Roast State of the SCG
- Thread starter Donza
- Start date
- Tagged users None
Jewelsbon
Premiership Player
- Aug 30, 2016
- 4,710
- 14,161
- AFL Club
- Sydney
If you look at the SCG draw with the exception of Anzac Day week, we have a minimum of five days between every other event and our games - the draw has been done primarily to suit us, whether it appears that way or not.
It is what it is and even if Gladys loses the election and dopey Daley wins, Allianz will be unavailable all season and there are no viable alternatives, so we all just need to suck it up.
It is what it is and even if Gladys loses the election and dopey Daley wins, Allianz will be unavailable all season and there are no viable alternatives, so we all just need to suck it up.
Banyo Bloods
Norm Smith Medallist
New South Wales
- Thread starter
- #4
Jewelsbon
Premiership Player
- Aug 30, 2016
- 4,710
- 14,161
- AFL Club
- Sydney
WSS = BISP I'm guessing?
Yeah that would be the logical thing to do but would never happen in ten million years!
Rugby is the biggest problem, tears up the ground more than the other three sports combined. Drummoyne oval was apparently discussed as an option for the Waratahs but that idea has been discarded. At least there's only two rugby games left.
grimlock
Hall of Famer
WSS is Western Sydney Stadium which is in Parramatta, due to be opened soon.
I can't see Drummoyne Oval being a viable option for the Waratahs, it's basically a suburban ground with limited seating and not much support in terms of parking and public transport getting there.
I can't see Drummoyne Oval being a viable option for the Waratahs, it's basically a suburban ground with limited seating and not much support in terms of parking and public transport getting there.
GotTheGoodes
Bloods
- Moderator
- #8
Ridiculous. The turf has been laid for cricket & footy... not rugby. Clearly. It is a sandy soft deck, not designed for scrums & the kind of abuse a rugby game will throw at it.
It's not good for the ground nor the game of rugby. So move the rugby to a more solid, packed surface designed to take that kind of play.
I just don't get it. Sacrifice 3 other codes (AFL/A league/NRL) for one?! That's stupid.
It's not good for the ground nor the game of rugby. So move the rugby to a more solid, packed surface designed to take that kind of play.
I just don't get it. Sacrifice 3 other codes (AFL/A league/NRL) for one?! That's stupid.
The King!
Chosen One
Back to south Melbourne I guess
Number37
Anyhow, have a Winfield 25.
- Oct 5, 2013
- 22,222
- 24,269
- AFL Club
- Sydney
At least we now have an excuse for playing poorly.
Chaisa
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 2, 2013
- 14,627
- 14,415
- AFL Club
- Sydney
- Other Teams
- The Exers
Yeah if they had to move the Tahs the best option would be Concord. The seating there is a bit larger and its location near a couple of fields/Parramatta Road should assist the lack of parking issue.
Roosters the bigger issue. Where else can they realistically play that's convenient to get to from the Eastern Suburbs?
Kirkswan
Premium Platinum
I thought that the SCG and the SFS were both managed by the same trust. If that's the case, there's the problem. They are contracted to provide a venue and have no choice but to do so...
Chaisa
Brownlow Medallist
- Jun 2, 2013
- 14,627
- 14,415
- AFL Club
- Sydney
- Other Teams
- The Exers
Indeed the Trust owns both the SCG and the SFS.
Todays rain doesn't help
Number37
Anyhow, have a Winfield 25.
- Oct 5, 2013
- 22,222
- 24,269
- AFL Club
- Sydney
Now we get an idea how the tenants of Marvel have felt for the past 15 years
Grand Uncle Horace
Nice to see the famous NMFC#wishboner spirit livii
Could I suggest it is time Jones who doubtlessly pushed for the ruggers to play at the SCG, should tender his resignation from the SCG Trust.
- Oct 27, 2007
- 11,471
- 13,227
- AFL Club
- Sydney
It’s not concrete with a layer of fake grass!
- Oct 27, 2007
- 11,471
- 13,227
- AFL Club
- Sydney
It’s so overblown...not as if there are spikes or sprinklers sitting up at Fitzpatrick Stadium!
Kirkswan
Premium Platinum
Chill people... when has the SCG ground staff let us down? Let's just hang in there for a few rounds before we predict disaster!
Jewelsbon
Premiership Player
- Aug 30, 2016
- 4,710
- 14,161
- AFL Club
- Sydney
What a grand idea Kirky!
- Jul 9, 2014
- 1,215
- 2,928
- AFL Club
- Sydney
Yep... the doom and gloomsters off to a flyer in ‘19.
Ground looked pretty good last night. Dare I say it, the cricket pitch seemed to be causing more problems than any canyons caused by rah rah scrummaging.... suppose it’s to be expected, that a game that can go for 5 days and still not get a result, can also impact on 3 winter sports.
Watched the news the other day and saw the damage those Union neanderthals did to the ground and immediately thought about what affect that may have on an AFL game.
One of the articles in the paper stated that 300 gazillion square metres of "quick sew" turf was going to be laid thus ending all of the problems.
You have to assume that the experts know better than the mere armchair observers but I can see a serious injury or two occurring if they get it wrong.
One of the articles in the paper stated that 300 gazillion square metres of "quick sew" turf was going to be laid thus ending all of the problems.
You have to assume that the experts know better than the mere armchair observers but I can see a serious injury or two occurring if they get it wrong.
Similar threads
- Locked
