Heartland needs love

[Gary_Bakerloo]

I think you can forget about suburban grounds going forward.

Do we? TV rights holders are now stating a preference for the ground to look full on TV rather than 3/4 empty. Everything that's old is suddenly new again.

 

[colmcd]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

I get what you are saying Col but it is not comparable IMO as the Sky Blues have played at the SFS pretty much wholly and solely since their inception. SFS is their stadium. They are also owned by a Russian banking magnate who can buy the SFS if he wanted.

WT are one of eight Sydney basin teams who are in an extremely competitive market and need to make money and avoid costs where they can. They would not be playing at ANZ if LO and CSS were profitable. IIRC WT were paying something like $25K per game to rent CSS and they had the lease for LO which they had to give up because they could no longer afford it, to which Leichhardt council now rents to them for free.

If the club could afford to play 6/6 or some other mix between our two ancestral home grounds I am certain they would.

 

[gallagher]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

 

[LCA]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

 

[gallagher]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

Self-centred doesn't even come close to summarising that article. For one, it's a merger. Everyone needed to makes sacrifices and two, do you really think any business is going to take a 'punt' that crowd numbers are going to increase with a permanent move.

No, you need to demonstrate with your feet McGill that there is a solid reason for the Tigers to move there. So far, you haven't. All talk, no action.

McGill sounds like a Souffs supporter to me.

They play 1 trial game there and "Oh! how fantastic they are"

Tigers play 4 at C'town per year, spend time in schools etc. - no they don't care about us.

I think by your statements McGill you and Souffs deserve each other.

I think he's saying that all or most of the sacrifices have been one way.
I'm not sure how some expect the Campbelltown area should be vigorously supporting the club, but when you look at the way the club has performed over the time of its existence, how can be expected to shell out their money each week when the club and team is so often a train wreck.
Even the top clubs support drops when they are in the cellar.
And we've been in that group more often than not.
With the area we are supposed to have, we should have been a lot stronger than we have been. But we need to be a part of the area to get the areas support
I think that the club in the beginning, had the attitude that it would only be a case of giving the area a minimal amount of attention was all that was needed for the people to flock in.
That hasn't worked.

That area should be a stronghold of RL in Sydney, and I'm surprised that the League hasn't
Pushed WTs harder to become a bigger part of the community.
The Balmain area which we seem to mainly cater for , is ( or so I keep hearing some that I know there)being taken over by the Greenies, & "the Late' crowd.
Maybe we should be trying harder to get a strangle hold on the Cambelltown area, ( and I don't mean just token actions), as in the coming years we may come to need the district more than they need us

 

[goldcoast_tiger]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

If you use that as an argument, then where has people embraced anything new if it is consistently badly run and more often mostly among the also runs( or worse) of its competition.
We arent like the warriors in being a one team country. Of even like The Storm, who, although having to battle the AFL bias in Vic. Have had the money from News, as well as illegal help with buying and keeping players that other clubs could only dream of.
And the Warriors also have trouble with crowds when they're not winning. And it's the only game in the entire country.
We Have Competition.
Maybe if Cleary can help to pull us out of the dregs, we might be a more attractive proposition to support. I think a lot here lose the point that most of us are rusted on, and have been for a long while,
Normal people aren't, Therefore they couldn't less about a team who can't beat time with a stick most of the time, especially when they hardly see them in the community.
If the Club wants support from the Cambelltown area, they have to start earning it both on amd off the field

 

[GNR4LIFE]

As someone said above, St George have far fewer problems wandering. 6/6 split works fine.
3 games at Campbelltown is a joke! a total Joke. Campbelltown fans should not have to travel 1.5 hours to their "home ground".

We need to ditch ANZ or Leichhardt oval and in my view it should be ANZ. We don't own this stadium, we never will own this stadium, it will be our kinda home stadium with a cabinet at the side.

No way. As Sydney FC were saying "we want our own stadium, we want our members to know that it is our ground and our turf." It's not our turf if we play 3 silly games there.

If I were the Saints or Cronulla I would be talking to Campbelltown and playing a game or two out there just too see if the fans come. Or St George run a shuttle to Woolongong! Or Souths try and take the stadium.

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

Souths tested the water at the start of the year taking a trial there.

 

[gallagher]

No club is taking games to Campbo. People have been suggesting it for well over a decade. Theyve suggested the dogs, the roosters and lately the bunnies. Its nonsense.

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

If you use that as an argument, then where has people embraced anything new if it is consistently badly run and more often mostly among the also runs( or worse) of its competition.
We arent like the warriors in being a one team country. Of even like The Storm, who, although having to battle the AFL bias in Vic. Have had the money from News, as well as illegal help with buying and keeping players that other clubs could only dream of.
And the Warriors also have trouble with crowds when they're not winning. And it's the only game in the entire country.
We Have Competition.
Maybe if Cleary can help to pull us out of the dregs, we might be a more attractive proposition to support. I think a lot here lose the point that most of us are rusted on, and have been for a long while,
Normal people aren't, Therefore they couldn't less about a team who can't beat time with a stick most of the time, especially when they hardly see them in the community.
If the Club wants support from the Cambelltown area, they have to start earning it both on amd off the field

I agree with you. But that has nothing to do with my post you quoted. No other clubs are taking games to campbo.
I'd be happy to be totally based at campbo but the stadium isn't good enough. It's a better experience at home.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Ok. Why? elaborate please,

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

If you use that as an argument, then where has people embraced anything new if it is consistently badly run and more often mostly among the also runs( or worse) of its competition.
We arent like the warriors in being a one team country. Of even like The Storm, who, although having to battle the AFL bias in Vic. Have had the money from News, as well as illegal help with buying and keeping players that other clubs could only dream of.
And the Warriors also have trouble with crowds when they're not winning. And it's the only game in the entire country.
We Have Competition.
Maybe if Cleary can help to pull us out of the dregs, we might be a more attractive proposition to support. I think a lot here lose the point that most of us are rusted on, and have been for a long while,
Normal people aren't, Therefore they couldn't less about a team who can't beat time with a stick most of the time, especially when they hardly see them in the community.
If the Club wants support from the Cambelltown area, they have to start earning it both on amd off the field

I agree with you. But that has nothing to do with my post you quoted. No other clubs are taking games to campbo.
I'd be happy to be totally based at campbo but the stadium isn't good enough. It's a better experience at home.

