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Wanderers CEO wants safe standing at new stadium, must be a ‘home’ ground
By Joel Fruci - December 8, 2016 0
Western Sydney Wanderers CEO John Tsatsimas want the new Western Sydney stadium to include safe standing for the club’s boisterous supporters.
The design of the state-of-the-art $300 million venue was revealed on Thursday and is set to feature the steepest grandstands in Australia, with a capacity of 30,000.
The Wanderers would share the venue with other tenants of the old Parramatta Stadium, including NRL club Parramatta Eels.
Despite the multi-code aspect to the venue, Tsatsamis is eager to see safe standing installed and the venue and does not believe it will provide a sticking point in the stadium’s development.
“We would hope that it (safe standing) would be integrated,” Tsatsamis said.
“Then it would be an exciting proposition should it come across.
“I’m not privvy to it being a sticking point at all. The discussions that we’ve had with the government have been nothing short of outstanding.
“We will work with all tenants in the space to make sure the stadium is one that is useful for everybody in Western Sydney, but we need to have it cater for Western Sydney football fans and fans of Western Sydney Wanderers.
“Whether it’s integrated in the plan at all is yet to be confirmed.”
Tsatsamis added that the Wanderers expect the venue to replicate the “core ingredients” of fan experience the club was able to showcase at its former home.
“A foundation argument from us has to be that it needs to replicate, to a significant degree, what was formerly at Parramatta Stadium,” he said.
“I have no doubt that the new Western Sydney Stadium will do that.
“We hope that … things are core ingredients to the Wanderers experience from 2012 are translated into what will be something that’s in existence in 2019.
“We will support anything that advocates football, sport in general … we don’t say it’s a Western Sydney Wanderers ground … but the Western Sydney Wanderers are prime tenants and we want to be adequately represented at the ground.”
Western Sydney will move into their new home in 2019.
http://outside90.com/wanderers-ceo-eager-to-see-safe-standing-at-new-stadium-244/
Wanderers CEO wants safe standing at new stadium, must be a ‘home’ ground
By Joel Fruci - December 8, 2016 0
Western Sydney Wanderers CEO John Tsatsimas want the new Western Sydney stadium to include safe standing for the club’s boisterous supporters.
The design of the state-of-the-art $300 million venue was revealed on Thursday and is set to feature the steepest grandstands in Australia, with a capacity of 30,000.
The Wanderers would share the venue with other tenants of the old Parramatta Stadium, including NRL club Parramatta Eels.
Despite the multi-code aspect to the venue, Tsatsamis is eager to see safe standing installed and the venue and does not believe it will provide a sticking point in the stadium’s development.
“We would hope that it (safe standing) would be integrated,” Tsatsamis said.
“Then it would be an exciting proposition should it come across.
“I’m not privvy to it being a sticking point at all. The discussions that we’ve had with the government have been nothing short of outstanding.
“We will work with all tenants in the space to make sure the stadium is one that is useful for everybody in Western Sydney, but we need to have it cater for Western Sydney football fans and fans of Western Sydney Wanderers.
“Whether it’s integrated in the plan at all is yet to be confirmed.”
Tsatsamis added that the Wanderers expect the venue to replicate the “core ingredients” of fan experience the club was able to showcase at its former home.
“A foundation argument from us has to be that it needs to replicate, to a significant degree, what was formerly at Parramatta Stadium,” he said.
“I have no doubt that the new Western Sydney Stadium will do that.
“We hope that … things are core ingredients to the Wanderers experience from 2012 are translated into what will be something that’s in existence in 2019.
“We will support anything that advocates football, sport in general … we don’t say it’s a Western Sydney Wanderers ground … but the Western Sydney Wanderers are prime tenants and we want to be adequately represented at the ground.”
Western Sydney will move into their new home in 2019.
http://outside90.com/wanderers-ceo-eager-to-see-safe-standing-at-new-stadium-244/
