The Rocket Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) Some great things happening around Sydney this week to celebrate the GF. Mixed Touch Rugby League comp held on Bondi Beach, week long celebrations held in Sydney`s central business district`s Martin Place ( 5 minute walk from the Opera House ) greeted by large crowds every day, GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars, 15 000 tickets sold to CommBank Stadium for people who want to watch on the big screen - a lot of Parra fans there to cheer their Men`s and women`s teams and incredibly it`s being reported that you cannot buy a Parra jumper anywhere in Oz - completely sold-out nation-wide. There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. Edited September 30, 2022 by The Rocket 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSantos Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Jealous. 2 Running the Rob Burrow marathon to raise money for the My Name'5 Doddie foundation: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ben-dyas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragingbull Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 You mean its being built up as a propper event? A week long spectacular.? Dont be coming on here saying how fantastic it is. Many people dont of this forum dont want events and think a GF should only be about 2 teams playing rugby for 80 mins ....... 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulga Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 It'll be interesting to see if Parramatta get relegated next year as a Category B club. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEANUT HEAD Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Can't wait for this final going to be a great game, the NRL are light years ahead of the rfl in everything on and off the field. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedfordshire Bronco Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 hours ago, The Rocket said: Some great things happening around Sydney this week to celebrate the GF. Mixed Touch Rugby League comp held on Bondi Beach, week long celebrations held in Sydney`s central business district`s Martin Place ( 5 minute walk from the Opera House ) greeted by large crowds every day, GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars, 15 000 tickets sold to CommBank Stadium for people who want to watch on the big screen - a lot of Parra fans there to cheer their Men`s and women`s teams and incredibly it`s being reported that you cannot buy a Parra jumper anywhere in Oz - completely sold-out nation-wide. There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. Pah!!.......bet you won't have a giant flag on the pitch 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedfordshire Bronco Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 28 minutes ago, PEANUT HEAD said: Can't wait for this final going to be a great game, the NRL are light years ahead of the rfl in everything on and off the field. I know it's true but I wish we'd all stop saying it It's obvs so why don't we focus on how we catch up rather staying it (not a dig just at you - we virtually all do it on here) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedfordshire Bronco Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 2 hours ago, MattSantos said: Jealous. I'm pretty well jell too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Skipper Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 I’ve always thought we should have a beach RL comp in the U.K. in early October as we build toward the grand final. Widnes council have a strip of sand down by the chemical plants on the Mersey estuary don’t they? All you need is a bit of photoshop / filters and you’ve got a great advert for the game. 1 2 “There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.” Carl Sagan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Future is League Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 Western Sydney will be very quiet when the game is on. Hardly any traffic, and the following week youngers will be queuing up to sign for a junior Rugby League league club. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakefield Ram Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 4 hours ago, The Rocket said: Some great things happening around Sydney this week to celebrate the GF. Mixed Touch Rugby League comp held on Bondi Beach, week long celebrations held in Sydney`s central business district`s Martin Place ( 5 minute walk from the Opera House ) greeted by large crowds every day, GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars, 15 000 tickets sold to CommBank Stadium for people who want to watch on the big screen - a lot of Parra fans there to cheer their Men`s and women`s teams and incredibly it`s being reported that you cannot buy a Parra jumper anywhere in Oz - completely sold-out nation-wide. There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. I thought this was the sort of thing IMG would be proposing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unapologetic pedant Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 4 hours ago, The Rocket said: Some great things happening around Sydney GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars This isn`t such a great thing. It`s a consequence of not every GF being a guaranteed sell out. Most years, if people are buying 8-20 tickets, it wouldn`t be a concern. Once Parra were in the final, would have made sense to reduce the maximum number for each category. 4 hours ago, The Rocket said: There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. Let`s hope Ashley Klein referees this one as he did Origin. And the touchies and bunker have a pleasant evening keeping themselves to themselves. Nothing any of them can do about the charge-down rule. Parra are the better team to watch. If they`re able to open up and play, it will be a great game. If Penrith shut them down, not so great. And if the principal method of suffocation is an unchallenged Nathan Cleary launching spiral bombs in the direction of Waqa Blake, it will be the ultimate triumph for the most stupid self-harming rule in the whole of sport. Summed up by a headline in The Australian - "Nathan Cleary and the art of kicking `em to death". