Afl To Buy Anz Stadium(this Is Massive)

[Brutus]

Does anyone get the feeling that we are all being drip fed media leaks about the Afl push into western sydney every couple of weeks. eg Sixty Minutes tomorrow night.

The Afl have decided even if they dont want it, if we talk about it for 3 years it will create demand.

Their media manager is obviously better than ours, as at the moment all we are hearing is doom and gloom.

Instead of on the eve of origin releasing a statement saying that RL is dying in Sydney why aren't the NRL yelling from the roof tops the fact that 3.3 odd million people nationally watched the game.

It is all about perception and at the moment we are getting lapped in the media management of the game.

Spot on Cumberland

 

[beave]

Does anyone think we should be thanking Packer for his ridiculous (and knowing full well he wasn't going to get them) bid for AFL a couple of years ago???? If he hadn't of been in "let's f%$k over 7" mode, then maybe the AFL wouldn't seem to have all this cash they can throw around, and not been able to make a bid for ownership ovr ANZ???? he may have thought it was good business sense in doing what he did, but ultimaltely it may have screwed us over in the process.....

 

[no name]

its unlikely, but china thought they were lay downs to get the 2000 olympics, if we do get the nod, the fed gov with throw money at stadiums and training venues all over the country.

We won't get it. They are having 2 WCs in a row in the Southern Hemisphere.
No way in the world they will have 3

 

[westie]

Does anyone think we should be thanking Packer for his ridiculous (and knowing full well he wasn't going to get them) bid for AFL a couple of years ago???? If he hadn't of been in "let's f%$k over 7" mode, then maybe the AFL wouldn't seem to have all this cash they can throw around, and not been able to make a bid for ownership ovr ANZ???? he may have thought it was good business sense in doing what he did, but ultimaltely it may have screwed us over in the process.....

I've heard talk he planned to use his 25% in foxtel to block them bidding, which would have screwed everyone over nicely. Things didn't exactly work out for him there though.

 

[Red Bear]

2022 is probly more realistic
I think england will get 2018

 

[NK Arsenal]

There is no point realistic

Forza Australia 2018

 

[Shorty]

I think the AFL are bluffing and using tactics to intimidate the NRL.
I cannot see them spending that amount of money on a stadium that is already in serious debt and owned by a bank itself.
If they did buy it,I think it would more be a case of them being f**ked rather than us.

There has been a lot of attack on League lately,it's a kick up the butt to the NRL that they need to pull their head in and start looking at ways to improve how things are.
I don't believe the NRL has been doing this.

 

[salivor]

Who cares if the AFL wants it. The ground clearly needs league there to be profitable otherwise they wouldn't be throwing around such big dollars for clubs to play there on a regular basis. Therefore even if the AFL owns it we hold the key in keeping the place profitable, take all the games back to the suburban grounds and it suddenly becomes a money pit.

 

[yakstorm]

It must be as the weather gets colder all League fans decide to become doom and gloom merchants...

Okay lets look at some facts. First off the current AFL proposal sees the sport linking up with Westpac to take over the Stadium, as mentioned before by a poster and even in the News Corp article, no bank will take over an asset where its debt is controlled by a major competitor, and the ANZ wont be in any rush to hand that debt over whilst they now know there is a demand to buy the stadium.

Secondly, even if the AFL took over ANZ Stadium, it wouldn't screw the NRL immediately. All the previously existing contracts would remain, meaning the AFL would have to continue to pay the NRL for games like Origin and Grand Finals up till 2012, and continue to pay clubs until their current deals expire.

Thirdly, ANZ Stadium currently doesn't pay 'huge' amounts to each club to have them host their matches at the venue. What they do is they underwrite a minimum of $100,000 in revenue for hosting at the venue. This equates to about 6,100 tickets sold at the average price of $15. Not a bad thing to have as an underlying minimum but a clear sign at how lazy some clubs are.

If the current tenants were forced out, only really the Bulldogs (currently no home) and Wests Tigers (high costs associated with Leichhardt) would be in a bad place. Dragons will have Kogarah back next year, Souths would move back to the SFS which itself offers reasonable incentives these days as it chances content for its members, and the Eels only play 2 games at ANZ anyway.

 

[dallymessenger]

where would they hold origin and the GF though?

SFS is too small.

if it happens well need a new ground for us with a bigger capacity than the sfs

 

[El Diablo]

hold the GF at Suncorp as soon as the deal with NSW government is up

 

[lotti]

or try and convince the AFL to build their own damn stadium, Sydney needs to catch up.

 

[dallymessenger]

hold the GF at Suncorp as soon as the deal with NSW government is up

i was thinking that and it would be great for RL in queensland and the game as a whole.

but 53,000 vs 83,000 we lose 30,000 paying customer at around $70 a head ie around $2 million gate.

of course the queensland government could come in with a financial package which would offset that.

bidding for the GF could be a good thing now youve raised that topic

 

[t-ba]

You could charge $300 a head and fill out Suncorp for a GF. I'd premium price it. Having it played in a different venue every season would massively increase potential ticketing revenues, because you could charge a premium for tickets.

 

[lotti]

anyway it's stupid to talk of moving the GF out of Sydney anyway come on Sydney is the NRL and it's high time you Americans remembered that.

 

[dallymessenger]

You could charge $300 a head and fill out Suncorp for a GF. I'd premium price it. Having it played in a different venue every season would massively increase potential ticketing revenues, because you could charge a premium for tickets.

also i think the queensland government would pay loads for it as well given the economic benefit.

time we got the 2 states bidding for it in true origin style

teach our crappy state government to raise taxes on LC by taking more of the game to a state which knows which sport is king

 

[t-ba]

Why just two States? Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane all have 50K+ seater stadiums, and Perth will have one within the decade.

 

[dallymessenger]

Why just two States? Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane all have 50K+ seater stadiums, and Perth will have one within the decade.

hard to call it leaving those 2.

it would be massive in brisbane and we do have 3 NRL clubs to support in queensland.

perth dont have one, but one in nz and melbourne would be good.

not many people are a fan of it but i always though making the GF a best of 3 series like origin with nsw, queensland getting a game every year and the decider being rotated as per your list above.

it would raise around $40 million for the game and help us grow heaps

 

[t-ba]

Why?

The Super Bowl is played in cities without NFL clubs.

 

[magpie_man]

You could charge $300 a head and fill out Suncorp for a GF. I'd premium price it. Having it played in a different venue every season would massively increase potential ticketing revenues, because you could charge a premium for tickets.

that's the future for the game for sure. i can't see too many probs selling it out even in somewhere like perth.
the nrl should be avoiding afl-owned stadiums at all costs, so if that means playing sydney grand finals at the sfs, so be it.

sydney - sfs (45 500)
brisbane - suncorp (52 500)
melbourne - telstra dome (56 000)
auckland - eden park (45 400)
perth - stadium wa (70 000)