Both are great historic fields, and keeps a connection to the western suburbs past, Pratten park atleast next to Ashfield train station. And can park at the Woolies in Ashfield and walk across to the oval. Pratten park is a better field then Concord or five dock, I play in the seniors comp and we constantly have to play at blackmore oval every second week and I'm sick of it, something different would be cool.
True hasn't been used for a long time, but Pratten park and Lidcombe I think would be good for the junior league and the very lower grades men's league comps, i think NSW cup magpies should play at the Concord Centre of excellence atleast get it's moneys worth, of the 78million that was spent on it.
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.
It amazes me there were ever games there to begin with. The capacity must be 7 or 8 thousand. The grandstand is a matchbox.
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 I can put it down to is different time, different standards. Doesn’t even come close to what is needed today.
I'm agree with you for all the teams to be called wests tigers and for them to be played at ctown or The concord Centre of excellence , cause 78 mil was spent on it, Im talking more about using Lidcombe oval for the junior league cause I don't think it's good enough for the new cup team.
To me Lidcombe oval is on parr with Pratten park as they are both too old and not good enough for NSW CUP and should be used for the junior league, and the NSW CUP team plays at the concord Centre of excellence to to get there moneys worth of the 78 mill that was spent on it.
Makes Ctown look like ACCOR.
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.
You don't reckon the Concord Centre of excellence is better then Lidcombe oval?
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.
Having lived at Caves Beach for the last 30 years I wouldn't have a clue what the COE ground looks like.
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.
