The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[Menaiduck]

High cost is partly due to being built on land partially reclaimed from the sea, like Optus in Perth. Plus the roof and moveable seats add to the cost.
They also plan to make York Park in Launceston 27,500 regardless of whether they get an AFL team. 190 page report here
https://www.launceston.tas.gov.au/f...k-park-utas-stadium-2021-11-february-2021.pdf
Naturally you would assume that the NSW govt has/will prepare similar document for public discussion before committing to any stadium upgrades. I am sure they are well underway.

Tasmania will not be considering any sports other than afl and cricket. It is a sporting dead end.

 

[MugaB]

Its planned to be retractable, which makes sense in somewhere as cold as tassie. Good that it can be reconfigured for rectangular games as well, Storm have a good following in Tassie and could play some games there maybe.
Ambitious but good luck to them.

Hobart with 240,000 i get, that is fine, but Launceston??? That to me is a waste

 

[Menaiduck]

Hobart with 240,000 i get, that is fine, but Launceston??? That to me is a waste

It’s a waste either way. Neither Launceston or Hobart will get crowds to justify that expenditure. They both have venues suitable for crowd demand. This is chest beating.

 

[MugaB]

It’s a waste either way. Neither Launceston or Hobart will get crowds to justify that expenditure. They both have venues suitable for crowd demand. This is chest beating.

Hobart has the population for that capacity, i dont see why Launceston is nessesary

 

[Menaiduck]

Hobart has the population for that capacity, i dont see why Launceston is nessesary

Agree to disagree. Crowd figures suggest otherwise.

 

[Timbo]

Hobart already has a 19,500 seat stadium with room to expand by re-configuring the members enclosure.

With the way housing and health is in Tassie at the moment, building a whiz-bang, retractable roof stadium which would only hold a few thousand more to host 5-6 AFL games a season would be an astonishing waste of money.

 

[Menaiduck]

Hobart already has a 19,500 seat stadium with room to expand by re-configuring the members enclosure.

With the way housing and health is in Tassie at the moment, building a whiz-bang, retractable roof stadium which would only hold a few thousand more to host 5-6 AFL games a season would be an astonishing waste of money.

I’ve lived there previously and it’s a really bad idea.

 

[Colk]

I’ve lived there previously and it’s a really bad idea.

What’s the population of Hobart anyway? 200,000? Lovely place but in any case way too small to have a big stadium. Launceston even more so.

 

[Timbo]

What’s the population of Hobart anyway? 200,000? Lovely place but in any case way too small to have a big stadium. Launceston even more so.

230,000ish.

It's smaller than Wollongong.

 

[Ozzi_78]

230,000ish.

It's smaller than Wollongong.

The shire has more people. Bad idea.

 

[Perth Red]

It’s a waste either way. Neither Launceston or Hobart will get crowds to justify that expenditure. They both have venues suitable for crowd demand. This is chest beating.

Its not chest beating, its part of their Govt's bid to convince AFL to give them a license. If they can get the money together to ever pay for it is another matter.

 

[cooko]

It could help a promoter get someone to add extra show/event

Fly into Sydney

Use SFS.
Penrith the following night - fly out via the new airport and don't lose half a day driving through Sydney

Good in theory but you still need to pack up at the SFS, drive the production out to Penrith and set it up in less than 24 hours.

 

[Jamberoo]

A roof in Tasmania is highly practical, and there’s no real inner city land available for a ‘regular’ oval.

Hobart gets half the rain of Sydney or Brisbane. A roof makes no sense. Down south we don’t get the heavy rains like further north, as long as the fans are covered, what does it matter if the players get wet occasionally?

 

[Menaiduck]

Its not chest beating, its part of their Govt's bid to convince AFL to give them a license. If they can get the money together to ever pay for it is another matter.

Well it is actually. Spending $750 million for a 27000 seater in Hobart when a new oval stadium that holds just on 20000 is chest beating

 

[Steel Saints]

So is a possible new Tasmainan Afl team going to be playing full time at this new expensive Hobart stadium? If there going to share grounds with Launceston, then it makes the price tag of $750 million even more ridiculous.

 

[Iamback]

Good in theory but you still need to pack up at the SFS, drive the production out to Penrith and set it up in less than 24 hours.

They do it for festivals.

I went to one last month that played Wollongong the night before Sydney

 

[MugaB]

230,000ish.

It's smaller than Wollongong.

Launceston is 68000, FMD lets build a monorail to go with it

 

[Perth Red]

Hobart gets half the rain of Sydney or Brisbane. A roof makes no sense. Down south we don’t get the heavy rains like further north, as long as the fans are covered, what does it matter if the players get wet occasionally?

Be mainly for concerts. Aussies are soft, they dont go out in the rain lol. Maybe a roof will encourage them to.

 

[Perth Red]

Well it is actually. Spending $750 million for a 27000 seater in Hobart when a new oval stadium that holds just on 20000 is chest beating

Nope, its a message to the AFL about how serious they are about hosting a successful AFL club and another nudge to make them agree.

 

[Menaiduck]

Nope, its a message to the AFL about how serious they are about hosting a successful AFL club and another nudge to make them agree.