Melbourne City

[playaplaya]

Is there any where else in the world like Melbourne. Does anywhere else hosts as much sporting events as Melbourne.

In 2006 Melbourne Will host:
Australian Open
Australian F1 Grand Prix
World Super Bikes Grand Prix
Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix
AFL Season
State of Orgin
Melbourne Cup
Australian Golf Open
Commenwealth Games
Soccer - Australia Vs Greece
Spring Racing
International Cricket
Rugby League
A- Leauge
Basketball
Boxing Day Test

I believe there is nooooo place like it .. sydney think they are thou

 

[Andrew Mc]

Melbourne Cup

Where else do you suggest it is hosted?

 

[Count Zero]

Is there any where else in the world like Melbourne. Does anywhere else hosts as much sporting events as Melbourne.

In 2006 Melbourne Will host:
Australian Open
Australian F1 Grand Prix
World Super Bikes Grand Prix
Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix
AFL Season
State of Orgin
Melbourne Cup
Australian Golf Open
Commenwealth Games
Soccer - Australia Vs Greece
Spring Racing
International Cricket
Rugby League
A- Leauge
Basketball
Boxing Day Test

I believe there is nooooo place like it .. sydney think they are thou

Melbourne hosts the Melbourne Cup (duh) AND Spring Racing. International Cricket AND Boxing Day Test.
PS. Where is the Grand Final?

 

[MarkT]

Where else do you suggest it is hosted?

Surely in the interests of fairness and the national interest it has to be rotated so the interstate horses are not disadvantaged?

 

[ICanDressMyself]

Is there any where else in the world like Melbourne. Does anywhere else hosts as much sporting events as Melbourne.

In 2006 Melbourne Will host:
Australian Open
Australian F1 Grand Prix
World Super Bikes Grand Prix
Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix
AFL Season
State of Orgin
Melbourne Cup
Australian Golf Open
Commenwealth Games
Soccer - Australia Vs Greece
Spring Racing
International Cricket
Rugby League
A- Leauge
Basketball
Boxing Day Test

I believe there is nooooo place like it .. sydney think they are thou

 

[RedLegs#5]

Vic > Well...everyone...

It's just so evident....

 

[irel]

Is there any where else in the world like Melbourne. Does anywhere else hosts as much sporting events as Melbourne.

Another dipstick with an inferiority complex and over compensating with "My ******** is Bigger Than Yours".
What do you know of some of the cities like New York and Paris and London and Madrid etc...
If you list their sporting events... Ohhh why do I bother.

 

[Cyclops]

That's Rundle Mall on a Saturday arvo isn't it?

 

[tigerdan]

Another dipstick with an inferiority complex and over compensating with "My Di(k is Bigger Than Yours".
What do you know of some of the cities like New York and Paris and London and Madrid etc...
If you list their sporting events... Ohhh why do I bother.

You can take Madrid and Paris off that list. A big soccer following and a bullring? A big soccer following and a grand slam? That's it for those two.

On the other hand, New York and London have some seriously great sporting events.

 

[Adnar]

Is there any where else in the world like Melbourne. Does anywhere else hosts as much sporting events as Melbourne.

In 2006 Melbourne Will host:
Australian Open
Australian F1 Grand Prix
World Super Bikes Grand Prix
Australian Motor Cycle Grand Prix
AFL Season
State of Orgin
Melbourne Cup
Australian Golf Open
Commenwealth Games
Soccer - Australia Vs Greece
Spring Racing
International Cricket
Rugby League
A- Leauge
Basketball
Boxing Day Test

I believe there is nooooo place like it .. sydney think they are thou

Sydney International
Australian A1 Grand Prix
Bathurst 1000
AFL Season
State of Origin
Granted, not the melbourne cup but lots of great races
Who cares
We hosted the best olympics ever 5 years ago Olympics > Commonwealth.
Soccer, we just hosted most amazing match in Australian History.
International Cricket
Obviously Leauge
Basketball
A - Leauge (winning team + Hosted grand final)
New Years Test

Now I am not saying this as a mine is bigger than yours post. But really it's not that amazing of a list.

 

[ManWithNoName]

Sydney International
Australian A1 Grand Prix
Bathurst 1000
AFL Season
State of Origin
Granted, not the melbourne cup but lots of great races
Who cares
We hosted the best olympics ever 5 years ago Olympics > Commonwealth.
Soccer, we just hosted most amazing match in Australian History.
International Cricket
Obviously Leauge
Basketball
A - Leauge (winning team + Hosted grand final)
New Years Test

Now I am not saying this as a mine is bigger than yours post. But really it's not that amazing of a list.

We have a little event called the AFL GF. Whereas you have your pitiful NRL GF. You get 12 people along if you're lucky.

 

[mantis]

Surely in the interests of fairness and the national interest it has to be rotated so the interstate horses are not disadvantaged?

That made me spit coffee all over my monitor.

 

[Adnar]

We have a little event called the AFL GF. Whereas you have your pitiful NRL GF. You get 12 people along if you're lucky.

You're an idiot. The NRL grand final sells out Telstra stadium months in advance.

