The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[Brutus]

East-West. Do my East-West thing!!!!

we've got the money for it now.

Bring back the old Sydney Sports Ground.

The best east-west ground in the country.

 

[Wb1234]

Photo is misleading it’s the new stand on the north

 

[Jetka100]

If they fined everyone who ran on the field last night, there would be more than enough to pay for it

 

[yakstorm]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it appears that the temporary seating at Christchurch isn't retractable. Feels like a real missed opportunity for the new venue.

 

[i0Nic]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it appears that the temporary seating at Christchurch isn't retractable. Feels like a real missed opportunity for the new venue.

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Can’t they just install the seating permanently? What’s the capacity with and without that seating?

 

[TheRam]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it appears that the temporary seating at Christchurch isn't retractable. Feels like a real missed opportunity for the new venue.

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Oh my God, what imbeciles! The only two modern world countries I know of that get rectangular stadiums so freakin wrong, so often.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Can’t they just install the seating permanently? What’s the capacity with and without that seating?

Yeah seems odd- maybe the seats would be covering areas that are otherwise utilised during normal events? Bloody annoying though, as I reckon the Wahs could easily make use of the extra 5K there this year.

 

[yakstorm]

Can’t they just install the seating permanently? What’s the capacity with and without that seating?

They wanted the open end for concerts as it makes easier to bring in stages, etc and allows them to sell all 25,000 permanent seats plus standing room.

In theory it makes sense, but only if you can easily wheel in the 5,000 movable seats, especially when the venue holds significantly more sporting events than concerts (in the next 12 months there a 10 events planned - 8 sports, 2 concerts).

 

[TheRam]

Hopefully if it continually has more sporting events versus concerts, especially if and when a 2nd NRL team is playing there, the powers that be will see the logic and commercial/economical sense in keeping the seats in all the time and only removing them when concerts are performing there.

 

[Steel Saints]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it appears that the temporary seating at Christchurch isn't retractable. Feels like a real missed opportunity for the new venue.

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So they must be built each time and installation takes 12 days and half a million in costs. What if in the winter months, they have the seating in place and in the summer months, remove the seating to stage concert events.

 

[marlins2.0]

So they must be built each time and installation takes 12 days and half a million in costs. What if in the winter months, they have the seating in place and in the summer months, remove the seating to stage concert events.

They'll definitely need the for All Blacks games (2-3 games year - a June test and at least one RC test) so you'd imagine it's doable.

 

[nko11]

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but it appears that the temporary seating at Christchurch isn't retractable. Feels like a real missed opportunity for the new venue.

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So at a cost of $500,000 to install the seats - with it adding 5,000 seats to the capacity. You would have to sell each seat $100 minimum just to breakeven on their installation (if only for 1 event). Being an end stand, more premium sideline seats for the same event would have to be going for $250+ - it would generally only be for absolute premium events. Outside of maybe finals games - I can't see a second New Zealand team ever being able to use these extra seats.

Only other solution, as above is to have a period of the year blocked off for events that will keep it installed. Say a 10 week period - where the All Blacks, NZ2 and Crusaders all play their big games over this period. If they can fit 10 events in this period, the cost per event would only be $10 each seat at least.

At this point the official capacity should be noted as only 25k - otherwise you may as well claim North Queensland Stadium capacity is 27.5k.

 

[Wb1234]

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Seeing the nsw govt trying to spin the budget stadium as a win cause they retain hills

25k seats isn’t that bad though and much steeper stands

They can always do the hills later and get to commbank capacity or maybe 35k

Corporate facilities will be on another level the old stadium had awful corporate facilities

New stands look really good to be fair atmosphere is going to be crazy

 

[BossyC]

Bring back the old Sydney Sports Ground.

The best east-west ground in the country.

Remember a city/country game there one day, when a Peter Dimond jobbed Father John Cootes! Then an almighty clap of thunder. many thought it was going to be divine retribution!!

 

[Jonno]

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Seeing the nsw govt trying to spin the budget stadium as a win cause they retain hills

25k seats isn’t that bad though and much steeper stands

They can always do the hills later and get to commbank capacity or maybe 35k

Corporate facilities will be on another level the old stadium had awful corporate facilities

New stands look really good to be fair atmosphere is going to be crazy

For a suburban ground, the Penrith Stadium will be very good!
The concern raised is that $300Million doesnt give us what it used to give us.

Anyway, Sydney now has some great RL venues and easily the best mix of any city in Australia.

The missing piece is a redeveloped ACCOR Stadium but I guess we need to wait.

 

[horrie hastings]

Photo is misleading it’s the new stand on the north

Would the roof on the crappy looking new pop up Grand Stand at the Northern end really cost $5 million? Really shocking if they put the stand there with no roof as the only cover there is the Western grandstand which will be refurbished nicely and the tiny wooden stand at the southern end.

 

[Jonno]

I assume its the northern stand as Cox have previously shown renders without the roof.

 

[flippikat]

For a suburban ground, the Penrith Stadium will be very good!
The concern raised is that $300Million doesnt give us what it used to give us.

Anyway, Sydney now has some great RL venues and easily the best mix of any city in Australia.

The missing piece is a redeveloped ACCOR Stadium but I guess we need to wait.

ACCOR is a conundrum - with Souths keen to head back to the SFS/Allianz, that means it could only have the Bulldogs as an NRL tenant by the time it's redeveloped.. which isn't ideal.

 

[BossyC]

ACCOR is a conundrum - with Souths keen to head back to the SFS/Allianz, that means it could only have the Bulldogs as an NRL tenant by the time it's redeveloped.. which isn't ideal.

Allianz Stadium is the Roosters home ground, as was the old Sydney Sports Ground...always was, always will be.

 

[Wb1234]

I assume its the northern stand as Cox have previously shown renders without the roof.

Keep the trees it’s iconic as part of lo

Looks really good too

All it took was the old crumbling terrace to collapse on some rich union kids for it to be an issue