Good day to run at the Bay as my NRL team (Newcastle Knights) were playing the Wests Tigers at Leichhardt Oval right on the Bay run - one of their rare appearances at this great suburban ground. Why (money, I know...) do all the teams play at giant monstrocities of stadiums these days? Take Souths for example, playing at Homebush, nowhere near their fanbase, and I dont know what their crowd average is, but I'm guessing maybe 15,000 tops - in an 80,000 venue....Big ask for fans to get interested in that, and create any sort of atmosphere.
Leichhardt on the other hand is great for footy - 18,000 there tonight, and I was one of the 100 odd Knights supporters. And like many other Knights games I've gone to over the years, they didnt disappoint - well, not until the last few minutes of the match like they have a bad habit of doing....after the Tigers (who are actually my favourite Sydney team) did practically nothing all game, except drop the ball a lot, they managed to sneak back to 16 all at the end of the regulation 80 mins. Extra time then proceeded to be the usual boring hitup, hitup, hitup, hitup, hitup, attempt field goal - there must have been 7 or 8 attempts until Robbie Farah put one over from dummy half with a few minutes remaining for the Tigers to win 17-16. Oh well, a close game is normally more fun to watch than a blowout. I just wish we'd get rid of golden point, or at least limit it to tries only (with 20 mins max, then a draw is no points are scored).
No not a bad afternoon all up - 17km run, NRL match at great ground, and a couple of steakburgers and bourbons on the hill for dinner...which I probably should try and run off tomorrow.
Pic of game below:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/90568004
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