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Western Suburbs Leagues Club at Campbelltown is currently in the process of getting members vote on the purchase of the Rugby League Club on Camden Valley way which includes Camden Lakeside Golf Club and the course obviously. Financially the leagues club must be doing ok.
The strength of the football club geographically is going to be in the South West for sure in years to come as well. Hopefully one day we can afford to increase the capacity of Campbelltown and have a home ground where we can afford to ditch the sfs.
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Some insiders believe this is not a particularly astute investment by the Leagues Club. However what they are really after is the poker machine licenses that will come with the amalgamation/acquisition.
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Some insiders believe this is not a particularly astute investment by the Leagues Club. However what they are really after is the poker machine licenses that will come with the amalgamation/acquisition.
As undesirable as pokies are, they will at least ensure a solid income and foundation for our club.
A lesser of two evils methinks. I’d rather the club have a large amount of poker machines, than not be a club at all.
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Not many people realise that pokies was the one reason why the old nswrl was expanded in 1988 and why the qld comp wasnt. NSW clubs could afford (with all the pokies money) to import players from qld making it a stronger comp. Its also part of the reason why the old gold coast giants were based in tweed heads and not on the qld side of the border. Pokies have truly shaped australian rugby league as we know it. Wests ashfield is one of the highest grossing pokie revenue clubs in australia due to a large asian gaming playing community.
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If there is any club that needs to picked up it it Gladstone Leagues Club
With the town growing at rapid speed and the facilities at the existing club which are first class (which went into recievership about 5 years ago) it would be an ideal pick up for any NRL club looking at a high growth area
The Canberra Raiders had a serious look at it 2 years ago (possibly also as the local rep side is the Raiders )
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Time for 7 games to be played out of Campbelltown.
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@happy tiger:
If there is any club that needs to picked up it it Gladstone Leagues Club
With the town growing at rapid speed and the facilities at the existing club which are first class (which went into recievership about 5 years ago) it would be an ideal pick up for any NRL club looking at a high growth area
The Canberra Raiders had a serious look at it 2 years ago (possibly also as the local rep side is the Raiders )
Should of been easy picking for the Panthers conglomeration as they had the $$$$ at the time so obviously it was not a wise investment.
It’s not about supporting Rugby League these days and expanding the Junior base, it’s simply $$$$!. -
Here is the threat:
Duo lobbied minister for changes to pokies law
January 24, 2012CHANGES to poker machine laws set to benefit a prominent eastern suburbs club were made just weeks after two of its directors, Nick Politis and the former Roosters football star Luke Ricketson, complained to the Hospitality Minister, George Souris.
The new law will allow the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club at Bondi Junction to retain hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual gambling profits as it pursues a $14 million development of a new club at Narellan.
Mr Souris altered the law last week to make it easier for registered clubs within one kilometre of new housing estates in certain local government areas to get approval for up to 150 poker machines.
The concession, previously only available to clubs inside new housing estates, allows them to undergo a less stringent community impact assessment when applying for poker machines and to forfeit half the usual number of machine entitlements to the government when they are transferred from another club.
The government and the clubs industry say the measure is designed to cut red tape to encourage the establishment of clubs near new development areas in NSW.
Clubs NSW wrote to Mr Souris on September 20, highlighting the plight of the Eastern Suburbs Leagues club proposal at Narellan. The Herald has confirmed Mr Souris held a meeting with Mr Politis and Mr Ricketson in his ministerial office at Governor Macquarie Tower on October 26.
At the meeting, Mr Politis and Mr Ricketson voiced their frustration at not being able to gain the concessions for the proposed $14 million Narellan Country Club. The site is 500 metres from Harrington Park housing estate and therefore ineligible.
In its application to the Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority, the eastern suburbs club had argued it should be granted the concessions due to the exponential population growth in the Camden region.
Authority records indicate the application, which had been before it since 2009, was withdrawn on November 9, less than a fortnight after the meeting with Mr Souris. The law was changed by Mr Souris last Friday.
It allows the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club to reapply to transfer 150 of its poker machines to Narellan Country Club under the less stringent community impact test and, if approved, forfeit only eight machines instead of 16. On the club’s own figures, this would allow it to retain about $300,000 a year in gambling profits.
Mr Souris confirmed yesterday that at the meeting Mr Politis ‘‘complained that the fate of their application to develop a club, in conjunction with a number of playing fields at Narellan already owned by the club, had met with unintended consequences of the exiting legislation’’.
He said he informed Mr Politis that ‘‘the matter was in progress’’ and that Mr Politis ‘‘made no submission, written or otherwise, regarding their matter’’.
However, it is understood the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club later outlined the issue in a letter to Clubs NSW, which forwarded it to Mr Souris’s office. Mr Politis declined to comment. -
Anyone seen Wests Leagues Campbelltowns resolutions for their upcoming AGM
Giving the Chariman, Deputy Chairman and Ditectors pay rises, money for ‘training directors’ etc.3/4 of a Million Dollars extra to sporting groups. I wonder how much of that is to Ruigby League. Hopefully it goes to actual football not greasing the hands of any governing bodies.
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Hopefully it goes to actual football not greasing the hands of any governing bodies.
Judging by the SMH article greasing the odd palm is quite successful…
