English lower leagues

[Evil Homer]

Anyone know what the actual standard is? South Wales need to find a new home that's not in the middle of nowhere and going somewhere we don't need to upgrade or change later to meet champ standard would be nice.

Without knowing anything about the rent/availability situation etc, the best location for South Wales IMO would be St Helen's in Swansea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Helen's_Rugby_and_Cricket_Ground

Although their old ground, The Gnoll, was perfectly adequate for the Championship, as was Celtic Crusaders' old ground Brewery Field in Bridgend.

 

[langpark]

Massive win for Bradford today! I'm glad because 1) I'm a big fan of the Super 8s concept and 2) I'd love to see Bradford back in the Super League!!

 

[langpark]

A whopping 250 fans at London Broncos yesterday.


(less than Skolars, who got 323 to their last home match)

 

[Evil Homer]

Unsure if you can watch this outside of the UK, Featherstone come back from 6-26 down with 6 minutes to go and end up winning the match 28-26 thanks to this crazy final play.

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/rugby-league/9975519/bad-blunder-costs-batley

 

[langpark]

Yeah I saw that!! Incredible!

 

[roughyedspud]

We've got one hand on that league leaders shield..ww have to lose away at oxford by a cricket score & keighley have to hammer whoever they play...


We also had the 4th highest attendance in the championship & league one...behind bradford,leigh,featherstone....thats the circles we should be mixing with...thats the size of club we should be..

 

[langpark]

Well done Spud!! Will be interesting to see which teams get promoted!

 

[Evil Homer]

We also had the 4th highest attendance in the championship & league one...behind bradford,leigh,featherstone....

Not really been keeping track of League One attendances but I'm surprised at that, especially given the lack of away support and a legit stadium. I thought Crusaders had the highest in the division but if Oldham are topping them then that's great.

 

[langpark]

What about Halifax? Did your really get more than them??

And also Keighley had 4000 at the Danny Jones tribute match, so i wonder if that perhaps pushed their figure higher than Oldham's?

 

[deluded pom?]

We've got one hand on that league leaders shield.

You'll be getting altitude sickness 'spud.

 

[roughyedspud]

Well we smashed oxford 76-12 to win the league leaders shield...*gulp*

 

[deluded pom?]

Just for you 'spud.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY

 

[roughyedspud]

Can't go to next weeks 1v2 playoff game either cos i fly to las vegas that sunday dinner time...been onto virgin atlantic though,they have internet on their planes now so i should be able to stream radio commentary of the game while crossing the atlantic..

 

[deluded pom?]

Good to see you had so much faith in your team's chances of finishing in the top two 'spud.

 

[roughyedspud]

its my sisters fault..shes getting married in vegas..nowt i could do lol..plus it was only a couple of weeks ago the dates clashed

 

[langpark]

So Oldham play Keighley now for promotion??

 

[Evil Homer]

Yeah, looks like Oldham vs Keighley and York, Swinton and North Wales the other teams in the semis.

 

[roughyedspud]

So Oldham play Keighley now for promotion??

Aye...winner goes straight up,loser enters the play offs

 

[deal.with.it]

I'm hoping Crusaders are promoted.

 

[langpark]

If they insist on having a playoff system, it should either involve four or six teams. Because now we're just going to have 3 teams sitting doing nothing this weekend, when they should be playing. It's almost as though 3rd has been rewarded for finishing below 2nd as they will be rested when they meet on the following weekend.