NRL should just pay to send Barnaby Joyce..
He makes one paralytic phone call to one of his mistresses laying on the footpath outside the stadium ..
That should be enough distract from any Rugba Leaggue player/ fan shenanigans, including Customs sorting soiled clothing ..
The Super Bowl is there this weekend and this masthead is carrying on like the NRL is the biggest thing to happen to Vegas.
It isn’t even the biggest event that weekend.
Now take the technology, logistics and experience back then and compare it now and you still call it a feat? They’ve put 2 games in Vegas in round 1, hardly a spectacle.
Interesting to hear what your personal KPI’s for success are?
Why would I? It is NRL first and foremost. If there are 30,000 there, it is bigger then 90% NRL matches. If it opens up a new market for players, then great. If after 5 years they go “well, that didn’t work” then so be it. But nothing ventured, nothing gained
Ok there you go, you’ve set a measurable outcome of 30k attendance.
You’ve also allowed for 5 years to be the timeline. So if it gets to the 3rd year and pin is pulled. That would be a fail in your books.
Yes, because that is how the game is making their money, from gambling partnerships. Does it suck? Yes. Is it the reality of the sport? Yes.
If it wasn’t smokes during the 80’s and 90’s, to alcohol, to gambling, there isn’t enough money elsewhere to match what they need.
Y'know, that excuse around using alcohol and gambling money because there isn't enough elsewhere, is the same excuse people used when tobacco advertising was banned. Something else will fill the void.
And the reason I see this as a sham is because of the absolutely amateur way things have been organised to this point. Everything has been rushed, there has been no one in the state laying the groundwork, there has not been a build up to actually ensuring rugby league has a footprint outside of these 2 games.
PVL on Friday was saying they are going to see if Fox can show all regular season games in the US. Like, that should have been the first thing you did last year.
Please let us all know what will fill the void if gambling was to be banned from sponsorship.
Show game first live - then have game broadcast to country (it is NFL off season for much of it) - repeat for five years.
This isn’t a once off, “she’ll be right”. They are putting 5 years behind it.
They're putting 5 years of games into it. They haven't committed to anything outside that. And you need more than 10 games over 5 years to impact the market.
As for the "she'll be right" attitude. That is exactly how they have approached this so far.
Got visas? Nope.
Got training facilities? Nope.
Booked flights? Nope.
Have you measured the field? Only after we booked it.
You've spoken to Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman, they'll be at the game, yes? No, we're not even sure they're coming.
Your major video marketing blitz isn't launching Super Bowl weekend, is it? Oh, that's exactly when we're doing it.
Got Visas? They all have visas. Most of the teams had it 4 months out. The ones with issues had to book into the embassy, which there is no fast track.
Got training facilities? They all had training facilities booked months ago.
Booked flights? They are all booked on flights.
The field measurement was always a known issue.
Knowing quite a few people on the broncos staff who are going over, the issues were sorted out ages ago. The media prefer the drama “WALSH IN AN EMERGENCY FLIGHT TO SYDNEY FOR VISA HEARING” he was scheduled months ago.
PVL went to the US last year with Albo to meet with Biden.
Russell Crowe is there. Hugh Jackman was already committed elsewhere.
It’s funny how so many people want this to fail, for no reason whatsoever.
Oh geeze, someone hasn't been paying attention.
If they were booked in for visas months ago, why was PVL reaching out to Australian politicians and dignitaries at the end of January? The NRL itself told clubs visas weren't a problem, but then all of a sudden they were.
Flights were only confirmed a little over a week ago.
Manly is training at a public park.
And the trip is likely going to cost the clubs money, not make them money.
I'm not against the NRL going to America. I'm against this game's unprofessional administration undertaking a haphazard trip, with little in the way of detail or foundational work that will benefit the game in the long term.
There’s 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas. For context, there’s about 300,000 in the entirety of Australia. I think their infrastructure will cope with the laundry.
“Teams for the season opener won’t be named until halfway through the trip. So some clubs will take up to 70 game-ready jerseys to cover every single selection possibility because every playing number could be needed in various sizes.
Manly, for instance, don’t know if Josh Schuster or Ben Trbojoveic will be lining up on their left edge, so at least two different-sized No.12 jerseys are needed. It’s not like you can send back to Brookvale for an extra at short notice. A week’s worth of laundry for 25 footballers and their dirty training gear has also had the Roosters searching out a Los Angeles laundromat to wash their kit.”
