Call me old fashioned, but I still like the bottom picture!!

And when I rip up the decking I've got my eyes on some of that green stuff!

your old fashioned

Belle Vue pitch looks like a carpet

oakwell looks great and certainly would be a top stadium in super league but with the capacity been 23k i think it wont look good if theres only 6k in it will it

Indeed - check out the Goatfarm for ample demonstration of how sad a big wendyball stadium looks with a smattering of RL fans dotted around.

The millenium stadium doesn't look good with 25k in there, the stoop doesn't look good with 1779 in there and i bet Salford's new ground won't look good with say 5/6k in either. The simple fact is, it doesn't seem to matter to the RFL!

and what would the top pic look like with a thousand speccys in, i reckon you lot are still living in a kind of bubble, in the championship at Belle Vue you would do very well to draw 2k, so what do you reckon at Oakwell ?

fights not over yet pal.....

This is my worry of spending a lot on marketing to the folk of Barnsley while we're there. Will we convert many to want to make a long trip to watch us at Newmarket when it's done?

That, and they are the most parochial people on planet Earth down in the People's Republic and can't see them getting behind a team which doesn't have Barnsley in it. Strange place, see plenty wearing Barnsley shirts round town, but not many from other clubs like most places!

Smart thing may be for the club to lay on subsidised transport from Wakefield to Oakwell, included in the ticket price. Worry more about keeping our core and casual support going than picking up stragglers at that end.

At Oakwell we needn't open up the whole ground therefore reducing the running costs. We needn't even open the upper tier of the East Stand helping to get a nucleus of fans in a concentrated area and help the atmosphere

Exactly !

You could leave the old stand and the 'Barnsley Kop' closed on match days.

At the Q&A on Tuesday, DL said that he is in talks with Arriva about doing just that; apparently they wouldn't speak with him whilst we were in administration, so the conversations have now resumed.

Not sure you're right. Yes they are weird and parochial but I'm told in the 60's we had a large fan base in Barnsley including one Michael Parkinson.

Also in the villages/areas between South Wakefield and Barnley ie Royston the Wildcats seem well represented in terms of shirts and car stickers.

I agree we won't pick up 1000's but we may gain a following who may attend the big games if we return to Newmarket. This is not that different to a number of clubs who's spread out fan base don't attend every game.

Anecdotal I know, but when I delivered tickets for the game to my site in Barnsley today, 3 of the staff talked affectionately about Trinity, two saying they had been lifelong fans; I was genuinely surprised.