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graveyard johnny Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 no majorettes in hand me down outfits? keep yer Rhianna half time show! 2 see you later undertaker - in a while necrophile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emesssea Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) I know its common for people to say NRL>>>>>> Super League, and its probably true for the most part, but the one area Super League blows NRL out of the water is atmosphere. An NRL top 4 match with 20k+ in attendance has all the atmosphere of a Thursday afternoon baseball game in July, some light applause and make a bit of cheering if a try is scored. A Super League match with a third or fourth of the attendance will have several times the atmosphere, making the match seem like something important. Unfortunately, Super League is on some obscure network in the US, making it impractical to watch for several years now, but I regularly watch old super league or challenge cup matches just to get that atmposhere fix. If they could just get their business side together, I have no doubt it could be Super League >>>>>> NRL Edited September 30, 2022 by emesssea 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sports Prophet Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 @The RocketIs anything planned at Darling Harbour this weekend? I feel like there have been Saturday events there in the past, albeit poorly attended. Done correctly, a Saturday event there should be booming, similar to NFL events in Trafalgar Square I have visited in the past. The Martin Place venue was incomplete on Monday when I was there in the afternoon. Potentially completed on Tuesday, so hard for me to have an opinion on how well it was received. The city is solely talking Parra v Penrith. The Swans thrashing last Saturday has given the NRL a great opportunity to capitalise on a market that doesn’t want to dwell on last weekend. My wish is for a cliffhanger of a match with plenty of post match smiles on the faces of children in Parramatta jumpers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunbar Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 6 hours ago, The Rocket said: Some great things happening around Sydney this week to celebrate the GF. Mixed Touch Rugby League comp held on Bondi Beach, week long celebrations held in Sydney`s central business district`s Martin Place ( 5 minute walk from the Opera House ) greeted by large crowds every day, GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars, 15 000 tickets sold to CommBank Stadium for people who want to watch on the big screen - a lot of Parra fans there to cheer their Men`s and women`s teams and incredibly it`s being reported that you cannot buy a Parra jumper anywhere in Oz - completely sold-out nation-wide. There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. All this may be absolutely true and it will no doubt be a wonderful Rugby League build up and occasion. But you still have to live in Australia. 3 "The history of the world is the history of the triumph of the heartless over the mindless." — Sir Humphrey Appleby. "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" — Sam Harris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 5 hours ago, Ragingbull said: You mean its being built up as a propper event? A week long spectacular.? Dont be coming on here saying how fantastic it is. Many people dont of this forum dont want events and think a GF should only be about 2 teams playing rugby for 80 mins ....... I think you are misrepresenting the situation. Firstly, you use of the word "many" needs downgrading to "some" Secondly, my issue is not with the concept of an event, day, week, month or year long. It's with the idea of paying some talentless noise-making lip-syncing yooves to pretend to be entertainment. It makes no difference to crowd numbers. It's meaningless. Let me once again take you back to the pre match entertainment at Wembley in the early 1990s. 200 youngsters in a superbly choreographed routine, community engagement and involvement, engaging the attention of the crowd as they gradually took their seats...yet still able to be heard by their neighbours as they discussed the up-coming game. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unapologetic pedant Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Sports Prophet said: The Swans thrashing last Saturday has given the NRL a great opportunity to capitalise on a market that doesn’t want to dwell on last weekend. Judging from the figures, the market didn`t want to dwell on last weekend, last weekend. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GUBRATS Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 When's it on and who's in it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidM Posted September 30, 2022 Share Posted September 30, 2022 (edited) 11 minutes ago, GUBRATS said: When's it on and who's in it ? Movies for Men 3 Monday afternoon …. Woolamaloo and Boomerang Creek Edited September 30, 2022 by DavidM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerjon Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 13 hours ago, JohnM said: I think you are misrepresenting the situation. Firstly, you use of the word "many" needs downgrading to "some" Secondly, my issue is not with the concept of an event, day, week, month or year long. It's with the idea of paying some talentless noise-making lip-syncing yooves to pretend to be entertainment. It makes no difference to crowd numbers. It's meaningless. Let me once again take you back to the pre match entertainment at Wembley in the early 1990s. 200 youngsters in a superbly choreographed routine, community engagement and involvement, engaging the attention of the crowd as they gradually took their seats...yet still able to be heard by their neighbours as they discussed the up-coming game. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommygilf Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 25 minutes ago, gingerjon said: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. I very much appreciate what you are saying but I irrationally hate that quip and because it is the internet I have no choice but to point that out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futtocks Posted October 1, 2022 Share Posted October 1, 2022 On 30/09/2022 at 11:55, The Rocket said: Some great things happening around Sydney this week to celebrate the GF. Mixed Touch Rugby League comp held on Bondi Beach, week long celebrations held in Sydney`s central business district`s Martin Place ( 5 minute walk from the Opera House ) greeted by large crowds every day, GF sold out in minutes with a ticket scalping scam exposed with tickets being sold for over a thousand dollars, 15 000 tickets sold to CommBank Stadium for people who want to watch on the big screen - a lot of Parra fans there to cheer their Men`s and women`s teams and incredibly it`s being reported that you cannot buy a Parra jumper anywhere in Oz - completely sold-out nation-wide. There`s a real level of excitement building around this one. Hmph. That's all fine and good, for them as likes happiness. 1 Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. Ralph Waldo Emerson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live after death Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 (edited) Great to see of Britains greatest comedians Stewart Lee doing the GF singalong Edited October 2, 2022 by Live after death 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkw Posted October 2, 2022 Share Posted October 2, 2022 Nice grand final karaoke before the game....oh my god the NRL are so innovative.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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