Thursday night football, Roosters vs Eels and Allianz looks great. Not sure how many people but crowd does not look small. There are going to be successful super clubs that play out of quality stadiums and there are going to be the rest making up the numbers playing out of decaying suburban grounds
Apparently the crowd was 20k on a Thursday night. Looked much more full than that ok tv. I guess the upper levels were closed off and darkened. You couldn’t tell on TV. Brilliant stadium.
Apparently the crowd was 20k on a Thursday night. Looked much more full than that ok tv. I guess the upper levels were closed off and darkened. You couldn’t tell on TV. Brilliant stadium.
Looked great and 20 thousand is still more than either Campbelltown or Leichhardt could fit at anytime.
Yeah new SFS looks great!
I think you're right East's, South's, Parra all play out of big stadiums and are now big clubs.
And add Penrith with their new stadium as the other big Sydeny club
Suburban clubs are the struggelers - Manly, cronulla, StGI and Us.
(Bulldogs the exception as they play at homebush but aren't going well)
I was a fan of CS and LO but only on the proviso that CS was redeveloped as 30k new stadium.
If we ever start making the 8 - we'd be able to average 25k each game and so CS & LO in their current state aren't fit for purpose.
I now think best strategy is go 10 games at BankWest and 1 each at LO and CS.
Once we are successful and filling BankWest out, we have a stronger argument for a new stadium in the South West
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@frullens I appreciate your point in relation to the 25k a game,and it is a fair point.I have to vehemently disagree with you as to the whole concept of playing 10 games at BankWest though.Playing in the heart of Parramatta does nothing to enhance our identity.No doubt it has top notch facilities etc..but for a tribal game I don’t believe you afford yourself any benefit or advantage by playing on someone else’s patch.You just add murk to the waters and compromise your identity.For the future I believe it has to be fortress Campbelltown or at least aspire to that objective.That’s where the future action demographically lies.
I agree aspiration must be a 30k stadium in South West (Campbelltown or even Liverpool)
Until that happens though - do you play at CS and LO with 15-17k capacity? Or in a larger stadium in the west (I've Bankstown where we can average 25k?)
I just think it would be hard for us to argue we need a 30k stadium - if we play solely in suburban grounds and are limited to a max average of 17k.
Unfortunately there no simple solution
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Put it another way - if we finally started actually winning - and there was no 30k Campbelltown Stadoum built yet - would you be happy to lock 7-13k WT fans out of each game?
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It’s hard to argue for any monies when we constantly keep losing and are on the bottom of the ladder.I agree aspiration must be a 30k stadium in South West (Campbelltown or even Liverpool)
Until that happens though - do you play at CS and LO with 15-17k capacity? Or in a larger stadium in the west (I've Bankstown where we can average 25k?)
I just think it would be hard for us to argue we need a 30k stadium - if we play solely in suburban grounds and are limited to a max average of 17k.
Unfortunately there no simple solution
Labor has a 4 year fixed term. They have stated this week that they won’t pay a cent more than $300m for the Penrith stadium and that if the estimate comes out beyond that they will pull the project. Otherwise Minns has stated that his priority is schools and hospitals and the unions are going to go to town on catch-up wage rises now that the public sector wage cap has been abolished.
There is a small chance there might be some investment if the Penrith stadium rebuild is scrapped but beyond this I can’t see any chance that we get any money for CSS or LO in this term of government. The new Labor member for Penrith wasn’t a supporter of the rebuild of a stadium on the paceway track so there might be possibility that it does get pulled.
Personally I would scrap Tamworth and magic round and play Allianz and CSS.
Personally I would scrap Tamworth and magic round and play Allianz and CSS.
I think that could be a smart option.
We need to start acting like a big club and start to expect to be a winning club.
A big winning Sydney club doesn't play out of 2 17k suburban grounds.
Playing at Allianz or BankWest are the only 2 options for the big stadium. And I think you need to retain a presence at CS.
Board/CEO would struggle to leave Leichhardt. But tough decisions are what boards and CEOs are there for
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@frullens Appreciate that,but I would basically tolerate short-term pain for long-term gain.I realise there’s no easy fix,but we’re never going to attain stadium funding unless we declare our intentions and bona fides by making a genuine commitment.
The Tamworth thing annoys me. It is never going to be tigers country, we are perpetual seller dwellers and the laughing stock of the league and we already have 2 “home” grounds with CSS and LO and we take it on ourselves to grow the game in the country. Surely our obligation is to bring the south west juniors through to first grade, not the kids from Tamworth. It’s the type of poor decision that no other club like ours would make. The Magic round is an “away” game for the broncos, dolphins and cowboys……
@tiger-symmetry I can see that side too.
Just looking at funding of stadiums - it seems more political/popular decisions that strategic
Cowboys win GF - new stadium
Panthers win 2 GF - proposed new stadium
SFS - was political thanks to Alan Jones & Co
BankWest - NRL big stadium policy
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Would you expect any big vision thinking/action from the people who own/run this club?
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