Page 1 of 4

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 26 Jun 2020, 19:08
by duke street 10
As lovely as Saints new ground is, The best company they could find for the naming rights is a vape company and their shirt sponsor is Cash convertors....hardly blue chip brands.

I was also a neutral supporter at many a major final they got to,and to my recollection they had more drunk and abusive fans than any other!

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 27 Jun 2020, 11:33
by Frankas
CasAttack wrote: 25 Jun 2020, 12:11 I appreciate our ground and Wakefields grounds are crap. The facilities are crap and at points the view can be crap. But those saints fans moaning aint visiting every week. Once or twice a season for 80 minutes. Big wow! Im sure all us Cas fans want better facilities and a shiny new stadium but there isn't much we can do except wait.
You must be a very small person, if you think the view darn lane, no matter where I stand the view has been perfect

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 27 Jun 2020, 11:44
by old cas lass
Frankas wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 11:33
CasAttack wrote: 25 Jun 2020, 12:11 I appreciate our ground and Wakefields grounds are crap. The facilities are crap and at points the view can be crap. But those saints fans moaning aint visiting every week. Once or twice a season for 80 minutes. Big wow! Im sure all us Cas fans want better facilities and a shiny new stadium but there isn't much we can do except wait.
You must be a very small person, if you think the view darn lane, no matter where I stand the view has been perfect
Only place I think the view is iffy is in the main stand.
If a high ball is put up you lose sight off it.
Same at the back of the WRE.
Apart from that views are pretty good from the rest of the ground.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 27 Jun 2020, 12:35
by Fumper27
old cas lass wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 11:44
Frankas wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 11:33
CasAttack wrote: 25 Jun 2020, 12:11 I appreciate our ground and Wakefields grounds are crap. The facilities are crap and at points the view can be crap. But those saints fans moaning aint visiting every week. Once or twice a season for 80 minutes. Big wow! Im sure all us Cas fans want better facilities and a shiny new stadium but there isn't much we can do except wait.
You must be a very small person, if you think the view darn lane, no matter where I stand the view has been perfect
Only place I think the view is iffy is in the main stand.
If a high ball is put up you lose sight off it.
Same at the back of the WRE.
Apart from that views are pretty good from the rest of the ground.
To be fair, most of the under cover part of our ground has restricted views at certain angles due to the steel girders holding the roof up. Apart from that, I love OUR home ground

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 27 Jun 2020, 18:22
by lurcher
i don't know what to make of the criticism. i myself take up my place at the wheldon road end every game. i may visit the toilets near the arthur atkinson gates and have a drink in legends bar after. these are the only bits of the ground i see. i think it will be similar for away fans as they are hardly likely to make a full inspection of the stadiums facilities.
the wigan fans usually only have to put up with our facilities for about 70 minutes. :)

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 28 Jun 2020, 16:31
by Tigers1926
I think your been a bit generous lurcher with 70 mins 🤔 Yeah, sure our toilets could be better, but once a game I'm sure is not a problem for most. I've stood in the Princess st stand for more years than I care to remember and we have a girder not too far away that we always have a joke about, in that we'd have to take it with us if we ever move. Also previous correspondents have hit the nail on the head, when they say many away fans like to come to Wheldon road for the atmosphere and closeness to the pitch, but I dare say many away players have a opposite view!! 🐯 COYF 💪

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 28 Jun 2020, 18:53
by lurcher
on the other hand a poster on the wigan board is complaining that some clubs won't have to face cas in front of a packed wheldon road but will play in a far less hostile neutral stadium which is much easier. shows how they fear our atmosphere.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 28 Jun 2020, 20:07
by heritage1926
I was lucky enough to be at Knowsley Road when we played them in the last ever league game there. Cunningham scored the try that sealed it underneath the posts and they beat is 40-30.

The atmosphere was absolutely belting. Was one of my favourite away grounds growing up was Knowsley Road, a proper old school ground surrounded by houses.

Saints fans are quick to point out our failing stadium, but don't realise that not too long ago, they were watching some of the best St Helen's teams ever in a stadium not too dissimilar.

FWIW, I've been to the new Saints ground twice and the atmosphere has been appalling. I don't like it and have chosen not to go on a few occasions.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 28 Jun 2020, 20:14
by tigerfeat
I always remember a pig farm behind the old K.road ground ...

