Rugby League Pub Guide

[McLovin]

Meridian Hotel - Hurstville

 

[Clifferd]

Down wollongong way

North Wollongong Pub

Or Towradgi beach hotel

Only pubs worth looking at down here for league. Both venues epic for origin when they have the big screens out

 

[Vic Mackey]

Meridian Hotel - Hurstville

Surely the Ritz is better with that massive screen?

 

[roofromoz]

Camden

Crown Hotel
Camden Hotel

 

[Travitoh]

Queens Head in Adelaide

 

[gUt]

The Wickham or the Sportsman Hotel in Brisbane

 

[muzby]

for any of you pricks who come down here to melbourne:

CBD
- casino sports bar
- imperial hotel
- turf bar

SOUTH MELBOURNE
- limerick arms hotel

INNER EAST
- Rising sun Richmond
- Sporting Globe Richmond

NORTH
- Sporting globe Essendon

WEST
- Sporting Globe Werribee


most of the other pubs play that weird AFL shit.

 

[The Vaulting Violinist]

Sydney East - Coach and Horses Hotel (good sports bar with lots of screens), Robin Hood Hotel (still uses a projector so has a massive screen).

Love the robin. Great call

 

[Saint Doc]

I’ve said for years there is a market there that is waiting for someone to own. Sydney needs someone to open a “rugby league pub”. Framed jerseys on the wall. NRL bunting. Half priced beers if you’re in a jersey. FOX NRL on 24/7. Make it THE place to go and watch the footy. Surely a pub like that would do well?

 

[McLovin]

Surely the Ritz is better with that massive screen?

Meridian has a giant projector screen around the back. Probably about 5 or 6 meters across. Meridian wins on points due to the Chinese restaurant built into the pub.

 

[Saint Doc]

In answer to the original question:

Sydney
East- Coogee Bay Sports Bar
City- The Dolphin
Inner West- Vic on the Park
South- Allawah Hotel, Oately Pub, Northies
South West- The Mill

Canberra
Belconnen- The Lighthouse, Raiders Belconnen
Inner North- The Duxton
Civic- King O’Malleys
Kingston- The Dock unless the Brumbies are on
South- The Mawson Club

 

[Burns]

Whats the best Canberra pub for State of Origin?

Anyway for Newcastle:
Cooks Hill/Merewether/City
The Ori
The Commonwealth
The Cricketers Arms (when no union)
The Burwood Inn

In the outer suburbs
Wests Leagues Club (New Lambton)

 

[Saint Doc]

Whats the best Canberra pub for State of Origin?

Lived in Canberra for 3 years but I prefer to watch origin at home.
That said, everywhere puts on a big night for origin. The Dock would be good but you would need to book a table. I imagine a place like Hopscotch would probably erect a big outdoor screen, although not normally a noted sports bar. King O’Malleys is always good for sport. Grease Monkey would be good but again, it’s small and you would need to book. The lighthouse always advertise for origin but it’s a bit out of town if you were staying near the city

 

[mozza91]

Newcastle has shit nightlife. Any game of footy on at a pub will be drowned out by some f**kwit murdering Vance Joy’s Riptide as loudly as humanly possible.

 

[Zadar]

The duxton in Canberra also does a meal deal for raiders home games, where you get bus to and from the pub and entry to the game included in your meal, meals range from $21-$40.

 

[TheDMC]

Bangkok for when you feral league bogans come to replace your gummy teeth...

The Kiwi on Sukhumvit Soi 8/1
Bradmans on Sukhumvit Soi 23 (and 50m from Soi Cowboy titty heaven)

 

[mave]

Whats the best Canberra pub for State of Origin?

I enjoyed 3 massive Origin nights at the Dickson Tradies Club about 8 years ago.

 

[_snafu_]

If you’re in Nha Trang in Vietnam, Crazy Kim’s is the place to go. Watched the 2016 grand final there.

19 Biệt Thự, Lộc Thọ, Thành phố Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa 650000, Vietnam

 

[Lambretta]

That real ale pub in The Rocks shows NRL and has some stonking beers on tap! Dont know what its called but at top of a steep hill which I have stumbled down a few times

That sir, would be The Harts Pub

A Hart is an archaic English word for a Stag - It's where Hertfordshire comes from (e's and a's used to be interchangeable in English - hence Derby being pronounced DARBY in England) and why Hertfordshire has a Stag as it's emblem - hence the Rugby League team, the Hemel Stags (originated in Hemel Hempstead)

The Harts pub is on Essex Street and is actually three old terrace houses knocked through to make a pub attached to the Shangri La Hotel (used to be the ANA)

By gum I know some useless shit

 

[Vee]

Cairns at the Casino Sports Bar - big screens with cinema seating.