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  • reigning premier
    Suspended by the MRP
    • Sep 2006
    • 4335

    #16
    Originally posted by Zlatorog
    They are building it: in Bankstown.
    Crikey... Imagine an accident on Caterbury road on game day... Attendance = 6,435...

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    • Roscoe
      Warming the Bench
      • Jan 2003
      • 458

      #17
      Correction, not Bankstown

      BLACKTOWN
      September 24th, 2005 5.14pm
      What a great moment in all of our lives

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      • CJK
        Human
        • Apr 2006
        • 2170

        #18
        Originally posted by reigning premier
        will we be given the same courtesy to be able to relocate games back to the SCG when we continue to have abysmal crowds like yesterdays?
        I would also like to know the answer to this Oh Great RWO Massive.
        -

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        • Zlatorog
          Senior Player
          • Jan 2006
          • 1748

          #19
          Originally posted by Roscoe
          Correction, not Bankstown

          BLACKTOWN
          Oops! It's all West to me anyway.

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          • hammo
            Veterans List
            • Jul 2003
            • 5554

            #20
            Originally posted by reigning premier

            30k in a ground designed to hold 85k is a joke and it will only get worse.
            34k is still more than they would have got at the SCG.

            Originally posted by Annie Haddad
            What they should have done this year was make the "three game pass" a four game pass.

            My sister in law bought one for her family, and picked the night games only (as her choice of three out of four) as her teenagers work during the day on the weekends.

            I'm sure other people did that as well.

            It's the clubs fault ... no foresight.
            That would make some sense, although maybe the club feared sales would actually go down if people were forced to pay for four games.

            Originally posted by reigning premier
            ANZ gives preferential treatment to League. SCG gives preferential treatment to cricket.

            Time to construct a dedicated AFL stadium in Sydney.
            Where?

            Originally posted by Zlatorog
            They are building it: in Bankstown.
            That will be a training base and be able to host pre-season games only. Capacity is going to be only about 10,000.
            "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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            • AnnieH
              RWOs Black Sheep
              • Aug 2006
              • 11332

              #21
              Originally posted by ScottH
              Didn't you see how many bounces went astray.
              ... a lot of them were, for once, to our favour.
              Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
              Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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              • hammo
                Veterans List
                • Jul 2003
                • 5554

                #22
                Originally posted by Annie Haddad
                ... a lot of them were, for once, to our favour.
                Except the one Goodes made a meal of
                "As everyone knows our style of football is defensive and unattractive, and as such I have completely forgotten how to mark or kick over the years" - Brett Kirk

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                • Go Swannies
                  Veterans List
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 5697

                  #23
                  Originally posted by -Doogs-
                  How was the playing surface? I read the the grass was long. If the stadium management want games out there they at least need to accommodate the AFL code and get the mower out on Sunday morning!
                  This sounds like a transcript of a police tape of Cousins and Kerr chatting to their pharmacists . . .

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                  • Go Swannies
                    Veterans List
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 5697

                    #24
                    Originally posted by reigning premier
                    Crikey... Imagine an accident on Caterbury road on game day... Attendance = 6,435...
                    Is that the road to Skilled Stadium?

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                    • Eala ?ireann
                      Beidh an l? linn!
                      • Dec 2005
                      • 256

                      #25
                      I think this is a great stadium and is really well served by public transport. I came in from Redfern in a sweet trip right to the graound. Got out of the ground in 20 mins flat too. Atmosphere can be great there with a decent crowd and a decent game.

                      The surface did look bad though. Have to agree there. I did my own ankle on a bad playing surface once, so I understand Mal being nervous about running out.
                      Ar aghaidh chun bua 2007!

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                      • Industrial Fan
                        Goodesgoodesgoodesgoodes!
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 3317

                        #26
                        Originally posted by Eala ?ireann
                        I did my own ankle on a bad playing surface once, so I understand Mal being nervous about running out.
                        That happened to me too! Someone apparently left the potatoes on the field. Poor surface.
                        He ate more cheese, than time allowed

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                        • TheMase
                          Senior Player
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 1207

                          #27
                          The weather report for the game was also for showers and 16.

                          They got the temp right, but the showers did not appear. That would have kept quite a few away.

                          That, along with the match pass debacle, the accidents on the M4 and the fact we were playing a lowly team...

                          Those issues would have cost us anywhere between 10,000 - 20,000

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                          • JF_Bay22_SCG
                            expat Sydneysider
                            • Jan 2003
                            • 3978

                            #28
                            Originally posted by cruiser
                            It was actually 34,900, still a decent crowd and it looked fine to me. No one in Melbourne complains when they get 34,900 to a game at the MCG. The mistake was only in scheduling a game against the Bombers there. They should have stuck with St Kilda.

                            It did have the atmosphere of a practise game a lot of the time. And due to the wind the place was pretty cold & unpleasant as well. (Walking to Carpark F5 was even more bleak & I'm from Melbourne, I thought I had bleak signed sealed & delivered)

                            I think if we are going to play at the Stadium it does need to be at night. Playing there during the day was just strange.

                            Still, it shows you how far we have come when 34500 is seen as a poor crowd.

                            JF
                            PS:- Do we really want to have all the Telstra Stadium newcomers watching a match as dreary as most Swans-St Kilda ones are Cruiser?
                            "Never ever ever state that Sydney is gone.They are like cockroaches in the aftermath of a nuclear war"
                            (Forum poster 'Change', Big Footy 04Apr09)

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                            • Wardy
                              The old Boiler!
                              • Sep 2003
                              • 6676

                              #29
                              Richard Colless in his lunchtime speech on Sunday said that they were greatly concerned that crowds and memberships were down (but he was bang on and said that they would be lucky to get 40,000 there on Sunday). So this was an opportunity to mention that perhaps putting a second team here in Sydney isnt the right time yet. He also said that the Rugby league was suffering as well - when you consider that there were only 6000 at the same ground the night before to watch St George play the Melbourne Storm - no code is having it easy in Sydney at the moment as far as crowds are concerned.
                              I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not so sure..................
                              Chickens drink - but they don't pee!
                              AGE IS ONLY IMPORTANT FOR TWO THINGS - WINE & CHEESE!

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                              • Zlatorog
                                Senior Player
                                • Jan 2006
                                • 1748

                                #30
                                If our government in NSW doesn't fix the public transport system it's not going to get better for any code with petrol prices going up and all those traffic congestions.

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