if we end up just at campbletown then we are brown bread as a club
if we play just at LO it is falling down
only option is a mix
4 sfs
3 LO
3 CSS
1 magic Rd
1 Tamworth
I would punt Tamworth and magic round personally. We need to focus on securing our base, I don’t see how playing in Tamworth improves our club.
It expands the support for the club and Rugby League in general into the country areas. Every team should be mandated to take one home game a season to a regional (country) area. I throughly support the club in doing this.
I get it, but we already have 3 home grounds plus we are always home team at magic round. Tamworth has 1/3 of the games that we play at CSS which is meant to be our future. Let’s sort our backyard out first.
if we end up just at campbletown then we are brown bread as a club
if we play just at LO it is falling down
only option is a mix
4 sfs
3 LO
3 CSS
1 magic Rd
1 Tamworth
I would punt Tamworth and magic round personally. We need to focus on securing our base, I don’t see how playing in Tamworth improves our club.
It expands the support for the club and Rugby League in general into the country areas. Every team should be mandated to take one home game a season to a regional (country) area. I throughly support the club in doing this.
I get it, but we already have 3 home grounds plus we are always home team at magic round. Tamworth has 1/3 of the games that we play at CSS which is meant to be our future. Let’s sort our backyard out first.
Having a game at Tamworth isn’t our biggest problem. Playing out of suburban sub standard, last century grounds is.
if we end up just at campbletown then we are brown bread as a club
if we play just at LO it is falling down
only option is a mix
4 sfs
3 LO
3 CSS
1 magic Rd
1 Tamworth
I would punt Tamworth and magic round personally. We need to focus on securing our base, I don’t see how playing in Tamworth improves our club.
It expands the support for the club and Rugby League in general into the country areas. Every team should be mandated to take one home game a season to a regional (country) area. I throughly support the club in doing this.
I get it, but we already have 3 home grounds plus we are always home team at magic round. Tamworth has 1/3 of the games that we play at CSS which is meant to be our future. Let’s sort our backyard out first.
Having a game at Tamworth isn’t our biggest problem. Playing out of suburban sub standard, last century grounds is.
9 SFS, 1 LO, 1 CSS, 1 Tamworth will do
I’m not sure Tamworth will continue. I’m pretty sure the Magic Round as a home game will continue.
as a season ticket holder I get a bit dirty about magic round and Tamworth every year it robs us of 2 home games
Finally! At long last! It’s here!
Behold, sports fans, the Emerald City’s modern-day Coliseum with its comfy seats, toilets that smell like an English rose garden, and open concourses so you can roam like wildebeests from bar to food outlet to wellness room instead of feeling like the flattened sardine you became whenever more than 10,000 people packed into that tired old hag otherwise known as the Sydney Football Stadium.
The New Allianz Stadium officially opens on Sunday with a free concert — some will argue that’s still too much to watch Guy Sebastian — before things officially get real the following Friday when the Roosters and South Sydney meet in the final round of the rugby league season.
What a time to be alive. Even half alive.
Is the NRL happy? Well, of course not — it wants even more millions for suburban grounds.
Is the state government going to allow the Rabbitohs to play there, just down from its spiritual home of Redfern? Well, of course not — it’s holding the club to its deal at Accor Stadium.
Sydney, we are doing sport all wrong and if we’re going to justify the $830 million spend on new digs at Moore Park we better start getting it right.
And by getting it right I mean by filling the bloody thing. That will only happen when sports, clubs and silly bureaucrats start putting fans first.
Your humble correspondent returns after a few weeks in Europe post-Commonwealth Games, including a trip on Sunday to London Stadium to watch West Ham host Brighton and Hove in the Premier League.
The Hammers were hammered 2-0 but the experience … oh the experience.
Sure, London Stadium is not Old Trafford, Anfield or Emirates. It was the main site for the 2012 London Olympics and has been described as a “bowl of blancmange”.
But what a tasty blancmange it turned out to be.
Food trucks and bars lined the perimeter of the arena. The South African chicken and sweet chilli kebab I inhaled was delish, the beer was cold and properly poured by happy staff, and all of it reasonably priced.
But what struck this punter most was you could buy these things before, during and long after the game. It was like I was a real adult.
None of this pulling-down-the-shutters-midway-through-the-second-half malarkey we get in Sydney. No overbearing security guards glaring at you like you’re on day release from Long Bay because you’ve dared ask for three beers.
Nah, mate. Only two beers at a time. RSA and all that. You’ll have to take those to your mates then line up for another 30 minutes so I can pour you a single mid-strength that’s dead flat and you can pay me $9.50 for the honour. We just can’t trust anyone who buys three beers at a time, eh?
