NRL ramps up bid to build and own new stadium

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The NRL has commenced readying into gathering its ain stadium successful south-west Sydney, with reports the league has already sounded retired the Bulldogs and Tigers to gauge their interest.

According to a Sydney Morning Herald report, ARLC president Peter V'landys and NRL CEO Andrew Abdo precocious spoke to officials from some clubs surrounding the thought of owning a imaginable caller stadium successful Liverpool oregon Rossmore adjacent Western Sydney airport.

In doing so, the NRL has besides approached the NSW authorities authorities regarding backing for the imaginable caller project.

But according to the report, the league has been with absorption owed to the Sydney suburbs of Penrith, Brookvale and Sydney Olympic Park expected to beryllium the beneficiaries of an $800 cardinal concern pledge into Sydney stadia.

The thought of purchasing a portion of onshore wherever a stadium tin beryllium built is simply a anticipation the NRL is considering, which would let the crippled to rent retired the venue for different sporting events and amusement interests.

The determination would beryllium akin to the AFL, the owners of Marvel Stadium successful Melbourne, which it claimed successful 2016.

"The Bulldogs are unfastened to proceeding proposals and person the bully of the crippled successful our thinking," Bulldogs president John Khoury told the SMH. "But astatine the infinitesimal we person not received immoderate ceremonial proposals."

The determination would bring immoderate stableness to the Tigers, who person had a analyzable concern with venues.

The Tigers successful caller times person divided their Sydney location games betwixt Leichhardt Oval Campbelltown, CommBank Stadium and Stadium Australia.

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"I've made it precise good known that I judge the top situation facing the Wests Tigers is securing a imperishable location successful the abbreviated to mean term," Tigers president Lee Hagipantelis told the SMH.

Part of the $800 cardinal successful backing that was primitively earmarked to upgrade Stadium Australia is present expected to flood into gathering a caller 25,000-seat stadium successful Penrith, portion astir $200 cardinal volition spell into the upgrade of Brookvale Oval.

V'landys successful June told 2GB's Ben Fordham astir the NRL's anticipation of having a caller stadium built astatine Liverpool.

"As you cognize determination was $800 cardinal acceptable speech to upgrade ANZ (Stadium Australia), that's not going to happen, determination volition beryllium immoderate funds going to ANZ but the bulk volition beryllium spent connected suburban stadiums," V'landys said.

"We besides privation 1 retired successful Liverpool wherever we tin person the Bulldogs and perchance the Tigers," helium said.

"By the clip the strategy is finished, New South Wales and Sydney should person immoderate of the champion sporting facilities anyplace successful the world, and we merit them."