New Stadium Email

[NorfolkStreetKid]

I loved the SFS, and I want to go to a game at this new stadium. I am seriously thinking of getting the best seats available for our first game there this year, which looks like being the game against Souths on September 2nd. It will mean driving to Sydney, I would leave here at Paradise Point at about 4 am and get into Sydney around 2pm Friday afternoon, I've found that's about the best time to arrive there for traffic conditions and ease of booking into accomodation. I haven't been to a live game for about 10 years now, that was at Suncorp. I just wonder if the ground announcing, music etc will spoil the experience.

[Eggspert]

I think the NRL needs to make it more attractive for fans to be supporters. Address the price of tickets, beer, food, transport and parking and make it more appealing to families. The premium home experience is pretty nice but nothing beats being at the game.

Ticket prices should reflect the ground your watching at. New stadium's with modern facilities & decent rain cover can charge the premium $40 odd bucks for an adult.

But going to old run down grounds like Leichhardt Oval, Campbelltown, Belmore Oval, Brooky Oval...etc.. shouldn't charge more than $20 per adult to get wet & use disgusting toilets.

[Johnny73]

The club refers to your type as “fans” rather than “supporters”.

Well, that's like, your opinion, man.

[Rooster_6]

How do the fans benefit when their new seats are significantly inferior to their olds ones and will cost a lot more. I will be going from a silver membership, sitting in Bay 14 on the halfway line, about 10 rows behind the players bench, on the Western Side, to possibly sitting on the 10 metre line on the Eastern side, facing the sun on albeit the rare day games and paying a lot more than I use to.

It's a bit hard selling that benefit. The people benefiting from the stadium are the corporate supporters and the builders who received our tax dollars to pay for it. For which we are slugged again as users of the ground.

Our club gets to play out of a stadium that will attract way more corporate dollars and ticket revenue. Sets us up so well for a future post Politis when we no longer have a billionaire pulling the strings.

Face it our silver and bronze memberships were always undepriced for the seats we were paying for. I don't agree with everything the club has done around it for example removing gold seating around the tunnel is a cop out - that should 100% be members seats but if you want your old seat near the half way line that should 100% be gold class seating - that's just common sense. I'm sure you can still get that seat, you'll just have to pay appropriately for it.

As for tax dollars, I agree I think the private sector should fund stadium builds. But I'm supporting my football club, who cares about the politics of it - no matter which party you vote for they all would've pissed it up a wall.

[Dr. Voodoo Man]

Ticket prices should reflect the ground your watching at. New stadium's with modern facilities & decent rain cover can charge the premium $40 odd bucks for an adult.

But going to old run down grounds like Leichhardt Oval, Campbelltown, Belmore Oval, Brooky Oval...etc.. shouldn't charge more than $20 per adult to get wet & use disgusting toilets.

How about food and drinks?

[Johnny Brass]

Wherever the view it will be better than the scg, I don't mind looking at a game from behind the goal posts for analysing it as you can see the play unfold before you.

[Thirteen]

Completely understand that the corporates need to be looked after but it doesn’t seem right that they get the best seats in the house when most are just there for the free food and drinks and don’t even follow The Roosters or even like the game. But yes the club needs them and their contribution is valuable.

[Danish]

I’m expecting around a 20% increase. We have to commit to our level of membership before the draw is announced. You could get gold and then be told that we only have 9 home games. If you’d known this in advantage you may have chosen silver. As long as we smash Souths I’m happy.

mum expecting much closer to a 50-100% increase. Probably around $550 or so for gold and around $350 for silver. Unsure what chookpen costs but that will likely hang around that silver price too.

Cat 1 seats at the new parra stadium are like $90 for a single game. There is no way our gold tickets (cat 1 equivalent) will be anything less than $50 per game

[Danish]

Completely understand that the corporates need to be looked after but it doesn’t seem right that they get the best seats in the house when most are just there for the free food and drinks and don’t even follow The Roosters or even like the game. But yes the club needs them and their contribution is valuable.

but they have an entire tier of corporate boxes already. The SCG trust basically milked the government of a billion dollars just to build that tier. Taking bay 14 from the fans on top of that is a complete joke

[Cockadoodledoo]

mum expecting much closer to a 50-100% increase. Probably around $550 or so for gold and around $350 for silver. Unsure what chookpen costs but that will likely hang around that silver price too.

