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The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

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There just isn't going to be any significant away supporters travel to Port Moresby, well not enough to bother catering for to any great extent anyway.

Given that there is limited flights there and back, and you need to apply for a visa before you go would deter the vast majority of people.

Not to mention the small issue of rampant crime and corrupt officials.
 
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Canard said:
There just isn't going to be any significant away supporters travel to Port Moresby, well not enough to bother catering for to any great extent anyway.

Given that there is limited flights there and back, and you need to apply for a visa before you go would deter the vast majority of people.

Not to mention the small issue of rampant crime and corrupt officials.
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The travel side of it isn’t too much of a drama, I’ve been there on holiday. But we flew into Port Moresby and walked straight to the domestic terminal and jumped ontoan internal flight to Kavieng so I didn’t see the city.
The crime part is the big issue. Even the airport gives you seriously sketchy vibes.

you’d get diehard fans travelling for away games but only if they could be packaged safely, and that would be much easier to facilitate if you had a hotel/resort to complex handy to the ground.
 
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Yeh pretty much this, they could fill in the corners and maybe put another tier on one of the sidelines. Should be a relatively cheap (by stadium standards) way to get it to 25k+.

Alternatively there is Sir Hubert Murray stadium, still half under construction from what I can tell but has a higher listed capacity. Looks like Vipers play there in Digicel cup.
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Picturesque

looks a bit like hbf park but on the water
 
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SpaceMonkey said:
would actually make good sense to attach a hotel complex to the ground so away fans could have a way of attending games with less security concerns, as well as for somewhere for visiting teams and officials to stay
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Safety would have to be the main part of the bid, Can't have anyone being assaulted over a sport
 
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SpaceMonkey said:
The travel side of it isn’t too much of a drama, I’ve been there on holiday. But we flew into Port Moresby and walked straight to the domestic terminal and jumped ontoan internal flight to Kavieng so I didn’t see the city.
The crime part is the big issue. Even the airport gives you seriously sketchy vibes.

you’d get diehard fans travelling for away games but only if they could be packaged safely, and that would be much easier to facilitate if you had a hotel/resort to complex handy to the ground.
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There isn't going to be anywhere enough demand or financial reward for such a setup.

It would be the ultimate in rich Westerner hubris for cashed up bogans to have a purpose built resort in the middle of Port Moresby just so they can watch the Roosters play footy.
 
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Canard said:
There isn't going to be anywhere enough demand or financial reward for such a setup.

It would be the ultimate in rich Westerner hubris for cashed up bogans to have a purpose built resort in the middle of Port Moresby just so they can watch the Roosters play footy.
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Yeah I agree. But if they were building accomodation facilities for players and officials as part of the complex anyway it would make logical sense to add commercial hotel facilities to it. Might as well have something that can be used when there’s no footy on and there’s a demand from business travellers.
 
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This is the most stupid, brain dead idea for expansion that the NRL has ever come up with, let alone the Fed Govt pouring $600 million of our taxpayers money into it.
Just bring in Perth or NZ II instead. Now!
 
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jim_57 said:
Yeh pretty much this, they could fill in the corners and maybe put another tier on one of the sidelines. Should be a relatively cheap (by stadium standards) way to get it to 25k+.

Alternatively there is Sir Hubert Murray stadium, still half under construction from what I can tell but has a higher listed capacity. Looks like Vipers play there in Digicel cup.
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This would be where I'd base them. Basically, the closer you are to the waterfront and beach, the safer you are in Port Moresby. You have to remember there are civil servants, doctors, government officials etc and this is where they tendcto live. This site is a stone's throw from the American Embassy.
 
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This would be where I'd base them. Basically, the closer you are to the waterfront and beach, the safer you are in Port Moresby. You have to remember there are civil servants, doctors, government officials etc and this is where they tendcto live. This site is a stone's throw from the American Embassy.
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From what I’ve read it was in the process of being fully redeveloped into a 25K dedicated football stadium a few years back but wasn’t finished because they missed the cutoff for the pacific games- so that construction process could probably be completed.
 
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From what I’ve read it was in the process of being fully redeveloped into a 25K dedicated football stadium a few years back but wasn’t finished because they missed the cutoff for the pacific games- so that construction process could probably be completed.
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Think I read construction has restarted ?
 
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Wb1234 said:
Think I read construction has restarted ?
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From the venue website:

Facilities​

Sir Hubert Murray Stadium has a seating capacity of 20,000 spread throughout the northern Dika
Toua stand, Southern Martin Beni stands, Eastern Sir Daddi Toka stand, and The Sir Mick Curtain
western grandstands. It contains one main playing surface compliant in dimension and
maintained to world standards per FIFA, RLWC, and IRB requirements.

Sir Hubert Murray consists of:

– Ten (10) corporate boxes
– Two (2) VIP Function and Conference rooms
– VIP Members Lounge that hosts up to 200 people.

Additional facilities available in the stadium are:

– 3 x offices on the Western Stand Ground floor, including the venue management office
– 6 x leased offices on the North Stand Mezzanine
– Accessible lift from ground floor lobby to Levels 1,2 & 3
– Inclusive – disability facilities
– 1 x High-Performance Gym for PNGRU and Port Moresby Vipers
– 1 x public gym
– 3 sets of warm-up rooms, massage rooms, change rooms, locker rooms, and shower
– Toilet amenities at all stands, northern, southern, eastern, and western grandstands
– 8 x gates with an additional one at the former Aspen Medical Clinic side.
 
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