Beatie has a plan

[adamkungl]

Boom

 

[Lambretta]

Much safer walking past the caxton?

Was on the day I did it
Titans playing the Bronos that day. It was a Queenslander love in

Good times - oh hold on, it was Good Friday - the pub was closed.
Carry on

 

[M2D2]

What drugs are you on that 1.5 kilometres isn't close?

The MCG is 1.5 kilometres from Flinders Street and everyone talks about Melbourne and how the MCG is so convenient and close to town. And don't give me that "but everyone gets off the train in Richmond" rubbish because I've been to the MCG loads of times and vast numbers walk from town to the ground

Suncorp is 1 kilometre from Roma Street station - I have never, not once in all my f**king jim jams heard a Queenslander say Suncorp isn't convenient as it's too far from transport. Is 500 metres a bridge too far? That's about a 5 minute stroll tops (if you walk at the slow arsed pace of 3 miles per hour)

Sydney-siders look for excuses by the millions to try and explain why they don't turn up to games

• It's too expensive - my season ticket costs $160 - is that expensive?
• The food and drink is too expensive - eat before you go or take food with you - it's only alcohol / glass bottles they stop you taking in
• The grounds are too far away - the SFS is 1.9 kilometres from Central and there are buses from the station to the ground if you're disabled or hauling kids. Parking is available RIGHT at the ground

The plain and simple truth is that Sydney people are a bunch of "look at me" attention seekers who only turn up to "big events" where they have to be seen. Anzac Day - 40,000 cram into Allianz and no one says a f**king thing about it being too hard. Play that match on any other day and 11,000 turn up. Attention seeker status 70%

When they held a double header at ANZ when the stadium opened 110,000 people turned up
Why? Because the stadium was new. Any other day and you're pissing in the wind getting 20,000 people in there.
Origin 80,000 people turn up, year in year out
Why? Because it's Origin and that's a big event

Sydney has an attitude problem - nothing more, nothing less
Make all the excuses you want for us - I'm not going to. We're a bunch of lazy arsed, attention seekers who will move mountains to go to special events but wouldn't stand up to look at "the everyday" if it was happening outside our windows.

1. MCG has multiple tram lines from the city directly to it
2. MCG also has multiple public walkways
3. Richmond IS closer and is under 1km. the myriad of safe options from the city ensure no bottleneck
4. Milton is closer to Roma street, has a dedicated walkway. Roma street also closes off traffic post games to make sure its a safe walk. Something that the SFS never does. Hell, Even Cronulla does it.

To quote your fellow idiot roosters supporter.
Boom.

 

[OldPanther]

People complaining about a 1km walk and I do 100km a week at work. Country's gone soft.

 

[El Diablo]

i bet M2D2 is some morbidly obese fat merkin

 

[M2D2]

Country has gone "if i can do its fine for everyone".

 

[_Johnsy]

Why are we acting like "close" has some precise definition? To me "close" is a comfortable walking distance. Even M2D2 says he does the walk every time.

It doesn't, all I was doing was offering an opinion. The same way I agreed that Roma St Station to Suncorp stadium is close, but Allianz to Central isn't. I notice you didn't take issue with my interpretation of close re: Suncorp - Roma St, interesting that you have with Allianz - central. I wonder why?

 

[King hit]

At least Beattie is a genuine league man and knows the game unlike that useless pommy banker. Good to hear expansion is on the table and there are plans for juniors.

Still it would be funny if the idiot Queenslanders cry conspiracy even though their ex premier is so influential.

 

[adamkungl]

It doesn't, all I was doing was offering an opinion. The same way I agreed that Roma St Station to Suncorp stadium is close, but Allianz to Central isn't. I notice you didn't take issue with my interpretation of close re: Suncorp - Roma St, interesting that you have with Allianz - central. I wonder why?

I didn't think you offered an opinion re: Suncorp. Merely stated a distance. Which happens to be the approx same as Parra and a bit shorter than the SFS.

