I note that it takes a while at time (even on broadband) for the date
menus to fully populate.
Frank Whiteley-

My guess is the dates are nearly the last stuff in the data stream of
the page, so they appear to take a long time. They ar enot much data
at all, logos and pictures will take the time. Wonder if they
considered the dial up world at some club sites. But I guess if you
design to the old world, nothing gets much better.

These dates will be refreshed every time you change selection
criteria. So if you change region, the dates reflect only that region.
I guess this was better than trying to show a month's calendar and
highlight dates which match the selection criteria.

Web pages such as this are getting so sophisticated, maybe eliminating
frames would be best. And direct links or URL's need to be at a fairly
'high' (ie: safe) level to avoid problems of development changing
names.