FFA and ARU want the new stadium at Moore park, Roosters are like whatever. None of them want to have to move whilst it is being built. One of Australia's failings in the world cup bid, apart from the farce of FIFAS tender legitimacy, was a lack of decent sized modern rectangular stadiums. I suspect FFA is working with Govts to rectify that for a future bid.
NRL has really done a poor job in leadership on this you have to say. They should have had a strategy in place that was positive for fans, positive for clubs, gave the Govt what they are looking for and that led to win wins all round. instead they are asking clubs to take big business risks and change their cultures without much carrot it would seem. Do they have a blueprint for who could and should play where and when? Why haven't they thought about a schedule situation that can take two games to these large 'neutral" venues each week and recompenses the clubs accordingly?
What is their justification for supporting Moore park over ANZ? At the moment even Gallop seems to have a better vision about positive outcomes for soccer in all this than Grant has for NRL!
The neutral schedule idea could have appeased Govt amount of games and created major NRL events in Sydney every weekend with good scheduling and all Sydney blockbusters. NRl could have supported with funding marketing, fan experience enhancements, public transport subsidy and co funding of tickets to throw the gates open to both sets of members. That would have been a better investment than throwing $1.5mill at clubs and hoping they spend it wisely.
