New homeground

[tigerbenji]

Henson Park

Love Henson Park.

 

[TheDaBoss]

Alice springs

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Leichardt Oval.

It already exists, and is a great place to watch football.

Building a 30,000 capacity stadium for a Tigers home ground seems extremely... optimistic.

Do you have any idea how objectionable that idea is to the Magpies, the 90% owners of the joint venture.
I'm not and never will be a Balmain Tigers supporter.

Neither Balmain Tigers nor Western Suburbs Magpies have existed for 20+ years in the NRL.

Regardless, LO is still a great place to watch football. I'd sometimes coordinate Sydney trips around games there to go and watch (Wests) Tigers play.

If it does end up being 'some dump in Liverpool' that definitely won't be happening.

 

[Guest]

Leichardt Oval.

It already exists, and is a great place to watch football.

Building a 30,000 capacity stadium for a Tigers home ground seems extremely... optimistic.

Do you have any idea how objectionable that idea is to the Magpies, the 90% owners of the joint venture.
I'm not and never will be a Balmain Tigers supporter.

Neither Balmain Tigers nor Western Suburbs Magpies have existed for 20+ years in the NRL.

Regardless, LO is still a great place to watch football. I'd sometimes coordinate Sydney trips around games there to go and watch (Wests) Tigers play.

If it does end up being 'some dump in Liverpool' that definitely won't be happening.

It's still a JV of Wests (90% owners) and Balmain.
To play all games at Balmain's home ground is a massive disrespect to the Magpies.
Sometimes I think this forum should be renamed the Balmain Chronicles.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Yeah, cool.

Just disregard my point completely then.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

They should build a 90,000 capacity stadium in Mount Druitt. That'll be awesome and keep the Western Suburbs Magpies people (who own 90% of the 'joint venture' don't you know!) happy.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, cool.

Just disregard my point completely then.

I addressed your point by reminding you that it's a joint venture.
The club that played all it's home games at Leichhardt is now a corpse that has another club paying for it's body to be refrigerated. Playing there is not financially viable.
The best option is definitely a new stadium wherever it may be built.
It's funny how Wests Magpies supporters are never on here demanding that games are exclusively at Campbelltown. That seems to be exclusively a Balmoan state of mind.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Who's **'demanding'** anything? Can you please cite where I have done so?

Imagine having discussion about such things on a discussion forum.

 

[Lee's fedora]

We should play solely at campbelltown stadium build that as our fortress and a handful of games at Leichhardt to keep the Balmain boys happy make it an event the tigers return to Leichhardt get some money out of it sell out the joint and once a year play a game at lidcome oval we need to stop being the travelling circus like someone else said in this thread the tigers side is just a magpie playing dress up so why not play majority of our games out west

 

[mike]

Henson Park


Love Henson Park.

Ah, Henson Park, my original home ground. Went to primary school up the road. But nah.

 

[mike]

They should build a 90,000 capacity stadium in Mount Druitt. That'll be awesome and keep the Western Suburbs Magpies people (who own 90% of the 'joint venture' don't you know!) happy.

Mount Druitt is Panthers territory, so no thanks.

 

[diedpretty]

I still think Campbelltown should be our home ground with probably 4 games a year at Leichhardt. I really can't see an issue with having the COE at Concord and a home ground at Campbelltown. Players can live in the inner city as they will be spending most of their time at the COE. The team can travel as one by bus which is far more professional than rocking up by their own transport. Game day can be really played up and promoted as the team would only be there 8 times a year. The club can do promotional work in the area to maintain close links with the juniors and schools. The bs that Wests Ashfield gets nothing out of it is just that - BS. What do they get out of the team playing at 4 or 5 home grounds - nothing. What do they get when the team has a home game at Bankwest.

 

[Guest]

There's always the option of the owners handing back the licence and launching a new bid for the Western Suburbs Butcherbirds (they're black and white).
It would remove any stigma of the current brand and provide the South West with a team they can get behind.

I'd prefer to remain the Tigers but with 2 home grounds only, one of which is anywhere but Leichhardt that financially sustains the club. Still play 3 games a year at Leichhardt
In the end if you had to go all in with either the Macarthur region or the inner city cafe crowd it would be absolutely business suicide to not choose Macarthur.

 

[diedpretty]

They should build a 90,000 capacity stadium in Mount Druitt. That'll be awesome and keep the Western Suburbs Magpies people (who own 90% of the 'joint venture' don't you know!) happy.

You forgot the part that Balmain only own 10% because it was gifted to them. See i can be sarcastic too.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

Wow. The irony is strong eh @Dwight-Schrute ?

 

[Guest]

Wow. The irony is strong eh @Dwight-Schrute ?

Comprehension was an important subject when I went to school. It involved reading a passage and remembering it ALL.
Did you miss the "I’d prefer to remain the Tigers but with 2 home grounds only, one of which is anywhere but Leichhardt that financially sustains the club. Still play 3 games a year at Leichhardt" bit.

3 or 4 games as it is now. I didn't even ask for Campbelltown home games. No irony or more correctly contradiction to be seen here. Move on people.

Comprehension was important, still is and always will be.

 

[Pascoes_barber]

I was actually referring to the other responses that followed mine.

Sadly you only reach a mark of 4/10 for that one.

 

[Guest]

I was actually referring to the other responses that followed mine.

Sadly you only reach a mark of 4/10 for that one.

Not the worst mark I've had.
100 lines for Dwight.

 

[TigerTownSFS]

This has been said possibly 100 times: @tony-soprano is correct - Tigers currently still in the 10-year deal committed to by predecessors for financial reasons.

Secondly, the club will find it difficult to make a concrete decision right at this moment when the NSW Govt has not finalised its stadia strategy in the wake of the pandemic. It's possible some boutique venues will get Bankwest-style makeovers, or the govt might change its mind again and work on ANZ.

Pascoe told The Ambush in 2020 that the preference was a Bankwest-style stadium at Homebush, if the NSW Govt was to make that decision.

This is really interesting. I’ve never heard of Pascoe commenting on the clubs preference. It would certainly make a lot of sense for a more central boutique stadium given the infrastructure, space and transport infrastructure at Homebush. It would be a great outcome to get a 25-30k stadium and Homebush for the bulldogs, tigers, souths and maybe even the dragons or panthers to use at times. Better than Liverpool in my view

 

[jadtiger]

Homebush would be a far better location than most as it is far more central for most of out Sydney supporter base