http://www.therfl.co.uk/home/news_item_top.php?id=19263

http://www.therfl.co.uk/home/news_item_top.php?id=19263

So Widnes its then

It looks like a one horse race when you read the average attendances for 2010 of the clubs who have been sent an application form to be considered for a Super League licence
The minimum crowd critera is the applicants must have a minimum average home attendance of no less than 2500 during season 2009 or 2010

Featherstone 1932
Barrow 1823
Widnes 3147
Halifax 2364
Batley 1456

I thought Halifax had managed to get their average over 2500 by some creative accounting when they played Batley, where an extra 5 million people were reported as attending *exageration

Yes, I thought they had too.

If they do manage to fiddle the attendance criteria.

They will fail on the rule that says each applicant must have a stadium with an operational capacity of 10.000
the capacity at the New Shay is 6561

According to wikipedia it's capacity is over 10,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shay That might have been before the stand was finished

According to wikipedia it's capacity is over 10,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shay That might have been before the stand was finished

The offical AFC Halifax web site posted the following on August 17th 2010

South Stand 3211
Skirtcoat Stand 2330
North Stand 1020

Total Capacity 6561

Are there not four sides to a football/rugby ground?

At some of the games that are televised they often only use three sides of the ground & in some instances they only use one or two sides of the ground