Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:32 am  

The Speculator wrote:

We had a family in front of us who looked like some kind of Deliverance/Shameless hybrids

Ha ha ha We were next to their 2nd cousins/parents

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 11:35 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

I believe the current contract runs out after next season.

Btw, if anyone wants to book a cheep accommodation now for next season.

Wembley final is 7/6/25

It’ll be officially released in a few days.

Thanks but not going again, even if it was Elvis doing the half time show and Wire vs Runcorn Highfield.

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:01 pm  

Amazingly, the idea of a new National Stadium has been blighted by the inaccessibility caused by all the development that has taken place around the area. Stadium parking sacrificed for housing/flats that must be costing residents a fortune to live in them. It has turned the stadium into a London centric development & not one for the long distance fan. I was even shocked to see a mega block of flats right in the middle of the Hangar Lane Gyratory System. How much much more traffic chaos will that cause ? I am sure Wembley would serve the nation better as a stand alone structure somewhere north of London between the M1 & M40 with dedicated access roads & a station & no other development within a large enough distance to allow on site parking for all who want to use it.
It took our coach an hour & 20 minutes to get away on Saturday even though everybody was on board.

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 12:08 pm  

I only went due to taking my lad for the first time, just depressing and that’s only half down to the loss. Train home was a disgrace. Think we’re bored of getting there, as someone alluded to I think Wigan fans (lucky for them) are bored of winning judging by how many were out of the ground before me and I left early….same thing happened in the last GF….odd.

Has to move to a new stadium.

Whole day had me clamouring for lockdown again (happy days).

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:00 pm  

I found the whole experience at Wembley crap. I have now made a decision that i will not be going again. Hours sat on a motorway because of accidents, The cost of parking at the stadium is crazy, paying a ULEZ charge to that idiot running London. Then trying to find a space on a bus because it was full to the brim. Once in the ground i found my seat and was miles from the action. Toilets were over crowded at half time. Prices at the bars expensive. Considering the amount i paid for myself and my daughter to attend for the day i don't see it being a cost effective trip again. Now if they were to move it up North i think you would get far more attending and money spent goes to the areas that support rugby league. Just my personal out look on the day your mileage my vary.

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:43 pm  

ninearches wrote:

Amazingly, the idea of a new National Stadium has been blighted by the inaccessibility caused by all the development that has taken place around the area. Stadium parking sacrificed for housing/flats that must be costing residents a fortune to live in them. It has turned the stadium into a London centric development & not one for the long distance fan. I was even shocked to see a mega block of flats right in the middle of the Hangar Lane Gyratory System. How much much more traffic chaos will that cause ? I am sure Wembley would serve the nation better as a stand alone structure somewhere north of London between the M1 & M40 with dedicated access roads & a station & no other development within a large enough distance to allow on site parking for all who want to use it.
It took our coach an hour & 20 minutes to get away on Saturday even though everybody was on board.

The chaos at the M6 Toll Road Services on the way home where ALL coaches from both teams fans stopped, was far worse than the wait at the Wembley Car Park.

The crush inside the Services was bloody unsafe and there wasn`t enough room on the car park to accommodate all the coaches trying to park there.

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 6:10 pm  

Idiots & alcohol , the blight of "big" RL games for me.

I go to the HJ to watch the game & catch up with my mate. Neither experience would be any the worse if there was no alcohol served in the stadium at all. And there is nothing that would get me to go Old Trafford for the GF, nothing at all.

If I had my way there would be an alcohol free zone at the HJ, for people who just go to watch the game and not get vexed, lairy and think they are clever by sucking on their raspberry flavoured electronic death sticks.

Rant over.....

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:04 pm  

Boss Hog wrote:

ninearches wrote:

Amazingly, the idea of a new National Stadium has been blighted by the inaccessibility caused by all the development that has taken place around the area. Stadium parking sacrificed for housing/flats that must be costing residents a fortune to live in them. It has turned the stadium into a London centric development & not one for the long distance fan. I was even shocked to see a mega block of flats right in the middle of the Hangar Lane Gyratory System. How much much more traffic chaos will that cause ? I am sure Wembley would serve the nation better as a stand alone structure somewhere north of London between the M1 & M40 with dedicated access roads & a station & no other development within a large enough distance to allow on site parking for all who want to use it.
It took our coach an hour & 20 minutes to get away on Saturday even though everybody was on board.

The chaos at the M6 Toll Road Services on the way home where ALL coaches from both teams fans stopped, was far worse than the wait at the Wembley Car Park.

The crush inside the Services was bloody unsafe and there wasn`t enough room on the car park to accommodate all the coaches trying to park there.

Our driver said before we left Wembley he would not be stopping & we set off at about half six ,up the M1 /M6 & didn't bother with toll road & we got off the coach at the HJ at 10 past 10. He did a great job.

[Fantastic Mr Catpiss]

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 8:09 pm  

Mr Snoodle wrote:

Idiots & alcohol , the blight of "big" RL games for me.

I go to the HJ to watch the game & catch up with my mate. Neither experience would be any the worse if there was no alcohol served in the stadium at all. And there is nothing that would get me to go Old Trafford for the GF, nothing at all.

If I had my way there would be an alcohol free zone at the HJ, for people who just go to watch the game and not get vexed, lairy and think they are clever by sucking on their raspberry flavoured electronic death sticks.

Rant over.....

Oh, loving vapers in rhe south stand is my bug bear this year but vapers in general baffle me.

Theres a massive difference between ppl who smoke who id say95% are respectful and blow it away from you, vapers id say 95% of vapers dont give a poop, and blow clouds thats 5 to 10 times bigger than an average smoke exhale out, it smells worse and takes longer to dissipate. You see clouds of this poop enveloping people in the south stand.

Re: Wembley contract : Mon Jun 10, 2024 9:23 pm  

The only comment about Wembley that made me laugh this weekend was some clown on the bbc website banging on about the union final had a bigger crowd. Hmm let’s think I game mostly played in the south in a final in a southern city.

If Ratcliffe gets the tax payers to build his national stadium of the North then maybe down the line we play the Challenge Cup final there. At least helps with the expensie of not travelling to London. I get nostalgia and all that but I preferred Wilderspool over the HJ again with nostalgia sometimes you just have to move on.

P.S Grand Final to Etihad would be nice Old Trafford is a dump even playing on that pitch is dangerous