The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[siv]

Dont like the idea of removing the warm up field though

 

[TheRam]

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Saw This online earlier. It’s for an upgrade to WIN stadium and the surrounding area. I wonder if this will get included into the Suburban upgrade deal. Which wasn’t that supposed to be released in December last year?

Where's the link merkin?

 

[Quidgybo]

Where's the link merkin?

Merkin - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[baselinepanther]

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Saw This online earlier. It’s for an upgrade to WIN stadium and the surrounding area. I wonder if this will get included into the Suburban upgrade deal. Which wasn’t that supposed to be released in December last year?

way out of scale unless they move the entire venue & everything else 100 metres west , otherwise that eastern stand would actually be just about on the beach
also
wonder why theres huge grand stands on the western , sthn & nthn ends &

a tiny little one on the eastern side
hmmmmmmmmmm

 

[TheRam]

way out of scale unless they move the entire venue & everything else 100 metres west , otherwise that eastern stand would actually be just about on the beach
also
wonder why theres huge grand stands on the western , sthn & nthn ends &

a tiny little one on the eastern side
hmmmmmmmmmm

This is why I wanted the link. I wanted to see more detail about it. Something just doesn't feel right.

 

[parrawentyfan]

Its hard to take the WIN stadium proposal seriously. There is nothing wrong with the West and North stands. Just leave them and focus on the other two sides. Why do they need new roofing?

 

[Suitman]

Its hard to take the WIN stadium proposal seriously. There is nothing wrong with the West and North stands. Just leave them and focus on the other two sides. Why do they need new roofing?

They don't.
Looks like an old proposal. Although the op for that hasn't confirmed when this proposal was dated.

 

[big hit!]

Roosters legend Arthur Beetson to be honoured after grandstand snub

Venues NSW is in damage control after snubbing the rugby league legend, but a different way to celebrate Artie’s legacy is in the works.

www.smh.com.au

I'd say the main reason Artie didn't get a stand named after him is to leave the door open to lure South Sydney back to the venue. No surprise that the League player to have a stand named after them played for both Souths and Easts.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Roosters legend Arthur Beetson to be honoured after grandstand snub

Venues NSW is in damage control after snubbing the rugby league legend, but a different way to celebrate Artie’s legacy is in the works.

www.smh.com.au

I'd say the main reason Artie didn't get a stand named after him is to leave the door open to lure South Sydney back to the venue. No surprise that the League player to have a stand named after them played for both Souths and Easts.

It’s exactly that

 

[beave]

I wouldn't have thought Bryan Fletcher was worthy of a stand being named after him?

 

[TheRam]

Roosters legend Arthur Beetson to be honoured after grandstand snub

Venues NSW is in damage control after snubbing the rugby league legend, but a different way to celebrate Artie’s legacy is in the works.

www.smh.com.au

I'd say the main reason Artie didn't get a stand named after him is to leave the door open to lure South Sydney back to the venue. No surprise that the League player to have a stand named after them played for both Souths and Easts.

It is a massive disgrace and Big Artie should have been the first stand name chosen ffs! No matter what they do from here on in bar reversing this ridiculously massive cockup, it will mean stuff all and can't make up for their historic ruining arse holeness. They are just a colossal bunch of agenda driven losers and everyone can see it.

I loved Artie as a kid and a big reason why I followed RL even though I was an Eels supporter and I'm sure there were thousands of kids that felt the same. If there is a better legend that played his best footy at the Roosters I haven't seen him.

 

[Perth Red]

It is a massive disgrace and Big Artie should have been the first stand name chosen ffs! No matter what they do from here on in bar reversing this ridiculously massive cockup, it will mean stuff all and can't make up for their historic ruining arse holeness. They are just a colossal bunch of agenda driven losers and everyone can see it.

I loved Artie as a kid and a big reason why I followed RL even though I was an Eels supporter and I'm sure there were thousands of kids that felt the same. If there is a better legend that played his best footy at the Roosters I haven't seen him.

It was so obvious to name the 4th stand after him, not fricking 'garrison' that means nothing to anyone. You wonder how these merkins on these committees get their positions, then how the merkin sports minister signs off on it!

 

[Timmah]

New big screen at Accor

 

[Timmah]

Roosters legend Arthur Beetson to be honoured after grandstand snub

Venues NSW is in damage control after snubbing the rugby league legend, but a different way to celebrate Artie’s legacy is in the works.

www.smh.com.au

I'd say the main reason Artie didn't get a stand named after him is to leave the door open to lure South Sydney back to the venue. No surprise that the League player to have a stand named after them played for both Souths and Easts.

There's literally a quote in the article explaining that he didn't make the cut because he's a Queenslander.

Which, let's face it, is true. He has a statue outside Suncorp, no?

 

[Captain Apollo]

I know he is not generally liked, but this opinion piece by Andrew webseter in the Sydney Morning Herald I think sums up the problem with the naming of one of the stands at the new SFS as the "Garrison" stand after British soldiers used the area as a barracks in the 1850s, let alone the snub to Artie Beetson and many other Australian rugby league and sporting greats (source: https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/be...e-a-grandstand-after-him-20220314-p5a4iv.html) -

OPINION​

Beetson transcended state borders - so name a grandstand after him​

Andrew Webster​

Chief Sports Writer
March 14, 2022 — 4.10pm

In 1966, a young Indigenous man boarded a plane at Eagle Farm Airport in Brisbane. He was wearing his only suit, had $50 in his wallet and a pair of footy boots in his bag.