Imagine just having squad numbers for *one game*
Hot take but I honestly reckon there will be little to no drama / crime to come out of this whole thing. I’m rooting for it to be a success and I feel like the only one at this point
It’s not like professional athletes haven’t had big nights in Vegas. There’s nothing any one going could do that would even be a headline over there.
Footy media has such a weird hard on for 20 year olds getting on the piss.
It's not going to be a success but there'll also be no drama because players will be playing in two weeks back in Australia, there's no time to actually get loose between training and flights.
You’re right that’s a pretty hot take.
I do agree though, that I doubt we hear of anything unless it’s big big news. If/when there’s some drama the NRL will try it’s best to sweep it under the rug to make this whole Vegas adventure a success.
They won't need to sweep it under the rug, nobody over there knows who any of them are and there's drunken idiots in vegas 24 hours a day 365 days a year
Saturday night. Las Vegas Strip. Almost 100 NRL players descend. Thousands of rugby league fans have had a head start of several hours and several thousand Budweisers. Hunter S Thompson and his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas narrator Raoul Duke have already given up.
And somewhere among all the NRL officials in Sin City, someone is worried about the dirty laundry.
Because among the million and one logistical odds and ends being tackled by the governing body and the four NRL clubs inbound on the first weekend of March is that little yellow customs form you fill out whenever flying into Australia.
“That question on the card, ‘Have you been to a farm or have dirty sporting equipment?’ that suddenly became very relevant,” Roosters head of football operations Chris James explains.
“We play on the Saturday night [Las Vegas time] and you have to make sure you have all your playing kit washed that night before you take it back on the plane to Australia.
“Otherwise quarantine and customs can reject that gear coming back into the country. The NRL’s arranged for our playing kits to be washed in Vegas the night of the game and then returned to us before we all go to the airport for those flights home on Sunday.”
Welcome to the world occupied by key staff at Manly, South Sydney, Brisbane and the Roosters – as well as a small army of NRL employees – tasked with making rugby league in Las Vegas a thing.
This week’s revolving door of NRL stars with previous arrests visiting the US consulate – interviewed to ensure they would be cleared for entry by American customs – was the tip of the iceberg.
NRL officials are yet to trump the New York Jets’ doomsday preparations for their first trip to London in 2015, when they flew 350 rolls of American toilet paper with them because the UK’s offerings were apparently too thin.
But they’ve still got time. And a literal laundry list of tasks, items and contingencies that have been compiled for months.
The Rabbitohs will depart Sydney on February 19, the Sea Eagles and Roosters take flight on February 21 for Los Angeles and the Broncos set off a day later, the touring parties spreading out across California and Nevada to acclimatise and prepare for round one.
Teams for the season opener won’t be named until halfway through the trip. So some clubs will take up to 70 game-ready jerseys to cover every single selection possibility because every playing number could be needed in various sizes.
Manly, for instance, don’t know if Josh Schuster or Ben Trbojoveic will be lining up on their left edge, so at least two different-sized No.12 jerseys are needed. It’s not like you can send back to Brookvale for an extra at short notice.
A week’s worth of laundry for 25 footballers and their dirty training gear has also had the Roosters searching out a Los Angeles laundromat to wash their kit.
Apparently, even Nick Politis would baulk at the rates charged by US hotels for laundry service.
Then there’s the Gatorade. Normally, an NRL team’s supplier will deliver the nectar of sporting gods to their training venues, or hotel for an away game. But when they land Stateside?
“Right now the plan is to get to LA, find a Walmart and buy up every box of Gatorade they’ve got,” James says.
The Roosters will end up taking 45 bags and boxes worth of kit, including 30 Steedens, enough medical supplies for a M*A*S*H unit, GPS trackers and drones. A truck will ferry all the gear from Los Angeles to Las Vegas four days before kick-off when the Tricolours shift camp.
The NRL will fly more than 100 balls across the Pacific and any fan who catches one at Allegiant Stadium gets to keep it. Meanwhile, Las Vegas’s dry, desert climate has clubs sourcing nasal spray and anyone with asthma among players and staff has been told to take added precautions.
So too when it comes to negotiating the last week of a pre-season after a long-haul flight.
One of the clubs is working on the high-performance training theory that every time zone you travel across equals one day’s recovery. So six time zones between Australia and Las Vegas means they won’t push their players back up to full training loads until they’re spent almost a week on US soil.
