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Can confirm that the bronze façade looks really classy from the street/park.Good to see the A-league selling the new stadium. What have the Roosters done?
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Blah blah. Three codes use the stadium and the 4th stand is a nod to the past.Stadium naming
jan 30
An SCG heritage committee headed by businessman Maurice Newman, former politician and SCG Trust chairman Rodney Cavalier
and media director Phillip Heads have released the names of the grandstands
the grandstands will be named after:
* Ron Coote, the old South Sydney Rabbitohs and Sydney Roosters champion, who is considered by many to be the best ever player not to be named an Immortal.
* Australian soccer legend Johnny Warren, whose stand will be at the northern end of the stadium where The Cove supporter group is based for Sydney FC A-League games.
* Former Wallabies captain and legendary rugby union figure Sir Nicholas Shehadie.
* And, controversially, the Garrison stand, which recognises the British army soldiers from the 1850s who were based at Victoria barracks
and played sport on what is now the SCG.
The fact Arthur Beetson’s claims have been ignored will create enormous controversy.
In a News Corp poll last year Beetson had more than three times the support of any other sporting legend for the naming of the four grandstands.
There is no questioning Coote is a great choice.
But seriously … Garrison ahead of Beetson?
The name Garrison is more aligned to the Sydney Cricket Ground from 170 years ago, not the football stadium.
Surprisingly the stand names have already been signed off by many of Sydney’s most respected sporting types on the Venues NSW board
including chairman Tony Shepherd, John Quayle, broadcaster Alan Jones, Todd Greenberg and Rod McGeoch.
Only the premier Dominic Perrottet has the power to overturn the decision.
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@Barry O'Speedwagon zero mention of Change The DateStadium naming
jan 30
An SCG heritage committee headed by businessman Maurice Newman, former politician and SCG Trust chairman Rodney Cavalier
and media director Phillip Heads have released the names of the grandstands
the grandstands will be named after:
* Ron Coote, the old South Sydney Rabbitohs and Sydney Roosters champion, who is considered by many to be the best ever player not to be named an Immortal.
* Australian soccer legend Johnny Warren, whose stand will be at the northern end of the stadium where The Cove supporter group is based for Sydney FC A-League games.
* Former Wallabies captain and legendary rugby union figure Sir Nicholas Shehadie.
* And, controversially, the Garrison stand, which recognises the British army soldiers from the 1850s who were based at Victoria barracks
and played sport on what is now the SCG.
The fact Arthur Beetson’s claims have been ignored will create enormous controversy.
In a News Corp poll last year Beetson had more than three times the support of any other sporting legend for the naming of the four grandstands.
There is no questioning Coote is a great choice.
But seriously … Garrison ahead of Beetson?
The name Garrison is more aligned to the Sydney Cricket Ground from 170 years ago, not the football stadium.
Surprisingly the stand names have already been signed off by many of Sydney’s most respected sporting types on the Venues NSW board
including chairman Tony Shepherd, John Quayle, broadcaster Alan Jones, Todd Greenberg and Rod McGeoch.
Only the premier Dominic Perrottet has the power to overturn the decision.
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I mean it seems to me if people actually cared about indigenous affairs outside the hip woke times, that they might also care to point out this less than a week later that 4 stands named and one relates strongly to the issues regarding Australia Day.
Perhaps it isn’t the same, but it is wilfully ignorant to not have had any indigenous representation, especially naming one a super obscure historical reference to a building because some blokes who worked or whatever in that building played a bit of cricket across the road. Ron Coote has better fit with indigenous than the Garrison, which was a component (although a very benign, even charitable component) of the people doing the depossessing. Heck Johnny Warren has better indigenous connections. My point is if you want to change the date, why ignore it the other 364 days? And if it is going to be ignored the rest of the year, why change the date? At least then there’d be one day where Joe Bogan actually spared an iota of thought for indigenous affairs.
