They said that we would not be looking to play our home fixtures at another ground eg Oakwell, Cas etc; but we would probably have to jiggle the fixtures so that we play more away fixtures at the beginning/end of the season -similar to when rl grounds are unavailable because of the ground 'maintenance' needs of their football partners/hosts.

Be interesting, I suppose if you did the north stand first you gain in capacity what you lost on the east stand. A temp stand on west terrace etc, could work.

They said they weren’t looking at playing away, but working around the build. Maybe they get the structure of half the stand up and have a temporary seating over the top? Guess it’ll come down to cost what the cheapest way to do it is

If the funding streams permitted it and fans were still restricted from attending games this year it might be worth starting earlier.

Perhaps in the current situation they can’t start earlier. I think someone on here said building projects were now running late due to Covid?

Gone under the radar but I’m delighted Tangata has signed.

Genuinely underrated player imho. Runs hard and straight, tackle really well and is generally big and hard to handle. Hasn’t shown an off loading game so far which I suppose stops him being noticed.

He’s what all clubs need, a hard working no nonsense prop. I know he won’t excite those who seem to think every prop we don’t have is the best in the world but he’ll do for me all day long.

We are a prop short still, it’s the only position I think we are short to be honest and my pref is still Battye but whoever we get so long as they graft I’m happy, let the rest of the team do the creating.

So we have

Fifita
Tangata
Green
Arona (who is more of a prop these days)
Tanginoa (emergency only)
Aydin (crisis only)

I’m happy with the players we have we are just short, 1 more deffo, 2 if possible.

Made me smile there, Dunkirk

This is all great news, especially re the ground.
It will give everyone at the club a real lift to see the new stand getting built

MC said we were looking for a middle - but also said that EVERYONE is looking for middles.

Jordan Crowther was given massive praise - said that every other pack member wants JC alongside them.

MC said JC has massively changed his game and approach.

You could tell that just by looking at him. I believe he paid for his own extra training? If so it paid off big style and should be a lesson to all.

Fair play to the guy for the efforts he put in last season, even more so if he went the extra mile & funded extra training. However, I can’t help but think it’s a poor reflection of the conditioning at the club that he’s had to take this step.

Best wishes to JC for next season, always nice to see one of our own doing the business.