Is Penrith a Sydney club

[Coastbloke]

Yes yes yes. Deal with it..

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

I would say yes. They were admitted in 1967 as a district, same as Cronulla in what was then the Sydney competition.

Yeh, but Brisbane was added to the NSW comp.

Does that make then an NSW team?

 

[TheEroticGamer]

In the same way Kempsey is Queensland, and Tasmania aren’t inbred freaks.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Im going to say something controversial...

It doesn't really matter!!!!

It is good that they are engaging fans in regional Australia. But, in terms of crowds, i think they would be much better off going south to Campbeltown and east to Blacktown. Relatively high density areas and a fairly short trip to Penrith.

If they could cover these areas to be “Panthers territory” that will convert i to attendance.

 

[kdalymc]

Wollongong is 87km to the CBD.
Katoomba (in the Penrith junior league still) 105km

And? Sydney is massive.
You drive 15km from brisbane your in Logan

 

[mongoose]

I thought this was a good point, but Sydney is about 285 times bigger than brisbane.
Everyone says Penrith is in Sydney, but yeah it's f**ken no where near the cbd....

yeah but some idiot put Sydney CBD practically on the coastline.

Ipswich to the coastline of Brisbane is about 50km, which is the same distance from Penrith to Sydney CBD.

 

[franklin2323]

And? Sydney is massive.
You drive 15km from brisbane your in Logan

Well would you call Logan Brisbane?

 

[kdalymc]

Well would you call Logan Brisbane?

When I go overseas I say brisbane, and then I go "have you ever heard of Logan"
But overseas all people know is Sydney and Melbourne..

But no, Logan isn't brisbane

 

[blue bags]

penriff people dont look or act like sydney people, ok they are different, you know what i mean, country folk lol

 

[Mr Angry]

Well would you call Logan Brisbane?

Of course it is,

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Like Sydney millions poor into the CBD daily.

 

[MugaB]

Greater Western Sydney perhaps?

Shouldn't we then play in homebush like the giants of AFL.... hawhawhaw
Nah i reckon if it came down to it yes we are, but in tthe context of who we can represent is more anything west of st marys to central west nsw, so it can be both really, i mean st george are now are merged with illawarra, so they could also fit that bill too, but kogarah is most definitely in sydney, im more than happy to be either, especially when it comes to the debate of too many teams in sydney, or mergers, penrith is far enough west that it needs not to be in the conversation.

 

[Styles clash]

Yes

 

[Springs09]

Wollongong is 87km to the CBD.
Katoomba (in the Penrith junior league still) 105km

Katoomba isn’t part of Penrith. That’s like saying Canberra is a NSW team because Queanbeyan play in the Canberra comp. Your city/suburb boundaries aren’t defined by what clubs play in your local rugby league junior comp.

 

[juro]

Wollongong is 87km to the CBD.
Katoomba (in the Penrith junior league still) 105km

Geographical centre of Sydney is somewhere around Parramatta, 24km west of the CBD.

- Penrith is 35km west of Parra.
- Katoomba is 81km west of Parra.
- Wollongong is 86km south of Parra.

 

[TheFrog]

Ipswich

Ipswich is the oldest provincial city in Queensland with a history dating back 1904 and a population of 200,000. Ipswich City Council is the local government body and this area is located in the south-west of Brisbane’s metropolitan area. The population is estimated to more than double by 2031, especially with the continued development of the Greater Springfield. For what’s on in Ipswich, see Discover Ipswich.

Penrith is comparable to this place. Population is similar, and it had its origins as a provincial town in the 19th century. Penrith is a bit further from the capital, but because Sydney is a much larger metropolis and the area to the west (the Cumberland plain) is more building friendly than the north and south, it is more or less contigious suburbia to the CBD. This is the very reason you could never expect Penrith supporters to travel even to Parramatta (36km) for their home games.

 

[TheFrog]

Katoomba isn’t part of Penrith.

It's part of the Penrith Panthers junior league catchment, but that extends out to Dubbo. The city of Penrith LGA ends at point the altitude starts rising, just west of Emu Plains.

 

[Mr Angry]

Which shows you the biggest flaw in the Western Corridor bid, imagine Penriths original bid had home games not in Penrith but Moore Park.

 

[TheFrog]

Which shows you the biggest flaw in the Western Corridor bid, imagine Penriths original bid had home games not in Penrith but Moore Park.

If we'd been good enough we would have had games transferred to Moore Park regularly. I can remember only one, against the Rabbitohs in '68.

 

[MugaB]

If we'd been good enough we would have had games transferred to Moore Park regularly. I can remember only one, against the Rabbitohs in '68.

We do it for home finals, as homebush is total garbage

 

[Valheru]

We do it for home finals, as homebush is total garbage

Surely they would use bankwest now?