If Your struggling to find the grapes, might I suggest 2 sugars with it, but I would personally avoid the Aspartame as that can leave a bitter after taste.

Surprised you did not appreciate that the stadium is currently in transition and yes the flood lights and pitch will be sorted. When you open your new ground in Stanley give me a shout and will gladly give it the once over.

why the fev stadium knocking I don't know, are you blinkered to see how Belle Vue is crumbling day by day

POR is a bit like BV. Its a dump but a homely dump (as per Steve Ryder, Grandstand 2002)

I quite like it.
The improvements will definitely make it a better little ground that's for sure.

As for the game, we were out enthused by a far more enthusiastic team, but we have to remember it was only a friendly.
We can't use that game as a yardstick for how the season will fare.

All in all (despite the result) I had a decent day out.

Out of interest are we having a pre-season training camp this year or have the financial issues put paid to that?

I heard we are and its in Wales.

What's the problem / They were good, we were crap and Post office Road is just fine.
Enjoy the moment Fev.

The new stands at POR look to be coming on well and depending how they develop the opposite end, it will be a tidy RL ground, with more soul than many of the new Lego style stadiums that are around these days.
It's supposed to be somewhere to go and watch a game of RL and they are definitely making progress.
Their problem wont be the ground, it will be finding enough willing customers to go and spend their Sunday afternoons watching Fev play.
I really can't understand folk knocking them, they should be applauded for trying to make progress, in spite of the lack of prospects of promotion.

As I understand it's been put back for a while as the overseas players aren't here.

Yes we have 3 days in Wales.

It shows how the other half live as I was travelling with work last week and was at Manchester as the Warrington guys were on their way to Oz for their preseason.
Every player was kitted out with Wolves branded bags and kit. They looked the part and the full squad was there too. Young kids that you could tell had never travelled anywhere were on their way to Oz.
Wigan I think are doing Florida.
I'm sure I saw Hull are going overseas too.

Maybe Wales is what we need as it is more representative of our league but it does show the difference in cash and sponsorship at those clubs

This is the error people make IMHO - it wasn't a game it was a training exercise with live ammo.

If you analyse it we rotated the props over 20 times, so not IMO a serious effort to win a game.

Also that slope, they really know how to use it.

Aye, that's a fair comment; it was pointed out to me on numerous occasions by the person I was with, but I think the cold and the mud put me in a bad mood.