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  1. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Yeah - but they’re being lobbied hard by the QCA and the Lions for a 25,000 venue in Brisbane for the five years they don’t have The Gabba. Converting QSAC into an oval was also being mooted. I think the likely result is that cricket an AFL are shuffled around between Springfield, Allan Border...
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  2. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    It’s still up in the air as to what will happen with the fifth test each summer of the other years. Probably Canberra or Hobart will get the test, and they’ll play ODI’s or T20I’s at Carrara so the QCA doesn’t miss out. But the QCA is still lobbying for an upgraded Ekka last I heard so they...
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  3. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    The biggest win for Auckland really is the fact that North Harbour Stadium was converted into a baseball ground. It leaves Mt Smart as the only medium-sized stadium in the entire city. It also means that if they do want to go through the re-development of Eden Park instead of building a...
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  4. Timbo

    The Las Vegas Thread

    He then tweeted about the stadium they built in Texas for Major League Cricket being an option. It holds 9,000 people. Nice one.
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  5. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    As was already pointed out to me, that's actually a stadium in Frankfurt, Germany. It looks very similar to the one in Vancouver - I'm not sure if the Frankfurt one can support water. In Vancouver I suppose the main thing is that they can close it in winter when it's cold but not raining or...
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  6. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Ah, looks very similar to Vancouver. My bad.
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  7. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    That’s BC Place in Vancouver. Worth nothing, that roof actually has to be open in rain. It’s can’t support the weight of water on it.
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  8. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I do think that we’re fortunate in that we’re a small population and demand seldom outstrips supply that our ticket prices don’t spiral out of control. I have an old mate who is taking his family to Whistler in Canada to go skiing at Christmas. He wanted to take his sons to an NFL game in...
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  9. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Alright, that may be the case for you personally but the tastes of the average person going to a game are clearly changing or there wouldn't be a clear market for this stuff. As someone else said above, when was the last time you could get a cheap pie at the footy? 1995? If it's going to be...
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  10. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I mean, it is though. We always hold the USA up as the gold standard of a stadium experience. When I went to a baseball game in Seattle my wife was able to buy a fresh lobster roll from a stand near our seats, and I had about five different gourmet burger places to choose from, and they all...
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  11. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    How are they going to justify paying for it when you’ve already got Acer Arena at Homebush? The fact is that acts like Taylor Swift and Elton John will always play at an open air stadium ahead of an arena, because they can sell the tickets to justify it. Building a 20,000 seat arena at Moore...
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  12. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Even allowing for the f**king medivac… You’ve just gotten a compound fracture to your leg. Do you want to: (a) Be taken by ambulance to an airport. Loaded into a plane (or magic helicopter). Wait for clearance to take off. Fly three hours. Land in Cairns. Be loaded back into an ambulance, and...
    • Timbo
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  13. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    The PNG Government is deeply corrupt and massive budget problems. The second biggest city in PNG is Lae. It’s 300 kilometres from Port Moresby. Do you know what year the road connecting the two cities was built? TRICK QUESTION! There is no road connecting the two biggest cities in the country...
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  14. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Gould may have said it, it doesn't mean it's true. It's about 840km from Port Moresby to Cairns as the crow flies. There are helicopters with that range, but the civil (ie - nonmilitary) ones would be really pushing it as they tend to top out at 900-1000kmh. What's more likely is that there...
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  15. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I usually don't get all the hate thrown at you on here, but f**k me are you an absolute simpleton? Royal Hobart Hospital is closing down specialty wards due to lack of funding and staff, basically every regional hospital in the country is being held together with sticky tape and staffed at ~50%...
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  16. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Yeah but imagine something like a seriously broken leg happens - I don’t care how good the private hospitals are in PNG, I don’t think I’d want to have surgery there, or be stuck there while I recover.
    • Timbo
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  17. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Tis a fine barn English, but no NRL stadium.
    • Timbo
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  18. Timbo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I doubt many away fans would go to games in PNG. It’s not like going to Bali or Phuket. It’s a genuinely very dangerous place. DFAT basically has a standing ‘reconsider your need to travel’ warning. Would anyone really want to spend a ton of money to go and lock yourself in a hotel next to a...
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  19. Timbo

    18th club, whose next?

    Well, could we play a 28 game season? 20 teams, Northern and Southern conferences. Play your own conference home and away, play all the other teams once. I don’t like the idea of having a competition where you don’t play every other team during the regular season.
  20. Timbo

    18th club, whose next?

    Yeah, people who keep talking about this as being fine because of government backing keep forgetting the reason Albo is so gung-ho on this is because the previous LNP government slashed the AusAid budget leading to PNG, The Solomons and Vanuatu buddying up with China to makeup the shortfall...

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