Bus 2 Terrigal
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All the players do not come from the south-west. It’s the Wests Tigers reserve grade side - they come from all over the shop.
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$50 Million reason Wests Tigers are prepared to quit Campbelltown.
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Bus 2 Terrigal
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Not sure what relevance that has to anything. Of course players don’t aspire to reach reserve grade and stay at that level.
Cronulla players don’t aspire to play for Newtown either, but I’m sure they appreciate the experience (as opposed to the Souths or Easts second grade experience).
GNR4LIFE
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The relevance is he has to get his dig in cos he is an old Balmain fogey
innsaneink
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New $50m Campbelltown Stadium plans revealed for Wests Tigers home ground after funding switch
Six-year-old funding worth $40m will finally be unlocked to deliver Campbelltown Stadium's biggest-ever upgrade, expanding capacity and corporate facilities.
Dean Ritchie@BulldogRitchie
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August 26, 2025 - 5:00AM
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NRL: The North Queensland Cowboys beat the Wests Tigers 34-28 in a thriller to extend the Tigers' final drought.
More than $40m pledged to Campbelltown Council six years ago will now be spun and redirected into a major upgrade of antiquated Campbelltown Stadium.
Additional funding worth $10m from Campbelltown Council will enable a $50m redevelopment of Sydney’s major south-western sporting venue.
The previous Liberal Government, along with the Federal Government and council, committed money for a three-level Centre of Excellence to be constructed at the northern end of the stadium.
Those plans have now altered with the fully fledged Centre of Excellence to be replaced by a grandstand, corporate facilities and dressing rooms. A smaller high performance centre, with more corporate boxes, will now be constructed at the southern end of the ground, near the Leagues Club.
It will give Campbelltown Stadium, and Wests Tigers, an additional 1000 corporate suites and increase the venue’s seating capacity to 20,000.
Campbelltown Stadium is getting a major $50m redevelopment. Picture: Getty
The $40m money has been in council’s coffers for six years and was part of a western Sydney infrastructure grant.
Council’s only concern now is whether the State and Federal Governments may seek to retrieve the money given the original plan has been scrapped, albeit that is unlikely.
“It would be hugely disappointing if the Feds or State Governments wanted to pull money now we have just got a mutual agreement with the Tigers and made a public announcement,” said Campbelltown Mayor Darcy Lound.
Wests Tigers revealed on Sunday a 15-year stadium strategy at the club’s two suburban grounds – Leichhardt Oval and Campbelltown Stadium. The club claims an agreement has been secured for a $100m upgrade across both ageing venues.
Fans flock to Leichhardt Oval to watch the Wests Tigers play. Picture: Getty
A $50 million redevelopment of Leichhardt Oval has been confirmed by a triangular partnership comprising Inner West Council, NSW Government and Federal government, with construction to start after next season.
Wests Tigers also claimed an “intended $50 million has been identified for the redevelopment of Campbelltown Sports Stadium.”
Outside the initial money, the State and Federal Governments will not offer any further funding.
“We’ve got the funding – it’s all previous funding,” said Lound. “We have realigned what we were going to do at the stadium in talks with the Tigers. We were building a Centre of Excellence at the northern end with seating in front and corporates up the top.
“That was only going to increase the capacity by about 1000 people but give us another 400 corporates. We had $41m for all that.
Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson says the club has agreed to the stadium refurbishment draft plans. Picture: NewsWire/ Gaye Gerard
“What’s happened now is we will build a grandstand down the bottom, northern end with some corporate space, normal seating, designated change sheds and ice baths.
“At the Leagues Club end, near the main entry, we will build a smaller scale Centre of Excellence with a gymnasium, offices and more corporates.
“Ultimately that will give us a 20,000 capacity at the ground and around 1000 corporates because that what’s Wests Tigers need. That’s what got the deal over the line.”
The plans are yet to be finalised and only minor designs have been drawn up.
“We have agreed to draft plans proposed by the council for the upgrade of the stadium. The cost will be a minimum of $50m which we have commitment to by the council,” said Wests Tigers CEO Shane Richardson.
Lol... coming from an old Magpie tragic who named his best experience at Cambo as an old Western Suburbs game?
Last 25 years irrelevant?🙄
GNR4LIFE
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Nah, I’d say 05 vs the Cowboys was right there with it. Also watching us come back from 24-0 down vs Newcastle in 02. I was 12 when the the JV happened. Old Magpie tragic alright 😅
Whats that got to do with the the two highlighted sentences?
GNR4LIFE
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And that 17 year old curly headed Kiwi’s debut wasn’t bad either 🤔
Funny you only name them now then... obviously weren't relevant before when you named your wonderful memories defending Cambo.🤣
GNR4LIFE
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Maybe, but I haven’t slagged off Balmain or LO. I think it’s great that we’ll still play a few games out of the old girl. You on the other hand have taken pot shots at both Wests and Ctown.
Bus 2 Terrigal
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You said the Lidcombe games attract only Western Suburbs dinosaurs and that no one follows the Magpies. Therefore, why do you have a problem with the NSW Cup playing at Lidcombe? According to you, no one cares whether they exist, let alone where they play 🤷♂️
Bus 2 Terrigal
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Heres a couple of great Orana Park memories - first ever Wests Tigers game (our true spiritual home) and Benji’s NRL debut 👍
weststigers
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“We’ll still play out of CommBank for the bigger games until both stadiums are fully established in '29. [From 2029] there's 11 games, certainly, that will be locked into either Leichhardt or Campbelltown.”
The anti-Leichhardt plebs shouldn't get too cocky.
Also, now you have faith in Richo? You've been panning him all season.
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weststigers
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You do make it hard. Almost everything you post is nonsense.
weststigers
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If that's the case we need to go all in on the south west. Dipping our toes in the water and hanging onto Leichhardt and the inner west is rather silly if it offers nothing other than tokenism.
Bus 2 Terrigal
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But it is ‘nonsense’ done with a certain style.
You don’t survive a misspent youth on the Liddy Oval bike track during those Fibro years without acquiring the grand propensity to hurl lashings of ritzy tripe.
Wests to Win 👍
Bus 2 Terrigal
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I would suggest that “going all in” can never be classified as tokenistic 🤔
Just sayin
innsaneink
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Man that is a pissweak go...making fun of mental illness...the hypocrisy of talking about sad
Weak
weststigers
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Big stretch there hero
weststigers
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I was talking about Leichhardt and inner west being tokenistic with 3 games at Leichhardt to Campbelltowns 8. If Campbelltown "is the future", why even bother with the inner west?