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Confirmation of upgrades to Hindmarsh stadium costing $52mill.

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5 JUL 2021 11:08 AM AEST
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Work begins at Hindmarsh Stadium ahead of FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023​

Upgrades to Coopers Stadium have commenced in preparation for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023™. The South Australian State Government recently announced funding of $52 million to upgrade the stadium as part of the commitment to host games for one of the largest events on the planet.
Improvements that will be made include:

• Refurbishment of change rooms
• New shade covering on Eastern grandstand
• Full replacement of the pitch
• New arena lighting
• New media and corporate facilities
• Upgraded sound system
• Upgrade LED system
• New turnstiles
• New function space in Eastern grandstand
• Two new video replay screens

Work begins at Hindmarsh Stadium ahead of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Upgrades to Coopers Stadium have commenced in preparation for the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023™. The South Australian State Government recently

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Yep brilliant. It’ll be a fantastic ground after all this work… made for rectangular sport.

Just how to utilise it in the winter months…. Hmmm..

Cheers @Perth Red !

 

[MugaB]

Epic …

Cheers i tried to get that 1999 rams jersey look but add the original curves too, and also highlight a bit more gold trim.
And the alternative jersey give the gold a main showing, just like the alternative worn verse the knights in '98

 

[MugaB]

Yep brilliant. It’ll be a fantastic ground after all this work… made for rectangular sport.

Just how to utilise it in the winter months…. Hmmm..

Cheers @Perth Red !

Well BBJF has ignited the idea, Ive done the concept art, just need to get a rich bid backer to start pushing for the 18th licence there

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Well BBJF has ignited the idea, Ive done the concept art, just need to get a rich bid backer to start pushing for the 18th licence there

Just hope that “when” the Rams come back, NiB don’t sponsor them….

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Just hope that “when” the Rams come back, NiB don’t sponsor them….

Isn't there a company called Rams Home Loans?

 

[MugaB]

Isn't there a company called Rams Home Loans?

BBJFB has failed in his attempt of a jersey joke

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

BBJFB has failed in his attempt of a jersey joke

My sincere apologies I will try harder next time…

 

[titoelcolombiano]

It would make total sense for them to play out of a new Govt stadium in Liverpool with Bulldogs and Tigers.

Yeah agreed.

 

[MugaB]

My sincere apologies I will try harder next time…

No i got it straight away, you can't please everyone, and you can't dumb it down enough for all, otherwise you lose the quality, it seems the business savvy folk here forget all that

 

[MugaB]

Here's the plan people, the existing 16 franchises stay as is, and we flood the comp with 10 new teams

4 QLD teams =
*PNG/Cairns Pride
*Western Corridor Jets
*Sunshine State Dolphins
*Brisbane Firehawks
*Adelaide Rams resurrected
*Central Coast Bears (norths)
2 WA teams =
*Perth-Western Reds resurrected
*West Coast Pirates
2 NZ teams =
*South Pacific Halos
*Southern Orcas

Thats 26 teams, no need for conferences,
Just play everyone once a season, reverse home and away schedule the next season
For 25 rounds, less the squads to 25 players, and 6 million salary cap, and watch the players move to new teams to spread out for selfish high coin.
Add 2 teams every few years, one thats in a heartland, the other thats not, the heartland team will pay for entry, the expansion areas government will pay the bid amount for the other

2024


2026


2028


2030


2032


Doesn't have to every 2 years but something to that effect 3-4 years, main thing is there is a plan to put more teams in QLD, and 2 in Perth and 2 more in NZ

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

Here's the plan people, the existing 16 franchises stay as is, and we flood the comp with 10 new teams

4 QLD teams =
*PNG/Cairns Pride
*Western Corridor Jets
*Sunshine State Dolphins
*Brisbane Firehawks
*Adelaide Rams resurrected
*Central Coast Bears (norths)
2 WA teams =
*Perth-Western Reds resurrected
*West Coast Pirates
2 NZ teams =
*South Pacific Halos
*Southern Orcas

Thats 26 teams, no need for conferences,
Just play everyone once a season, reverse home and away schedule the next season
For 25 rounds, less the squads to 25 players, and 6 million salary cap, and watch the players move to new teams to spread out for selfish high coin.

