Shame their not a leader in PR or ground building, they might then get decent crowds!

Manly are talking about playing a "home" game elsewhere if Brookvale isn't ready. Anyone see the irony in the stadium not being ready? And then play at North Sydney Oval, potentially playing at a venue deemed unfit for the NRL by the NRL themselves?

Rd 5 v Cronulla. Apr 11.

whats happening at brookie for it not to be ready?

they havent got their money yet for ground improvements/

The're getting the renovators in!

Come on I thought Mr NRL woud have known they're having stuff done. $2m estimated worth of works. etc. etc. Already all their first months games have been scheduled away from home.

There'd be a certain irony if their stadium wasn't ready. Any Norths fans would understand that comment.



Renovations to the old ground include:

*Revamping the existing Jane Try Stand change rooms, including improved security access points for players and staff;

*Upgrades to seating in the Jane Try and Ken Arthurson Stands;

*Refurbishment to the lounge Area of the Ken Arthurson Stand mid-level, and construction of new corporate boxes to the Ken Arthurson Stand upper-level.

The works are funded by a joint council-state government grant.

The NRL has 3 FTA games a week with one of those being shown late into NSW and QLD each Friday night. These same games are shown after midnight in the other states (outside of ACT/NT which are regional anyway).

The Fumbleball has National coverage in all states and territories, in NSW alone I can watch Friday, Saturday afternoon, Saturday Night, Saturday late night and Sunday Afternoon Fumbleball on FTA TV.

Yet here we have so called RL fans putting the boot into RL because it has the audacity to say it has more people watching nation wide than the Fumbleball because we add U20's and SOO with internationals



As Dally said, the regionals have not been added, 1 game out of those 3 FTA RL games easily gets over half a million more people, that's adds up to quite a bit over a 32 round RL year doesn't it, yet they were not counted.

Some smart goes, so why does the AFL get more money?

1. Well Packer tried to shaft ch7 and 10, thus the AFL got more money.

2. The NRL is half owned by News limited, they deal with themselves and why would they give what they have to if it meant the investors didn't make as big a profit?

3. Ch9 also owns 25% of Foxtel (Newslimited's Foxsports) after the SL war, so RL no only is getting screwed by News, it's getting doubly screwed by ch9.

The AFL has none of this, and when RL does finally get rid of the people ruining our game, you can be sure it will get back to where it was in 1995, sitting high above laughing at the AFL.

Now the crowds, RL is strongest in the bush, if RL was condensed like Victoria with a central Stadium and all the trimming that it has with transport, I'd say RL's average crowd would be somewhere between 25/ 30,000.

A Lot of you people just can't comprehend how farking big Australia really is.

And as for Perth, I'm sick of hearing about how bad done by they were, yes they were and I'd like them back, but those idiots made their own bed (SL back stabbers), so they can damn well lie in it for a while longer whilst the NRL is dissolved and a new IC is put in place.

they are still going for $10 million or more for a new grandstand

i love brookvale oval myself.

kogarah, leichhardt and brookie really are special grounds

nothing beats either on a sunday when the weather is good and they are playing another sydney side

this is what RL in sydney is about : upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rom_NE.JPG look at that hill : www.abc.net.au/reslib/200805/r253633_1045909.jpg

this is what RL in sydney is about : upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rom_NE.JPG look at that hill : www.abc.net.au/reslib/200805/r253633_1045909.jpg

yeh grass hills, oh so 1970's! And what do they look like when its raining Dally? Funny thing is there is only probably around 14,000 people at the game.

Sydney crowd in inclement weather:

Quote ="dally messenger"this is what RL in sydney is about : upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rom_NE.JPG'" I'm in that shot Dally. To the left of the guy in white top on far right in the Souths dug out (black top with red flashes on sleeves). Two white shirts in front of me. You should be able to recognise me.

Quote ="dally messenger"this is what RL in sydney is about : upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rom_NE.JPG'" I'm in that shot Dally. To the left of the guy in white top on far right in the Souths dug out (black top with red flashes on sleeves). Two white shirts in front of me. You should be able to recognise me.

hey you get good seats for games.

get me in!

I prefer the ones in coach's box




Just go and work for a club. Off you go. You can do it.

me work.

nah, ill stick to being an armchair critic!

Dickless the union panderer strikes again...

How you going with your defence of rugby league players, coaches, refs and admin being pinched by union but no one in rugby league being interested in union's e holdings in those areas.





Sounds like a brilliant argument.

Warrington have a union team?

They have multiple to a decent standard.
But you can just feck right off, no one really cares what you think.

Another loss for the Dickless one...

It's no wonder you don't post on the VT very often.
I enjoyed you getting your ar*e handed to you on those occasions

I doubt you can show even one example of someone "handing me my "...

Go for it, Dickless.

There was something about french league being a heartland probs around December/November. You got handed your a$$ by Hedgehog and Smokey of all people

guys, you both seem like good blokes.

lets call a truce and get this thread back to being an AFL bashing thread.

Dally as mediator

somebody hacked into my account again.

just for you Dally! www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/w ... 5822324520

just for you Dally! www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/nrl/w ... 5822324520

Why don't you post the alleged thread where this happened.

Nice little fantasy you have going.



I'll stack my knowledge of French RL and RL in general up against anyone on this site.