I don't think that's right. Homebush pays its tenants, because makes its own money out of the corporate seats. The clubs that play out there do very well out of it, it's only their actual customers that complain.skippy wrote:What the NRL is aiming for is to have two 60k+ stadiums that can be bid to host State of Origin & NRL major drawing finals, thereby extracting a much lower rent than they currently get from Stadium Australia. Same for major soccer events and Bledisloe Cup.
The Moore Park grounds can't compete, because their corporate facilities are much more limited, so the rents are high. Add to that the facilities (at the SFS at least) being pretty elderly and it's a lose/lose to go there.
Fans want to go to the Moore Park venues, but the big events need to raise more cash so they go to Homebush.
If the Moore Park grounds were simply better grounds - able to make more money for the tenants and be comfortable for more spectators - then many more big events would be there and the clubs playing there would do better out of them as well. But the competition the capacity cap since 2000 has hamstrung the SFS in particular.
Then you'd get actual competition between venues and they'd have to do something to get tenants in. As it stands it's a flawed market, and both spectators and clubs suffer.