One home ground

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.

So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

 

[gallagher]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.


Souths dont have a suburban option.

They did in 1988 when they moved to SFS. They worked it out 30 years ago, we still can't work it out.

 

[mike]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.

 

[gallagher]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

***Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.***

Mate, I cant prove it, but the board member has been a family friend all my life and he was making the case why we dont have the one ground.

Seriously, if you think he is lying to me, what do YOU say is the reason we have 3 games at LO & CSS? To appease people after 20years?
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.

Absolutely I believe that. Wearing the orange jersey at LO and the black one at CSS. Why? I t s all to appease old Wests and Balmain fans.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.


Souths dont have a suburban option.

They did in 1988 when they moved to SFS. They worked it out 30 years ago, we still can't work it out.

And how did that go for them? They went broke and had to be bought out, selling their soul to two fairy godfathers. That is a hell of a business case.

 

[gallagher]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.


Souths dont have a suburban option.

They did in 1988 when they moved to SFS. They worked it out 30 years ago, we still can't work it out.


And how did that go for them? They went broke and had to be bought out, selling their soul to two fairy godfathers. That is a hell of a business case.

And Balmain went bust at LO and Wests went bust at CSS. I think south's are doing a smidge better than either of our parent clubs and our current club.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.

Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

 

[mike]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK

 

[wonka]

I wonder if Lidcombe oval was one of our regular venues would there be less whinging for one home ground.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.


Souths dont have a suburban option.

They did in 1988 when they moved to SFS. They worked it out 30 years ago, we still can't work it out.


And how did that go for them? They went broke and had to be bought out, selling their soul to two fairy godfathers. That is a hell of a business case.

And Balmain went bust at LO and Wests went bust at CSS. I think south's are doing a smidge better than either of our parent clubs and our current club.

Cool story bro......not true in the slightest, but cool. Balmain didnt go broke, neither did Wests. Couldnt compete, but didnt go broke.

Souffs actually did. Not "oh geez we are doing it tough"....but "Hi, we are the adminstrators" kind of broke.

Souffs are doing well but are completely unrelated to pre Rusty and PHaC. You used the example of Souffs moving from Redfern 30years ago as an example of them "working it out" but we cant. If you are going to post something as an example of the great management of a club that is better than ours, I think leaving out a little fact like they went broke is a smidge negligent.

 

[mike]

I wonder if Lidcombe oval was one of our regular venues would there be less whinging for one home ground.

It would need major redevelopment, which is unlikely to happen. In it's current state it would be a fail.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK

What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

 

[mike]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.

Its an INCREDIBLY poor tactic, and it is your tactic.

Seriously, you need to explain this to me. Stadium NSW hold a monopoly. Telling them that are all in at one of their grounds no matter what would have to be the worst idea I have ever heard.

 

[mike]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.


Seriously, you need to explain this. Stadium NSW hold a monopoly. Telling them that are all in at one of their grounds no matter what would have to be the worst idea I have ever heard.

If you went into negotiations with the premise that you would take games to LO and CSS if they didn't do a deal, they would be laughing at you from across the table. Telling you to come back when you are serious.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.


Seriously, you need to explain this. Stadium NSW hold a monopoly. Telling them that are all in at one of their grounds no matter what would have to be the worst idea I have ever heard.

If you went into negotiations with the premise that you would take games to LO and CSS if they didn't do a deal, they would be laughing at you from across the table. Telling you to come back when you are serious.

No it would be a negotiation. They would say we would pay you $X, we could say we will move more games to LO & CSS unless we get more and it would be possible to negotiate middle ground.

Saying to a supplier ***who holds the monopoly on the thing you you are buying***..."We have no alternative but to buy the thing you are selling and there is no one else we can get it from" is going to result in VERY short negotiations and it will not result in a better deal for the Tigers.

 

[mike]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.


Seriously, you need to explain this. Stadium NSW hold a monopoly. Telling them that are all in at one of their grounds no matter what would have to be the worst idea I have ever heard.

If you went into negotiations with the premise that you would take games to LO and CSS if they didn't do a deal, they would be laughing at you from across the table. Telling you to come back when you are serious.


No it would be a negotiation. They would say we would pay you $X, we could say we will move more games to LO & CSS unless we get more and it would be possible to negotiate middle ground.

Saying to a supplier ***who holds the monopoly on the thing you you are buying***..."We have no alternative but to buy the thing you are selling and there is no one else we can get it from" is going to result in VERY short negotiations and it will not result in a better deal for the Tigers.

Sure whatever you think then.

 

[Tiger5150]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

All hearsay. Also don't know that it will be going down in the future, it would be up for negotiation. That is an assumption you have made to support your position. The future commercial arrangements could very well be in Wests Tigers favour. We don't know yet.

Yes the future commercial arrangements should play a big part in which home ground is chosen.


I am not discussing future commercial arrangement, Im discussing current and it is exactly as Im telling you. Yes I cant prove what this board member told me but it remains a fact that if we play the loss making clubs at ANZ, there is less money.

What market factors are pushing up prices for the stadia? COVID? Increasing streaming of games? Monopoly ownership of stadia?

Nothing will change until the current commercial agreements are completed. I'm taking about what we do after those arrangements have finished.


So you are suggesting we should have one home ground regardless of the future commercial arrangements? That is insane, the decision would have to be made based on what the commercial opportunities are.

All we can discuss is based on the current deals.

Nonsense. We can decide we have one home ground and then negotiate an appropriate deal moving forward. Depending on how the negotiations go may very well determine the home ground. Have all your home games in one location would be a very good negotiation point.


