The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[taipan]

Waitara?

Maybe we can demolish Barker.

Preferably with the Old Boys in it.

I would have preferred Knox Grammar ,with Bandana Head still there.

 

[TheRam]

This is where I want to see what V'lanys does for the game. They reckon he is strong on suburban grounds. What his priority should be is to get crowds and TV viewership up and peaking, thus ensuring the next TV deal is massive. The sure way to do that is to replicate Paradise Stadium in strategic areas.

The North Shore is a no brainer for the Sea Eagles. Probably somewhere in Chatswood, but must, must, must be on a train line or the crowds will never be consistently large. This goes for all Stadiums as a rule. The South is another for Saints and Cronulla to both play out of, and of course a roof covered Stadium in Canberra's CBD is a must. The Tigers and Panther, well not much can be done at this stage for them as to getting a totally brand new stadium of their own, so just a spruce up job is all I can see for these guys I'm afraid.

The Dogs and Bunnies will play out of ANZ when it is redesigned with the Bunnies probably also using the new Sydney Eastern Stadium.

Then add a 2nd team in Brisbane and the Perth Pirates and we are done for the 2020's. After that teams from Wellington, Christchurch, Adelaide and even Darwin/PNG might be a look in. Note: When offering Perth a team, he should negotiate hard with the WA Gov for a brand new 30-40K Stadium in a very people friendly district with all the amenities and puiblic(train) transport. He should be ruthless with his planing and negotiating. Perth CAN support two major football codes with both having great success IF the new kid on the block isn't seen as the poor unwanted toothless dirty step child hidden under the stairs cupboard when visitors come over.

We need to be seen as strong, exiting and a hell of a day out for an alternative to the all powerful and all consuming AFL in WA. That bodgie little stadium that is there now has Buckley's chance of getting to many people impressed enough to want to go over and slum it compared to that new jewel in the crown Stadium they have now for AFL. We are competing against the best experience money can buy over there in Perth and are coming very late to the party. When we finally do arrive we need to come in with an all mighty bang. First impressions are massive and we will only get one shot at it. We need to be seen as the new cool kid in town. Not the poor friendless loser that you wish would just go away. We need to be seen as a great new asset for the city and State. An experience that rivals any other anywhere.

So if he is as good as they say he is in negotiating with Governments, then the word "NO" should not be an option. We should expect him to go in seeking funds for one stadium and coming out with three so to speak.

If he prioritises Leichhardt oval and gets funding to spruce it up somewhat, for mine he is majoring in the minors and it is a F on his score card. He need to think big and go HUGE. The time for myopic dreams is well and truly over. The AFL wolf is at the door with this in hand...

 

[Perth Red]

Perth a team, he should negotiate hard with the WA Gov for a brand new 30-40K Stadium in a very people friendly district with all the amenities and puiblic(train) transport. He should be ruthless with his planing and negotiating. Perth CAN support two major football codes with both having great success IF the new kid on the block isn't seen as the poor unwanted toothless dirty step child hidden under the stairs cupboard when visitors come over.



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Having spent $125mill on HBF park just a few years ago they wont build a new one, a real shame and short sightedness by the Govt of the day as with all the transport and entertainment infrastructure they put in to Burswood for Optus stadium a new rectangular one next door would have made a lot more sense.

I think the best we can hope for is another $150mill or so spending on HBF to put a roof on the south stand (was designed for it) and a brand new western main stand with new corporate facilities and around 6000 seats. That would take capacity up to around 26k which will do us for quite a while.

 

[herbert henry1908]

If you built a stadium at Chatswood it’d have to be a couple of KM’s from the main drag.

Beauchamp Park has a lot of space, but you’d still face a huge fight. Chatswoods population has exploded, green space at a premium.

 

[t-ba]

Seriously, Chatswood is not on.

The only place with decent infrastructure and sufficient space on the Lower North Shore with decent links to the Northern Beaches is St Leonards Park.

Gore Hill Oval is roomy enough but I can't imagine the major hospital next door and the heritage listed cemetary right beside it would help.

 

[herbert henry1908]

The new metro station is very close to St Leonard’s Park.

 

[siv]

If you built a stadium at Chatswood it’d have to be a couple of KM’s from the main drag.

Beauchamp Park has a lot of space, but you’d still face a huge fight. Chatswoods population has exploded, green space at a premium.


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Put it on top of the shopping centre

Immediate multistory car parking

 

[Suitman]

Chatswood or anywhere on the North Shore will never happen.
It's a waste of space even discussing it.

 

[magpie_man]

Well, whilst we're all pipe-dreaming here:
Manly Oval?

 

[magpie_man]

So this time it must be a case of (can I use the old phrase)"Cracking a Barr."Or must I continuously have to think of the children?