When the match was over, most of the 62,449-strong crowd converged on Stratford Station but instead of fearing it would take hours to get out of the place, dozens of crowd control attendants calmly told you which way to go, letting sections of people through at a time so there was no crush.
You were guided from the stadium all the way to the station platform. We were sipping Singapore Slings in Soho within 40 minutes of full-time.
The NRL would be better served directing its energy towards a rollicking and painless game-day experience instead of squeezing yet more millions out of the government.
Only ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys could threaten to move the grand final to Brisbane at precisely the same time a world-class stadium built mostly for the benefit of his code was being completed.
The Great PVL’s unyielding support for rugby league is admirable and his combative rhetoric appeals to the game’s supporters who appreciate that he’s out there, the li’l battler, battling for them.
But the NRL can’t have it both ways. Only a few years ago, it threatened to move the grand final if it didn’t get new stadia. Now, it’s doing the same thing if it doesn’t get more money for suburban grounds.
Meanwhile, the state government needs to forget about Souths’ existing deal to play at Accor until 2030 and let them return to Moore Park.
The city’s so-called “stadium wars” ended in June 2020 when the SCG Trust and Venues NSW merged. It meant silly politics could be pushed aside so sporting events could be played at the right time, in the right stadiums, to ensure they are full.
Has anyone considered the following model:
Play regular-season matches at CommBank Stadium in the west and Allianz Stadium in the east. For the headline fixtures, like State of Origins, NRL grand finals, Socceroos and Wallabies internationals, and those lucrative friendlies involving the likes of Barcelona FC and Liverpool, use the 80,000-seat Accor.
Make sure there’s adequate public transport to all of them. Make sure there are helpful staff telling people where to go. Make sure fans can get a drink, a feed, and price both reasonably. Give people a reason to attend sport instead of making it feel like a costly privilege.
Last weekend, the NRL grand final rematch between Souths and Penrith was played at Accor Stadium on a Thursday night. Crowd: 15,208.
Last weekend, AFL arch-rivals Carlton and Collingwood met in a blockbuster at the MCG. Crowd: 88,287.
Sydney finally has the stadium network a city of 5.3 million people deserves and needs. How about we use these venues properly, so they don’t become another white elephant but, instead, a vibrant and multi-coloured elephant?
Finally! At long last! It’s here!
Behold, sports fans, the Emerald City’s modern-day Coliseum with its comfy seats, toilets that smell like an English rose garden, and open concourses so you can roam like wildebeests from bar to food outlet to wellness room instead of feeling like the flattened sardine you became whenever more than 10,000 people packed into that tired old hag otherwise known as the Sydney Football Stadium.
The New Allianz Stadium officially opens on Sunday with a free concert — some will argue that’s still too much to watch Guy Sebastian — before things officially get real the following Friday when the Roosters and South Sydney meet in the final round of the rugby league season.
What a time to be alive. Even half alive.
Is the NRL happy? Well, of course not — it wants even more millions for suburban grounds.
Is the state government going to allow the Rabbitohs to play there, just down from its spiritual home of Redfern? Well, of course not — it’s holding the club to its deal at Accor Stadium.
Sydney, we are doing sport all wrong and if we’re going to justify the $830 million spend on new digs at Moore Park we better start getting it right.
And by getting it right I mean by filling the bloody thing. That will only happen when sports, clubs and silly bureaucrats start putting fans first.
Your humble correspondent returns after a few weeks in Europe post-Commonwealth Games, including a trip on Sunday to London Stadium to watch West Ham host Brighton and Hove in the Premier League.
The Hammers were hammered 2-0 but the experience … oh the experience.
Sure, London Stadium is not Old Trafford, Anfield or Emirates. It was the main site for the 2012 London Olympics and has been described as a “bowl of blancmange”.
But what a tasty blancmange it turned out to be.
Food trucks and bars lined the perimeter of the arena. The South African chicken and sweet chilli kebab I inhaled was delish, the beer was cold and properly poured by happy staff, and all of it reasonably priced.
But what struck this punter most was you could buy these things before, during and long after the game. It was like I was a real adult.
None of this pulling-down-the-shutters-midway-through-the-second-half malarkey we get in Sydney. No overbearing security guards glaring at you like you’re on day release from Long Bay because you’ve dared ask for three beers.
Nah, mate. Only two beers at a time. RSA and all that. You’ll have to take those to your mates then line up for another 30 minutes so I can pour you a single mid-strength that’s dead flat and you can pay me $9.50 for the honour. We just can’t trust anyone who buys three beers at a time, eh?
When the match was over, most of the 62,449-strong crowd converged on Stratford Station but instead of fearing it would take hours to get out of the place, dozens of crowd control attendants calmly told you which way to go, letting sections of people through at a time so there was no crush.
You were guided from the stadium all the way to the station platform. We were sipping Singapore Slings in Soho within 40 minutes of full-time.
