The biggest issue I have with North Queenslands new stadium is that its probably the best candidate for the worst future proof designed newly built stadium. Its has 2 major design issues that inhibit its future use and potential, its roof design and its current capacity size.
The stadium was built with an open end that could at some point in the future be built to increase its capacity. Yet Its roof design means any future extension will require large sections of the stadoums roof to be removed; increasing the time and cost of any rebuilt significantly the point where cost will potentially outway any benefit.
This could be solved with temporary seating for special events. But due to the design of the stadium, only a small number of temporary seating can be built without massive costs.
And with the stadiums capacity at 25,000, even with a multi million upgrade to the stadiums the max would only be able to increase around 4 or 5 thousand, Townsville will never get a fifa world cup game, csnt see them getting anything other than low ranked rugby WC group games and will never see a state of origin unless covid 30 hits us..
But at least u have a nice home ground. Same can't be said with the tigers.. The biggest problem with the tigers is that we haven't settled ourselves down into 1 or two locations. I couldn't understand their logic in tearing down concord and spending all that money downgrading it into the training ground. Why didn't they set up concord as a proper home ground. They could've torn down and rebuilt the western stand and included the performance centre and added some media facilities into it, then kept the eastern stand with minor upgrades. With the savings made tearing down the eastern stand it wouldn't have cost much more. More than likely it would've been cheaper. The tigers then could've played at concord and Campbelltown. With both stadiums close to trains and with parking.
