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Please list all the stadiums outside of Austalia that you've been to. I've watched a game at Goodison Park and Old Trafford. And I've been inside St James' Park, Anfiled, White Hart Lane and the Riverside.

There are way more that i wanna go to, but i won't even begin to list them coz there are so many!

None at present. By this time next month:

Fritz Walter Stadion (Kaiserslautern)
Arena Aufschalke (Gelsenkirchen)
Allianz Arena (Munich)
Gottlieb Daimler Stadion (Stuttgart)

Went overseas last October and went to the following stadiums:

- Highbury (London)
- Loftus Road (London)
- Giants Stadium (New Jersey)
- Lords (London)
- Emirates Stadium site (London)
- Continental Airlines Arena (New Jersey)
- US Airways Center (Phoenix)
- Madison Square Garden (NYC) (although wasn't able to get inside)

Also, haven't been to these grounds but I have driven past Sun Devils Stadium (Phoenix) and Stade de France (Paris).

Hiraldo wrote:None at present. By this time next month:

Fritz Walter Stadion (Kaiserslautern)
Arena Aufschalke (Gelsenkirchen)
Allianz Arena (Munich)
Gottlieb Daimler Stadion (Stuttgart)

I take it you're off to the world cup!? You Bastard!

Allianz Arena is breathtaking, it is so unique, take heaps of pics of it man!

Watched games at:

Griffin Park - Brentford FC and the late London Broncos

Visited:

Highbury
Lords
The Oval
Stamford Bridge
New River Stadium (London Skolars RLFC)

Stade Municipal du Ray (Nice)

Camp Nou
Montjuic
Bernabeu
Vicente Caledron

Estadio da Luz
Estadio Jose Alvelade (both as the half of the old one still stood as a ruin)
Estadio Algarve
Estadio Sao Luis

watched games @

watersheddings -oldham:oops: (demolished)
boundary park - oldham
central park - wigan (demolished)
JJB stadium - wigan
spotland - rochdale
knowsley rd - st helens
hilton park - leigh
wilderspool - warrington (demolished)
headingley - leeds
elland road - leeds
odsal - bradford
mcalpine - hudderfield
leeds road ground - hudderfield (demolished)
bloomfield road - blackpool
old trafford - manchester, football and cricket
city of manchester stadium - erm...
anfield - liverpool
goodison - liverpool
wembley - london (demolished)
candlestick park,3com,monster stadium - san francisco

visited. (tours)

yankee stadium
nou camp
amsterdam arena

drove past or flown over

parc d'prince - paris
stade de la masson - montpellier
madison sq garden - new york
giants stadium - new jersey
the colliseum - los angeles

think thats about it

oh....i could see dodger stadium in LA from the roof of our hotel in west hollywood....but it was about 8 mile away and could only pick it out at night

Watched games

The Dell (RIP) - Southampton
Anfield - Liverpool
Home Park - Plymouth

Jade Stadium - Christchurch

visited, walked past, driven past, gone in train past, seen from distance

Sellhurst Park
Stamford Bridge
Craven Cottage
Loftus Road
Griffin Park
Wembley
Southbury Road - Enfield non-league (now demolished)
Underhill
White Hart Lane
Matchroom Stadium
Arsenal Stadium Highbury
Boleyn Ground Upton Park
The Valley
Plough Lane (demolished)
all London

The County Ground - Swindon
Galpharm Stadium - Huddersfield
Feethams - Darlington (demolished)
St James' Park - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Sheilfield Park - Berwick-upon-Tweed
Tynecastle - Edinburgh
Celtic Park Parkhead - Glasgow
St James' Park - Exeter
The County Ground - Exeter
Pluim Park - Yeovil
Fitness First Stadium - Bournemouth

Carlaw Park - Auckland
North Harbour Stadium - Albany (Auckland)
Western Springs - Auckland
Trusts Stadium - Waitakere (Auckland)
Eden Park - Auckland
Westpac Park - Hamilton
FMG Stadium - Palmerston North
Westpac Stadium - Wellington
Prime Finance Basin Reserve - Wellington
site of Athletic Park - Wellington (demolished)
Lansdowne Park - Blenheim
Smokefree Rugby League Park - Christchurch

Since Spud lives in the UK, he should not count grounds in the UK. If we were to add Aussie grounds the list would be pretty f***ing long.

Watched games

Telstra Stadium
Eden Park
Mt Smart Stadium
Waikato Stadium
North Harbour Stadium
Cake Tin
Growers Stadium (Pukekohe)

Been to

Aussie Stadium
Sydney Cricket Ground

Been outside

Ibrox
Lidcome Oval

Jeffles wrote: Griffin Park - Brentford FC and the late London Broncos
New River Stadium (London Skolars RLFC)

Awesome! So, having been to games in London, do you reckon League has a future in London? or were the crowds full of aussie and northern expats?

George wrote:Awesome! So, having been to games in London, do you reckon League has a future in London? or were the crowds full of aussie and northern expats?

There is a future there definitely.

I won't deny that there were many northerners and Antipodeans in the crowd but there were also many cockneys and that shows that there is a complex market there.

London is a huge city. The Bronquins have never helped themselves by moving around so much. Then again, not all the moves were their own fault. In settling at Brentford the Broncos were establishing a following in the west again after some years at The Valley. I don't know how much this has changed since moving to Harlequins but then again the grounds are close - I could see Twickenham behind the Ealing Road Terrace.

Skolars will have a much more difficult time of it being in the lower division and based at Wood Green in Haringey Borough (north of Central London away from the many Aussies and Kiwis that could provide a start up market). However, they have a small but loyal following of people committed to grassroots semi-professional RL. They don't break the bank and they are prepared to accept that success will come later after laying a solid foundation - a good philosophy.

Another club I visited were South London Storm. They were in NL3 but withdrew to consolidate their junior base. They have started some junior off-shoots around the Borough of Croydon (south of Central London - scry as f**k late at night). I think they would be the next in line to enter the professional leagues in London.

As far as player development goes, you are starting to see more Southerners in the ranks of Superleague, many of them away from Harlequins and Skolars because they get offered better contracts. One guy at Skolars said it was hard for them because players have to travel from all over Greater London to get to training but they could get a contract up north providing them a house in the town. If the local clubs could afford to keep them, they would be more competitive.

Harlequins need to sack Tony Rea as coach.

Back on topic now.

still off topic for a sec, that was an awesome write up Jeffles, i read every word. I reckon they can now move forward as the Harlequins and they should host England v France/Wales type matches to give them a bit of a boost. I hope to go over there in a few years and experience it all for myself, it seems you already have, which is awesome.

PS: do you go on rlfans.com at all?

Never on rlfans. I stick to totalrl and rochdalehornets.com

Bronquins need to stay in the one spot to be successful and not have false expectations. The RFL already take rep games there. Sell outs and trophies may not come for ten years, longer if they continue to move around. They should be happy that they outdraw some clubs that have had 100 years head start.

Now back on topic.

IanRitchie wrote:Lidcome Oval

I bet that made you wet with excitement.












I shouldn't be sarcastic as grounds like that make me all moist!

hot_dogma wrote:

IanRitchie wrote:Lidcome Oval

I bet that made you wet with excitement.












I shouldn't be sarcastic as grounds like that make me all moist!

Ripped past it in a train.

I barely had time to even get slightly hard.