The NRL would be better served directing its energy towards a rollicking and painless game-day experience instead of squeezing yet more millions out of the government.
Only ARL Commission chairman Peter V’landys could threaten to move the grand final to Brisbane at precisely the same time a world-class stadium built mostly for the benefit of his code was being completed.
The Great PVL’s unyielding support for rugby league is admirable and his combative rhetoric appeals to the game’s supporters who appreciate that he’s out there, the li’l battler, battling for them.
But the NRL can’t have it both ways. Only a few years ago, it threatened to move the grand final if it didn’t get new stadia. Now, it’s doing the same thing if it doesn’t get more money for suburban grounds.
Meanwhile, the state government needs to forget about Souths’ existing deal to play at Accor until 2030 and let them return to Moore Park.
The city’s so-called “stadium wars” ended in June 2020 when the SCG Trust and Venues NSW merged. It meant silly politics could be pushed aside so sporting events could be played at the right time, in the right stadiums, to ensure they are full.
Has anyone considered the following model:
Play regular-season matches at CommBank Stadium in the west and Allianz Stadium in the east. For the headline fixtures, like State of Origins, NRL grand finals, Socceroos and Wallabies internationals, and those lucrative friendlies involving the likes of Barcelona FC and Liverpool, use the 80,000-seat Accor.
Make sure there’s adequate public transport to all of them. Make sure there are helpful staff telling people where to go. Make sure fans can get a drink, a feed, and price both reasonably. Give people a reason to attend sport instead of making it feel like a costly privilege.
Last weekend, the NRL grand final rematch between Souths and Penrith was played at Accor Stadium on a Thursday night. Crowd: 15,208.
Last weekend, AFL arch-rivals Carlton and Collingwood met in a blockbuster at the MCG. Crowd: 88,287.
Sydney finally has the stadium network a city of 5.3 million people deserves and needs. How about we use these venues properly, so they don’t become another white elephant but, instead, a vibrant and multi-coloured elephant?
Oh so true. There’s a place for nostalgia, but you also need to move forward and make decisions that are for the betterment of the club and it’s fans.
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I wrote a proposal a few years ago:
18 club comp- with 9 sydney clubs play each other twice for 25 rounds.
West Sydney v West Sydney clubs - play at Commbamk
East Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at Allianz
West Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at homebush
Sydney v out of Sydney clubs - play at 'clubs suburban ground'
All Sydney v Sydney games have reciprocal membership rights with ground split in half for each supporter base.
Each Sydney club member essentially get membership access to 16 Sydney derby games in a central location. Plus 4-5 suburban ground games.
Sydney derby games only played Friday night, Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.
West Sydney- WT, Panthers, parra, Bulldogs
East Sydney- souths, east's, manly, Sharks, dragons
Top 8 2023
I wrote a proposal a few years ago:
18 club comp- with 9 sydney clubs play each other twice for 25 rounds.
West Sydney v West Sydney clubs - play at Commbamk
East Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at Allianz
West Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at homebush
Sydney v out of Sydney clubs - play at 'clubs suburban ground'
All Sydney v Sydney games have reciprocal membership rights with ground split in half for each supporter base.
Each Sydney club member essentially get membership access to 16 Sydney derby games in a central location. Plus 4-5 suburban ground games.
Sydney derby games only played Friday night, Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.
West Sydney- WT, Panthers, parra, Bulldogs
East Sydney- souths, east's, manly, Sharks, dragons
Great idea
I wrote a proposal a few years ago:
18 club comp- with 9 sydney clubs play each other twice for 25 rounds.
West Sydney v West Sydney clubs - play at Commbamk
East Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at Allianz
West Sydney v East Sydney clubs - play at homebush
Sydney v out of Sydney clubs - play at 'clubs suburban ground'
All Sydney v Sydney games have reciprocal membership rights with ground split in half for each supporter base.
Each Sydney club member essentially get membership access to 16 Sydney derby games in a central location. Plus 4-5 suburban ground games.
Sydney derby games only played Friday night, Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.
West Sydney- WT, Panthers, parra, Bulldogs
East Sydney- souths, east's, manly, Sharks, dragons
Small amendment. East vs west team play at the stadium of the home team ie if tigers host roosters play it at Commbank not Accor
Just lock in one home ground and get on with it seriously. Imo comm bank should be it because our two are eyesores.
Going to the Roosters vs Wabbits game at the new SFS on Friday to check out the facilities. Looking forward to the experience.
Going to the Roosters vs Wabbits game at the new SFS on Friday to check out the facilities. Looking forward to the experience.
Yes, full report required please 👍
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Going to the Roosters vs Wabbits game at the new SFS on Friday to check out the facilities. Looking forward to the experience.
Heard today on the radio you might be watching 2 reserve grade teams play
