Sydney Swans to play all 2016 home games at the SCG

Giants stick to the west ? You spelt Canberra wrong.

Obviously the AFL felt that with a new larger stadium in Sydney being built it should be able to host AFL games. The AFL does attract the largest crowds, after all (by world standards, let alone Sydney standards). Swans crowds are the biggest of all regular home crowds in Sydney, apart from the occasional NRL game at Homebush. No doubt the NRL was spitting chips when the decision was made to have the Olympic Stadium configured for AFL. Of course the pollies couidn't resist the AFL contribution of $3 mill back then. The AFL is the only code that actually contributes towards stadiums, both new & improvements. NRL waits patiently for governments to fund stadium upgrades without ever offering a contribution.

We would not have the issue with anz needing more development to fit its purpose without the AFL's involvement. Sydneys actual west might have some extra investment - maybe even a lovely stadium - were it not for the AFLs involvement. Sydneys problems are huge and the politicians should wear the blame, no doubt. They made incorrect decisions, and have invariably done so. Maybe you missed my criticism of them. But on the stadium problems, well, there would be less without the AFL investments turning the heads of the powers that be, and without the belief in a narrative of only needing one or two central stadiums (the AFL model). It's a different beast. They've stuffed us, potentially. It wouldn't have happened this way without the AFL pushing for things that weren't needed at the expense of things that were.

Yep, the AFL hoodwinked those poor old Sydney people. Showed them that Australia's game could draw as big a crowd as their NRL & had 1,000's of Mexicans coming up to gawk at such a wonderful modern stadium. Now NRL can rejoice that (apart from visits by overseas soccer clubs) they can fill it every weekend with their 20,000 crowds!

Yes, poor NSW, that poor impoverished, ignorant state, swindled by those crafty, Machiavellian Victorians. You are kidding, right? Sydney is definitely big and mean enough to look after itself and make its own decisions. Your narrative is utterly false.

It was Mexicans who lobbied the government for the master of none design; who are responsible for the Olympics not leaving a better legacy at BISP; who got a new stadium built literally 5 minutes away from an existing stadium, in a souless backlot of Sydney. Our corrupt pollies were swindled and should cop some of the blame, but the swindlers were from south of the border and gee I wish they'd leave us alone and that they'd take their assumptions about how things work in centralized cities with them.

That's the other option - I assume Sydney Thunder is there, Sixers at the SCG, as well as all the internationals.

At last. Now we can finally spend the Stadium fund where it belongs - on getting ANZ Stadium into shape as the premium rectangular ground in Australia. Sydney follows 3 rectangular codes closely and if there is any city in the world that deserves a state-of-the-art rectangular ground, it's Sydney.

Anz is hardly this so called "White Elephant" that everyone says it is. It is used practically weekly (even without AFL and Cricket) and can get attendances of more than 60k almost monthly. There's a difference between the stadium being "maligned" and being unused. The legacy of the olympics is excellent for this city.

Nah, I think they will play any T20 at the Showground next door.

Sydney should never have had the Olympics and they would not have been lumbered with all these unused venues. It should have been staged in Melbourne which is made for the games. So Sydneysiders, when you are sitting in your lousy stadiums, in traffic and unusable public transport system blame your town planners, government and yourselves for voting for them and getting in over your heads.

Is there any chance they will still want to play 20/20 cricket at ANZ? That would be the only stumbling block I can think of. personally I reckon they should just play the cricket at the SCG, no point keeping a crappy config of the ground for the sake 1-2 games of cricket a year.

Good riddance. ANZ is a stadium without a soul. Very happy with this decision. As an interstate Swans fan, it will make it easier to attend matches as well.

Yep - a case where literally all stakeholders are winners.

The Giants will be happy. Swans stick to the east, Giants stick to the west. Makes sense. The NRL, rugby and soccer will be happy to get a rectangle ground. Good for everyone.

Italian nationalism in the early part of the 20th century insisted on using "calcio" instead of football, which was inn common use.. They never managed to italianify the name of one of the more popular clubs though. At any rate, its amusing how these days it's often brought up without acknowledgement of the history of the term.

The surface was dreadful, and the Roughead incident was the last straw.

Outstanding outcome for everyone. A packed SCG for Hawthorn, Collingwood etc is fantastic, and ANZ can finally be reconfigured as a rectangular stadium. Well done Swannies.

Not finals ... not yet anyway.

The surface out there was diabolical. You would be better off playing games on North Sydney oval than out there. Even the supposed big game, the RL in Sydney struggles to average 20,000, a match out there. Which is less than 25 percent capacity. Homebush might be knocked down, it just loses too much money. Cheaper to flatten the joint and play in more fitting venues. Italian 'calcio'(no word in Italian for football! Funny how SBS ignores this!) is going through this realization presently, building more appropriately sized stadia.