The majority of NRL has crap attendences but big matches i.e GFs and SOG always sell out fast.

 

[Calcium Man]

Sydney International
Australian A1 Grand Prix
Bathurst 1000
AFL Season
State of Origin
Granted, not the melbourne cup but lots of great races
Who cares
We hosted the best olympics ever 5 years ago Olympics > Commonwealth.
Soccer, we just hosted most amazing match in Australian History.
International Cricket
Obviously Leauge
Basketball
A - Leauge (winning team + Hosted grand final)
New Years Test

Now I am not saying this as a mine is bigger than yours post. But really it's not that amazing of a list.

That list is alright, but the The Aus Open is a grand slam event, the sydney internation is a lead in event and there is also one in Adelaide and another in Melbourne!!

A1 racing is yet to really take off, i wasnt even aware that it was in australia until after it was run. It may take of in few years but not yet on the scale of the F1 grand Prix

You do have some good races over the easter carnival but thats the equivlant of the Melbourne Autumn carnival which is always forgotten, The Spring carnival and Melbourne Cup has the whole of Australia watching.

Melbourne Hosted the Olympics 50 years ago and is still know as the friendly olympics for the support all the nations recieved from the crowds and people of Melbourne. Not saying Sydney olympics wasnt great, 2 of the best weeks of my life, but Melbournes were pretty good too, and the Comm games has been great as well!!

Soccer was great, and we won making it the best game!! But the 2-2 all game against iran and 1-0 over Uruaguay 4 years ago at the 'g' were awesome as well!

The rest is pretty similar with the AFL GF just eclipsing the NRL GF!!

Melbourne does continually hold world class events of the highest caliabre year after year, which is why its list of sports events is up there in the world!!

 

[Alberton_Magpie]

Clipsal 500
AFL Season
NBL Season
A-League Season
Adelaide Cup
Test Match sometime
Australia Day One Day International
Pura/ING Cup's

What is your point this just means that you have more ******** that means nothing to most people e.g Commonwealth Games

 

[saintsrule]

That's Rundle Mall on a Saturday arvo isn't it?

 

[Magnum]

Who cares. I'm from Melbourne and I don't care. Sure it's great for Melbourne, but being arrogant about it makes you look like a tool.

 

[Steve Dore]

Sydney International
Australian A1 Grand Prix
Bathurst 1000
.....

I knew Sydney's urban sprawl was bad but are the western suburbs out to Bathurst already? 200km's is some sprawl

 

[Adnar]

^^ Phillip Island is hardly Melbourne either.

Melbourne Hosted the Olympics 50 years ago

Well Sydney had the Commonwealth games in 1938? Not really relevent nor recent.

The thing that makes me proud to be from Sydney is that we get some of the best events (maybe not quite as many as Melbourne) but we don't need to wave our dicks in everyones face about it. We honestly don't care if melbourne has a few more bigger events.

Melbourne is like an ex-girlfriend that always hangs around places you go to try and show off her new boyfriend to make you jealous.

 

[The Dice Man]

Melbourne has to have all those things to stop everyone leaving. I mean what else are you going to do in such a miserable climate with such an unnatractive landscape?

Look at Melbourne from the air and it looks like a filthy concrete jungle, then take a walk around and it only gets worse.

 

[ICanDressMyself]

That's Rundle Mall on a Saturday arvo isn't it?

Yes because Rundle Mall is surrounded by mountains and shrubs.

 

[Calcium Man]

Well Sydney had the Commonwealth games in 1938? Not really relevent nor recent.

The thing that makes me proud to be from Sydney is that we get some of the best events (maybe not quite as many as Melbourne) but we don't need to wave our dicks in everyones face about it. We honestly don't care if melbourne has a few more bigger events.

Melbourne is like an ex-girlfriend that always hangs around places you go to try and show off her new boyfriend to make you jealous.

Why isnt it relevant??? It was a discussion on the events held, The melbourne olympics may have been 50 years ago but they still have the same significance as the Sydney olympics 6 years ago!!

As for the rest, the guy who started the thread was being a ******** by bring up all that crap, but you came along and compared sydney's list to Melbourne's!!

 

[Steve Dore]

^^ Phillip Island is hardly Melbourne either.......

Good point.

 

[windyhill]

Look at Melbourne from the air and it looks like a filthy concrete jungle, then take a walk around and it only gets worse.

We call that bit richmond.
....and where does the dice man reside ? Gold Coast is it ?

 

[The Dice Man]

We call that bit richmond.
....and where does the dice man reside ? Gold Coast is it ?

10 kilometres west of me is a subtropical rainforest.

30 Ks west of me is Mt Lamington National Park, little bit further is Mount Warning, both of which include some of the most spectacular scenery, waterfalls and rainforests in Australia

30Ks south of me begins the Tweed Valley

15 ks South west of me are the Currumbin and Tullabudgera Valleys

80 Ks south of me is Byron Bay

80 Ks north of me is Brisbane

10 ks east of me are some of the most beautiful beaches in Australia

Im surrounded by some of the very best natural wonders in Australia


You have the footy, and thats about it.


Glad to know my opinion irks you so