The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[taipan]

Sharks fans in a few years looking for their home ground??

I wouldn't be putting my house on it.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...s-derails-election-hopes-20181130-p50jey.html

Allianz gone

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Moving the gf yearly like the Superbowl would be pretty good I reckon

Too bad there is only like 4 ok seminrectangular stadiums in au

 

[El Diablo]

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...s-derails-election-hopes-20181130-p50jey.html

Allianz gone

good one Tosser

not one mention of any stadium

 

[El Diablo]

Moving the gf yearly like the Superbowl would be pretty good I reckon

Too bad there is only like 4 ok seminrectangular stadiums in au

you don't even watch Rugby League so why would you care?

 

[Desert Qlder]

Fitzsimons does have a point about the grand final in Brisbane having non queensland teams being a potential problem. There are merits of having the GF at Suncorp off course but I do wonder how the locals would get behind it if it was a Manly V Roosters game so to speak. I know quite a few people that tune out of the NRL if there are no queensland teams playing.

You rub your arsehole and sniff your fingers don't you?

 

[Western_Eel]

Can anyone tell me if the new light rail that’s planned for parramatta is going near the WSS?

 

[herbert henry1908]

Can anyone tell me if the new light rail that’s planned for parramatta is going near the WSS?

Yes, fairly close. About a 5 min walk.

 

[Suitman]

 

[El Diablo]

so it looks like the big screens are going up in the areas beave was worried about so there won't be seats there where the stand could block part of your view

 

[beave]

so it looks like the big screens are going up in the areas beave was worried about so there won't be seats there where the stand could block part of your view

yeah in one of the corners mate. the NW corner will still have the issue as the other screen is in the NE corner.

 

[El Diablo]

just when i thought you could be taken off suicide watch...

 

[herbert henry1908]

Do you know where things are at re the completion date?

 

[Suitman]

Do you know where things are at re the completion date?

Mate, I don't know any more than the average punter about this.
Most of the info comes from the govt and it is selectively released.
No doubt, they are still aiming for the Eels vs Tigers Easter Monday match.
I wonder if they'll have a fan open day before the first match, as they have been doing for stations along the north west rail link?

 

[horrie hastings]

They’re doing that to take pressure off of town hall & Wynyard stations.

It’ll all make a lot more sense when it opens, but there’s method in the perceived madness. Converting that line allows for 3 new city stations that run in each direction out of the CBD.

Living in St Peters I just wonder what lines Erskineville and St Peters will go on once the Metro is completed, St Peters station was originally in the Metro plan years ago but was axed, the tunnel where it pops up is between St Peters and Sydenham station, I walk past or drive past it everyday going to work. There is talk St Peters and Erskineville will either go onto the T8 line or the Eastern suburbs line, with the new timetable that was bought in St Peters gets a few trains now on the T8 line now so hopefully it will go onto that and not the Eastern Suburbs line, either way though with the development of the Ashmore estate between St Peters and Erskineville they are going to need more capacity not less. Sorry its a bit off topic.

 

[El Diablo]

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/nr...if-stadiums-plan-torn-up-20181201-p50jmv.html

NRL making plans for interstate grand final if stadiums plan torn up

Danny Weidler
1 December 2018 — 10:00pm

Opposition Leader Michael Daley will go down in history as the person who cost Sydney the NRL grand final if he wins the state election in March.

Daley, who has been in the job for less than a month, stunned all the major football codes when he announced during the week he would stop all new stadium funding. Daley didn’t consult any of the key players before dropping the bombshell. In fact, he made the announcement at Moore Park – a few steps from the office of NRL boss Todd Greenberg – and still didn’t tell him.

Daley appears to believe the NRL is bluffing and would not dare to take the grand final interstate. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Other states, particularly Queensland and Victoria, would pay big money to steal the NRL decider from NSW. Victoria, for example, would be able to host the AFL and NRL grand finals on consecutive weekends. The tourism benefits of that double-header would be amazing.

The NRL is also keen to prove it is not Sydney-centric – that is why it is taking Origin matches to Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

Taking grand finals to other states would further boost this campaign. It would also ensure a quick sell-out – unlike some of the recent battles the NRL has had filling ANZ Stadium on the big day.

In fact, the only reason the NRL had previously agreed to keep the grand final in Sydney is the Gladys Berejiklian government had agreed to pour $1.8 billion into a decent stadiums network for the city.

Daley is gambling on gaining support after saying he will put the stadium money into schools and hospitals instead. The truth is the NSW Government is already putting $200 billion into education and health facilities over the next five years and sport is asking for just 1 per cent of that level of funding.

Greenberg usually goes out of his way to be respectful and accommodating with politicians of all persuasions, but he jumped out of the blocks this week, announced he would look elsewhere and already has his executive team working on an interstate grand final plan if his stadiums agreement with the government is torn up.

It would be the ultimate humiliation for a NSW Government to lose its premier sporting event to another state. But it just might happen.

 

[herbert henry1908]

If labor cancel the stadium expenditure the NRL have no option but to take the GF interstate. They’d never be taken seriously again otherwise.

That doesn’t mean they’d have to take it away every year, but they need to make some kind of statement.

 

[The Great Dane]

The NRL didn’t follow through on their threat to take the GF away when the NSW government back tracked on knocking down ANZ and rebuilding it, and I see no reason why they wouldn’t do the same now if Labour get elected.

For your threats to carry weight you have to show that you are willing to follow through with them and the NRL has a history of failing to follow through with their threats, so I’m inclined not to think to much of this new threat until the rubber actually meets the road and the NRL follows through with it...

 

[DlEHARD]

I'm a Labor member, but take the Grand Final interstate if the mad bastards scrap stadium funding.

 

[Captain Apollo]

The NRL didn’t follow through on their threat to take the GF away when the NSW government back tracked on knocking down ANZ and rebuilding it, and I see no reason why they wouldn’t do the same now if Labour get elected.

For your threats to carry weight you have to show that you are willing to follow through with them and the NRL has a history of failing to follow through with their threats, so I’m inclined not to think to much of this new threat until the rubber actually meets the road and the NRL follows through with it...

Yep. As soon as the original plan started to be changed, they should have taken 1 GF "on the road" to show the NSW Government they were fair dinkum. It is no wonder Daley thinks the NRL will fold faster than Superman on laundry day with its threat this time.