You've raised the Barr old mate.
Seriously though, Barr can fawn over the AFL all he likes, the drums will be beating louder than an Icelandic clap if the Raiders continue their trajectory, it'll be impossible for him to ignore.

 

[Suitman]

Well, whilst we're all pipe-dreaming here:
Manly Oval?

Perfect location but absolutely limited by available space. Would be lucky to get a 10 k sized stadium in there, although that would probably be enough for Manly.

 

[League Unlimited News]

NSW minister’s bid for football stadium shift

• EXCLUSIVE
  ANDREW CLENNELL
  NSW POLITICAL EDITOR
  @aclennell
• 12:00AM SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

NSW Tourism and Investment Minister Stuart Ayres has been lobbying ministerial colleagues to ditch the government’s $810m plan to revamp Sydney’s ANZ Stadium — the plan he and Premier Gladys Berejiklian took to the March state election — in favour of building a new stadium in his seat of Penrith.

The Australian has established from several sources that Mr Ayres, who was taken out of the sport portfolio by Ms Berejiklian after the March state election, has lobbied fellow ministers and NRL figures in a bid to attempt to kill the proposed $810m redevelopment.

Mr Ayres, who has always been close to the trustees on the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, including 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones, helped shepherd through the ongoing, controversial $729m knockdown and rebuild of Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney’s east. Sydney Football Stadium is managed by the SCG Trust.

The NRL has threatened to take the grand final out of Sydney if ANZ Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush is not rebuilt as a rectangular stadium, as the government plans.

Despite Mr Ayres’ efforts The Australian understands current Sports Minister John Sidoti, who has recently stood aside pending an ICAC investigation, got the business case for the ANZ rebuild through the government’s expenditure review committee.

Mr Ayres, who has long spoken about the need for a new outer western Sydney stadium, declined to comment yesterday.

Several sources have told The Australian Mr Ayres, who is the member for Penrith, a seat he won by 1100 votes, has been lobbying to divert the ANZ funds to Penrith. The government, as part of a $2bn stadium spending program, has spent $360m building the new Bankwest stadium at Parramatta, which has regularly been filled this year. Acting Sports Minister Geoff Lee said: “There has been no change to the government’s stadium policy.”

The Australian revealed yesterday Mr Ayres granted a $350,000 low-interest loan to his local hockey association two weeks out from the caretaker period at the March election — and wrote to his successor in June asking him to write off the loan.

The loan, made in the final days of Mr Ayres’s tenure as the state’s sports minister, followed a $600,000 grant Mr Ayres made to the same Nepean Hockey Association two years earlier.

The Australian also revealed there were warnings from the state’s bureaucracy about a “reputational risk” to the government caused by a $12m grant the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club received for a community and sports centre while Mr Ayres was sports minister.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...t/news-story/31111d317c9a6a4dcbbca268b87e62fc

 

[Wily Ole Dog]

The problem with a new stadium at Penrith is that it will only service 1 team. A team that doesn’t draw well as it is

 

[herbert henry1908]

NSW minister’s bid for football stadium shift

• EXCLUSIVE
  ANDREW CLENNELL
  NSW POLITICAL EDITOR
  @aclennell
• 12:00AM SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

NSW Tourism and Investment Minister Stuart Ayres has been lobbying ministerial colleagues to ditch the government’s $810m plan to revamp Sydney’s ANZ Stadium — the plan he and Premier Gladys Berejiklian took to the March state election — in favour of building a new stadium in his seat of Penrith.

The Australian has established from several sources that Mr Ayres, who was taken out of the sport portfolio by Ms Berejiklian after the March state election, has lobbied fellow ministers and NRL figures in a bid to attempt to kill the proposed $810m redevelopment.

Mr Ayres, who has always been close to the trustees on the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, including 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones, helped shepherd through the ongoing, controversial $729m knockdown and rebuild of Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney’s east. Sydney Football Stadium is managed by the SCG Trust.

The NRL has threatened to take the grand final out of Sydney if ANZ Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush is not rebuilt as a rectangular stadium, as the government plans.

Despite Mr Ayres’ efforts The Australian understands current Sports Minister John Sidoti, who has recently stood aside pending an ICAC investigation, got the business case for the ANZ rebuild through the government’s expenditure review committee.

Mr Ayres, who has long spoken about the need for a new outer western Sydney stadium, declined to comment yesterday.

Several sources have told The Australian Mr Ayres, who is the member for Penrith, a seat he won by 1100 votes, has been lobbying to divert the ANZ funds to Penrith. The government, as part of a $2bn stadium spending program, has spent $360m building the new Bankwest stadium at Parramatta, which has regularly been filled this year. Acting Sports Minister Geoff Lee said: “There has been no change to the government’s stadium policy.”

