westielife
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Accor over Parra?Concord centre of excellence over Lidcombe for reserve grade? Lidcombe/Pratten park for juniors footy only?
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Birchgrove has two fields and no parking
Pratten has one field and even less parking
Closest BJRL club to Ashfield is Five Dock & Concord/Burwood...not needed
Pratten has one field and even less parking
Closest BJRL club to Ashfield is Five Dock & Concord/Burwood...not needed
GNR4LIFE
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Oh man, screenshots of that question will be all over those Magpie FB groups soon enough. Hello ya old fossils.
All they care about is making sure they get to play at Lidcombe. They won’t even consider playing at pratten park or birchgrove no matter what grade. If Lidcombe was first grade standard they would 100% be wanting all our home games there.
GNR4LIFE
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It amazes me there were ever games there to begin with. The capacity must be 7 or 8 thousand. The grandstand is a matchbox.
Rock Hopper Steve
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I don't like any of your ideas, for starters all the grades should be called Wests Tigers we have been the merged team for 26 years it's time to drop the dinosaur clubs influence, all the younger supporters don't give a rat's arse about the previous clubs and they are the future.
All grades under 1st grade should be played at Cambo or LO for gawds sake, grow up playing at 1st grade's home grounds so by the time they get their 1st grade shot they know every blade of grass on it.
Time to stop catering to a handful of old farts who probably won't see beyond the next 20 years, a decaying old supporter base should have no influence.
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All I can put it down to is different time, different standards. Doesn’t even come close to what is needed today.
GNR4LIFE
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Makes Ctown look like ACCOR.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Still don't like it, minor grades need to be played at LO as well, you can't leave it out to cater for inferior grounds.
In terms of atmosphere and playing on field, definitely not. LO beats that over the field that’s at the COE.
That’s how bad it is.
Again that won’t happen. Our owners want our cup side only playing at Lidcome for home games with the occasional game at Campbelltown. But I guarantee if they could they’d have every home game in every grade at Lidcombe.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Having lived at Caves Beach for the last 30 years I wouldn't have a clue what the COE ground looks like.
If you are suggesting it to be more modern, I get your argument, but LO is about to be upgraded.
Playing minor grade games away from the top two just splits up the supporter base it would probably attract more Magpies jerseys than Wests Tigers, only use the main grounds is my solution.
I’ve gone past it a few times when I’ve gone to LO to watch us play. The ground itself is ok it’s not exactly breathtaking even LO in its current state I would say is better.
But I agree our lower grade games should be played at either LO or Campbelltown. If I was in charge I would make a day of it, I’d change our cup side back to Wests Tigers, have Flegg, Cup and NRL played all on the same day at the same ground.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Going back in time that's how it used to be, then the NRL changed it up, don't understand it was bad move, much better the old way then you get to see the juniors with bright futures coming through instead of having to read reports on the forum, you can have your own opinion on them.
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