What's the plan for the land to the South West of stadium? From those photos it appears to have been cleared.

the plans talk of phase 2 which includes cafes , hotel (maybe) , bars etc , Langtree werent too specific when the Phase 1 plans were revealed

Tour of the stadium on the SL website: www.superleague.co.uk/article/sl ... home/24304

Tour of the stadium on the SL website: www.superleague.co.uk/article/sl ... home/24304

Not really is it, 75% talking about losing the GF and and awful interview with James roby and 25% of the same shots or shots of Eamonn.

I would have taken the cameras around the stadium and done loads of different shots of the place, didn't seem like much effort. Perhaps i'm being too harsh.

I agree, although i always watch the SL interviews and i've even subscribed to that channel on YT i do find them very amateur, there's one interviewer who sounds like a young lad, i watched the Oz and Kiwi interviews he was doing at the airport in the 4N, he asked all the same question but to different guys and seeing as most sportsmen are renta quotes it was just dull.

IMO they should have used Wilkin who is much more articulate.

Shenton is probabaly the Saints player who can string together the most words in a sentence without an "ermmmm" or a "Y'know". Wilkin likes to think of himelf as a media man, but can't see him putting Clarkey out of a job just yet. Mind you, Sky have employed the rat, so there is hope for anyone.

Surely Clarkey's employment is secure for life, now he has his Margin Meter.

New signage on the south stand today , pictures on Redvee , i think it looks really cool
"St Helens RFC" on either side of the badge underneath is "Ex Terra Lucem" and below that is "Club of Legends since 1873" very snazzy i think and I love the Ex Terra Lucem

love it

Where's the 'L' gone??????????

its moved to the start of Legends

Seriously though, Historically we've always been St.Helens RFC, we didnt change when we helped start Rugby league in 1896, and why would we, we still play rugby, and at its best!

That looks bloody awesome!

I seen that today and it is awesome!

They was putting the bases in for the CCTV poles on the path leading towards the new bridge.

No cladding to be seen anywhere

More CCTV? I saw them install two lots on one side of the bridge last week. My guess is that there were a lot of things identified after the Widnes match, not least how there could so easily be trouble as people file out over that bridge.

Apparently it is due to start in about three weeks' time and will take four weeks to complete. The West and East stands along with the North West and North East corners are due to be clad, costing half a million squid (not sure whether that is per stand or in total; I'd imagine per stand). If this doesn't resolve the problem in the North Stand then the North Stand will also be clad, at the same cost again.

read in the planning application that there will be about a dozen CCTV covering the bridge and it approaches.

I hate to be pedantic, but there shouldn't be a full stop after St in St Helens.

Actually, that's incorrect. There should always be a 'full stop' (which actually isn't a full stop) after an abbreviation; it is just that people have fallen out of the habit of putting one there.

i thought that!, St. is short for Saint

It's not an abbreviation though, it's a contraction. If it starts and ends with the first and last letters of the word it is replacing, there is no full stop. For example Dr, Mr, Ltd and St, but if it doesn't then there is a full stop. Esq. Prof. Co. etc. A good example to explain this is, Rt Hon. which uses both a contraction and abbreviation.

And there was me saying I didn't want to be pedantic.

True, since abbreviation and contraction have the same outcome, ie they result in a shortened version of the word.

However, whether abbreviation or contraction, traditional grammar requires a dot/point/stop to be placed after. Dr, Mr, Ltd, St all require stops. That is simply called full punctuation, as opposed to the more common open punctuation used today. It's purpose is to indicate something missing, which there is in both the contraction and the abbreviation (because a contraction is an abbreviation).

PS: I wouldn't take anything applied in Parliament as an indication of general usage!

I don't know where you're getting this bollox from Saints fan but I can only guess it's from a book from the 1930s.

'St' doesn't require a full stop, it is optional. There is no right or wrong. Refer to any dictionary including the OED.

St Helens College has no dot but often the Council will use 'St. Helens Council' Neither is wrong.

You refer to general usage as the arbiter, that is correct. You neeed to research further the general usage of this.

More lettering going on the stadium this morning.