The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[Wb1234]

$2.7b for a renovation.

Someone's pocket is getting lined

 

[TheRam]

I'm sure the Sharks would love to play it at the Roosters home ground. They earned the home final, let them play it where they want.

Oh please we become a joke of a sport when we make spineless decisions like this.

There should be a blanket rule that if you make the finals, no game can be played at a venue with less capacity then say 25K.

That way every team knows the score from the start and it takes away all these sh*ty grounds as an option. The home team can chose where they want to play as long as the venue hold 25K or more.

The current system isn't even a rule. The NRL under the existing rules can order any club to play at any venue it wants, but is to gutless to do it.

Fancy a semi being played in front of 13500 fans again at that sh*t hole of a park again. Who the Hell besides the Sharks thinks locking out 20K fans at this point of the season is a good idea? My God!!

 

[Wb1234]

For the money they are spending why not have a rectangular mode

 

[SpaceMonkey]

For the money they are spending why not have a rectangular mode

At the Gabba? Why bother when there’s already a 50K capacity dedicated rectangular stadium just up the road? Any rectangular mode in a stadium also built to accommodate cricket and AFL id always going to be inferior to a dedicated stadium because of the inevitable distance from the pitch most of the stands will be at. Having separate good quality ovals and rectangles in a city is always going to be the best outcome.

 

[Mr Angry]

 

[Steel Saints]

It’s a stupid idea. It would be at Parra if we had to move it. Or would be at SFS if it wasn’t the Roosters

Cronulla using Kogarah as a one off finals game isn't as stupid or weird as it sounds especially when the Sharks used Kogarah as a home venue for a couple of years in 2020 and 2021. Alhough they didn't use the ground as often as originally planned thanks to Covid.

With the pandemic subsiding, this year the game is flying. Record attendance of 3.75 million, and best ever crowd average of 18,419.

Looking at those figures, the code is as popular as ever and people want to go to the game. So with a season average of 18, 419, to hosting a finals game where at the very most 13k could attend is severely underwhelming.

This isn't 2002, where the crowd average during the regular season was 13,084. You might've had a valid point in 2002, but not so in 2023.

What the NRL should do is put a criteria in place where for a stadium to host a finals game, the capacity needs to be 20k minimum. Anything less than that, you are selling the fans and the code short.

 

[Steel Saints]

Oh please we become a joke of a sport when we make spineless decisions like this.

There should be a blanket rule that if you make the finals, no game can be played at a venue with less capacity then say 25K.

That way every team knows the score from the start and it takes away all these sh*ty grounds as an option. The home team can chose where they want to play as long as the venue hold 25K or more.

The current system isn't even a rule. The NRL under the existing rules can order any club to play at any venue it wants, but is to gutless to do it.

Fancy a semi being played in front of 13500 fans again at that sh*t hole of a park again. Who the Hell besides the Sharks thinks locking out 20K fans at this point of the season is a good idea? My God!!

In my previous post, I argued for 20k minimum, but 25k is fine as well. There certainly needs to be a blanket rule or criteria in place for a venue to host a finals game.

 

[Suitman]

I've been following the re-build of the Bernabeau (80 000 capacity) for 3 years and it truly is amazing.
Barcelona have started a similar rebuild and will be increasing their capacity from 100 000 to 102 000.
Overseas countries make us and our stadiums look like amateurs.

 

[Perth Red]

I've been following the re-build of the Bernabeau (80 000 capacity) for 3 years and it truly is amazing.
Barcelona have started a similar rebuild and will be increasing their capacity from 100 000 to 102 000.
Overseas countries make us and our stadiums look like amateurs.

Thats because in many cases their clubs pay for it, at least in Europe, not the tax payer. Mind helps if your club is earning $800mill a year!

 

[Suitman]

Thats because in many cases their clubs pay for it, at least in Europe, not the tax payer. Mind helps if your club is earning $800mill a year!

Earning $800 million a year is fine.
What are they spending?

 

[Mr Angry]

I've been following the re-build of the Bernabeau (80 000 capacity) for 3 years and it truly is amazing.
Barcelona have started a similar rebuild and will be increasing their capacity from 100 000 to 102 000.
Overseas countries make us and our stadiums look like amateurs.

It is impressive, love the architecture.

Roof, are they afraid of rain, don't they play soccer in snow. I mean cricket they come off...anyways I would watch just about anything there.

 

[Suitman]

It is impressive, love the architecture.

Roof, are they afraid of rain, don't they play soccer in snow. I mean cricket they come off...anyways I would watch just about anything there.

Not sure why they needed the roof. Madrid has a third of Sydney's annual average rainfall. It does snow there though, but not very often.

 

[Perth Red]

Probably for concerts rather than the football.

 

[Wb1234]

looks like the dragons aren’t moving to the gong full time anytime soon

 

[SpaceMonkey]

looks like the dragons aren’t moving to the gong full time anytime soon

Given the ordinary crowds in the gong I wouldn’t see that happening anyway

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

I've been following the re-build of the Bernabeau (80 000 capacity) for 3 years and it truly is amazing.
Barcelona have started a similar rebuild and will be increasing their capacity from 100 000 to 102 000.
Overseas countries make us and our stadiums look like amateurs.

Imagine if the new 112,000 seat La Bombonera becomes a thing!

 

[Timbo]

I've been following the re-build of the Bernabeau (80 000 capacity) for 3 years and it truly is amazing.
Barcelona have started a similar rebuild and will be increasing their capacity from 100 000 to 102 000.
Overseas countries make us and our stadiums look like amateurs.

We can't exactly compare ourselves to these leagues. They pay more for a single player than the entire wage bill for multiple NRL clubs.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Not sure why they needed the roof. Madrid has a third of Sydney's annual average rainfall. It does snow there though, but not very often.

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Might be just in case. Don't forget domestic football seasons run from August thru May, with international football matches often played in June too. It enables the ground to be available all 365 days of the year.

Additionally, it might be in case of the heat. Spain has a hot and dry climate.

 

[jim_57]

looks like the dragons aren’t moving to the gong full time anytime soon

One day a week they’ll train at Kogarah.

They had a 7-5 Wollongong-Kogarah split this year but Kogarah was a training base for WWC so that might have been why.

 

[Marlins]

Imagine if the new 112,000 seat La Bombonera becomes a thing!
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I want one in Brisbane for origin