someone been smoking in the toilets

Burger van has overheated.

Seriously, I hope no-one has been hurt and that it isn't too bad. We'll have everyone playing at Widnes next year at this rate.

It's just a really bad day for RL today. I hope no-one is hurt.

Storage compartment set alight in the toilets. Lovely!

lol i like that

Ah, I thought they were burning the real wage accounts...

lol

No no mate, Barrow didn't make the final. Barrow are the ones with the 'imaginative' wages.

I don't know. Halfiax's wages are pretty crazy by all accounts.

What's happening now, they were all back in the stand when I last looked?

Moving them to the opposite stand now what a run around

cause sky said there been moved due to the smell of the smoke in the stand even thought the fire is out.

wonder what had happened had it been a sell out ?

Brian Carney said he hoped it wasn't maliosious

does he think someone thought they would just warm the stand for the spectators

Fax have a great 17 but barrow had too good an overall squad to be in the salary cap. Don't believe for a minute that they adhered to the cap. Never ever ever. Glad they didn't make the final. shows you cant buy success by cheating. Want featherstone to win but both teams are good Championship sides who deserve the chance!

Some throwback has caused this!

Someone KNOWS who it is.

Don't people remember the Bradford Fire?

If this was a prank then whoever did it did themselves , their "team" and the game no favours whatsoever.

A fire in the same stand as hundreds of supporters and people are joking about it.

The stand's made of concrete (not an enormously inflammable substance in my experience), Valley Parade's wasn't. As it was apparently only a piece of cardboard it strikes me as a gross over-reaction to something that could have been solved with a bucket of water!

Judging from the amount of smoke emerging from the stand it was considerably more than just a piece of cardboard alight. The stewards & police acted perfectly correctly (as did the supporters who had to evacuate the stand). The safety of the public has to be the primary concern in these circumstances.

That, and I think all the toilets and catering would have shut down when the alarm was sounded. Hygenically it wouldn't be the smartest move keeping supporters in there.



I dread to think!

did u go to the game ?

No, but most modern stadia and buildings which occupy large amounts of people would have automatic shut down sequences when a fire alarm is sounded. I know the place where I work does, and I can't see the Halliwell Jones Stadium being any different.

If this fire had happened during a Harlequins RL home fixture the entire crowd could have taken shelter in one of the cubicles in the gents toilets.

Stop fantasising on here Bazza.

..you mean the automatic shutdown sequence of waiting for someone with a key to lock the kiosks!!!!!!!!!! Yep, thats automatic