Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:10 pm  

I think I'd like to see us in Blue and White personally... LOL.

Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:20 pm  

it's nice little ground is the shay,i've always enjoyed my visits there and the ( finally) east stand is pretty good, i remember for years just staring at bits of concrete and girders.
surprised by how many giants fans who had never been before,didn't know the way around.i was asked a few times where the ground was at that was at top of hunger hill!
unfortunately i dont think i'll be attending the other 2 games but it was a nice change from the galpharm.

Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:09 pm  

Pitch looked good - though shortened in goal at north end seemed odd line markings.
East stand good view - bit tight on leg room for us + 6 ft.
Pasties, hot dogs standard warm expensive crap but same as galpharm. Not sure why no plastic beer bottles allowed - would have been served quicker. Gates need to be opened sooner and more staff on food needed, but guess that will sorted for next time.
Overall a pleasant change, and would like to visiting there officially next year too !

Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:18 pm  

yully wrote:

No thats not all it takes to spit out me dummy, i got to the ground nice and early and got settled down in my seat in the New all singing all dancing west stand, next to the cas dugout area, not able to go any higher in the stand as me and the wife are both disabled, i watched everything that happend on the left hand side of the pitch during the game as my view was blocked by the Cas doctor if anything happend on the right hand side. i bore witness to 2 rather big gentlemen all dressed in black enter the seats next to me to evict a 80 year old man who had sat comfy for over 30 minutes in a seat.

My son and his mate were both thretened by stadium staff with expulsion when they said helo to eddy & stevo as the presenters went to their seats, as the game got underway a young lady (about 7/8ish) found herself at the opposite side of the stand to her parents (due to getting a autograth from Big G) upset she asked a steward if she could go back to her parents just to be told NO! she would have to go out and around, not what any parent wants to hear.


ive no issues with the stadium but the organisation and the heavy handed tactics of the Shay staff is poor & OTT

Clearly you've had a very poor experience and given that as the context to you're complaint, then it's understandable you feel this way, however non of this was explained in your opening post on this thread, so to get the comments you've had from a few posters on here is understandable too.

I hope you put this complaint to the officials and see if something can be done about the standard of stewarding in your section of the stand.

Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:41 pm  

Ceebeejames wrote:

Are Crusaders in

Principal kit

Alternate kit

Halifax 2010 / Cas June 5th 2011 kit?

Don't joke about it, the time it's taking for our new kit to arrive we could be borrowing the above for the rest of the season

Re: The Shay : Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:58 pm  

Can the singers work out a place to go for the next game - I would suggest in the corner near the away fans, but we seemed muted yesterday!
I'm in the away stand + 5

Re: The Shay : Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:57 am  

Not in the corner, please. Middle[ish].

Re: The Shay : Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:58 am  

Middle-ish part of the east stand would do nicely, lets get some singing going

Re: The Shay : Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:12 pm  

Does the other end never get used? I think it would be a great semi-final venue if it could be used.

Re: The Shay : Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:50 pm  

That was the idea on sunday but people entered the ground at different times and obviously the people who got in 1st took the middle seats where one bunch of singers where which meant there was no room for the rest of us so we had to sit in the wings.