Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Tue Oct 28, 2014 8:03 pm  

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Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:22 am  

Sheffield much prefer a big pitch with an excellent surface. They will be much more dangerous at the Keepmoat, than at their Owlerton stadium.

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Wed Oct 29, 2014 11:46 am  

That and Owlerton was a horrid place to watch rugby, made the Don Valley look like Wembley

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:42 pm  

Donny V Bradford followed by Eagles V Fax on 28 April

Donny V Hunslet followed by Eagles V Bradford on 14 July

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Wed Oct 29, 2014 7:03 pm  

Does one ticket get you into both games I assume?

[Hillsborough Lad]

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Wed Oct 29, 2014 8:04 pm  

As far as I know, yes it does.

[Bulliac]

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:44 am  

In a strange way I was looking forward to going to Owlerton, entirely due to having been there several times in the long and [very] distant past watching speedway back in the sixties and seventies. Long ride it was, through Huddersfield and Penistone, IIRC I suspect the new arrangements may be for the better though..there's even a motorway now..

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Thu Oct 30, 2014 9:59 am  

I thought I heard someone promising on the news that all RL grounds in the North were to be linked by a new super doper High Speed Rail link?

Suspect this might be forgotten after next May?

[Bulliac]

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Thu Oct 30, 2014 10:07 am  

Don't think Bradford is included. It seems to be Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, York and Newcastle - with the country's fourth largest metropolitan authority very conspicuous by its absence in all the publicity. Think we may see the route to Sheffield via Penistone as being far more use than this rail 'link' - even if we do have to go straight past Owlerton.. though, that said I've not heard about any fixture list rumours for 2033

Re: Sheffield and Doncaster double headers : Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:33 pm  

Northernrelic wrote:

I thought I heard someone promising on the news that all RL grounds in the North were to be linked by a new super doper High Speed Rail link?

Suspect this might be forgotten after next May?

We haven't got a railway going through Leigh, thanks to Dr Beeching. Apparently, it's the largest town in the country without a station. And W***n has two - life's just not fair at times!