@garry Your sell out crowd is where the majority of the supporter base is locked out ! This is the major issue that the club will have selecting a ground !! Lock out your supporter base and there is no growth and in the end the business dies on the vine !
I have said for LO to be viable for anymore games then it really needs to have the capacity increased to preferably 25k, which I doubt will happen.
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@mike Don’t forget a large portion of the money is going to the swimming pool facility .. fixing things that rate payers should be ! pork barrelling at its best
@eastiemagpie After 20 seasons keeping a minority of fractions happy is an appalling why to run a business!
The organisation needs a leader that will finally realise the potential this club has and that is giving the footy club a home and leave the few fractions reminiscing how i great it was 20 seasons ago !Its 2022..The diehards, like me, will go no matter the venue (except Liverpool.. lol). It’s the fans that aren’t going now that we need to attract. That’s were the focus on which home ground to choose should be.
Capacity for existing diehards and new attendees. Growth is what we should be looking at. Growth is what will ensure the club will never die.
100% correct, we need to grow the club and the fanbase. A crowd of 14k is not going the growing the business, factor in those that may not return after experiencing those muddy conditions and we could well go backwards. If we are to attract new fans our facilities need to be first class.
@eastiemagpie After 20 seasons keeping a minority of fractions happy is an appalling why to run a business!
The organisation needs a leader that will finally realise the potential this club has and that is giving the footy club a home and leave the few fractions reminiscing how i great it was 20 seasons ago !Its 2022..The diehards, like me, will go no matter the venue (except Liverpool.. lol). It’s the fans that aren’t going now that we need to attract. That’s were the focus on which home ground to choose should be.
Capacity for existing diehards and new attendees. Growth is what we should be looking at. Growth is what will ensure the club will never die.
Liverpool would be great for me, 20 minutes up the M5…but I hate the thought of playing there.
We have done over 20 years penance for the diehards, time to grow up and expend beyond what our beloved foundation clubs were.
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@eastiemagpie After 20 seasons keeping a minority of fractions happy is an appalling why to run a business!
The organisation needs a leader that will finally realise the potential this club has and that is giving the footy club a home and leave the few fractions reminiscing how i great it was 20 seasons ago !Its 2022..The diehards, like me, will go no matter the venue (except Liverpool.. lol). It’s the fans that aren’t going now that we need to attract. That’s were the focus on which home ground to choose should be.
Capacity for existing diehards and new attendees. Growth is what we should be looking at. Growth is what will ensure the club will never die.
Liverpool would be great for me, 20 minutes up the M5…but I hate the thought of playing there.
We have done over 20 years penance for the diehards, time to grow up and expend beyond what our beloved foundation clubs were.
That is fine if there was an appropriate stadium, there just isn't. In my view Commbank is the closest to an appropriate stadium and people don't like it because of a Leagues club next door.
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I love reading this thread I wholeheartedly agree with everyone's comments! Even though they are all contradictory
There's such strong arguments for and against every option.
Personally, I think it's incredibly important that the club take leadership with the crucial strategic issue and outline a clear narrative and plan forward, and bring all of us fans along with them.
I would be happy with whatever option the club lands on, if they are on the front foot and lead and outline a clear vision
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this is such a tough decision they get it wrong and we are signing a depth warrant for the club
can't just play out of LO
can't just play out of CS
we are a joint venture we have been forn20 years and will always be a merge of magpie tiger.
option is really a 6 and 6 split or simply 3 boutique games at each ground and the remainder sfs or homebush
parramatta stadium didn't help balmain in 90's and neither did campbletown save Magpies in 90's
The parramatta leagues club is not a good look, AFS does not have a club right next to it and would be shared by Roosters, souths and potentially us
when we were flying and won the comp and had the glory run in 2010 and 2011 the old SFS did a good job
Now the new SFS has good public transport and a potentially great modern stadium. It can work again as part of a 3 way split between LO CS and SFS
I accept that the landscape has been hard for the club to show its hand given there appears to be one last round of money to hand out for stadiums in next months State Budget. I don’t really know what to do with the $50m LO news as I agree it’s enough to maintain LO as a viable boutique ground and probably makes a 6/6 split a baseline but that doesn’t leave room for a medium capacity modern stadium in our rotation. I can’t see the NSW government spending $50m on LO for 3 league games a year. I would probably prefer just a basic LO upgrade (toilets, screen maybe) and then we play 6 SFS, 3 LO, 3 CSS. Regardless, after next months budget announcement the club really needs to take leadership of this issue and make the call.
https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2017/09/30/leichhardt-oval---inner-wests-council/
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https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2017/09/30/leichhardt-oval---inner-wests-council/
What a yawn. Does nothing to address the shortcomings of Leichhardt Oval and how they are going to turn it into a modern suburban ground. Just a lot of chest thumping from the old guard with nothing of substance. Disappointing.
https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2017/09/30/leichhardt-oval---inner-wests-council/
What a yawn. Does nothing to address the shortcomings of Leichhardt Oval and how they are going to turn it into a modern suburban ground. Just a lot of chest thumping from the old guard with nothing of substance. Disappointing.
RElax Mike, its an old video. At least 2-3 years old. I love the video, it echoes my sentiments and brings back many memories but clearly put together by someone with no idea about Balmain or Wests Tigers history. Anyone who features Brian Smith or Mitchell Moses has no clue.
https://www.weststigers.com.au/news/2017/09/30/leichhardt-oval---inner-wests-council/
What a yawn. Does nothing to address the shortcomings of Leichhardt Oval and how they are going to turn it into a modern suburban ground. Just a lot of chest thumping from the old guard with nothing of substance. Disappointing.
RElax Mike, its an old video. At least 2-3 years old. I love the video, it echoes my sentiments and brings back many memories but clearly put together by someone with no idea about Balmain or Wests Tigers history. Anyone who features Brian Smith or Mitchell Moses has no clue.
The problem I have with it in the context of this thread is it looking back not forward.
Anyone have any thoughts on why both LO and CSS don't have a major ground sponsor?
Could be great additional revenue - won't obviously pay for upgrade, but would go a long way to keeping the ground facilities to standard.
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