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[Timmah]

Torrential rain? You are the biggest soft c**k out. If Sydney was a decent supporter of IRL it would have sold out before game day and thus the weather would have been insignificant. Or at least sold more than 10k.

Wagga = the new capital of rugby league.

:lol: You're a f**king braindead f**kwit.

And please tell me how I'm a softcock when I was there and sat through it for four hours, while you no doubt had your precious little grandstand seat and an arse cushion to boot?

 

[roughyedspud]

now now kids....play nicely :lol:

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Sydney = owned by Wagga.

 

[Eels Dude]

Torrential rain? You are the biggest soft c**k out. If Sydney was a decent supporter of IRL it would have sold out before game day and thus the weather would have been insignificant. Or at least sold more than 10k.

Wagga = the new capital of rugby league.

Why don't you read through this thread and count the number of people who stated they had bought tickets but didn't go, or knew people who'd bought tickets but didn't go, due to the poor weather...

 

[East Coast Tiger]

So? That makes them good supporters does it? That's right up there with, oh there's too many Queenslanders in the Australian team, as excuses as to why Sydney people are so useless.

 

[yakstorm]

Torrential rain? You are the biggest soft c**k out. If Sydney was a decent supporter of IRL it would have sold out before game day and thus the weather would have been insignificant. Or at least sold more than 10k.

Wagga = the new capital of rugby league.

The match did sell more than 10K, it in fact sold close to 15K which makes you wonder how big of a crowd could have been there if the weather was fine.

I don't blame people for not turning up, as Timmah said, Parramatta Stadium, outside of the Ken Thornett Stand and Mick Cronin Stand has zero cover for fans. So in reality only about 6,000 of the 20,000 seats are covered.

I went to the game with about 8 mates, and I can tell you I wouldn't have sat in the rain for the 5 hours if they weren't keen to go. I would have possibly only turned up for the Australia match or left after the Tonga v Samoa. It wasn't nice.

Being in the rain is fine when you can't really stand or do something, but just sitting there, with it being constant will put off people, especially for a match where there was no doubt Australia would win easily.

Yes many Sydneysiders are soft compared to some parts of the world, especially your Christchurch's and Wellington's, but I think the assumption that some of these other areas would have had the fans flocking in massive droves against PNG if they too had similar conditions are a bit dillusional.

The crowd wasn't great, but it could have been a lot worse. We were just unlucky with the weather, but hey at least two good games still got to be played.

 

[East Coast Tiger]

The fact remains Sydney has yet to really support IRL in the last 15 years or more and all the excuses under the sun doesn't alter that fact. Take the games elsewhere until Sydney wakes up and realises it has to actually support the game to get it. Well it would if the NSWRL tards didn't run the game.

 

[RedVee]

It was in Parramatta FOR the Tonga - Samoa game. THAT was the real drawcard and was deliberately allocated to an area that had a real local (and surrounding suburbs) interest. The Australia PNG game was tacked on because the ARL knows that Sydney will not support a no-contest, and in so many peoples eyes, International Rugby League has been reduced to a joke "who cares" level. Sad but true.

 

[myanonymoususername]

Yes many Sydneysiders are soft compared to some parts of the world, especially your Christchurch's and Wellington's,

Speaking of NZ cities and the weather conditions they put up with at times, I think the new rugby stadium in Dunedin looks to be well worth copying for Sydney - a 30k fully undercover (with transparent roof) rectangular, all seated stadium. A couple of those would be just about perfect for NRL clubs to play at in Sydney.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

and a team full of New South Welshmen,

Why on earth should this matter? It's the team representing the country. :crazy:

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Speaking of NZ cities and the weather conditions they put up with at times, I think the new rugby stadium in Dunedin looks to be well worth copying for Sydney - a 30k fully undercover (with transparent roof) rectangular, all seated stadium. A couple of those would be just about perfect for NRL clubs to play at in Sydney.

So it's a giant greenhouse? Sydneysiders would complain about the humidity...

 

[myanonymoususername]

So it's a giant greenhouse? Sydneysiders would complain about the humidity...

Quite likely. There's always a reason why things are not quite right for a good crowd

 

[Parra Guru]

Honestly, I'm over everyone giving Sydney fans a hard time.

The last 2 seasons we have produced record semi final crowds, increasing crowd numbers in club games, yet we get slammed for not selling out Parra stadium for a wet game between Australia against a C grade side which was summed up by an Aussie team member as "a decent hit out".....

Pretty easy to criticize from the safety of your armchairs.... Go f**k yourselves.

 

[franklin2323]

Honestly, I'm over everyone giving Sydney fans a hard time.

The last 2 seasons we have produced record semi final crowds, increasing crowd numbers in club games, yet we get slammed for not selling out Parra stadium for a wet game between Australia against a C grade side which was summed up by an Aussie team member as "a decent hit out".....

Pretty easy to criticize from the safety of your armchairs.... Go f**k yourselves.

+1. Suncorp and other regional grounds host under 20 games per season don't always sellout anyway. Sydney hosts 90-100 games a season and yet fail to turn up to watch a test match against a team who would struggle against NYC teams. Yet charge $65 for good seats. 15,542 was pre-sold so the weather certainly played it's part

 

[Joker's Wild]

More Sydney bashing from Qlders

Id have loved to see what kind of crowd Skilled Park would have gotten for the same game on a rainy afternoon.

 

[Timmah]

Looking back over yesterday, willing to say I got well and truly trolled by East Coast Tiger :lol:

Successful troll was successful.

 

[innsaneink]

Naah he was serious.....though his point about wagga getting more than parra was hilarious.
I wonder what Wagga wouldve got for the 70 point flogging in 88 had they already had 300 odd NRL games available to them throughout that year

 

[East Coast Tiger]

I wonder what Wagga would get now if it was a city of 4 million people.

 

[innsaneink]

With similar weather that sydney had, and everything else that sydney offers....pretty much the same

 

[East Coast Tiger]

With similar weather that sydney had, and everything else that sydney offers....pretty much the same

So at 60,000 population (actually much smaller in 1988) they can get more than Sydney but if you added another 3.94 million people to the city they'd get less than they did in 1988? Right. Clearly one of the other things Sydney offers is not education.