I think the handover might be imminent.

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I wasn't going to give the Council the glory!

Those two never miss a photo opportunity - bet you can't find a photo from today without them on there somewhere?



"Where's Barrie and Marie?" - new game for when the photos are released

I know. They're a pain in the backside.

TC is one cool sonofabitch! Look at him, all blasé, hand in his pocket with a look that says 'yeah i'm just getting handed the keys to the new stadium. So what MoFo!?'

Who are those people?



Guy on the right looks like Stuart Barnes. I hope they've not given the keys to the wrong people.

Barrie Grunewald, Guy from Barr (Presumably), Marie Rimmer and Tony 'Top Cat' Colquitt

Where did they find that rugby ball?? Not even this years? Cheap skates





Someone's going to have to get a lot of key's cut

It's the cuts, obviously.

Nice ground reminds me of the LSV but a little better ofcourse cant wait to go there next season with my lad

looking at both councillors waistbands, the cuts havnt included free lunches

Strange that, isn't it? (Not!)

literally fat cats. The libdem/conservative coallition (in sthelens council, not national government) granted all the planning for the stadium, which Ms Rimmer and her Labour cronies objected to and now she's taking the credit for it. Unbelievable scenes.

Or, sadly typical of local politics...

Nauseating really. Especially when you consider that her and her cronies originally offered a measly fifty grand towards the stadium and now she's going on about how they paid eight million. They didn't. The coalition council did. Damn shame that the majority of the electorate in St Helens are as thick as bricks and re-elected her and her cronies.



At least we got our stadium in, in the nick of time!

Bit low resorting to insults based on personal appearances, on a thread where we should be celebrating one of the finest moments in Saints history, IMO.



Thought we were above that.

Well, I started the thread so I'm entitled to comment on it. Secondly, the insults aren't based upon appearances, they're based upon two politicians taking credit where it isn't due and as a voting member of the public, I'm entitled to comment upon the hypocrisy of that and redirect the credit accordingly.





Some of us are most definitely above Labour politicians!

There were comments (not yours) about 'waistbands' and 'fat cats'. Just felt it a bit disappointing.



I think the Tories and Lib Dems have also rode many a shirt tail - as BL pointed out earlier, it's typical of local (and, to be fair, national) politics. Hardly news.



What IS news, is that we have the keys to our shiny new ground

I think you and I have had this discussion before and neither of us has changed our views. There is one difference: the Labour council in St Helens came back into power and immediately spent money on a wraparound ad in the St Helens Star whinging about the cuts. They haven't shut up since. And since they are both of significant girth size and are taking credit where it isn't due, they have left themselves open for some heckling. Which they have received and which I found amusing.



So there!



Meanwhile, as you said,

to the new stadium!

oh no, i have equal contempt for all local politicians dont worry!

but as you say the important bit is we now have in our (Eammons) possesion a very shiny new stadium

Trust me, you and I won't have had the discussion before - I'm certainly no tub thumper for Labour, like Saint Simon my disdain is shared equally among the parties.



No, that's not true, BNP get way more than an equal share of my disdain but then, they don't really constitute a political party, do they?

Technically they do, yes, since they are one. But to me they are just an excuse for some people to indulge in racism.

So why wasn't Big Mc there? without his dealings we wouldn't have it.