An argument for suburban grounds

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The Who

Journey Man
The tools claiming fans want to watch matches at large, comfortable stadia need only look at the crowd numbers this round:
Brookie: 13,432 and Remondis 17,242
Yet the state-of-the-art stadia = Cbus Super Stadium 10,574 and AAMI Park 13,149

The Melbourne and Gold Coast stadia are great, yet they don't draw crowds. For fans it's not about comfort - we used to get 27,000 at Brookie when people stood. It's about atmosphere, tribalism and location.
If the NRL takes Manly or Cronulla from their homeland it will be the death knell of both clubs.
 
The Who said:
The tools claiming fans want to watch matches at large, comfortable stadia need only look at the crowd numbers this round:
Brookie: 13,432 and Remondis 17,242
Yet the state-of-the-art stadia = Cbus Super Stadium 10,574 and AAMI Park 13,149

The Melbourne and Gold Coast stadia are great, yet they don't draw crowds. For fans it's not about comfort - we used to get 27,000 at Brookie when people stood. It's about atmosphere, tribalism and location.
If the NRL takes Manly or Cronulla from their homeland it will be the death knell of both clubs.
Cronulla may die but nothing can kill us feathered friend !!!
 
Too many teams will be playing out of stadiums. There will be:
Bulldogs
Souths
Roosters
Manly
Dragons
Sharks
Eels
Tigers
Panthers

Then we've got;
Swans
Waratahs
Sydney FC
 
I seriously doubt that the NSW Government is dumb enough to try to centralise rugby league in Sydney, especially when the two most powerful politicians, Mike Baird and Brad Hazzard are from the Manly Warringah area, supported of course by their Federal colleagues, Tony and Bronnie.
Let's put it down to newspaper kite-flying.
 
The Who said:
The tools claiming fans want to watch matches at large, comfortable stadia need only look at the crowd numbers this round:
Brookie: 13,432 and Remondis 17,242
Yet the state-of-the-art stadia = Cbus Super Stadium 10,574 and AAMI Park 13,149

The Melbourne and Gold Coast stadia are great, yet they don't draw crowds. For fans it's not about comfort - we used to get 27,000 at Brookie when people stood. It's about atmosphere, tribalism and location.
If the NRL takes Manly or Cronulla from their homeland it will be the death knell of both clubs.

Maybe that is what they are trying to achieve. :dodgy:
 
Maybe there should be 8 generic teams playing in red, and 8 generic teams playing in blue, all playing at a stadium Friday, Saturdays and Sundays. That would make the nrl happy surely.
 
It's just annoying that these politicians keep using 'crowd numbers' and 'patron comfort' and their reasoning, when it is anything but.

Money.

Both making it, and minimising costs are the only true reasons for their misguided strategy.

Though it'd be too much to ask any pollie to stop lying and tell us the real reasons publicly.
 

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