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State of Origin at Eden Park
Topic Started: Aug 15 2009, 02:58 PM (193 Views)
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Auckland Mayor John Banks has been in secret discussions with NRL bosses to have a State of Origin match played at the revamped Eden Park.

Banks met with NRL director of commercial and marketing Paul Kind and director of finance Ed Farish earlier this week.

Sunday News understands Warriors CEO Wayne Scurrah and NZRL bosses were also involved in the discussions.

The mayor also wants the Kiwis to play the Kangaroos followed by an All Blacks v Wallabies test in a footy-fantasy double-header at Eden Park, to showcase the ground's multi-million dollar facelift to be completed by next October.

"I am absolutely committed to bringing State of Origin to Auckland," Banks told Sunday News.

"The Eden Park people are very keen to maximise the use of the new ground and I've always felt that the best place to play rugby league tests and an opportunity for hosting State of Origin would be at Eden Park.

"The NRL officials were very receptive to the idea but I must say it would be incumbent on me going out and raising quite a lot of sponsorship for it.

"These international fixtures with global television audiences are not cheap and to take Origin from Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne and bring it to Auckland would cost a lot of money.

"I'm quietly confident that I can raise that cash privately."

Kind confirmed the meeting with Banks.

"Certainly we have been told by a number of sources in New Zealand that there would be strong interest in an Origin game there," he said. "We aren't looking at it in the short term but we wouldn't discount it in the long term."

Kind said the NRL wanted to build a relationship with the Auckland authorities.

"When we played the World Cup here (Australia) in 2008, we had the support of both the Queensland and Victorian governments to play our major games," he said.

"We work really closely with those governments to make sure we are......................READ MORE

I think that's a pretty good idea myself, it would generate a lot of interest in league here.
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Ah f*** I need glasses. Can you delete the other topic Linds.

Anyway I love Eden park would be great to see something down there. Melbourne is as foreign as NZ anyway...

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stacey
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Rightio...

And yeah, it would be great to see it there, especially once the upgrade is all finished, i'd say that there would be no problem having the ground sold out for something like the SOO, and if it does go ahead, and is a success, then maybe it could become a common fixture..
Here's hoping anyway.
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lol, Yeah. There a crap load of QLD supporters in Auckland, my cousins included. I was surprised they even knew what State of Origin was.
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Hell, I'd be there fo sure...

Wouldn't count on it though... can't see Mel giving that game up...
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