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There are three tenants of the SFS – Tahs, Roosters and Sydney FC. So really, only two tenants in the winter. And the SFS are battling to keep those three.
All the grounds suggested above cater for both crowd and TV – they’ve all hosted NRL games. Bathurst is a stretch maybe, but the others are logistically very doable.
Tearing down the SFS is a golden opportunity for NSW Waratahs to live up to their name
Nope, this year a grand total of two trials were played outside of the major cities – one in Wagga Wagga, and one in Gosford (all that way away).
Tearing down the SFS is a golden opportunity for NSW Waratahs to live up to their name
That means 5 of the 7 odd million in the state are just a short train ride away from the coastal oases of Newcastle and Wollongong.
What a lovely opportunity for those 5 million people to get “make a weekend of it” out of Sydney.
And, for the record, this year the Tahs played one trial in rural NSW – in Wagga Wagga against the Brumbies. So pretty much a Brumbies home game.
http://www.aru.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/1699/articleid/17272/waratahs-lock-in-2016-pre-season-schedule
Tearing down the SFS is a golden opportunity for NSW Waratahs to live up to their name
Yeah, I took Roger’s comment out of context a tad – he was making a separate argument, and needed to paint his situation as doom and gloom to make a point.
But apparently so does the rest of the state. Because we don’t even get trial games any more.
Of course all other Super teams would travel to play in these other places. Most have airports, or are within a few hours’ bus travel. And Wellington to Newcastle is nothing compared to a trip to Argentina or Tokyo.
At the moment Sydney’s 5 million people gets the Tahs a crowd of 20 or so thousand. Take one game a year to each of these other stadia and give the rest of the state a chance to show Sydney how lucky they are.
As Bakkies mentioned, 25K Novos turned up to a midweek Test in the worst storm in a decade. The fans are there, they’re just being neglected.
Tearing down the SFS is a golden opportunity for NSW Waratahs to live up to their name