Trafford last week and it took us roughly the same amount of time to get home!!

All in all, it was about a 5 hour trip for a home game!!!!

I came over from Huddersfield about an hour before kick off and the bypass was blocked around Salterhebble but to be honest it did not take more than about five minutes to clear.
I cannot comment after the game as i stayed in Halifax.

No ground will ever compare to Headingley for traffic congestion.

Bizarrely, I find that Headingley is one of the best grounds to get away from.

We park in the carpark in the South West corner of the ground. As you come out of the carpark, turn right over a tiny bridge and this brings you straight down to Kirkstall Rd.