When he landed in Sydney, Arthur Beetson’s life changed forever. So did rugby league and, eventually, Australian sport.

He became an icon of the city; a pin-up boy with his rugged good looks backed up with sublime skill and physicality.

From that moment on, until his death in 2011, Beetson was a towering figure, not just standing in tackles on the field, but off it, too, winning premierships and leaving an indelible mark on every Sydney club he touched, Balmain, Easts and Parramatta especially.

He loved the SCG, loved playing there, but lauded the move in 1988 to the adjacent Sydney Football Stadium, a new home for rugby league.

Sounds like a perfect candidate for the naming of one of the grandstands in the new $850 million Sydney Football Stadium, don’t you think?

Venues NSW and its Heritage Trust don’t think so, digging in on its mind-numbing decision to snub one of the greatest sportspeople the country has produced.

As revealed in the Herald on Monday, Venues NSW is in damage control over the controversial decision to brush Beetson, attempting to quell the anger by offering up a statue in his honour.

Nice gesture, sure, but it’s a copout.
It demonstrates an inability of certain members of the Heritage Trust to admit they got it wrong and listen to the public, the fans, the punters.
Given the enormous lines snaking through the SCG on Saturday for the Roosters-Knights match as fans waited to pay through the nose for fancy Justin Hemmes fare, that’s not entirely surprising.
The heritage trust’s chair, Maurice Newman, was squared up by 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley on Monday morning for comments he made to News Corp last month about Beetson “not making the cut” because he’s a “Queenslander”.
“I note that you’re a highly educated gentleman,” Hadley said. “But I don’t know how much you know about rugby league. I won’t cop this crap about putting a statue there. Build a statue there and name a grandstand after him …”

Beetson became such a giant of the game, with one foot firmly in his home state of Queensland and one in his adopted state of NSW, that he transcended borders.

So said his son, Mark: “I don’t buy into the statements made by the selection panel about him being a Queenslander. He had more of an impact as an Australian. He played his first Test match in that arena. He had his greatest moment being lifted up after winning the 1975 premiership in that precinct as well. It’s bigger than NSW and Queensland. He played 18 games for NSW and 15 years of his career in NSW. And there’s no question he had a love affair with Sydney.”

The unspoken subtext to this debate is the pigheadedness displayed by Venues NSW about the story leaking to media outlets, including the Herald.

It’s an interesting position given how much was leaked to media outlets a few years ago during the so-called “Stadium Wars” over whether Stadium Australia or Allianz Stadium was knocked down and rebuilt.

Fingers have been pointed at the Roosters, which defies belief given the club is the stadium’s most important tenant, while a line has been spun that the club didn’t get back to it with suggestions.

The club denies this. It’s also irrelevant.

Surely, a so-called Heritage Trust, which is appointed and funded by the NSW government, doesn’t need a reminder from anyone about the merits of Arthur Beetson.

You would also think it could read the room.

On the 1973 Kangaroo Tour, Beetson became the first Indigenous captain of any Australian sporting team.
At a time when governing bodies are falling over themselves to acknowledge our First Nations people, Venues NSW has decided to snub one.

Souths and Easts legend Ron Coote, Socceroos great Johnny Warren and former Wallaby Sir Nicholas Shehadie all deserve their place in the new arena.

Yet the decision to call one grandstand “Garrison” as a nod to the British Army troops who used the area as barracks and armaments storage in the 1850s is one of the most boneheaded calls from a governing body in recent memory.

There are dozens of better candidates.

If not Beetson, why not his great mate Jack Gibson, who played extensively at the old Sydney Sportsground and SCG, including the 1963 premiership, before becoming a pioneering coach for Eastern Suburbs, Newtown, St George, Eastern Suburbs again (for two premierships), South Sydney, Parramatta (for three premierships) and then Cronulla?

If not Jack, then who else? Take your pick.

Bob McCarthy. Marjorie Jackson. Betty Cuthbert. Brad Fittler. The Ella Brothers. Campo. Roycey Simmons. Terry Lamb’s forearm. Tina Turner. Bono.

Any of them is preferable to acknowledging British Army officers, a move that might have the war historians frothing but few else.

Alternatively, the respectable members of the Heritage Trust could make the sensible decision to realise they got it wrong, show some humility, stop shooting the proverbial messenger, and call it the Beetson Stand.

It’s not too late to make the wrong call the right one.

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

There's literally a quote in the article explaining that he didn't make the cut because he's a Queenslander.

Which, let's face it, is true. He has a statue outside Suncorp, no?

True but he has more history in Moore Park than he does in Queensland if you account years lived in and time spent at Easts. It’s a petty reason to not name a stand after him.

 

[parrawentyfan]

I always thought that it was basically done because they didn't want Rugby League to be represented twice.

1× Rugby League
1x Soccer
1x Rugby Union

To fit that mould they picked a RL player who played for Roosters and Souths to avoid offending either team.

Any additional RL player would have the soccer and union people whinghing.

Still can't believe they asked for the AFL's input.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Tony Sheppard is involved enough said..

 

[Cumberland Throw]

New big screen at Accor

Disgusting that the AFL gets the first look.. Oh and we went and scheduled in a grave yard game on Sunday night.. which will pull 8k. .

 

[TheRam]

True but he has more history in Moore Park than he does in Queensland if you account years lived in and time spent at Easts. It’s a petty reason to not name a stand after him.

It's bullsh*t arse covering and a copout.

They aren't fooling anyone.