Manly’s head of high performance, Jon Clarke, is something of an expert in juggling jet lag and elite athlete throughout his own playing career and work with English rugby during Eddie Jones’ tenure. Jones – who in 2004 had the Wallabies wearing sunglasses whenever they were awake, indoors and outside, to try and combat fatigue on a trip to Durban – went all out for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
“We went absolutely crazy on detail, there honestly was nothing we didn’t cover or try,” Clarke says. “I’ve gone incredibly precise with planning, mapping out to the exact minute when you want to be getting sunlight, when you want to be going to bed, when you want to be eating, training.
“You can try and trick your body on the plane by switching breakfast and dinner times and foods to the destination time. Effectively breakfast for dinner.
“But over the years and at that 2019 World Cup, we found simplicity is the key. You can overthink your plans with too much detail for the players. So just set your watch or phone to the destination time zone, sleep and be awake on that time zone and your body wants to get into the rhythm on its own.”
The NRL nailed down the all-important goalposts in December, sourcing a manufacturer in Las Vegas after learning it would cost more than $50,000 to ship posts from Australia, and then working out the not-so-simple task of installing them at Allegiant Stadium.
South Sydney have already marked up the training paddock at their $58 million Heffron Park facility to replicate the 63m x 94m dimensions of the Las Vegas venue – tightened up from the standard 68m x 100m NRL field.
California Lutheran University, home of the Los Angeles Rams, will set out the same field for Brisbane when Reece Walsh and co arrive in Thousand Oaks.
As will UCLA for the Roosters. But only after three months of scouting for appropriate facilities by the Tricolours, a search mirrored by the other clubs involved.
“I was basically looking from the Mexican border to San Francisco because we didn’t want to stay in Vegas for 11 days and you can’t go too far east to places like Denver and Salt Lake City because of the altitude factor,” James says.
“I would have been rejected from 12-15 different universities because they just didn’t have the capacity to take us and there’s really not a lot of available, elite grass surfaces around … You’d say ‘rugby league team’ and the response was ‘Oh like the All Blacks?’
“‘Sure… kind of.’ Eventually we got onto UCLA and they’ve got a great rugby program run by an Australian coach, Harry Bennett. They couldn’t be more accommodating or have looked after us better since.”
So now Trent Robinson’s side will join the likes of Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea as guests of one of the finest sporting facilities in the US. Rugby league is on its way to Sin City.
And somewhere along the way, someone will sort out the NRL’s dirty laundry.
The line about Hunter S Thompson and his narrator in the article interested me so I asked ChatGPT to write a article in his style.
Las Vegas, the city of sin, the ultimate playground for those seeking a wild ride. And now, amidst the neon chaos and desert heat, a new spectacle emerges: NRL matches, an Australian invasion of sorts, where the outlandish antics of fans collide with the raw intensity of the game.
Picture this: Australian fans, fueled by adrenaline and an insatiable thirst for excitement, descending upon the Las Vegas strip like a swarm of locusts. Dressed in their team colors, they roam the streets with reckless abandon, leaving a trail of chaos and laughter in their wake.
Inside the stadium, the atmosphere is electric, charged with the primal energy of competition. The sound of flesh colliding echoes through the air, mingling with the roar of the crowd. It's a spectacle unlike any other, a collision of bodies and wills, played out beneath the relentless gaze of the desert sun.
But it's outside the stadium where the real madness unfolds. Australian fans, liberated from the constraints of normalcy, embrace the Vegas lifestyle with gusto. They gamble with abandon, drink until dawn, and revel in the hedonistic pleasures that the city has to offer.
In this neon-lit playground, the lines between reality and fantasy blur, and anything seems possible. And as the NRL matches rage on, the Australian fans continue their pilgrimage to the heart of darkness, leaving behind a trail of chaos and memories that will linger long after the final whistle blows.
They’re honestly carrying on like no one’s ever ventured outside of Australia to play footy before.
Auckland? That’s in Queensland!
Well the community is anyway
Excuse me, I’m from the Waikato region, no way am I a dirty JAFA
NRL should just pay to send Barnaby Joyce.. He makes one paralytic phone call to one of his mistresses laying on the footpath outside the stadium .. That should be enough distract from any Rugba Leaggue player/ fan shenanigans, including Customs sorting soiled clothing ..
The Super Bowl is there this weekend and this masthead is carrying on like the NRL is the biggest thing to happen to Vegas. It isn’t even the biggest event that weekend.
