Liverpool sounds great on paper but can Tigers really be trusted to stay and play there full time? How many games will they move to Leichardt and elsewhere?
If them and Dogs each play at least 9 home games there each year even allowing for moved home games due to regional and magic round arrangements then sure but I don't think either of the boards' have the balls to make such a commitment.
I agree to an extent about Manly but it's already getting a partial upgrade so you may as well just go the whole way with it.
27-30k stadium in Penrith with the population growth and surrounding developments is a no brainer. The club and the area is going gangbusters and capitalising now with all that momentum could create something truly special for the area and the competition. Seems like the govt is on the same wavelength so thats good.
Who cares if the Tigers don't use it. Just build great rectangular stadiums everywhere we can get them built. I want to see 50 great rectangular stadiums all over the country if possible. As long as they are in quality areas with eateries, bars and restaurants and great public transport infrastructure next to them then I am all for the more the better. It gives the NRL and all other rectangular sports more quality options as opposed to the current pathetic state that we have been in FOREVER where almost all our options have been so amateurish and frankly diabolical compared to the AFL and other professionally run sports around the world.
If the Tigers are to stupid to take advantage of a brand new free money making home ground then that's their dumb arse problem and the sooner they die the quicker we can get in a franchise that can actually add value to the competition in a new market. I'm sick of all the small mindedness that is so prevalent at the board room in RL. Think big or go home(get out).
If the Tigers were to disappear their current catchment area could be taken up by both Parra and the Bulldogs. Remember a big whack of their area was Parra's before the Tigers-Magpies merger. So Parra take it back and we give the rest to the Bulldogs and add a new team in Perth, Christchurch or Adelaide.
Win, win really. Less teams in a saturated market and we expand the NRL gospel in a new frontier all in one full swoop. Yeah baby, I'm down for that!
But like I said, build, build, build. The more the better for all sports in our country, except AFL who will hate that idea. Who care about what it costs? Does anyone really think that the government doesn't waste billions of dollars every year and we usually have nothing to show for it? Look at the submarine fiasco and that is just one high profile one. There are countless others that few even know or care to know about unless the media make a song and dance about. But we still have hospitals and schools and whatever. That is the nature of Government in the West. They waste and they waste big without us the suckers generally seeing anything in return for that wasted spend. At least if they just kept building boutique rectangular stadiums everywhere we the sports loving plebs would actually be getting something in return. A legacy that will make millions of people in our sports mad country, over time, very happy indeed.