Anyway - the point isn't so much arguing over the exact definition of "close", but whether a 10-20 minute walk is a complaint about a stadium worth taking seriously.
(and even that is massively off topic from the thread, for what it's worth)

 

[OldPanther]

Country has gone "if i can do its fine for everyone".

I was being facetious. I certainly don't expect people to walk as much as me. There are busses from the station in Sydney. Everytime I've gone at least. Both ANZ and SFS so people can walk or get a ride if the walk is too much.

 

[thorson1987]

What drugs are you on that 1.5 kilometres isn't close?

The MCG is 1.5 kilometres from Flinders Street and everyone talks about Melbourne and how the MCG is so convenient and close to town. And don't give me that "but everyone gets off the train in Richmond" rubbish because I've been to the MCG loads of times and vast numbers walk from town to the ground

Suncorp is 1 kilometre from Roma Street station - I have never, not once in all my f**king jim jams heard a Queenslander say Suncorp isn't convenient as it's too far from transport. Is 500 metres a bridge too far? That's about a 5 minute stroll tops (if you walk at the slow arsed pace of 3 miles per hour)

Sydney-siders look for excuses by the millions to try and explain why they don't turn up to games

• It's too expensive - my season ticket costs $160 - is that expensive?
• The food and drink is too expensive - eat before you go or take food with you - it's only alcohol / glass bottles they stop you taking in
• The grounds are too far away - the SFS is 1.9 kilometres from Central and there are buses from the station to the ground if you're disabled or hauling kids. Parking is available RIGHT at the ground

The plain and simple truth is that Sydney people are a bunch of "look at me" attention seekers who only turn up to "big events" where they have to be seen. Anzac Day - 40,000 cram into Allianz and no one says a f**king thing about it being too hard. Play that match on any other day and 11,000 turn up. Attention seeker status 70%

When they held a double header at ANZ when the stadium opened 110,000 people turned up
Why? Because the stadium was new. Any other day and you're pissing in the wind getting 20,000 people in there.
Origin 80,000 people turn up, year in year out
Why? Because it's Origin and that's a big event

Sydney has an attitude problem - nothing more, nothing less
Make all the excuses you want for us - I'm not going to. We're a bunch of lazy arsed, attention seekers who will move mountains to go to special events but wouldn't stand up to look at "the everyday" if it was happening outside our windows.

 

[Knight Vision]

"I know there can be an incident at any time … but this has probably been the best off-season on record. I am not aware of any major incidents involving our players. So we should give them credit for that."

Hmmm Queenslander doesn't consider a Broncos player assaulting a woman as a major incident, his tenure should go well for the Broncos.

being accused and actually being guilty are 2 very very different things. Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Lets hope you're never accused of something.

 

[Iafeta]

Grant wasn’t. Within a few weeks in power he was in Perth tellling us to stop wasting our time,

Telling us , or you?

 

[butchmcdick]

What drugs are you on that 1.5 kilometres isn't close?

The MCG is 1.5 kilometres from Flinders Street and everyone talks about Melbourne and how the MCG is so convenient and close to town. And don't give me that "but everyone gets off the train in Richmond" rubbish because I've been to the MCG loads of times and vast numbers walk from town to the ground

Suncorp is 1 kilometre from Roma Street station - I have never, not once in all my f**king jim jams heard a Queenslander say Suncorp isn't convenient as it's too far from transport. Is 500 metres a bridge too far? That's about a 5 minute stroll tops (if you walk at the slow arsed pace of 3 miles per hour)

Sydney-siders look for excuses by the millions to try and explain why they don't turn up to games

• It's too expensive - my season ticket costs $160 - is that expensive?
• The food and drink is too expensive - eat before you go or take food with you - it's only alcohol / glass bottles they stop you taking in
• The grounds are too far away - the SFS is 1.9 kilometres from Central and there are buses from the station to the ground if you're disabled or hauling kids. Parking is available RIGHT at the ground

The plain and simple truth is that Sydney people are a bunch of "look at me" attention seekers who only turn up to "big events" where they have to be seen. Anzac Day - 40,000 cram into Allianz and no one says a f**king thing about it being too hard. Play that match on any other day and 11,000 turn up. Attention seeker status 70%

