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Im listening to George Piggins on the radio talking about his magical, wonderfull idea to re-develope Redfern and I have to say....he is living in a world of his own!
His plan is basically to build a new stadium at Redfern. To do this...he needs the support of the local government. To get this support he needs to try to convince people a new stadium and surrounding development would add to the area.
In short, when George talks about this new stadium, he talks about fixing the drug problems, getting kids to school....basically, George says this development will save the world.
Now lets me say this.
Any club that thinks its future is based at REDFERN is wasting its time and money.
George Piggins was in control of the Bunnies when they got kicked out of the competition. He was in control of them during their most unsuccessfull perdiod in the clubs rich history.
He was in charge as the Bunnies went from being a GREAT club, a winning club.....to being the absolute garbage of top level sport.
Now, this visionary, he see's the future of the club being at Redfern Oval.
What a joke!!!!
Just say it does get up. Souths get a 20,000 stadium in Redfern. The tens of millions of dollars that will cost.
In 20 years time when, hopefully, the NRL has moved beyond crowds of 15,000.....where will that leave Souths?
They either start losing money by playing infront of 20,000 each week while they could hope to get more at a bigger stadium.....OR.....they move from Redfern Oval again and end up paying off a huge amount of money on a Stadium they are not using again!
Keep in mind....this has been an unsuccessfull club over the last 10 years. They have been in financual trouble for years and years!
Does anyone not called Pggins honestly think the future of top level sport....ANY sport....lies in places like Redfern?
Can you name any sport in the world where clubs see their future being in small suburbs rather then major, state of the art, centralised sporting facilities?
Who would want to go to Redfern. You think the Dogs have problems getting fans to their games....what untill you have to run the gauntlet of thugs and drug dealers to watch a bloody Souths game in Redfern.
You think people would even think of taking their kids to that away game. It should be a nice trip on public transport, that is, is the Train Station isnt on fire and bottles and bricks arent being thrown at the passing buses!
The sooner Piggins moves on from this idea the better. The future of the South Sydney clubs DOES NOT lie in Redfern. The club realised that years ago when it moved to the SFS!
His plan is basically to build a new stadium at Redfern. To do this...he needs the support of the local government. To get this support he needs to try to convince people a new stadium and surrounding development would add to the area.
In short, when George talks about this new stadium, he talks about fixing the drug problems, getting kids to school....basically, George says this development will save the world.
Now lets me say this.
Any club that thinks its future is based at REDFERN is wasting its time and money.
George Piggins was in control of the Bunnies when they got kicked out of the competition. He was in control of them during their most unsuccessfull perdiod in the clubs rich history.
He was in charge as the Bunnies went from being a GREAT club, a winning club.....to being the absolute garbage of top level sport.
Now, this visionary, he see's the future of the club being at Redfern Oval.
What a joke!!!!
Just say it does get up. Souths get a 20,000 stadium in Redfern. The tens of millions of dollars that will cost.
In 20 years time when, hopefully, the NRL has moved beyond crowds of 15,000.....where will that leave Souths?
They either start losing money by playing infront of 20,000 each week while they could hope to get more at a bigger stadium.....OR.....they move from Redfern Oval again and end up paying off a huge amount of money on a Stadium they are not using again!
Keep in mind....this has been an unsuccessfull club over the last 10 years. They have been in financual trouble for years and years!
Does anyone not called Pggins honestly think the future of top level sport....ANY sport....lies in places like Redfern?
Can you name any sport in the world where clubs see their future being in small suburbs rather then major, state of the art, centralised sporting facilities?
Who would want to go to Redfern. You think the Dogs have problems getting fans to their games....what untill you have to run the gauntlet of thugs and drug dealers to watch a bloody Souths game in Redfern.
You think people would even think of taking their kids to that away game. It should be a nice trip on public transport, that is, is the Train Station isnt on fire and bottles and bricks arent being thrown at the passing buses!
The sooner Piggins moves on from this idea the better. The future of the South Sydney clubs DOES NOT lie in Redfern. The club realised that years ago when it moved to the SFS!