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 28 Jun 2020, 21:11
by Tigers1926
Heritage 1926, is that when the Cas fans were singing Barmy Army nonstop for most of the second half at knowsley rd? Rate atmosphere that day even though we lost, but the Cas fans kept singing 🐯 COYF 🏉

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 08:02
by Fumper27
Tigers1926 wrote: 28 Jun 2020, 21:11 Heritage 1926, is that when the Cas fans were singing Barmy Army nonstop for most of the second half at knowsley rd? Rate atmosphere that day even though we lost, but the Cas fans kept singing 🐯 COYF 🏉
I think that game was the ‘99 play off semi. Might of occurred at both though

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 08:28
by casjunction
Conga line.
To accompany the singing.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 09:23
by Piquad1
Oh I love the Jungle.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 09:41
by Tiger53
Fumper27 wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 08:02
Tigers1926 wrote: 28 Jun 2020, 21:11 Heritage 1926, is that when the Cas fans were singing Barmy Army nonstop for most of the second half at knowsley rd? Rate atmosphere that day even though we lost, but the Cas fans kept singing 🐯 COYF 🏉
I think that game was the ‘99 play off semi. Might of occurred at both though
1997 semi-final not 1999. The chant right through the second half and all the time that Ellery Hanley was trying to address the Saints crowd was unbelievable. A fantastic atmosphere, I loved that night regardless of the fact that we eventually lost. Still have the game on an old video which I kept simply for the crowd atmosphere.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 10:32
by Tigerwood posse
Saints fans are moaning about us because, despite only winning the league leaders trophy in recent years, We have been competing with saints more and more, they don’t like that we are a pretty decent side now, they don’t like that we are signing players like Evalds and they see us as a threat!! They would t give a toss about our ground if they were still thrashing us by 70 points, like in the bad old millward days and before!! ..... if we got the new ground at glasshouton, it wouldn’t cost the club anything anyway (other than the money spent in previous years in plans etc) so it would hardly cost any of our salary cap money, seems they are just sulking a bit about losing Thompson to me, 43 year old James Graham is back to save em now, say they should cheer up a bit!!

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 10:56
by Fumper27
Tiger53 wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 09:41
Fumper27 wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 08:02
Tigers1926 wrote: 28 Jun 2020, 21:11 Heritage 1926, is that when the Cas fans were singing Barmy Army nonstop for most of the second half at knowsley rd? Rate atmosphere that day even though we lost, but the Cas fans kept singing 🐯 COYF 🏉
I think that game was the ‘99 play off semi. Might of occurred at both though
1997 semi-final not 1999. The chant right through the second half and all the time that Ellery Hanley was trying to address the Saints crowd was unbelievable. A fantastic atmosphere, I loved that night regardless of the fact that we eventually lost. Still have the game on an old video which I kept simply for the crowd atmosphere.
We were crap in 1997. It was definitely 1999, given Shaun McRae was the Saints coach in 1997, followed by Ellery Hanley 1998-2000

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 11:05
by tigerfeat
Tigerwood posse wrote: 29 Jun 2020, 10:32 Saints fans are moaning about us because, despite only winning the league leaders trophy in recent years, We have been competing with saints more and more, they don’t like that we are a pretty decent side now, they don’t like that we are signing players like Evalds and they see us as a threat!! They would t give a toss about our ground if they were still thrashing us by 70 points, like in the bad old millward days and before!! ..... if we got the new ground at glasshouton, it wouldn’t cost the club anything anyway (other than the money spent in previous years in plans etc) so it would hardly cost any of our salary cap money, seems they are just sulking a bit about losing Thompson to me, 43 year old James Graham is back to save em now, say they should cheer up a bit!!
There's some proper thick (Removed) in that part of the kingdom it would take some doing to get through were spending the full salary cap which was the whole idea to give all teams theoretically a chance and not just the likes of Warrington who's owner as just put a million pound into the club apparently...

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 11:09
by Bish Bash
Fumper27 wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 12:35
old cas lass wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 11:44
Frankas wrote: 27 Jun 2020, 11:33
CasAttack wrote: 25 Jun 2020, 12:11 I appreciate our ground and Wakefields grounds are crap. The facilities are crap and at points the view can be crap. But those saints fans moaning aint visiting every week. Once or twice a season for 80 minutes. Big wow! Im sure all us Cas fans want better facilities and a shiny new stadium but there isn't much we can do except wait.
You must be a very small person, if you think the view darn lane, no matter where I stand the view has been perfect
Only place I think the view is iffy is in the main stand.
If a high ball is put up you lose sight off it.
Same at the back of the WRE.
Apart from that views are pretty good from the rest of the ground.
To be fair, most of the under cover part of our ground has restricted views at certain angles due to the steel girders holding the roof up. Apart from that, I love OUR home ground
I think people may be missing the bigger picture with Wheldon Road. Yes we all love the atmosphere and the memories..but it’s never going to attract any new supporters, home or away. We will simply see the crowds reduce year on year. We have taken the p*ss over the years out of super league and the club is taking the p*ss out of us supporters now. £26 to stand in a crumbling ground with awful toilets isn’t good enough. I’m sick of being fobbed off year after year.

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 12:15
by tigerfeat
I know what your saying I've said same mesen many times at least this time it looked for a long while like the new ground was going to be built
I just think in these times we should be glad if the sport is still going this time next year doubt it will if there's a second wave of the bloody virus just seemed to me a bit childish to be talking about boycotting clubs

Re: This scared me - Away fans boycott Wheldon Road

Posted: 29 Jun 2020, 19:19
by Tigers1926
Thanks for the replies about the away game at knowsley rd. I couldn't exactly remember the year, but I was one away from the halftime draw 😟 but I might as well been a thousand away 🤔 Cas forever, forever Cas 🐯