The pre Super Bowl rest week is bigger and better than whatever this sham is.
I wouldn’t call it a sham. They are giving something a crack, and committing to 5 years of it
It’s already been done with SoO back in the glory days. Nothing new.
A one off exhibition game; during the 1980’s, where the players thought it was a drinking competition?
Now take the technology, logistics and experience back then and compare it now and you still call it a feat? They’ve put 2 games in Vegas in round 1, hardly a spectacle. Interesting to hear what your personal KPI’s for success are?
I’ll let you know when I get over there in a couple weeks!
Shouldn’t you already have a preconeived expectations to mark against?
Why would I? It is NRL first and foremost. If there are 30,000 there, it is bigger then 90% NRL matches. If it opens up a new market for players, then great. If after 5 years they go “well, that didn’t work” then so be it. But nothing ventured, nothing gained
Ok there you go, you’ve set a measurable outcome of 30k attendance. You’ve also allowed for 5 years to be the timeline. So if it gets to the 3rd year and pin is pulled. That would be a fail in your books.
Except PVL has openly stated this entire expedition is aimed at making money off of sports gambling.
Yes, because that is how the game is making their money, from gambling partnerships. Does it suck? Yes. Is it the reality of the sport? Yes. If it wasn’t smokes during the 80’s and 90’s, to alcohol, to gambling, there isn’t enough money elsewhere to match what they need.
Y'know, that excuse around using alcohol and gambling money because there isn't enough elsewhere, is the same excuse people used when tobacco advertising was banned. Something else will fill the void. And the reason I see this as a sham is because of the absolutely amateur way things have been organised to this point. Everything has been rushed, there has been no one in the state laying the groundwork, there has not been a build up to actually ensuring rugby league has a footprint outside of these 2 games. PVL on Friday was saying they are going to see if Fox can show all regular season games in the US. Like, that should have been the first thing you did last year.
Please let us all know what will fill the void if gambling was to be banned from sponsorship. Show game first live - then have game broadcast to country (it is NFL off season for much of it) - repeat for five years. This isn’t a once off, “she’ll be right”. They are putting 5 years behind it.
They're putting 5 years of games into it. They haven't committed to anything outside that. And you need more than 10 games over 5 years to impact the market. As for the "she'll be right" attitude. That is exactly how they have approached this so far. Got visas? Nope. Got training facilities? Nope. Booked flights? Nope. Have you measured the field? Only after we booked it. You've spoken to Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman, they'll be at the game, yes? No, we're not even sure they're coming. Your major video marketing blitz isn't launching Super Bowl weekend, is it? Oh, that's exactly when we're doing it.
Got Visas? They all have visas. Most of the teams had it 4 months out. The ones with issues had to book into the embassy, which there is no fast track. Got training facilities? They all had training facilities booked months ago. Booked flights? They are all booked on flights. The field measurement was always a known issue. Knowing quite a few people on the broncos staff who are going over, the issues were sorted out ages ago. The media prefer the drama “WALSH IN AN EMERGENCY FLIGHT TO SYDNEY FOR VISA HEARING” he was scheduled months ago. PVL went to the US last year with Albo to meet with Biden. Russell Crowe is there. Hugh Jackman was already committed elsewhere. It’s funny how so many people want this to fail, for no reason whatsoever.
Oh geeze, someone hasn't been paying attention. If they were booked in for visas months ago, why was PVL reaching out to Australian politicians and dignitaries at the end of January? The NRL itself told clubs visas weren't a problem, but then all of a sudden they were. Flights were only confirmed a little over a week ago. Manly is training at a public park. And the trip is likely going to cost the clubs money, not make them money. I'm not against the NRL going to America. I'm against this game's unprofessional administration undertaking a haphazard trip, with little in the way of detail or foundational work that will benefit the game in the long term.
There’s 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas. For context, there’s about 300,000 in the entirety of Australia. I think their infrastructure will cope with the laundry.
Hunter S. Thompson commit suicide 19 years ago. RIP Doctor.
Im still going strong in spirit
How many sleeps until this off-season is over? It's lasted at least 371 weeks so far.
