New Melbourne Stadium

[babyg]

Should have been a 40,000 seater

 

[Goddo]

and both aren't stadiums, but sh!t house ovals that should be bulldozed.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Why not AAMI Arena... or AAMI dome... or AAMI anything.... A park is where i take my dog

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Why not AAMI Arena... or AAMI dome... or AAMI anything.... A park is where i take my dog

Lang Park is where you take your dog? - Park is a common name for sporting grounds all over the world. It'd be boring if they were all called '- stadium'.

IT's not a dome and it's not an arena. AAMI Park is fine.

 

[Timmah]

It's called Suncorp Stadium, not Lang Park.

 

[The Tank]

AAMI Stadium sounds good, so does AAMI Arena... rolls off the tongue. AAMI Park... just like Skilled Park will take some getting used to... not that it matters much - sexy stadium for the Storm.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

It's called Suncorp Stadium, not Lang Park.

Go wash your mouth out with soap.

 

[Timmah]

It was called Lang Park when it was a dodgy old ground, it's been Suncorp ever since the renovation and partway before that too.

 

[MsStorm]

sexy stadium for the Storm.

I vote for this one -
Sexy Storm Stadium.

 

[Chook Norris]

I vote for this one -
Sexy Storm Stadium.

i second that

 

[The Tank]

I vote for this one -
Sexy Storm Stadium.

:lol: I love it! The new unofficial name of AAMI Park - the SSS.

 

[MsStorm]

:lol: I love it! The new unofficial name of AAMI Park - the SSS.

Imagine all the extra patrons we'll get with that name:lol:

 

[big_matt]

Its looking awesome. I go for physio in it at the new olympic park sports centre and the bubble gets better by the week. Cant wait to go to it!

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Just call it "the tea cup" and be done with it.

 

[Evenflow]

Should have been a 40,000 seater

Why? So there can be even more empty seats? This stadium will surely lift the Storms average attendance higher than it ever has been but even if they get a 20K ave which would be excellent, there'll still be more than 10K empty seats so why would you want nearly 10 more thousand on top of that?

The other major tennant the Victory had a highest season average a few years ago of 24,500 with an ave of 19,822 over their 5 years in existence so again there's no valid reason to have 40,000 seats. The Victory will move a couple games to Etihad against Sydney and Adelaide i think it is but even then they've struggled in the last couple of years to draw a crowd bigger than what the 31K new stadium will be.

Even come finals time if the Storm maybe need a few thousand more seats then that'd be even better because you'll be gauranteed they get a sell out which is only a good thing. The point is you wouldn't need 40k seats for well over 90% of the time so why have them in the first place?

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

Let's hope they don't feel the need to set ridiculous ticket prices to pay for it all. Looks great though.

 

[Brutus]

It was called Lang Park when it was a dodgy old ground, it's been Suncorp ever since the renovation and partway before that too.

If there wasn't a company putting the bucks in for naming rights it would still be called Lang Park.

A lot of people north of the border still refer to it as Lang Park.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

It was called Lang Park when it was a dodgy old ground, it's been Suncorp ever since the renovation and partway before that too.

I am aware of that. You weren't one of those people who called the Sheffield Shield the Pura Cup as soon as it became sponsored were you?

 

[Brutus]

Mt Smart Stadium (Ericsson Stadium), SFS (Aussie Stadium) and as Locky said Sheffield Shield (Pura Cup).

 

[Timmah]

I call whatever things are whatever they are, my gripe is when people called Skilled Park Skilled Stadium or AAMI Park AAMI Stadium - as both have other incarnations in other states.