They were originally talking about it being a sports bar restaurant but decided so many were struggling and closing they ditched that.


They are going to look at the shop and coffee bar going in there with the balcony overlooking field.


Don't think it's finalised and no one discussed the building in the car park where that was originally planned.

Did anything get mentioned about the direction of the game with what's happening at the rfl and the rumours regarding NRL buying in to sl?

Shame I was looking forward to eating in the sports bar/grill. Thought it was a great idea. Think they've spent some cash kitting it out. 

Nice one cheers 

Inside Man - they talked briefly about this in answer to someone's question.


Matt talked to the Warrington owner at Magic as he and the Wigan guy are the ones leading NRL conversations.
Nothing agreed but he talked about us being able to make it work without just following NRL blindly as our environment with football and other sports is very different. But liked them being involved.
He made the point nothing was agreed but also the RFL are meeting to discuss, at our ground. I think he said all the owner meetings are at our place now.


I have to say he did talk about getting fans views of how to run the game but personally I think that is a bad idea.






Khlav - they thought it was a good idea too but say the evidence of other attempts in the area show it as a loss maker so changing plans.
They are looking at coffee and breakfast type place instead.
But they'd still look at show games for people to come and watch there.




Also forgot a few other things.
Programme. Bit of a split view on this but Matt says he might do an offer to pay up front for a full season so they know what to create but I'm not sure that is a go-er. 


Shirt sponsor we've more than tripled the earnings with Matt's idea to sell game by game rather than one for whole season. He was pleased with that.


New website on the way. Nearly ready but he knocked it back for some improvements before launch.
He was very keen to say we'll go from worst to best website in the league.


Added a couple of bars in the ground to ease queues.
Liked the idea of the bar outside St James Park made out of portacabins. Might do if he can fit in fan zone but will do something either way so you don't have to walk a long way away to get back to North and East Stand.


The main room has been upgraded. They are keeping it smart but not loading with heritage from the club so it looks the part for functions rather than just rugby events.
He will talk to heritage team about how they decorate Rollin Shack and other areas.


And the pie was nice but they ran out of peas.


Anything else I forgot from those that were there?

There was plenty of peas on the left side as you walked in 

Not quite - Ellis mentioned the kitchen showroom area when the question about Newcastle's Stack was asked.


He said they were considering a bar area there.

Dboy - he did you are right.
How I took it though was the original plan to put a bar on the stadium side of the old showroom.
I don't think he said what was happening to the actual showroom.


We'll find out soon enough I'm sure.

Yes it will be something completely new. He said he liked the stack-container style, as it doesn't need planning permission.

Certainly exciting times ahead.


Would be sad to see Walmsley or Atoni go, but teams always evolve, and it would boost our spine if Smoothy does come over early

Did Ellis say that one of these was making way for Smoothy this season? 

If he did I can only think it would be Atoni as he’s out for most of season now.

The only person he talked about being out of contract was Lachy as he announced it himself.


We only need to lose one for Smoothy.


Mills did say though that the decisions are made based on what's best for Trinity rather than sentiment