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26 teams

Australia has approximately 26 million people.

Can we get a full squad of 35 players, with first grade capability…. For every 1million Australians…?

0.0035% of Australians playing for an NRL club!

But of course…. We’d have players from NZ (approx 5m), Pacific Islands (1m), PNG (9m)..

So amongst this population base… roughly 41 million people….

can we get 910 first grade NRL players…(35 x 26)

IE…0.00222% of these countries playing first grade Rugby League….

Why the devil not?

 

[MugaB]

26 teams

Australia has approximately 26 million people.

Can we get a full squad of 35 players, with first grade capability…. For every 1million Australians…?

0.0035% of Australians playing for an NRL club!

But of course…. We’d have players from NZ (approx 5m), Pacific Islands (1m), PNG (9m)..

So amongst this population base… roughly 41 million people….

can we get 910 first grade NRL players…(35 x 26)

IE…0.00222% of these countries playing first grade Rugby League….

Why the devil not?

I did say 25 per team at a 6mill cap, not the current 30 at 9mil cap, the point is not to have clubs overspend on your milfords or hunts, and teams like storm, manly and panthers (as examples) not hold onto too many million dollar players in one team. The talent would spread more evenly if the cap was a third lower.
Anyways its more about a mission statement and working towards it, probably something like this would be a 10-15 yer achievement if they started 2023, hopefully by 2035, we could be almost there.
Basically you want to be able to be present in every state, city, and region aswell as cover nz and include png in someway with wont involve too much logical issues regarding security and visas with png. Plus providing a local rivalry with the cowboys.

Also there has to be a buy in, the bid team with the best case, plus also buy in as a license, NRL will let in 2 teams each few years, this can pay for expansion, and hopefully create new content for the broadcasters, in the end having 26 teams will mean 13 games a week, time slots are important, but realistically having Monday night games aswell as Tuesday, Wednesday games can make that work too, it all depends what works better, either spreading out games during the week or cramming them on and around the weekend as we do now

 

[Perth Red]

I dont think you need to have every game in separate slots, especially if on streaming. End of day they care about subscribers not how many are watching every game. To maximise attendance I'd have one on Friday and all other games on Saturday and Sunday.

 

[MugaB]

I dont think you need to have every game in separate slots, especially if on streaming. End of day they care about subscribers not how many are watching every game. To maximise attendance I'd have one on Friday and all other games on Saturday and Sunday.

Or you can sell half to the free to air and the remaining to foxtel, like TGD pointed out before more live content for consumers to take in

 

[Perth Red]

Nah, they'd want them all in unique time slots which would destroy attendances even further.

 

[Bring back John Fifita]

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@Mods - these teams are the ones to put in the Subheading of this forum....

The Western Corridor Carpetburners can f*** right off...

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

I dont think you need to have every game in separate slots, especially if on streaming. End of day they care about subscribers not how many are watching every game. To maximise attendance I'd have one on Friday and all other games on Saturday and Sunday.

If we had 3 Brisbane teams then we could have a Brisbane vs Sydney game on a Thurs, Fri and Sun for most rounds.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Or you can sell half to the free to air and the remaining to foxtel, like TGD pointed out before more live content for consumers to take in

Won't happen until after 2027. Foxtel want all games to be played in a unique timeslot for ratings.

 

[Perth Red]

which makes no sense as their revenue is largely from subscribers not advertising so how many tune in to an individual game is largely irre3levant as long as all the games are attracting subscribers. There's no need for every game on Fox to be in its own timeslot, even less so when everyone's on KAYO, other than maybe production costs.

 

[toomuchsoup]

I watch every game, I’d hate if they started overlapping games like they do in AFL. But that’s just my opinion