Watching away games together at Crown Casino
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:57 pm
Hello fellow NRL league leaders,
Didn't really want to watch the game at home on my own, so I thought I'd go into Crown to watch the Panthers telecast.
It was pretty poorly advertised by the club, who I think were just excited that they had a live TV feed into Victoria. But still about 80-100 Storm supporters turned up with Robbie Kearns on the microphone.
The Pub at Crown was an OK place to watch the game. Yes Crown can be a tad antiseptic, but it beats the Bench at AAMI Park & at least gives us as fans a place to go and watch games TOGETHER. You had to get there early to get seats so you could watch the screens up on the walls, but with an extra 50-100 people in the place the atmosphere would have been pretty decent.
Is anyone keen on getting a TheBaistand.com group together to watch games at Crown (if we can't make it up to Sydney etc etc)? I can vouch for the fact that as a Sydney Swans fan in Melbourne it is great watching games together at the Rising Sun in South Melbourne.
The Storm club are big on trying to publicise the Pub @ Crown as a place to go and be social & watch away games. Melbourne Storm prides itself on its social atmosphere where fans and players are close to each other. In my view having a pub to watch away games at will only help develop this.
JF
Didn't really want to watch the game at home on my own, so I thought I'd go into Crown to watch the Panthers telecast.
It was pretty poorly advertised by the club, who I think were just excited that they had a live TV feed into Victoria. But still about 80-100 Storm supporters turned up with Robbie Kearns on the microphone.
The Pub at Crown was an OK place to watch the game. Yes Crown can be a tad antiseptic, but it beats the Bench at AAMI Park & at least gives us as fans a place to go and watch games TOGETHER. You had to get there early to get seats so you could watch the screens up on the walls, but with an extra 50-100 people in the place the atmosphere would have been pretty decent.
Is anyone keen on getting a TheBaistand.com group together to watch games at Crown (if we can't make it up to Sydney etc etc)? I can vouch for the fact that as a Sydney Swans fan in Melbourne it is great watching games together at the Rising Sun in South Melbourne.
The Storm club are big on trying to publicise the Pub @ Crown as a place to go and be social & watch away games. Melbourne Storm prides itself on its social atmosphere where fans and players are close to each other. In my view having a pub to watch away games at will only help develop this.
JF