The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[Foreign Legion]

 

[Vlad59]

I wonder if they’ve considered turning the Gabba into a greyhound track?

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

could just run 50m races instead of 100m

Why run at all? Unless you have a ball tucked under your arm, I don’t get the point of running.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

From the AFLBC:

The $2.7b price tag's the same, but now there'll be no world class stadium for Brisbane's Olympic Games

Steven Miles ordered a review into Olympic venues to get better value for money. Now the price tag's the same, but there'll be no world class stadium.

www.abc.net.au

Lol@ this line:
"For now, it seems the era of building new multi-billion-dollar Olympic stadiums like the famous National Bird's Nest in Beijing or the iconic Stadium Australia at Sydney Olympic Park has come to an end."

 

[SpaceMonkey]

From the AFLBC:

The $2.7b price tag's the same, but now there'll be no world class stadium for Brisbane's Olympic Games

Steven Miles ordered a review into Olympic venues to get better value for money. Now the price tag's the same, but there'll be no world class stadium.

www.abc.net.au

Lol@ this line:
"For now, it seems the era of building new multi-billion-dollar Olympic stadiums like the famous National Bird's Nest in Beijing or the iconic Stadium Australia at Sydney Olympic Park has come to an end."

The problem is too many people who don’t have vested interest in how stadiums actually get used like to have opinions on them, so they wank on about white elephants like Accor being “iconic”. The old SFS might not have needed replacing if it hadn’t been designed by an architect who thought drip lines were less important than having a pretty shaped roof.

 

[Steel Saints]

While Tasmania soared, Queensland cowered in the corner

It’s being called a shambles, the cheapest option.

www.sen.com.au

 

[Colk]

While Tasmania soared, Queensland cowered in the corner

It’s being called a shambles, the cheapest option.

www.sen.com.au

F*** off honestly. “Cricket and football need a centrepiece stadium lol”

 

[jim_57]

From the AFLBC:

The $2.7b price tag's the same, but now there'll be no world class stadium for Brisbane's Olympic Games

Steven Miles ordered a review into Olympic venues to get better value for money. Now the price tag's the same, but there'll be no world class stadium.

www.abc.net.au

Lol@ this line:
"For now, it seems the era of building new multi-billion-dollar Olympic stadiums like the famous National Bird's Nest in Beijing or the iconic Stadium Australia at Sydney Olympic Park has come to an end."

 

[Desert Qlder]

What the Brisbane Olympics needs is people from Melbourne running it.

 

[Colk]

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But it has to be for ‘all sports”. All sports means fumbleball. They are brilliant schemers - they have literal RL commentators agreeing with them

 

[jim_57]

F*** off honestly. “Cricket and football need a centrepiece stadium lol”

Legitimately this “No WoRlD cLaSs StAdIuM!” is hilarious as what they really mean is “we had our hearts set of the Lions having the biggest stadium in Brisbane”.

 

[Colk]

Legitimately this “No WoRlD cLaSs StAdIuM!” is hilarious as what they really mean is “we had our hearts set of the Lions having the biggest stadium in Brisbane”.

I get that and you get that but you have people like Gould agreeing with them and that is what annoys me.

The whole premise being that if you don’t spend the most amount of money then it is somehow illegitimate. You even have that fumbleball douche on SEN (and Voss/Brandy agreeing with him btw) arguing that you need a centrepiece stadium for football and cricket but then mumbles it quickly oh but Suncorp is fine for Rugby League.

Honestly Brisbane need to pay the fine and get rid of it. Give it to Sydney or give Tokyo another go at it considering they didn’t get any tourism money for theirs.

 

[Diesel]

While Tasmania soared, Queensland cowered in the corner

It’s being called a shambles, the cheapest option.

www.sen.com.au

Without clicking on the link, I bet this is from Melbourne media with ties to afl.

I heard some Lions player, no doubt someone who is from Victoria and will move back after retirement, talking about how Brisbane needs an Olympic stadium but it was all about life after the Olympics. Vested interest from afl

 

[Captain Apollo]

Wonder if they do a Victoria

I doubt it. According to news reports on the radio, it would cost the Qld Government $500 million in compensation payments for breaking the contract with the IOC.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Yep. The IOC is not a two bit operation like the Commonwealth games.

 

[Wb1234]

I doubt it. According to news reports on the radio, it would cost the Qld Government $500 million in compensation payments for breaking the contract with the IOC.

If they keep it it’s not because they are worried about paying a 500 million break cost

 

[Canard]

While Tasmania soared, Queensland cowered in the corner

It’s being called a shambles, the cheapest option.

www.sen.com.au

Not quite the consensus opinion in the southern press

 

[Canard]

I doubt it. According to news reports on the radio, it would cost the Qld Government $500 million in compensation payments for breaking the contract with the IOC.

Honestly at this point in time Id take the $500M hit and run.

We all know those costs are going to blowout by 40 to 50% in today's marketplace.

I'd rather see more money invested in Lang Park and it brought up to a higher standard.

That article says they have already opted to go ahead with them though (people are just reading the headline)

 

[Steel Saints]

Without clicking on the link, I bet this is from Melbourne media with ties to afl.

I heard some Lions player, no doubt someone who is from Victoria and will move back after retirement, talking about how Brisbane needs an Olympic stadium but it was all about life after the Olympics. Vested interest from afl

Your first sentence is spot on. He has a go at the Qld Premier, while also praising the launch of Tasmania's fumbleball team. Even though after this week's Tassie state election, they could potentially have a hung parliament.

 

[jim_57]

I get that and you get that but you have people like Gould agreeing with them and that is what annoys me.

The whole premise being that if you don’t spend the most amount of money then it is somehow illegitimate. You even have that fumbleball douche on SEN (and Voss/Brandy agreeing with him btw) arguing that you need a centrepiece stadium for football and cricket but then mumbles it quickly oh but Suncorp is fine for Rugby League.

Honestly Brisbane need to pay the fine and get rid of it. Give it to Sydney or give Tokyo another go at it considering they didn’t get any tourism money for theirs.

Yeh it’s a shame. Since their push for Victoria park failed their next option is to run a media campaign against the new solution be the looks of it, unfortunately some RL guys are eating it up.

It’d be nice to see some public support for the Suncorp solution by RL, RU & Football Admin and Media.