Yeah so, as everyone has said there was an accident during a half time competition a few years ago and the stadium was sued for negligence. So they haven't had any sort of half time competitions since.
As far as I recall, you have never been allowed on the grass at Parramatta Stadium directly after the game, so this will be a first, BTW Chillian 2 members of the "Old Board" are on the Stadium Trust that appears to be allowing this to happen.
Lastly for the PMF, there were a few years were we didn't get any PMF's last year we had one on a Sunday and that was a cumulative sort of thing as we had 2 Sundays in a row at Parramatta Stadium vs the Storm and then the Panthers, the PMF was after the Panthers game. At that function Steve Edge said that more would come should the Eels get another game on a Sunday. The club didn't get another Sunday game.
Once again this year there were 2 PMF's before or just after the election, one was a new PMF for Members only at ANZ Stadium after the Bulldogs game. The other after the Eels game against the Rabbitohs again at ANZ Stadium, but the players didn't attend after the Match so the function was just for the fans to mix and mingle.
With the Post Match function against the Broncos the club got his first chance to host a Post match function on a Sunday after a home game, and well do so again this weekend.
For mine and I have said this before. Things started to change at this club when Andrew Hill was made the Football Operations Manager replacing Greg Mitchell. I know there were many on here that were not Massive fans of Greg, and although I meet him on several occasions I can't really tell you what he did at the club. But 2 weeks after his departure, we got our First PMF in 3 years. I know there are also some that are not massive fans of Hilly, and that is there prerogative, but still I would credit his appointment with a raft of changes that happened in the Back half of last year and continued into this year.
The Part where you should be congratulating the New Board is with the PMF happening on the Friday Night against the Panthers. This is a massive change, The Last time I can remember something like this happening was in 1999 or 2000 when we had the "Eelite" Young Members club function at the then X-Cite Nightclub in the auditorium. I think it was for the Eels first Friday night game of the year at home, sometime around April. Eelite members got in free I think and the players joined them for some Dancing and Drinks after they had warmed down. (the Players were in the "Upstairs Lounge" for Drinks).
The Big difference between then an now is that then X-Cite was a standing event at the club and now the Auditorium is used for shows that night so it would appear that either the Clubs entertainment staff couldn't find a show to put on in the Auditorium that weekend or indeed there was instruction to not have a show on that weekend (or Friday / Monday Nights) to ensure the last game of the season Party could happen.