Could even be more than that. Perhaps $700 for Gold and $400 for Silver. People who were excited about the new stadium being built will be experiencing buyers remorse pretty soon. Should have been expected though.

[westleighwill]

I reckon chookpen will still go off it’s head with a heaps better view than SCG. Should be good!

[Danish]

Could even be more than that. Perhaps $700 for Gold and $400 for Silver. People who were excited about the new stadium being built will be experiencing buyers remorse pretty soon. Should have been expected though.

it could well be that high. I’m hoping not.

I think SCG membership is about $750 per year? Surely they can’t make it more than that

[The Lip]

it could well be that high. I’m hoping not.

I think SCG membership is about $750 per year? Surely they can’t make it more than that

SCG plus SFS membership is heaps more than that Danish. You have to factor in the buy in. Which was under the old system 10 k per ticket. However the annual subs were as you said about 700 per year after that. It was one of the best value memberships on the planet.

However since the build of the new stadium they have restructured the membership packages completely - those that were already in still get the same deal as they used to but you can't get those Gold or Platinum packages anymore. The old buy in used to be for your lifetime and for gold you could pass it on once and in platinum case for perpetuity ie you could pass through the family indefinitely as long as you kept paying the yearly subs. You can't get that deal anymore.

they now have three different packages that are not as good either twice as expensive as the old platinum or gold or offer less ie you can't use the additional facilities like the gym pool spa tennis and squash courts etc. none of the new packages can be passed on and one of them - the cheapest one only has a five year lifespan.

anyway check it all out before you make your decision not to join the Roosters

https://www.sportingclubofsydney.com.au/premier

Go to the menu and look at " new products " and you will see the details of the new packages available however they have still yet to tell us what the new yearly subs will be.

[Thirteen]

mum expecting much closer to a 50-100% increase. Probably around $550 or so for gold and around $350 for silver. Unsure what chookpen costs but that will likely hang around that silver price too.

Cat 1 seats at the new parra stadium are like $90 for a single game. There is no way our gold tickets (cat 1 equivalent) will be anything less than $50 per game

Expensive yes. But at least we get to see The Roosters and not Parramatta.

[Danish]

SCG plus SFS membership is heaps more than that Danish. You have to factor in the buy in. Which was under the old system 10 k per ticket. However the annual subs were as you said about 700 per year after that. It was one of the best value memberships on the planet.

However since the build of the new stadium they have restructured the membership packages completely - those that were already in still get the same deal as they used to but you can't get those Gold or Platinum packages anymore. The old buy in used to be for your lifetime and for gold you could pass it on once and in platinum case for perpetuity ie you could pass through the family indefinitely as long as you kept paying the yearly subs. You can't get that deal anymore.

they now have three different packages that are not as good either twice as expensive as the old platinum or gold or offer less ie you can't use the additional facilities like the gym pool spa tennis and squash courts etc. none of the new packages can be passed on and one of them - the cheapest one only has a five year lifespan.

anyway check it all out before you make your decision not to join the Roosters

https://www.sportingclubofsydney.com.au/premier

Go to the menu and look at " new products " and you will see the details of the new packages available however they have still yet to tell us what the new yearly subs will be.

yeah I got the email on the new packages from the SCG. They have a high buy in but the annual fees are still good. You still also get a guest pass with your membership so only need 1 membership for a couple.

wasn’t aware of having to buy in again after 5 years? I’ll check on that portion as that would change things. Although they still have the normal waiting list system and I’m about 15 years into that wait so tossing up between waiting it out and just paying to skip the line.

if easts place their season tickets at the annual scg membership price then it makes SCG membership make sense since the wife and I also go to a lot of cricket in the summer