When they held a double header at ANZ when the stadium opened 110,000 people turned up
Why? Because the stadium was new. Any other day and you're pissing in the wind getting 20,000 people in there.
Origin 80,000 people turn up, year in year out
Why? Because it's Origin and that's a big event

Sydney has an attitude problem - nothing more, nothing less
Make all the excuses you want for us - I'm not going to. We're a bunch of lazy arsed, attention seekers who will move mountains to go to special events but wouldn't stand up to look at "the everyday" if it was happening outside our windows.

Milton Station is a lot closer than Roma St but yeah this is just me being pedantic

I agree with your comments 100%

 

[Lambretta]

Milton Station is a lot closer than Roma St but yeah this is just me being pedantic

I agree with your comments 100%

There were hundreds and hundreds of footy fans getting off the train at Roma Street when I went to Suncorp. All their legs appeared to be working fine

I often wonder about Sydney people in general - I have lived here for 23 years and the general laziness of people here never fails to astound me. I can count the number of people on one hand that I've ever seen walking on an escalator. It's as if the exertion of actually stepping onto the bloody thing renders them incapable of movement

 

[beave]

M2D2 complaining about having to walk the relatively short distaces between train stations and stadiums yet brags about waiting near a hot dog stand at Shark Park til the 75th min to get the free hot dogs in the stadiums thread........

 

[Delboy]

Beattie made more sense and has more vision for the future In his first statement than Teflon Todd has done since he took over as CEO.

Though Beattie is a Qldr he appears to be less influenced by the usual suspects than the current leader. Just make public the total amount of registered TPAs for each club ( not for individuals just the total will do) so we can understand the disparities in clubs line ups , and we will all be happy ( except the Roosters and Broncos fans who will have their advantage published ). Your job will then be complete.

As someone said " sorry to hear about Todd Greenberg. Not that there is a problem, just sorry to hear about him"

 

[OldPanther]

There were hundreds and hundreds of footy fans getting off the train at Roma Street when I went to Suncorp. All their legs appeared to be working fine

I often wonder about Sydney people in general - I have lived here for 23 years and the general laziness of people here never fails to astound me. I can count the number of people on one hand that I've ever seen walking on an escalator. It's as if the exertion of actually stepping onto the bloody thing renders them incapable of movement

It's not just Sydney

 

[adamkungl]

Beattie made more sense and has more vision for the future In his first statement than Teflon Todd has done since he took over as CEO.

Though Beattie is a Qldr he appears to be less influenced by the usual suspects than the current leader. Just make public the total amount of registered TPAs for each club ( not for individuals just the total will do) so we can understand the disparities in clubs line ups , and we will all be happy ( except the Roosters and Broncos fans who will have their advantage published ). Your job will then be complete.

As someone said " sorry to hear about Todd Greenberg. Not that there is a problem, just sorry to hear about him"

However, foxsports.com.au has learned that the Roosters are not even close to the top of the ladder when it comes to TPAs that are registered with the NRL.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/op...s/news-story/a21d8162a1d23c70b339e6eddd70500b

If people didn't believe it when the papers said it, what's gonna change if the NRL says it? The NRL is currently satisfied the Roosters are above board and no one believes them, so how is putting a number on it gonna change anything if that number doesn't match what people have decided for themselves?

(FWIW I have no problem with publishing player salaries or team values. But it won't do shit to stop people sooking)

 

[Life's Good]

https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/op...s/news-story/a21d8162a1d23c70b339e6eddd70500b

If people didn't believe it when the papers said it, what's gonna change if the NRL says it? The NRL is currently satisfied the Roosters are above board and no one believes them, so how is putting a number on it gonna change anything if that number doesn't match what people have decided for themselves?

(FWIW I have no problem with publishing player salaries or team values. But it won't do shit to stop people sooking)

It will likely increase the sooking when fans realise they support a club lacking in modern day business acumen(my club being a prime example).