Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 7:05 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

Exactly why I said Hull FC were in a false position. They've been fortunate on player fitness.

I think that it is more a reflection of what a poor-quality season it has been, sadly. However, you can only play what is in front of you!

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 7:14 am  

Ganson's Optician wrote:

I think that it is more a reflection of what a poor-quality season it has been, sadly. However, you can only play what is in front of you!

That is exactly true imo.
You've seen battered teams Wire Wigan Saints only a fraction off the back of FC and Leeds and Hudds have had similar issues but at the wrong end of the table.
Hull might just scrape 6th if this season wasn't so blighted.

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 7:53 am  

There are 15 of us going. Train from Central around about 12 and then city centre Manchester for drinks and food. Tram to Old Trafford and straight into the ground. From 2012 & 2013 experiences the Pubs around O/T are dire and nothing but rip off selling rubbish beer and charge you to enter what are nothing but flea pits. We are in the South stand towards the 20 metre line by the tunnel.

Can anyone recommend somewhere to eat City Centre Manchester?
Thanks

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:17 am  

Can anyone recommend somewhere to eat City Centre Manchester?
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If you're into multi cuisine buffets, there are a couple of good ones. Peachy Keans in the Printworks and Red Hot World Buffet a couple of minutes walk away.

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 9:22 am  

Fatbelly wrote:

There are 15 of us going. Train from Central around about 12 and then city centre Manchester for drinks and food. Tram to Old Trafford and straight into the ground. From 2012 & 2013 experiences the Pubs around O/T are dire and nothing but rip off selling rubbish beer and charge you to enter what are nothing but flea pits. We are in the South stand towards the 20 metre line by the tunnel.

Can anyone recommend somewhere to eat City Centre Manchester?
Thanks

If you go to the Corn Exchange they have a variety of decent restaurants, allndecent value and pretty quick food. Mowgli is good, Indian street food and a couple of cold ones would be ideal!

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:47 am  

rubber duckie wrote:

Exactly why I said Hull FC were in a false position. They've been fortunate on player fitness.

Not according to Lee Radford.

On BBC Lee Radford said not wrote:

It's been a really long season, team now hitting form have had a lot of blokes busted but we've been consistently fit, played a lot of footy and the players look drained, it's a real marathon.

Now to me that reads as if he thinks that Hull have suffered at the end of the season because they have been fortunate to have a fit team all season!

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:11 am  

I've had a few hangovers I'm my lifetime. I've got over them in 2 days. I've said this about Hull various times this season. I also said we would beat them and that they would not win another game.

The clubs around them have stepped up as play off rugby intensified....Hull didn't regardless of the other comment Lee Radford made saying FC are better at knockout rugby....!?

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:39 am  

Train into town for us, plenty of great eating and drinking to be had.

We may be hitting the 16.8% Shipwrecks in Brewdog.

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:02 pm  

The railway club on the A56 ,Chester Road is very good for pre match drinking. Cheap drinks & about 400 yards from ground.

[Uncle Rico]

Re: Super League Grand Final 2016 : Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:19 pm  

Fatbelly wrote:

There are 15 of us going. Train from Central around about 12 and then city centre Manchester for drinks and food. Tram to Old Trafford and straight into the ground. From 2012 & 2013 experiences the Pubs around O/T are dire and nothing but rip off selling rubbish beer and charge you to enter what are nothing but flea pits. We are in the South stand towards the 20 metre line by the tunnel.

Can anyone recommend somewhere to eat City Centre Manchester?
Thanks

Which part of town are you thinking of where does your train come in Deansgate/Oxford Road/ Piccadilly or Victoria? The Printworks and Corn Exchange mentioned earlier are good shouts but best from Victoria.

If you are central and fancy a traditional pub one of my fave's is Sam's Chop House try the Corned Beef Hash or Steak Pudding it's 'sister' pub Toms Chop House is on Cross St and if it's fine they have outdoor seating at the rear off St Ann's Square.

Piccadilly is handy for the top end of the Northern Quarter some great bars with craft beers never eaten over there pub wise but there'll be plenty of choice including a few great 'Indians' a rice plus three (curries) £5/£6 Al Faisal, This and That, Yagdar, highly recommended by hungry Horace Uncle Rico worth a google or PM for directions

Have a great day