How awesome

[Tosh]

Is this.

https://www.roosters.com.au/news/2022/08/30/roosters-home-return-sold-out/

Edited August 31, 2022 by Tosh

[Damien]

Great news but it's what you'd expect with the opening of the new stadium. 

[FearTheVee]

Stadium looks beautiful 

[Harry Stottle]

What number is 'sold out'?

[Davo5]

21 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

What number is 'sold out'?

The official capacity is 45,500

[Tosh]

1 hour ago, Damien said:

Great news but it's what you'd expect with the opening of the new stadium. 

Hopefully it’ll give the roosters crowds a bit of a bump going forward like parramatta.

[Tosh]

59 minutes ago, FearTheVee said:

Stadium looks beautiful 

It sure does and makes you wonder why they even built stadium Australia.

[Tosh]

All Sydney needs now is a smaller version of this in western Sydney for the bulldogs, tigers and maybe even dragons to use.

[M j M]

29 minutes ago, Tosh said:

It sure does and makes you wonder why they even built stadium Australia.

Well it was built 25 years ago for a major thing they did and the old SFS was definitely too small.

And it was before anyone decided for political reasons that the SFS was (consults notes) "a deathtrap" (can you imagine their thoughts of Belle Vue).

[fighting irish]

What a lovely stadium.

I'm utterly envious in the best possible sense.

Why can't we generate the business sponsorship, media coverage, fan engagement and government backing to build stadia like this here? 

[gingerjon]

1 minute ago, fighting irish said:

Why can't we generate the business sponsorship, media coverage, fan engagement and government backing to build stadia like this here? 

You think we don't have nice and/or new stadiums in the UK?

[Tosh]

11 minutes ago, M j M said:

Well it was built 25 years ago for a major thing they did and the old SFS was definitely too small.

And it was before anyone decided for political reasons that the SFS was (consults notes) "a deathtrap" (can you imagine their thoughts of Belle Vue).

Haha!!!

I had honestly forgotten about that event but even still it shows how ridiculous it is to spend all that money on a stadium for a 1 off event.

[Tosh]

5 minutes ago, fighting irish said:

What a lovely stadium.

I'm utterly envious in the best possible sense.

Why can't we generate the business sponsorship, media coverage, fan engagement and government backing to build stadia like this here? 

If your talking about RL stadia then it’s because even RL in Sydney can be used as a political football.

[Davo5]

33 minutes ago, M j M said:

Well it was built 25 years ago for a major thing they did and the old SFS was definitely too small.

And it was before anyone decided for political reasons that the SFS was (consults notes) "a deathtrap" (can you imagine their thoughts of Belle Vue).

To be fair the old SFS was a pretty miserable place to watch RL if it rained.

[Davo5]

27 minutes ago, Tosh said:

Haha!!!

I had honestly forgotten about that event but even still it shows how ridiculous it is to spend all that money on a stadium for a 1 off event.

It was never built for a one off event though & Sydney lacked a large capacity stadium,the cost of the stadium was far outweighed by the financial gains the games brought which apparently added 6.7 billion USD to Australia’s GDP.

[Tosh]

4 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

It was never built for a one off event though & Sydney lacked a large capacity stadium,the cost of the stadium was far outweighed by the financial gains the games brought which apparently added 6.7 billion USD to Australia’s GDP.

Genuine question but has a athletics track&field event taken place at stadium Australia since the Sydney Olympics?

Fair point about the financial gains though and local jobs boost that benefited from the building of the Olympic Games structures.

Also just thinking about it RL throughout Australia would benefit from Australia hosting a FIFA World Cup tournament in terms of the building of new stadiums and upgrading of others.

[M j M]

The mistake they made, and this is covered in the latest episode of the Rugby League Digest, was converting Stadium Australia to be suitable nor cricket and AFL. Bastardising the stadium for a pair of sports which have barely used it leaving it less than ideal for the sport which does.

[Damien]

8 minutes ago, M j M said:

The mistake they made, and this is covered in the latest episode of the Rugby League Digest, was converting Stadium Australia to be suitable nor cricket and AFL. Bastardising the stadium for a pair of sports which have barely used it leaving it less than ideal for the sport which does.

I was just going to post this but you beat me to it. They destroyed Stadium Australia for sports like RL, Football and RU to accommodate sports that subsequently showed no interest in playing there.

[Tosh]

15 minutes ago, M j M said:

The mistake they made, and this is covered in the latest episode of the Rugby League Digest, was converting Stadium Australia to be suitable nor cricket and AFL. Bastardising the stadium for a pair of sports which have barely used it leaving it less than ideal for the sport which does.

That’s absolutely absurd considering that Sydney already has the SCG, the Sydney show grounds and the NSO for both cricket and AFL.

[Davo5]

5 minutes ago, Damien said:

I was just going to post this but you beat me to it. They destroyed Stadium Australia for sports like RL, Football and RU to accommodate sports that subsequently showed no interest in playing there.

I’ve only attended 1 NRL game at ANZ & didn’t mind the stadium,although there was 44k there which helped,from a spectator point it’s no Suncorp but it’s not to dissimilar to the new Wembley.

[Damien]

6 minutes ago, Davo5 said:

I’ve only attended 1 NRL game at ANZ & didn’t mind the stadium,although there was 44k there which helped,from a spectator point it’s no Suncorp but it’s not to dissimilar to the new Wembley.

Wembley is far more enclosed with steeper stands and was built for rectangular sports. Stadium Australia wasn't and the end stands behind the tryline are set a good 15 metres further back at least.

[Pulga]

2 hours ago, Harry Stottle said:

What number is 'sold out'?

Almost 4 LSVs.

[Harry Stottle]

25 minutes ago, Pulga said:

Almost 4 LSVs.

Good.

[Tosh]

Great stadium, Great game, great crowd and great occasion.

 

Great stuff

[Number 16]

For me the game was ruined by trying to  count the empty seats at a supposed sell out.