Tigers home Ground

R

Regan

Active member
With talk of playing at one home ground in the next year or two what home ground would you choose ?
 
@Regan said:
With talk of playing at one home ground in the next year or two what home ground would you choose ?
Click to expand...

Id go ANZ stadium, we seem to be getting bigger crowds there. Atmosphere not the best , but seating, getting in and out 10/10\. Anz would be my vote.
 
ANZ short term then to the new western Sydney stadium ,the club is owned by an inner city organisation ..and this is where they will stay .
 
@tigerman80 said:
@Regan said:
With talk of playing at one home ground in the next year or two what home ground would you choose ?

Id go ANZ stadium, we seem to be getting bigger crowds there. Atmosphere not the best , but seating, getting in and out 10/10\. Anz would be my vote.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

Last game against Penrith there was about 10k. No different than the 2 suburban grounds.
 
A re developed Campbelltown or new stadium in the southwest as this is the growth area of Sydney and will help keep the AFL and every other NRL club that seems to be encroaching out there at bay.

Until then all games at ANZ.
 
Despite it being further from my place, I'd like to see them move full-time to Campbelltown. I think it would do a great deal to solidify the identity of the club.

Of course, any decision like this needs to be made with your head, not your heart. Finances will probably make this option untenable.
 
The club doesn't get any corporate support at Campbelltown - they can't even fill the directors' box with worthwhile guests most weeks. It would be commercial suicide for the club to cut itself off from that source of commercial revenue. It's cold but is's also reality.

Leichhardt has its own problems and, much as I'd personally love to see it developed as a heritage stadium and think doing so could be an incredibly smart move, there simply isn't the cash or political will to make it happen.

I think the redeveloped SFS would make an awful lot of sense. Central, not over-used, something close to appropriate capacity at least for the club's ambitions, presumably keen to sign up long-term tenants. It also fits the model of most global sports franchises of moving closer to urban areas to integrate with the existing infrastructure rather than having 90s-style sports complexes in the middle of nowhere. This would be my favoured option, but I don't think it'll happen given the Western Sydney power base of the club.

Homebush is a horrible stadium in the middle of nowhere that the club can never hope to fill. Playing there also leaves the Tigers with no "USP" in the competition and thus very vulnerable to future relocation. However, it's clearly the path of least resistance and I guess the redevelopment might make a more sympathetic ground to NRL games played in front of 10,000 (maybe).

The new Western Sydney stadium is a pipe dream, and anyway playing out of the same venue as Parramatta and Penrith in a location better suited to their catchment areas - see USP points above.

My preference would be for the SFS, but my gut feeling is that Souths will move there after the renovations leaving us sharing Homebush with the Bulldogs.
 
@shane2801 said:
A re developed Campbelltown or new stadium in the southwest as this is the growth area of Sydney and will help keep the AFL and every other NRL club that seems to be encroaching out there at bay.

Until then all games at ANZ.
Click to expand...

Pretty much agree here. I used to be very much 50/50 between LO and CSS being an old Balmain boy, but Leichhardt Council have no respect for the club and there are no plans to ever give LO the fix up it needs.

I'd be playing all games bar two at ANZ with Manly/St. George reserved for CSS and Souths/Easts for LO until which point CSS is redevloped to seat 30-35K, or if Liverpool goes ahead.
 
I think ANZ cops a lot of unfair criticism. It's pretty central, parking, trains etc. There are always going to be people who have an issue with something that isn't within 5 mins of their front door. The whole atmosphere thing, about there being none when there are only 10-15k obviously comes from those who haven't been there, because there is no atmosphere issues whatsoever.
 
@GNR4LIFE said:
@tigerman80 said:
@Regan said:
With talk of playing at one home ground in the next year or two what home ground would you choose ?

Id go ANZ stadium, we seem to be getting bigger crowds there. Atmosphere not the best , but seating, getting in and out 10/10\. Anz would be my vote.

Last game against Penrith there was about 10k. No different than the 2 suburban grounds.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

The other games at Anz stadium this year:

Tigers vs Eels = 36k
Tigers vs Bulldogs= 21k
Tigers vs Rabbitohs= 15k

No different to a suburban ground?? Your kidding yourself arent you. The fans are speaking with their feet, we make more money, and the corporates love it there. Its a no brainer.
 
Not Being from the C'Town or Balmain areas I don't have that connection with either of the stadiums.

I find them both dilapidated and grimy in honesty.

I like Homebush purely for convenience as it is relatively central, Easy in and out and the parking in A1 is great when you have 5 kids like me.

If the money is there at Homebush I would keep the bulk of our games there.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 504 (members: 24, guests: 480)
Back
Top