Curious how deciding to have all of your games in the one location and removing all other options would be a "good negotiating point" when the entity that you are negotiating with holds a monopoly of the suitable "one locations"? That would be an interesting case study in business negotiation..."Yes sir, let me make this CLEAR! I have absolutely ZERO options other than to agree to use your product and no alternatives......but I want your BEST price...do you hear me?!?!"

That is exactly what sent the Bears broke.

An actual good negotiation point would be to threaten to have all of your games at LO & CSS, then you actually have something to negotiate with. It would make sense in the lead up to negotiations with Stadium NSW to add an extra LO and CSS game.

So all games at one location, as long as it's your location ... OK


What you are saying makes no sense. I didnt say or suggest all games at any location or my location. Im trying to work out how removing all other options would be a "great negotiation point" when the entity you are negotiating with holds a monopoly on the grounds you now HAVE to use. How is that a good tactic?

Pretty poor actually unless you are prepared to implement it.


Seriously, you need to explain this. Stadium NSW hold a monopoly. Telling them that are all in at one of their grounds no matter what would have to be the worst idea I have ever heard.

If you went into negotiations with the premise that you would take games to LO and CSS if they didn't do a deal, they would be laughing at you from across the table. Telling you to come back when you are serious.


No it would be a negotiation. They would say we would pay you $X, we could say we will move more games to LO & CSS unless we get more and it would be possible to negotiate middle ground.

Saying to a supplier ***who holds the monopoly on the thing you you are buying***..."We have no alternative but to buy the thing you are selling and there is no one else we can get it from" is going to result in VERY short negotiations and it will not result in a better deal for the Tigers.

Sure whatever you think then.

Mate Im VERY happy to be wrong and Id be happy for you to explain to me how removing all competition from a competitive tender process would work in our favour.

 

[Snake]

Lets be honest. Fans that want to play at LO or CSS are just fans of the old clubs or live close to those venues.

Foxtel $70 a month for 32 games plus I have my personal chef in the kitchen ?

Seriously though ..
I’m 80km from Leichhardt and it’s usually a great day out ..
I don’t understand the whingers that piss and moan about the facilities because they can’t hold there bladders .
Have lunch or whatever before you go ..
Piss on before you go ..
Take in pre mixed drinks or cans in your pockets ..
Relieve yourself before you go ..
The game goes for 80 friggin minutes ?

If the old girl and CSS are to see lesser games in the future I’d like to see
8 games at either ANZ or SFS
2 at Leichhardt
2 at CSS
This should please the folks that suffer from incontinence .

8 at one ground would be better.

I said either !
And it’s easy for you to whinge cause you live in WA ?

I get the irony as I don't get to games. But my view is unbiased because of that.


Ever been to Leichhardt on a Sunday arvo?


All the time. A packed hill looks great on TV. Even played many games there in my youth. It's a derelict sad place these days. If it could be redeveloped.... but it won't be, so I am a realist.


Splash out on a membership, leave the hill to day trippers.

It’s sad mate you’ve succumbed to the big corporates ..


I sell out at every opportunity....

It reality the game is made for TV.

Only only long weekends like Easter and Anzac Day do we get bumper crowds in the regular season .

Panthers are flying high and they don’t seem to have to move games to accommodate more than 20 thousand
fans .

But use 1 ground. Just need to pick one. Eenie meenie minnie moe will do.


At the risk of repeating myself........WHY?

Give a reason.

If we had ALL our games at ANZ or Bankwest, we make less money and annoy the punters who like LO & CSS. If we had all of our games at LO or CSS we would make less money and we would lose Mike.

To me the current situation is the most sensible but others disagree, because of...........feelings?

I disagree we make less money. I believe we would build our supporter base and corp support. You can't give facts that prove we make more money this way.


I was told to my face by a WT board member (I cant prove this obviously) but if you go back a few pages, someone posted a good and pretty accurate break up of revenue and cost for all grounds.

The point is Stadiums NSW pay us $100K per game (will be going down in the near future) to use their grounds based on the understanding that we will NOT play our lowest drawing games there because they result in a loss to Stadium NSW. If we increase the number of games that result in a loss for the owner, what do you think happens to the money they pay us?

Sorry but that's hearsay, not facts. A board member is gonna tell you anything to justify their decisions.
Souths and dogs have used ANZ as one home ground for decades so I don't believe it doesn't make financial sense. We played at ANZ before south's so we would have been offered their deal.


Souths dont have a suburban option.

They did in 1988 when they moved to SFS. They worked it out 30 years ago, we still can't work it out.


And how did that go for them? They went broke and had to be bought out, selling their soul to two fairy godfathers. That is a hell of a business case.

Please business case ...restrictions had been lifted for stadiums ..please enlighten me why was the capacity at LO capped at 10k on Sunday ,the lefty green council ? The club ? If the capacity of that ground is 18k the club could of been around 200k better off and as usually the fans are locked out once again at a small suburban ground ,I was at Anz Easter Monday nothing will change my mind that fans want a large /convenient stadium that offers family's value for money !
If you want this club to remain a mediocre force in the Sydney basin that's your opinion ...I want this club to play with the big boys in town and offer supporters and members a state of the art facility that is easy to get to have plenty of eating and drinking venues to visit to and from games and most of all value for money for all to attend .The new SFS will offer all this and more .Like it or not our club is an inner city club that has ventured out to the Western fringe of the city and might I say it has been a failure , sure play the odd game at LO because it is an event but that's it nothing more . There is absolutely no business case to play out of these small venues if by chance this club gets its act together on field the continuing locking out of supporters will continue .

 

[gallagher]

I wonder if Lidcombe oval was one of our regular venues would there be less whinging for one home ground.

A Wests tigers fan wouldn't wonder that. A Wests or Balmain fan would. Just ad the club has fostered.