The Australian revealed yesterday Mr Ayres granted a $350,000 low-interest loan to his local hockey association two weeks out from the caretaker period at the March election — and wrote to his successor in June asking him to write off the loan.

The loan, made in the final days of Mr Ayres’s tenure as the state’s sports minister, followed a $600,000 grant Mr Ayres made to the same Nepean Hockey Association two years earlier.

The Australian also revealed there were warnings from the state’s bureaucracy about a “reputational risk” to the government caused by a $12m grant the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club received for a community and sports centre while Mr Ayres was sports minister.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...t/news-story/31111d317c9a6a4dcbbca268b87e62fc

As a Panthers fan I’d love a new stadium in Penrith, but this is an utterly absurd plan. It further entrenches the idea that Ayers is too close to those at the SCG trust as well.

Ayres has been complete poison throughout this whole process.

 

[GAZF]

As a Panthers fan I’d love a new stadium in Penrith, but this is an utterly absurd plan. It further entrenches the idea that Ayers is too close to those at the SCG trust as well.

Ayres has been complete poison throughout this whole process.

It is absurd. But I reckon he's lobbying in the hopes of getting a new stadium in Penrith in addition to ANZ being redeveloped. By taking this stance, a 20 000 seater in Penrith comes off as a "compromise".

 

[carcharias]

Shark park new leagues club etc



Eastern side beer garden and Peter burns stand.
Not sure what the blue stuff beneath the beer garden is but it looks like a corporate area like the current one at the top of the PB stand.
Outdoor balcony thing.

 

[Burns]

Must admit to not following too closely, so what’s happening with Shark Park? Are they completely redoing one side of the ground that adjoins to the Leagues Club? Will the capacity increase?

 

[carcharias]

Must admit to not following too closely, so what’s happening with Shark Park? Are they completely redoing one side of the ground that adjoins to the Leagues Club? Will the capacity increase?

They are doing the other side as well
SW corner will join from ET stand to the Southern stand with more Corp boxes and stuff.
I doubt capacity will increase.

One Day maybe.

This has taken 53 years.

 

[no name]

NSW minister’s bid for football stadium shift

• EXCLUSIVE
  ANDREW CLENNELL
  NSW POLITICAL EDITOR
  @aclennell
• 12:00AM SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

NSW Tourism and Investment Minister Stuart Ayres has been lobbying ministerial colleagues to ditch the government’s $810m plan to revamp Sydney’s ANZ Stadium — the plan he and Premier Gladys Berejiklian took to the March state election — in favour of building a new stadium in his seat of Penrith.

The Australian has established from several sources that Mr Ayres, who was taken out of the sport portfolio by Ms Berejiklian after the March state election, has lobbied fellow ministers and NRL figures in a bid to attempt to kill the proposed $810m redevelopment.

Mr Ayres, who has always been close to the trustees on the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust, including 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones, helped shepherd through the ongoing, controversial $729m knockdown and rebuild of Sydney Football Stadium in Sydney’s east. Sydney Football Stadium is managed by the SCG Trust.

The NRL has threatened to take the grand final out of Sydney if ANZ Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush is not rebuilt as a rectangular stadium, as the government plans.

Despite Mr Ayres’ efforts The Australian understands current Sports Minister John Sidoti, who has recently stood aside pending an ICAC investigation, got the business case for the ANZ rebuild through the government’s expenditure review committee.

Mr Ayres, who has long spoken about the need for a new outer western Sydney stadium, declined to comment yesterday.

Several sources have told The Australian Mr Ayres, who is the member for Penrith, a seat he won by 1100 votes, has been lobbying to divert the ANZ funds to Penrith. The government, as part of a $2bn stadium spending program, has spent $360m building the new Bankwest stadium at Parramatta, which has regularly been filled this year. Acting Sports Minister Geoff Lee said: “There has been no change to the government’s stadium policy.”

The Australian revealed yesterday Mr Ayres granted a $350,000 low-interest loan to his local hockey association two weeks out from the caretaker period at the March election — and wrote to his successor in June asking him to write off the loan.

The loan, made in the final days of Mr Ayres’s tenure as the state’s sports minister, followed a $600,000 grant Mr Ayres made to the same Nepean Hockey Association two years earlier.

The Australian also revealed there were warnings from the state’s bureaucracy about a “reputational risk” to the government caused by a $12m grant the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club received for a community and sports centre while Mr Ayres was sports minister.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/na...t/news-story/31111d317c9a6a4dcbbca268b87e62fc

Lol, one complete f**k up to the next.

I wish the NRL had the balls to tell this government to f**k off.

 

[Quicksilver]

Glad they urgently knocked the old SFS down.