It's seriously crap. My first time at Brookie this season and it's still rubbish.
The "food" is worse and more expensive than ever. The planning for it has not been considered at all. They knew the game started at six so most would need a bit of a feed. How on earth were there big queues for the world's worst food with a crowd of just 9,000? I must admit there was no queue at the chips on a stick van. I'll leave that one there.
The music blasted at every stoppage in the game, and I know they all do it, drives me nuts. It kills all chance of a crowd building tension like a bad lullaby. And the choice of "music" is baffling. No consistency and certainly not the sort of stuff that gets a crowd happy and involved. Just a mish mash. Supermarket music would be better if they have to have it at all.
The half time "entertainment" where five blokes get to kick for the opportunity to win, among other things, A PAIR OF SAFETY GOGGLES is beyond naff. Sure I know the sponsor actually makes those much sort after goggles but seriously?
But there is one completely inexplicable thing that absolutely takes the cake. Shiny new stand .... tick. Shiny new screen .... not so much of a tick. It could have been bigger but maybe there was some sort of council or engineering restriction.
But here's the thing. The screen is not so big in the first place so what do they do? They fill a side panel which takes up 20% of the screen (yep, that's one fifth of the entire available space) with ADVERTISING!!!!! So instead of getting a 20% larger replay of a try or live feed when you're at the other end, you get just 80% making it even harder to see. And what advertiser in their right mind would dedicate budget to ruining fan experience???
Hideous.
The "food" is worse and more expensive than ever. The planning for it has not been considered at all. They knew the game started at six so most would need a bit of a feed. How on earth were there big queues for the world's worst food with a crowd of just 9,000? I must admit there was no queue at the chips on a stick van. I'll leave that one there.
The music blasted at every stoppage in the game, and I know they all do it, drives me nuts. It kills all chance of a crowd building tension like a bad lullaby. And the choice of "music" is baffling. No consistency and certainly not the sort of stuff that gets a crowd happy and involved. Just a mish mash. Supermarket music would be better if they have to have it at all.
The half time "entertainment" where five blokes get to kick for the opportunity to win, among other things, A PAIR OF SAFETY GOGGLES is beyond naff. Sure I know the sponsor actually makes those much sort after goggles but seriously?
But there is one completely inexplicable thing that absolutely takes the cake. Shiny new stand .... tick. Shiny new screen .... not so much of a tick. It could have been bigger but maybe there was some sort of council or engineering restriction.
But here's the thing. The screen is not so big in the first place so what do they do? They fill a side panel which takes up 20% of the screen (yep, that's one fifth of the entire available space) with ADVERTISING!!!!! So instead of getting a 20% larger replay of a try or live feed when you're at the other end, you get just 80% making it even harder to see. And what advertiser in their right mind would dedicate budget to ruining fan experience???
Hideous.