The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

[Jamberoo]

$3.4b for a 55k stadium is highway robbery no matter which way you paint in. Again for context, it would be the second most expensive stadium ever built behind Sofi in LA without most of the bells and whistles that come with that stadium.

That huge spend then leaves Suncorp stadium, which hasn’t been touched for 30 years, in the lurch for quite a while as there would be no appetite for spending money on stadiums anytime soon after that. Suncorp is the main stadium in the city, the one that has sold out 9 times this year for Rugby League alone, soon to be 10.

I’m a big cricket fan myself but how often is cricket going to need those extra seats? Likewise AFL? Maybe a couple times a year if that. Some of the QSAC math is questionable for sure, but spending 2-3 stadiums worth of money on one that isn’t even that big and won’t ever be the city’s most used isn’t the answer either. For $3.4b Brisbane should be getting A LOT more than the Victoria Park “plan”.

Cricket and AFL don’t need many more seats at all, they will simply need a new stadium in 10 or so years. Just like Moore Park reached the end of its useful life so will the Gabba. Just make it 42k like the Gabba used to be. Forget this 55k+ nonsense. Make it less round, more oval like Adelaide, so it can be used for RL when Suncorp needs to be rebuilt in 10 - 15 years.

 

[Perth Red]

Just look at what London did for their 2012 stadium. They built a stadium on the cheap that was designed to be reduced in capacity after the games. Brisbane can do some thing similiar with QSAC.

London, like Brisbane, don’t have a need for a 70,000 seat oval.

London 2012 has been hailed as one of the greatest ever games.

London Olympic stadium had an 80k capacity!