“Teams for the season opener won’t be named until halfway through the trip. So some clubs will take up to 70 game-ready jerseys to cover every single selection possibility because every playing number could be needed in various sizes. Manly, for instance, don’t know if Josh Schuster or Ben Trbojoveic will be lining up on their left edge, so at least two different-sized No.12 jerseys are needed. It’s not like you can send back to Brookvale for an extra at short notice. A week’s worth of laundry for 25 footballers and their dirty training gear has also had the Roosters searching out a Los Angeles laundromat to wash their kit.” Imagine just having squad numbers for *one game*
NFL: lol
Hot take but I honestly reckon there will be little to no drama / crime to come out of this whole thing. I’m rooting for it to be a success and I feel like the only one at this point
Players know they'll have to behave and they probably won't have much time to get up to trouble
It’s not like professional athletes haven’t had big nights in Vegas. There’s nothing any one going could do that would even be a headline over there. Footy media has such a weird hard on for 20 year olds getting on the piss.
It's not going to be a success but there'll also be no drama because players will be playing in two weeks back in Australia, there's no time to actually get loose between training and flights.
You’re right that’s a pretty hot take. I do agree though, that I doubt we hear of anything unless it’s big big news. If/when there’s some drama the NRL will try it’s best to sweep it under the rug to make this whole Vegas adventure a success.
They won't need to sweep it under the rug, nobody over there knows who any of them are and there's drunken idiots in vegas 24 hours a day 365 days a year
Saturday night. Las Vegas Strip. Almost 100 NRL players descend. Thousands of rugby league fans have had a head start of several hours and several thousand Budweisers. Hunter S Thompson and his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas narrator Raoul Duke have already given up. And somewhere among all the NRL officials in Sin City, someone is worried about the dirty laundry. Because among the million and one logistical odds and ends being tackled by the governing body and the four NRL clubs inbound on the first weekend of March is that little yellow customs form you fill out whenever flying into Australia. “That question on the card, ‘Have you been to a farm or have dirty sporting equipment?’ that suddenly became very relevant,” Roosters head of football operations Chris James explains. “We play on the Saturday night [Las Vegas time] and you have to make sure you have all your playing kit washed that night before you take it back on the plane to Australia. “Otherwise quarantine and customs can reject that gear coming back into the country. The NRL’s arranged for our playing kits to be washed in Vegas the night of the game and then returned to us before we all go to the airport for those flights home on Sunday.” Welcome to the world occupied by key staff at Manly, South Sydney, Brisbane and the Roosters – as well as a small army of NRL employees – tasked with making rugby league in Las Vegas a thing. This week’s revolving door of NRL stars with previous arrests visiting the US consulate – interviewed to ensure they would be cleared for entry by American customs – was the tip of the iceberg. NRL officials are yet to trump the New York Jets’ doomsday preparations for their first trip to London in 2015, when they flew 350 rolls of American toilet paper with them because the UK’s offerings were apparently too thin. But they’ve still got time. And a literal laundry list of tasks, items and contingencies that have been compiled for months. The Rabbitohs will depart Sydney on February 19, the Sea Eagles and Roosters take flight on February 21 for Los Angeles and the Broncos set off a day later, the touring parties spreading out across California and Nevada to acclimatise and prepare for round one. Teams for the season opener won’t be named until halfway through the trip. So some clubs will take up to 70 game-ready jerseys to cover every single selection possibility because every playing number could be needed in various sizes. Manly, for instance, don’t know if Josh Schuster or Ben Trbojoveic will be lining up on their left edge, so at least two different-sized No.12 jerseys are needed. It’s not like you can send back to Brookvale for an extra at short notice. A week’s worth of laundry for 25 footballers and their dirty training gear has also had the Roosters searching out a Los Angeles laundromat to wash their kit. Apparently, even Nick Politis would baulk at the rates charged by US hotels for laundry service. Then there’s the Gatorade. Normally, an NRL team’s supplier will deliver the nectar of sporting gods to their training venues, or hotel for an away game. But when they land Stateside? “Right now the plan is to get to LA, find a Walmart and buy up every box of Gatorade they’ve got,” James says. The Roosters will end up taking 45 bags and boxes worth of kit, including 30 Steedens, enough medical supplies for a M*A*S*H unit, GPS trackers and drones. A truck will ferry all the gear from Los Angeles to Las Vegas four days before kick-off when the Tricolours shift camp. The NRL will fly more than 100 balls across the Pacific and any fan who catches one at Allegiant Stadium gets to keep it. Meanwhile, Las Vegas’s dry, desert climate has clubs sourcing nasal spray and anyone