Surely with today's rain, all the grounds will be closed. I heard Smith Park has adequate drainage and might be open. Is this true?
Northern are cancelling Speers Point training bookings starting week after next so it can be used for catch up matches
It was such a beautiful day, it was a shame all today's games called off. Most of our grounds are terrible and something must be done about them. There are too many catch up games to be played. Suns and Westlakes have 3 games in hand while Swansea and a few other have 2.
Lake Mac council do not take $$ from clubs, the money goes into a ground account to only be used on grounds, power bills etc.
The onus to do something with this is totally with the clubs.
Newy Council, not sure what happens there.
The amount of user's football has in the Newcastle area, does not match the money spent by councils, compared to the money they spend on league and cricket and Croquet(lake mac council, FMD).
NNSW wasting their(our) money on Speers Point (a better design incorporating Lakes ground) would have made more sense doing what they are doing now, back then.
Main issue is all clubs fighting for the same dollar, from the same pond.
You could go on forever about this subject(maybe needs its own thread)
Clubs need to get together and get a synthetic ground or two built around newcastle/lake Mac, the benefits financially once built will be well worth it, has anyone done costings to have their grounds transformed, I?d be interested to know.