IT’S hard to believe the NRL is now running a $350 million business.
Everyone knows Wests Tigers have a huge battle for survival on their hands.
They are only in the competition because they borrowed millions from the NRL.
To get supporters and the people of Campbelltown to the football they have to ensure the game-day experience is as close to perfect as possible.
And what happens? They don’t employ enough people on the turnstiles and hundreds of fans are locked outside the ground in queues of hundreds of metres for the entire first half.
Fans forced to queue in Campbelltown last Monday.
I was contacted on Saturday by the father of a family who drove all the way from Wollongong to cheer for the Dragons.
There was seven of them — mum, dad and five kids. They came all that way but could only get in for the second half.
Now this is a grassroots, traditional footy family. People who are lifetime rugby league fans.
Yet we had Wests Tigers chair Marina Go almost celebrating by tweeting from the comfort of her corporate suite: “Game has started. Still queues to get into the game — for miles. Love our fans.”
What sort of business is allowed to be run this poorly?
