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That’s the problem with the current mentality. Instead of seeing commbank as a stadium built for all western Sydney and alliance for all of central and eastern sydney you see them as for two specific clubs. Until that mentality changes Sydney will be stuck in its impasse of every club wanting a shiny new stadium.
The opinion of an AFL fan living 4000km away is irrellevant. Sydney is a different geographical beast to your beloved melbourne.
Allianz opened only a year ago and cost $828mill for a bells and whistles 42,500 stadium.
Penrith didnt need to be as good as commbank. Not sure how much paceway was going to cost to purchase be geez thats some inflation on the cost of Allianz!
Construction is out of control in this country. They are building this amazing 60k stadium and surrounding sports area in Hong Kong for $600mill Aus
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The story by fans here of it taking 2 hours to get from Penrith to Manly is an eye opener. Not so easy or fair to say you can only play in 2 stadiums in this city.
It helped that Cows didn’t have a CommBank type stadium half an hour away plus the anti stadium sentiment hadn’t started yet.
Qld treat rugby league better
I thought regional centres have different perspective to distance, ‘country mile’ and all that? Anyway, my second point still stands. The pandemic and cost-of-living crisis contributing to the anti stadium sentiment didn’t exist when either of those stadiums were built. Like Moore Park and Parramatta, they got in early. Until either an economic recovery, a successful World Cup bid or politicians grow some, we’re not getting anything for a while, sadly.
Brentford, Fulham, and most other major football teams in the UK, own their own stadiums.
Shared centralised stadia is pretty much standard practice for publicly owned stadiums these days. It’s more cost effective and commercially sound, and it’s cheaper and easier to build and maintain dedicated infrastructure around a single stadium than half a dozen or more.
So you want every team in Sydney to play in 2 stadiums. Impossible.
The only time I see people complain about Shark Park is when they pull a Penrith and ask for the taxpayer to help fund upgrades that aren’t in the interest of the broader public.
Most anywhere where the taxpayer owns the facilities. Most cities in the US and Canada where the facilities have been built in the last 30ish years for example.
