The field

[Bansai Pipeline]

Allianz looks amateurish. What’s going on? Blocked drains?

Worse than Leichhardt.

[Rooster_6]

Looks beautiful to me, bring back natural weather conditions!

[Bates]

8mm rain in 10 minutes.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

How could that happen on such a state of the art stadium with limited traffic?

Unbelievable.

[gragra]

They have the super roller for cricket games to soak up water ...in a $800 million new stadium at the very least with inadequately designed drainage they should have the roller on standy

[King Salvo]

Played in much worse ground conditions than that in the day in juniors. Nowadays, a few drops of rain not only close the ground for training but also cancel the round of footy.

Bowral @ Bowral the ground was well under water - ditto Moss Vale / Mittagong/Picton/Camden/Appin/Warriors/Collegians/Oaks/Oakdale/ Minto/Ingleburn/Glenquarie-Hawkes/lithgow-street Bradbury/Narellan - we still played.

Our ground Waminda International Sports Stadium was a mud bath with decent rain

The only ground that coped with the rain was Alfred Duguid/Orana Park, now Campbelltown Sports Ground.

[ism22]

The rain was pretty hectic. I dunno much about fields but suspect this was one of those rare moments where a crazy act of nature overpowered man's best efforts to control it.

[Grits teeth] But yeah... we did have the ~$20m option of keeping the old field and just upgrading the seats, toilets and food outlets.

[Danish]

It was ridiculous. 10 mins of rain and 2 hours later at the end of the game it was just as flooded as it was at kickoff.

serious questions need to be asked about why the drainage was so inadequate tonight. I know the rain was kinda heavy but it didn’t hold a candle to the rain on Anzac Day in 2015 and the old SFS surface remained pristine after that deluge

[Johnny73]

On par when they had that worm infestation...can't remember the name of the bloody things...and it turned the SFS into a sandpit.

[Tom Verlaine's Ghost]

Was great to see. You could see how Cheese relished it. I miss the muddy fields and the ensuing slog.

[milanja]

Was great to see. You could see how Cheese relished it. I miss the muddy fields and the ensuing slog.

Embarrassing for the stadium, but a great throwback, Dylan brown sliding about 15m back into the in goal, and then two curators doing the old pitch forks at halfway to try and drain it was classic.

[Bondicigar]

Didn't slow Dom young down , he's a weapon on a heavy track

[The Lip]

They have the super roller for cricket games to soak up water ...in a $800 million new stadium at the very least with inadequately designed drainage they should have the roller on standy

Hahaha the roller would have sunk last night mate

[Juggler]

The rain over the last week or so has pretty much been coastal including the Moore Park area. In the last couple of weeks, there has been substantial surface water near the tennis and ball/netball courts just south of the scg. With 8mm in 10 minutes I’m not too surprised about the surface water. What is a little surprising is that conditions didn’t seem to improve much.

As for those going on about Brookie looking great, the heavy rain happened between the two games i think. Or missed Brookie entirely. What happens in one part of Sydney is often different in the next suburb.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

The thing that surprises me most is that the 'old' stadium on the same patch of ground held up brilliantly in wet weather usually.