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  1. Quidgybo

    South Island - Te Waipounamu

    Expansion talk in recent years has generally assumed a second New Zealand NRL team would be based out of Wellington. The major issue in Wellington is that the only suitable stadium is the Cake Tin, a big oval stadium that fundamentally works against the NRL‘s match day experience. While a small...
  2. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    NSW State Election is March 25th next year. Call for tenders for 2023 Grand Final one month before polling day and force both sides to go public with what they’ll do to “save Sydney’s big day”. Nothing more needs be done before election day other than a couple prominent meetings over coffee...
  3. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    There’s about 10,000 capacity of basic steel and concrete stands sitting on top of the three hills at a deserted 1300 Smiles Stadium in Townsville. I’m kinda surprised that hasn’t found its way to Cairns and/or Mackay as a relatively quick and cheap upgrade.
  4. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I wonder if losing their ACT Senate seat to the Greens will lead to more engagement from Liberals in future campaigns? Doesn’t help anyone now but maybe it provides some room for the game to lobby a federal opposition trying to buy their way back into government in three or six years time. Leigh.
  5. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    The names change to allow the eternally revolving door of political masters to re-announce from time to time but the broad plan remains the same (that is after all the point of long term planning). There’s still only one 24-hour airport being built in western Sydney and still only one major CBD...
  6. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Long term I think it’s inevitable. The new ”parkland city” will have it’s own equivalent of Moore Park or Parramatta Park immediately to the east of the CBD. I think the question remains whether the planning folks can convince the politicians that it’d be a waste to build anything else in the...
  7. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Presumably some of these decisions are being dictated by longer term master plans. We know that the northern beaches motorway will end somewhere around Brookvale and any future Metro branch will probably tunnel past the ground. We also know that the government is building a third CBD at...
  8. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Priority access for the lions.
  9. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Basically the plan is the lower bowl of BankWest/CommBank with the upper tiers and roof from Central Coast Stadium. I assume the detailed design for those upper tiers is still not set. IMHO it’d be a big mistake to not ensure rain cover to the fence and also not to prioritise corporate...
  10. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin
  11. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Perhaps the NRL should put a few million into the design of any new Hobart Stadium just to ensure it includes “compromises” that make it “suitable” for hosting Rugby League. Certainly ye olde rectangular sports would prefer a thinner straighter ground like Stadium Australia than a big open oval...
  12. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Bump. Those pushing Liverpool and Campbelltown are not looking at it with the same time horizon as the government. I suspect the attitude there would be: sure, knock yourself out if you want to fund It privately. But we’re busy funding and building an entirely new CBD over the next 15-20 years...
  13. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I really don’t think that’s any worse than any other stadium. If you’re seated right next to the wall, you would need to stand to see the hill but probably not for any of the playing field.
  14. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I note the roof height of the new Brookvale north stand looks identical to the Ken Arthurson link stand in the far corner. Is there a general height limit on Brookvale Oval? Will any future stands on the west and east sides also be limited to that height? It looks to me that with the available...
  15. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    That’s part of the legacy seating from the Olympic swimming venue. It ends where it does not because it’s following a master plan but because that’s all the usable sections they got handed down and it ran to slighting more than just the northern stand. A proper eastern stand would almost...
  16. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I think this is a fan myth. Remember this ground used to be an oval. Where the spectator hill is now used to be part of the playing field. The ground was squared off by moving the field closer to the existing western stand. That’d leave 20m- 30m on the eastern side that used to be flat grass...
  17. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I don’t think the government (certainly not the long term planning folks in the civil service) want to build a stadium at Liverpool. The Sydney master plan has decided where the third CBD will be and it’s not Liverpool. It’s the new city of Bradfield out beyond the end of the Leppington branch...
  18. Quidgybo

    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    Exactly. You’re competing with folks staying home and watching it (or anything else they find entertaining) in 4K on a 100 inch screen, sitting in their favourite armchair with the heating just right, the fridge in the next room and a unisex bathroom just down the hall. Atmosphere and live...
  19. Quidgybo

    18th club, whose next?

    Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. It’ll be the Firehawks because it’s the remaining bid that meets the Phil Gould definition of a properly structured, vertically integrated development club. And it’ll be called Brisbane because that’s what Nine want and they’ll be paying for this one.
  20. Quidgybo

    The value of a 9th game

    The value in a 9th game is exclusivity, if they can offer it. That depends on what PVL sold Fox - 8 games, 3 simulcast, 5 exclusive vs ALL games, 5 exclusive etc. If it’s the former then Nine will happily pay for the 18th team to get around the Fox simulcast and get back an exclusive “9th” game...

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