In my experience of Haverhill supermarkets, most of the checkouts will be 'manned' by Polish speaking staff. It's a new town where most of the population commute to Cambridge or Stansted for work. Any low paid jobs (waitress, bar & shop staff, factory work etc) round here will have mostly East Europeans doing it - and we'd be stuffed without them. If you want a more extreme example, try some of the back lanes through the Cambridgeshire fens and see the 'slow down' signs for drivers written in 15+ European languages. You don't get too many British workers in the fields picking vegetables.



Back on topic - we've had three enjoyable internationals on tv this weekend, all with 10K+ crowds (Aus v NZ, England v Wales, France v Scotland). Well done to Leigh, Warrington & Perpignan - all the events seem to have gone smoothly. Plenty of England cricket matches won't have 10k in attendance, same for GB Davis Cup tennis & I've been to England or Wales RL games in the past that had half that number in attendance. No way can you call this a 'poor' crowd.

Quote ="MattyB" Seriously, people would moan at anything on here icon_exclaim.gif" alt="icon_exclaim.gif" title="Exclamation" />'" Never a truer word said!

Quote ="MattyB" Seriously, people would moan at anything on here icon_exclaim.gif" alt="icon_exclaim.gif" title="Exclamation" />'" Never a truer word said!

Quote ="Wellsy13"Easy to get parked near the ground for me. Just parked in a street near the retail park. We were a minute late for kick off as well, so it wasn't about getting there early. Can't really comment on how hard it was to find the ground because we used SatNav to get there! Was anyone else in the retail park near the Sainsbury's when the chav decided to have a kick off? One of the funniest things I've seen! In stereotypical fashion, gobbed off at a woman in a car, then when a by passer came to help, said something to him, narrowly avoided getting floored, then backed off whilst shouting more threats ("come on then, I'll have ya!" isn't quite as threatening when you're back pedalling!)'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Sounds like it only needed someone to kneel down behind him and trip him up and it would've been perfect

Quote ="Wellsy13"Easy to get parked near the ground for me. Just parked in a street near the retail park. We were a minute late for kick off as well, so it wasn't about getting there early. Can't really comment on how hard it was to find the ground because we used SatNav to get there! Was anyone else in the retail park near the Sainsbury's when the chav decided to have a kick off? One of the funniest things I've seen! In stereotypical fashion, gobbed off at a woman in a car, then when a by passer came to help, said something to him, narrowly avoided getting floored, then backed off whilst shouting more threats ("come on then, I'll have ya!" isn't quite as threatening when you're back pedalling!)'" icon_lol.gif" alt="icon_lol.gif" title="Laughing" /> Sounds like it only needed someone to kneel down behind him and trip him up and it would've been perfect

I came for the weekend, attended both games and stayed in the Park Inn at the Leigh Sports Village and must say I thought everything about the LSV was great. Easy access, good traffic flow, fine parking, nice ground etc.

Yes saw that, it was Ryan Bailey.

Thought the crowd was ok for a fixture against Wales, one big plus point was the amount of families in the seated stand behind the sticks.We had no hassle getting to the LSV either, all in all a decent afternoon out.

Thought the crowd was ok for a fixture against Wales, one big plus point was the amount of families in the seated stand behind the sticks.We had no hassle getting to the LSV either, all in all a decent afternoon out.