Souths took one there this year.

 

[gallagher]

18 seasons since weve been part time there and no one has come yet. Theyve gone everywhere else around the country and NZ but not here. Its like suggesting we would take a home game to Brookvale. Theres just no point.

If you use that as an argument, then where has people embraced anything new if it is consistently badly run and more often mostly among the also runs( or worse) of its competition.
We arent like the warriors in being a one team country. Of even like The Storm, who, although having to battle the AFL bias in Vic. Have had the money from News, as well as illegal help with buying and keeping players that other clubs could only dream of.
And the Warriors also have trouble with crowds when they're not winning. And it's the only game in the entire country.
We Have Competition.
Maybe if Cleary can help to pull us out of the dregs, we might be a more attractive proposition to support. I think a lot here lose the point that most of us are rusted on, and have been for a long while,
Normal people aren't, Therefore they couldn't less about a team who can't beat time with a stick most of the time, especially when they hardly see them in the community.
If the Club wants support from the Cambelltown area, they have to start earning it both on amd off the field

I agree with you. But that has nothing to do with my post you quoted. No other clubs are taking games to campbo.
I'd be happy to be totally based at campbo but the stadium isn't good enough. It's a better experience at home.

Souths took one there this year.

We're talking NRL games.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

If you use that as an argument, then where has people embraced anything new if it is consistently badly run and more often mostly among the also runs( or worse) of its competition.
We arent like the warriors in being a one team country. Of even like The Storm, who, although having to battle the AFL bias in Vic. Have had the money from News, as well as illegal help with buying and keeping players that other clubs could only dream of.
And the Warriors also have trouble with crowds when they're not winning. And it's the only game in the entire country.
We Have Competition.
Maybe if Cleary can help to pull us out of the dregs, we might be a more attractive proposition to support. I think a lot here lose the point that most of us are rusted on, and have been for a long while,
Normal people aren't, Therefore they couldn't less about a team who can't beat time with a stick most of the time, especially when they hardly see them in the community.
If the Club wants support from the Cambelltown area, they have to start earning it both on amd off the field

I agree with you. But that has nothing to do with my post you quoted. No other clubs are taking games to campbo.
I'd be happy to be totally based at campbo but the stadium isn't good enough. It's a better experience at home.

Souths took one there this year.

We're talking NRL games.

Well they weren't playing AFL.

 

[Geo]

So if Souff's took an NRL game not just a trial to Cambo all of a sudden they will have a strangle hold on the South West…Yeah nah..can't see that myself...

 

[GNR4LIFE]

**So if Souff's took an NRL game not just a trial to Cambo all of a sudden they will have a strangle hold on the South West**…Yeah nah..can't see that myself...

Those are your words. He said no club has taken a game there. He's wrong.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

I'll bet Alien was there.

 

[Geo]

I'll bet Alien was there.

Yeah the Crowd was 2332…Alien accounted for 2302 of them..

 

[gallagher]

**So if Souff's took an NRL game not just a trial to Cambo all of a sudden they will have a strangle hold on the South West**…Yeah nah..can't see that myself...

Those are your words. He said no club has taken a game there. He's wrong.

I was talking about NRL games, not trials. But you're not interested in a discussion, your out for an argument.
My point stands. Despite all the chicken little calls no club has brought an NRL club game to Campbo.
There's no point to it.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

**So if Souff's took an NRL game not just a trial to Cambo all of a sudden they will have a strangle hold on the South West**…Yeah nah..can't see that myself...

Those are your words. He said no club has taken a game there. He's wrong.

I was talking about NRL games, not trials. But you're not interested in a discussion, your out for an argument.
My point stands. Despite all the chicken little calls no club has brought an NRL club game to Campbo.
There's no point to it.

I'm not trying to argue, i just have a different point of view.

You can argue semantics by saying no regular season game has been taken there, and at the same time i can point out that trials are competitive games, sanctioned by the NRL. No club has ever taken games to Penrith or the Gong in other areas that encroach on another clubs junior area.

 

[batboy]

**So if Souff's took an NRL game not just a trial to Cambo all of a sudden they will have a strangle hold on the South West**…Yeah nah..can't see that myself...

Those are your words. He said no club has taken a game there. He's wrong.

I was talking about NRL games, not trials. But you're not interested in a discussion, your out for an argument.
My point stands. Despite all the chicken little calls no club has brought an NRL club game to Campbo.
There's no point to it.

I'm not trying to argue, i just have a different point of view.

You can argue semantics by saying no regular season game has been taken there, and at the same time i can point out that trials are competitive games, sanctioned by the NRL. No club has ever taken games to Penrith or the Gong in other areas that encroach on another clubs junior area.

Might need to check your facts there Gunners - We've taken / played (at least one) Trial game down Wollongong way….