We all complained when we wern't on sky a few years ago...

At least it wont be as dark as in previous years. We might be able to see half the pitch.

Have they installed another candel?

Sorry mate I hate sky!!!!!!HATE HATE HATE

No they just nipped to the Motorway Services and got a couple of Torches, each with the power of a million candles

Don't get yer hopes up for it being any brighter this year folks. I believe we've employed the same contractors that did your East Stand.

That'll be the newest stand in the championship then? Aside from the ones at your dump of course

Ok then Freddie, if you wanna play like that...



That'll be the councils new stand that you lot rent coz your club was incapable of managing itself competently and you fans were too fickle to stand by their club and dig deep when the going got tough to keep it in business.



Yeh thats the stand I am on about...



I have to say I am surprised by the jibes of fans from yourself, Leigh and Widnes when you crow about how good "your" stadium is. ITS NOT YOURS! Sheffield don't do it, why do you lot?



It affords your club no credit whatsoever, the people who desrve credit are the tax payers of Calderdale who paid to house the 2 failed sports teams in Halifax, 90% of whom never set foot inside the place.



Your stadium is not a symbol of your success, its a massive concrete reminder of your failures as a club and as fans!



Get that up ye!

Sadly you started it all mate, or is it too dark up there for you to see it

As opposed to your clubs wooden reminder.

Very poor comebacks gentlemen.



I didn't start it at all, I was happy to enjoy a bit of friendly banter at my own clubs expense initially.



As for you a.n Other.

Our ground, as rundown as it is, represents the fact that the Barrow club has a continuous history stretching back to its formation in 1875. It represents the fact that the club has always conducted its financial business with integrity, always paying its creditors and not spending what it couldn't afford. It has managed its finances through some very difficult times for the club, the town and the whole economy and done it without going bankrupt.



Having achieved that, what do we hear from the RFL and clubs like yourselves, "you have no chance of getting into SL because your grounds a dump".

I think you summed it up with your last paragraph. You can have as much history and tradition as you want, but all it serves to do is keep you where you are. The saying "if you always do what you always did you will always have what you always had" comes to mind. I am afraid that history means diddly squat to the expansionsists at Red Hall.



Now before you come back, even with our completed stadium (by the way we are not the only club in rugby league who rents space in a stadium) we dont have much chance of a superleague franchise in 2012, but I think we are better placed for the 2015 applications.