Quote: gerr'emonside "You say it'd be better to bulldoze everything....coming from a wigan fan i'd have to massively disagree! I wish I still had the option to go back to central park even to watch an amateur game once or twice, even if the stands and everything were gone it would still be a brilliant opportunity!
Saw this article though and then this thread and thought immediately.....could the club not do something similar to Souths in the NRL on a smaller scale and have a 'Return to Fartown' friendly at the start of the season? Ok so Redfern can still hold about 5k so its more practicable to Souths, but if Fartown is still hosting amateur RL it must still have a safety certificate for at least a couple of hundred?
Could it not be possible to do something on this basis.....yes demand will massively outstrip supply so i'd say you probably couldn't sell ticket,s but why not include it as a marketing tool to sell Season Tickets? ie/ 200 tickets for Return to Fartown are raffled off every year to all ST holders who get entered...that way, with say 4k ST holders, you'd all have roughly a 1/20 chance- do it every year and theoretically most will get to one over a period of time?
This would also probably up ST sales as people would buy for a chance to watch Huddersfield at fartown.'"
Wire still play some academy games at Wilderspool ...... nothing unusual to see some old timers (says me, a 50 yr old whipper snapper) in there with a little glint in their eye as they cast their glaze around the ground. You know their thoughts are full of times gone by .....
