Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Mon May 06, 2019 9:41 am  

Yes with an all weather playing surface.
Gary have a word with your mate Christo and see if he can sponsor a few rolls from Wilson's Carpets.

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Mon May 06, 2019 10:41 am  

Stand-Offish wrote:

Yes with an all weather playing surface.
Gary have a word with your mate Christo and see if he can sponsor a few rolls from Wilson's Carpets.

Sounds like a good idea to go for all weather. Can such a surface cope with javelins and shot puts?

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Mon May 06, 2019 11:20 am  

Dunno ... but if the Rovers can 'turf' us off the main pitch ... we can 'plastic turf' those injurious activities off in turn.
The main problem would be the expenditure of more than Steptoe & Son money.

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Mon May 06, 2019 4:45 pm  

Stand-Offish wrote: Dunno ... but if the Rovers can 'turf' us off the main pitch ... we can 'plastic turf' those injurious activities off in turn. The main problem would be the expenditure of more than Steptoe & Son money. Some news on potential costs.... https://www.thesoccerstore.co.uk/blog/latest-news/how-much-does-an-artificial-football-pitch-cost/

Stand-Offish wrote: Dunno ... but if the Rovers can 'turf' us off the main pitch ... we can 'plastic turf' those injurious activities off in turn. The main problem would be the expenditure of more than Steptoe & Son money. Some news on potential costs.... https://www.thesoccerstore.co.uk/blog/latest-news/how-much-does-an-artificial-football-pitch-cost/

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Mon May 06, 2019 5:04 pm  

Double Movement wrote:

They probably did try to liaise with the RFL but playing no home games for a two month period is a poor outcome too.

Fans are creatures of habit. We need home games to be no more than three weeks apart at best. We don't want to have to play all our home games in the freezing cold of February and March with blank periods during June and July. It makes no sense financially to operate like this.

With the current arrangements that have been put in place for this season after the home against Oldham on June 9th it will be a period of six weeks before the next game to be played at the Keepmoat against North Wales Crusaders on July 21st in this period the Dons will have incurred the costs of paying Featherstone Rovers for the use of there ground & all the associated costs that go with hosting a professional rugby league game.

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Tue May 07, 2019 12:50 pm  

I wonder if there was any consideration of playing the matches in Hull.

Could have been a bit of a ‘thank you’ to the supporters for the inconvenience if the matches could have been tied in as curtain raisers for Hull FC games.

Any thoughts?

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Tue May 07, 2019 12:57 pm  

Now thats how the club should be thinking!!!!

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Tue May 07, 2019 2:44 pm  

How did Levy go?

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Tue May 07, 2019 5:12 pm  

Wilde 3 wrote:

How did Levy go?

He was steady, putting in plenty of effort.

Re: West Wales Raiders (Home) - 1895 Cup - Sunday 5 May 2019 : Tue May 07, 2019 5:31 pm  

Gerry Monside wrote:

I wonder if there was any consideration of playing the matches in Hull.

Could have been a bit of a ‘thank you’ to the supporters for the inconvenience if the matches could have been tied in as curtain raisers for Hull FC games.

Any thoughts?

Sounds like a very good option.

I've checked and Hull don't have any home games on the weekends we're playing the two matches in Featherstone.

Hull also don't have any home games between 8th June and 4th July. I wonder if they do their pitch work in that 4 week window?

Wigan share with Wigan Athletic. They have no home games between 2nd May and 28th June. Their home match against Warrington on 25th May is being played at Anfield.

Ground-sharing Huddersfield have no home games between 17th May and 21st June and have no home games scheduled to be played away from their main stadium.