A few things are immediately obvious about …
… the Saturday night shambles in the stands at Eden Park: just another reason not to go to a league game. Ever.
… the Saturday night shambles on the ground at Eden Park: thirteen players with no ticker--just another reason not to bother supporting the NZ league team. Ever. (A replication of the last time the Kiwis showed up at Eden Park.)
… the Saturday night shambles outside Eden Park: just another reason it was patently stupid to build a 60,000-seat sports stadium in a quiet residential area with no transport links, especially when a far better location was available that could easily have been swapped for this one. But it was a political decision.
So that’s boofheads all round, really. All too damned predictable.
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And why oh why are the media critiquing the venue and management and not asking the obvious question: Was the pack of mongrels that were at Eden Park on Saturday night a different class of people to that attending rugby union (and World Cup) games?
Of course the answer is "yes".
Can someone please ask that question in the media!!
Unfortunately they will impose more unnecessary restrictions on World Cup fans. A bit like holding a heavy metal rock concert in the Auckland Town Hall with the obvious fighting that comes with that type of event, and the venue then placing stricter security so that a repeat doesn't occur when the NZSO performs the following week.
Julian
They let these boof heads on Eden park about 20yrs ago, with similar results. Why did they expect anything different?
Ken
Sir Robert Jones states that Rugby League is the game designed for the criminal classes, and so it appears to be. They can't help themselves, it ingrained in their attitude to all things, just another reason for a punch-up/ intimidation-fest.
I hadn't seen your proposal for Carlaw park before today, but I have to agree that it would have been the better site. Perhaps it was that it was a traditional League home ground and couldn't possibly be given over to the stuck up Rugby Union supporters (forgetting that RU is the common man's game in NZ, unlike Australia/ UK).
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