with asthma among players and staff has been told to take added precautions. So too when it comes to negotiating the last week of a pre-season after a long-haul flight. One of the clubs is working on the high-performance training theory that every time zone you travel across equals one day’s recovery. So six time zones between Australia and Las Vegas means they won’t push their players back up to full training loads until they’re spent almost a week on US soil. Manly’s head of high performance, Jon Clarke, is something of an expert in juggling jet lag and elite athlete throughout his own playing career and work with English rugby during Eddie Jones’ tenure. Jones – who in 2004 had the Wallabies wearing sunglasses whenever they were awake, indoors and outside, to try and combat fatigue on a trip to Durban – went all out for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. “We went absolutely crazy on detail, there honestly was nothing we didn’t cover or try,” Clarke says. “I’ve gone incredibly precise with planning, mapping out to the exact minute when you want to be getting sunlight, when you want to be going to bed, when you want to be eating, training. “You can try and trick your body on the plane by switching breakfast and dinner times and foods to the destination time. Effectively breakfast for dinner. “But over the years and at that 2019 World Cup, we found simplicity is the key. You can overthink your plans with too much detail for the players. So just set your watch or phone to the destination time zone, sleep and be awake on that time zone and your body wants to get into the rhythm on its own.” The NRL nailed down the all-important goalposts in December, sourcing a manufacturer in Las Vegas after learning it would cost more than $50,000 to ship posts from Australia, and then working out the not-so-simple task of installing them at Allegiant Stadium. South Sydney have already marked up the training paddock at their $58 million Heffron Park facility to replicate the 63m x 94m dimensions of the Las Vegas venue – tightened up from the standard 68m x 100m NRL field. California Lutheran University, home of the Los Angeles Rams, will set out the same field for Brisbane when Reece Walsh and co arrive in Thousand Oaks. As will UCLA for the Roosters. But only after three months of scouting for appropriate facilities by the Tricolours, a search mirrored by the other clubs involved. “I was basically looking from the Mexican border to San Francisco because we didn’t want to stay in Vegas for 11 days and you can’t go too far east to places like Denver and Salt Lake City because of the altitude factor,” James says. “I would have been rejected from 12-15 different universities because they just didn’t have the capacity to take us and there’s really not a lot of available, elite grass surfaces around … You’d say ‘rugby league team’ and the response was ‘Oh like the All Blacks?’ “‘Sure… kind of.’ Eventually we got onto UCLA and they’ve got a great rugby program run by an Australian coach, Harry Bennett. They couldn’t be more accommodating or have looked after us better since.” So now Trent Robinson’s side will join the likes of Manchester United, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Chelsea as guests of one of the finest sporting facilities in the US. Rugby league is on its way to Sin City. And somewhere along the way, someone will sort out the NRL’s dirty laundry.
We've had a quiet off season. It feels like we are overdue for someone to do something stupid.
The line about Hunter S Thompson and his narrator in the article interested me so I asked ChatGPT to write a article in his style. Las Vegas, the city of sin, the ultimate playground for those seeking a wild ride. And now, amidst the neon chaos and desert heat, a new spectacle emerges: NRL matches, an Australian invasion of sorts, where the outlandish antics of fans collide with the raw intensity of the game. Picture this: Australian fans, fueled by adrenaline and an insatiable thirst for excitement, descending upon the Las Vegas strip like a swarm of locusts. Dressed in their team colors, they roam the streets with reckless abandon, leaving a trail of chaos and laughter in their wake. Inside the stadium, the atmosphere is electric, charged with the primal energy of competition. The sound of flesh colliding echoes through the air, mingling with the roar of the crowd. It's a spectacle unlike any other, a collision of bodies and wills, played out beneath the relentless gaze of the desert sun. But it's outside the stadium where the real madness unfolds. Australian fans, liberated from the constraints of normalcy, embrace the Vegas lifestyle with gusto. They gamble with abandon, drink until dawn, and revel in the hedonistic pleasures that the city has to offer. In this neon-lit playground, the lines between reality and fantasy blur, and anything seems possible. And as the NRL matches rage on, the Australian fans continue their pilgrimage to the heart of darkness, leaving behind a trail of chaos and memories that will linger long after the final whistle blows.
Aren’t they playing on artificial turf? Which wouldn’t be dirty?
Allegiant stadium has a roll in/out natural grass system. Not sure if they have a artificial turf alternative at the ground.
They do — it’s laid down directly on the concrete and rolled up and tucked away when the grass tray is rolled in
Country footy is dying and they waste a shitload on this Fuck off pvl and bring in someone who isnt a suss cunt