found it fairly hard to comment on the game, to be honest. When standing behind the posts, in the murk it was pretty impossible to see what was going on much beyond half way. I'm a bit surprised they are allowed to use those lights for matches as they were far from adequate, which made the decision to play with a 6:30 kick off all the more baffling. It certainly didn't bring in much of a crowd either, so if that was the reason for changing from Sunday afternoon I think they can mark it down as a fail. Thought our following was clearly more than theirs and definitely louder. Anyone know what the official crowd was - it doesn't say on the Bulls' site?

Strangely it was announced at half time as being just under 900, and looking round the crowd id say at least 600 were from Bradford

Ha, you must be the only one I've spoken to who could make out a word the guy on the PA said! The PA was to communication what the floodlights were to vision....the sum total of which, pretty much left me in a fog....



Not trying to be nasty to 'Haven, heaven knows they must have all sorts of problems keeping their ship afloat, but if you know the lights aren't very good why change to an evening kick off when you can play in the daylight? Certainly not surprised the locals took the day off!

I went to watch Sheffield and Halifax Friday night. What can I say about their new ground, I'll wait till everyone else sees it



0-0 at half time, Halifax bombed 3-4 chances to score in first half when it looked easier to score than not. Second half Sheffield got a quick 20 points in 10 minutes to kill the game, they look very fast on attack. Mark Mexico showed how to run direct and very hard, Menzie Yere is so good to watch on attack, opposite man was put on his backside a few times, Mark Astons lad was very good at 7, a proper scrum half and my lad scored so that cost me a pound

7



Come on Rog, this isn't the place to be shy........



I've seen pictures and it looks neat but small and basic - the paddock itself looks to be flat and smooth, though I guess the picture wasn't taken straight after a match!

The pitch is fine, my lad says it's plenty wide enough. Down one side you have the dug outs and barriers a few metres from the touch line. Behind one set of posts is the temp stand that is goes all the way across with the width and there is 15-20 rows of seats. At the other end behind the posts is another little temp stands which only goes from the corner flag about 30 yards in which as about 10 rows of seats. Along the other touch line which is the changing room side it's just barriers set back a few metres from the touch line

Think problems prople are moaning about re Sheffield ground are more to do with parking and amenities rather than pitch and stands tbh.

I got parked down a little side street about 15 minutes walk to the ground which wasn't a problem. There was only one little beer tent. The parking will definitely be an issues with larger crowds and the beer tent will be just be over run.



I think I might set up a little stall outside the ground selling cans of Skol, should make a killing

You can flog my homebrew for 20% of the takings if you like.

Whitehaven's pitch in such a terrible state now that they've actually postponed tomorrow's game against Fev.

I think playing on that muddy pitch is definitely their best chance of beating Fev, to be honest.

I suspect the ref/RFL made the decision. I've said elsewhere on here that it's actually dangerous for the players to play on surfaces like that which are full of divots etc.