Rumor from the paper " How appropriate "

[2 True Blues]

From daily telegraph:

Rumors of a Roosters-Eels premiership game next year at Henson Park in Marrickville, the historic home ground of the Newtown Jets, have been knocked on the head. Nostalgia is big in rugby league-as evidenced by the growth in retro merchandising and the record crowds at Leichhardt Oval this year-but a Henson Park clash, to mark 25 years since the 1981 Newtown-Parramatta grand final, is not in the pipeline despite Jets becoming the Roosters' Premier League side next season. " Its not a possibility, " Roosters boss Brian CANAVAN said " We've got a deal with Aussie Stadium to play all our games there and have an arrangement to play one game away from there, and we've already committed to a game on the central Coast ".
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I never heard the so called rumor, however take the story as you will. I can see two sides to it myself. ( Three if you count the fact that the papers suck and are always filled with utter crap !!! ) What do you guys think !!!!

 

[Jeffles]

I know how it started. The person that asked the question of Gallop actually tipped the newspapers. It was a set up.

There was nothing in it. Why would the Roosters lose so much money in corporate hospitality to take a game to Henson Park?

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

It was a wind up from start to finish... It was also in the Sun Hearald as well, so who ever is doing the winding up did a great job.

 

[greg]

Pity, it would be a great day at Henson. We are supposedly with the roosters for the next five years. If they have one game away each year (like Central Coast next year), perhaps in the ensuing 4 years after a game can be scheduled for Henson. Show young NRL fans a bit of history.

 

[hrundi99]

It's just not viable from a logistical point of view. Not unless the council and the NRL were willing to throw a few million our way for a new grandstand. And you know what the likelihood of that is...

 

[Jeffles]

It was the Sun Herald.

I have no problem with the Roosters taking a game to the CC and not to Henson Park. History aside, we have to be rerasonable. The NRL averaged nearly 17,000 people per match this year.

Hrundi makes the point. It's more than a grandstand though. Parking, corporate facilities, toilet facilities, returfing the field, shelter, food and beverage. It's so prohibitive.

 

[koslecki]

Imagine the stress on the poor operations manager that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Jeffles]

Imagine the stress on the poor operations manager that day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Sydney Roosters Operations Manager would be under a lot of stress.

 

[greg]

[ It's more than a grandstand though. Parking, corporate facilities, toilet facilities, returfing the field, shelter, food and beverage. It's so prohibitive.[/QUOTE]
I haven't been to Henson since 82. Sounds like its just the way I remember it!

 

[2 True Blues]

Still the great old ground mate......Love it......Atmosphere is awesome !!!

 

[TheRefPlaysForParramatta]

Well there's a hill, what more do they want... I understand the bbq might need an upgrade, and the beer fridge, but thats it. You don't need all that other crap for one game of the year, and you could fit about the same amount of people in there as the SFS

 

[Stagger eel]

why don't they play a trial match there with the proceeds going to charity??

 

[hrundi99]

Well there's a hill, what more do they want... I understand the bbq might need an upgrade, and the beer fridge, but thats it. You don't need all that other crap for one game of the year, and you could fit about the same amount of people in there as the SFS

I'm not sure that you really understand event management and the logistics involved.

 

[Henson Park Hornets]

I'm not sure that you really understand event management and the logistics involved.

I think his tounge was firmly placed in his cheek....

 

[hrundi99]

Are you sure?

 

[Jeffles]

The first sentence suggests yes but the second one suggests no.

 

[hrundi99]

That's what I thought...

 

[Southern Rooster]

why don't they play a trial match there with the proceeds going to charity??

That's a far better option.

 

[2 True Blues]

I think a battlin club such as the Jets should pocket any proceeds themselves. NRL clubs can afford to give to charity, but not the Jets. Not that there is anything wrong with charities of coarse, but if they play there, and the usual backbone of this wonderful club the volunteers give there time and usual superhuman efforts on gameday, any proceeds should stay with the countries oldest club, who are not exactly rolling it......