Halbrowne61
Well-known member
All very sensible KT ( and BB) but not looking very likely. And where is that money you talked about ?I wonder what the ticket price would have been at Accor?
I would have thought that a deal at Accor would be pretty much subsidised allowing for ticket prices to be a bit more reasonable than the $55 being charged at Leichhardt to stand on the hill.
I believe that playing at Accor was pretty attractive for the club in the past from a financial point and was good for members because there were reciprocal arrangements meaning entry for some away games eg. Souffs, Dogs. were also included.
The management of Accor (then ANZ) were selective and did not want every home game played there, only the ones they thought would draw the biggest crowd, (eg. Souffs/Canterbury /Parramatta) so we still did not have it as our sole home ground.
Personally If we were forced to have only one home ground I would have been happy for it to be Accor/ANZ/Olympic Park, whatever you want to call it, provided we were given the financial incentives and reciprocal member benefits to take all our home games there with the proviso that all the improvements with respect to making it a rectangular ground with the curtaining, steeper seating etc. that were originally proposed.
I think it would have been ideal due to it's central location, availability of public transport, (especially when public transport was included in the ticket price), close proximity to Concord etc.
Then the dumb bastards went and built nice home grounds for the Roorters and the Parra-sites instead.
Balmain boy has the idea and the money.