Langtree Park hit badly by flooding ahead of Wolves play-off clash (From Warrington Guardian)
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Area around St Helens' ground suffers flooding ahead of Warrington Wolves' play-off visit
9:51am Tuesday 25th September 2012 in Wolves news
The roads and paths near Langtree Park suffered severe flooding yesterday
HEAVY rain is affecting many areas across the north west and St Helens' Langtree Park Stadium is no exception.
Warrington Wolves are due to take on bitter rivals Saints in the play-off semi final at the stadium on Saturday, kick off 6.15pm.
If the rain continues both fans and players may struggle arriving at the fixture.
This image was taken outside of Langtree Park yesterday, Monday, and demonstrates how sustained rainfall has affected the area around the Stadium.
Comments(7)
gerrumonside
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1:00pm Tue 25 Sep 12
It says that if the rain keeps up all week ....hardly an unimaginable scenario..... then fans may struggle to get in and out of the ground on Matchday. Or would you walk down those steps and provide us with a miracle and walk on that floodwater
Its a perfectly credible story...
I assume you would rather not be told about the flooding, and would simply stroll up on Saturday 5 minutes before kick off finding out many entrances are inaccessible and miss a large part of the game...?
I'd guess you'd be first on here moaning about the failure of the authorities and Media to let people know of the flooding...........
some people.......!!!!
Alf_wayliner
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1:53pm Tue 25 Sep 12
"St Helens' ground suffers flooding ahead of Warrington Wolves' play-off visit"
The area of flooding shown in the photograph isn't "the Ground" it's the public highway, namely Peasley Cross Lane and Warrington Old Road. It's a notorious flooding spot and gets flooded at least yearly!
Access to the ground is still available from both ends of McManus way and from the town centre via the footbridge. I would imagine that even St Helens MBC is capable of sign posting signs showing an alternative route should the flooding remain on Saturday.
If the flooding were to actually cause loss of access to any of the turnstiles I think that would signify rainfall of biblical proportions and no one would be travelling to a game in that case!
Also most Wire fans would be coming in from the south and as such would not need to cross that stretch of road.
willdel
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8:11pm Tue 25 Sep 12
HFarrell
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10:46am Wed 26 Sep 12
St.Helens RFC @Saints1890
@wolvesrl can you retweet - there's no flooding at Langtree Park; just to put people's minds at rest
the dr who
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8:25am Fri 28 Sep 12
the dr who
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8:26am Fri 28 Sep 12
Eman Resu says...
12:04pm Tue 25 Sep 12