NRL boss David Gallop offers $250,000 incentive to Dragons to move semi final to SFS

[Godz Illa]

We might as well pretend the season started in July like Parra did!

Most years we do haha.

 

[Willow]

I highly doubt Bennett and Doust will agree to the deal, particularly if we fire tonight in front of the home crowd.

The Telegraph, through Rothfield and others, have a real agenda and it is disheartening to see the NRL jump on board.

I'm not convinced they did. More likely Gallop has simply put it on the table, generated from his office and mainly influenced by money. Remember the report is from News Ltd. IMO, the tabloid hacks are just hangers-on in all this.

And fire up tonight. Show them what a home crowd looks like.

 

[The Popper]

Just was reminded of an interesting point from last year. The Storm lost to the Warriors in the 1 v 8 match and lost its home ground advantage the next week, despite being number 1 on the ladder. Why would we risk going to Melbourne or Brisbane if we lose at the SFS?

Exactly, tell the NRL to take a running jump. You blokes have earned...so keep it!

 

[Doug2234]

Damn some people have gone crazy.. I see nothing in that article about the game moving grounds. Only that the offer is on the table....

IF and only IF the game is moved should you all fire up... At this stage nothing has happened.

 

[Timmah]

im so angry its not funny, thtat this is being suggested.

Etihad stadium in melbourne has a bigger capacity, yet Melbourne are playing at Olympic Park.

Cronulla and Manly played home semis in their respective sh*t holes last year.

The Titans have said they wont move venues if they draw the broncos in the finals...

Pisses me off.

Why isn't this News Ltd piece of crap instead pressuring the f**king Storm to move theirs? Olympic Park holds far less than Kogarah.

Ridiculous.

Actually gents, you'll find Melbourne, if they have a home final in week one, will play at Etihad.

 

[Divine]

I think the crowd will send Mr Gallop a message tonight...

 

[big pat]

i didn't see it either, i didn't get pass exclusive by phil f**kfield.

 

[Firey_Dragon]

Actually gents, you'll find Melbourne, if they have a home final in week one, will play at Etihad.

They're still playing in melbourne regardless, they will still have a substantial home ground advantage. We move our game, we lose ours completely.

The only way I'd agree to it was if opposition fans were not allowed to wear their jerseys or carry flags. If we move this game, all the work throughout the season was for nothing.

 

[big pat]

Actually gents, you'll find Melbourne, if they have a home final in week one, will play at Etihad.

can you provide a link as to where this was stated. and btw its still in melbourne, not likely they will be asked to move to the sfs.

 

[SN0WMAN]

Would this same crap be going on if the game was 1hr south in Wollongong instead?

 

[silverex]

Damn some people have gone crazy.. I see nothing in that article about the game moving grounds. Only that the offer is on the table....

IF and only IF the game is moved should you all fire up... At this stage nothing has happened.

Doug, I think the reason that people are fired up, me included, is that this possible move has even been suggested. Another reason is that it's always the Dragons that are targetted.

If the NRL sets the rules at the beginning of the season , then they should stick by it. If they don't like it, then change it. But not 10 days before the game.

 

[Timmah]

I have a friend who is a club member of the Melbourne Storm, I asked her and she told me. Your loss if you don't believe me, but it's gonna be at Etihad, if they get it.

 

[big pat]

next year when saints get their ground allocation, they should play the parra home game at wollongong, then they will have to spend all their dole money trying to get there.

 

[silverex]

It probably will be anyway, big pat. I think they alternate them year to year.

This year Eels at Kogarah, next year at the 'Gong.

 

[Whos Ya Daddy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l91ISfcuzDw&feature=related

 

[slipperykinchela]

Id rothfield carry on like this when the scum sold out there home semi?

 

[Doug2234]

Doug, I think the reason that people are fired up, me included, is that this possible move has even been suggested. Another reason is that it's always the Dragons that are targetted.

If the NRL sets the rules at the beginning of the season , then they should stick by it. If they don't like it, then change it. But not 10 days before the game.

Silverex i understand that you are fired up but i cant see it being moved. Can you honestly see Doust making a deal with the devil and changing grounds for the Semi - seriously!. His corporate sponsers would tie him up by his thumbs!!

The Telegraph keeps getting under everyones skin and me for one am not going to let the f**khead's at the Tele piss me off anymore..

The guys at the Tele are probably sitting back laughing there arse off at how pissed off they make Dragons fans on this forum.

This is an OFFER - not an ORDER by the NRL. So your statement on the rules is irrelevant. The NRL know they will make 1 million in gate takings if the game is played at a bigger ground... as a business your would be stupid not to look at the idea - but again, this doesnt mean it will happen

 

[nathanbrown'sghost]

Silverex i understand that you are fired up but i cant see it being moved. Can you honestly see Doust making a deal with the devil and changing grounds for the Semi - seriously!. His corporate sponsers would tie him up by his thumbs!!

He has screwed us before.

 

[Dizzychik]

This has to be another one of these telecrap stories again as I don't see it mentioned anywhere else.

Doust has publicly announced kogarah for the home final and can't back out now. Plus home field advantage is way too important to give up.

Btw, manly was not forced to move their home final for the last two years in a row... Gallop just made them let the souths drummers play in 2007. :sarcasm:

 

[TheRev]

This is an OFFER - not an ORDER by the NRL. So your statement on the rules is irrelevant. The NRL know they will make 1 million in gate takings if the game is played at a bigger ground... as a business your would be stupid not to look at the idea - but again, this doesnt mean it will happen

Yep its actually nice of the NRL to give us an offer, but there is also some merit in dragons fans being vocal, i.e. to ensure that Doust understands that his clubs supporters are not in favour of the proposal (just incase he was considering it).

My annoyance was more about the telegraphs cheap shots, i.e. replaying the 'poor juniors' card, 'current affairs style', where its some sort of gross injustice that we don't give away free passes to blockbuster finals games.

Personally, I'd much rather a crowded 20,000 seat stadium, than a 50,000 seat stadium (ill watch it at home pr the pub if its a sell-out), and if the NRL want to change the rules for 2010, thats a different story, and I know Bennett was criticising the Top8 system in the Herald today,