Whilst Liverpool isn't an ideal area to have our home base (about 20km away from Belmore) it's realistically our best option. ANZ is a lifeless boneyard, Belmore isn't feasable and I'm sorry but playing out of Bankwest, in the heart of Parramatta, is honestly embarassing.
The upsides the Liverpool:
-Whilst it's not our traditional heartland, geographically its close enough to the Bankstown area that most fans wont be travelling across Sydney to go to a home game.
- Engagement and presence in an untapped, growing area. Long term objective of incorporating Liverpool/South West into established Bulldogs territory.
- Decent support for Bulldogs out there. I worked in the area for a while and can confirm that the Dogs and Parra are by far the most supported team in the region (Liverpool, Cabra, Fairfield etc) with Dogs probably even better supported than Parra.
- Could have a new, state of the art stadium that truly is OURS! Even if we were to share it with Tigers, they play games out of Leichardt, Campelltown etc still so it would more or less be our home.
Born and raised in Canterbury heartland, I'd love nothing more than for us to have Belmore as our home stadium but it's time we are realstic and move with the times. But honestly fuck playing out of Bankwest.