Will the new rectangle Stadium in Melbourne be the best league venue?

[LESStar58]

The new 31,000 seat stadium in Melbourne should be the best league stadium in the country. I'm a Queenslander and I hate to say but I think it will be better then Skilled Park and Suncorp Stadium.

I will soon find out when I'm down there for the test.

Let's see how it matches those two when we finally get people in there! The Test is going to be insane and the Broncos game will be packed! Cannot wait for May 7-9

 

[TheRam]

Anyone have update photos...anyone anyone?

 

[rabs]

It'll have to be pretty damn good to better Suncorp but either way it's exciting and definitely looking forward to going there

 

[kia ora storm]

No. It will never be any good because it will be filled with victorians.

Come down and visit..nothing like getting owned by the Storm in luxury and comfort.

 

[Lambretta]

I think this new stadium will be brilliant and will instantly join Suncorp, the SFS and Skilled Park as one of the best stadiums in Australia to watch Rugby League at.

Newcastles ground will be hot on it's heels when that's completed too.


This thread has raised a couple of salient points (ignoring the purile Victorian baiting - yes DKoR amusing as you were, that means you too) about the quality of stadiums in Australia.

The only stadiums I see as being in the "embarrassing" category are Shark Park (horrible place to watch Rugby League if you have general admission pass and dont pay for the premium seating and Brookvale. Which is awkward to get to. Terrible to get food or toilet facilities and which has virtually no covered seating. I'm sorry, but plonking yourself on that grass embankment in the wet if bloody awful.

Leichhardt is also a dump, but the Tigers rarely use it and when they do it's so packed the atmosphere makes up for the lack of amenities as long as you dont want to drink anything or go to the toilet or sit and getting blinded and sunburnt or soaking wet is your thing.

Penrith and WIN are in need of updating but they have potential and Jubilee has been improved out of sight from the sh*thole it was in the late 90's.

In short, the quality of the stadiums is being improved and is better than it was 10 years ago. more improvement needed, but things appear to be heading in the right direction.

 

[big_matt]

I think this new stadium will be brilliant and will instantly join Suncorp, the SFS and Skilled Park as one of the best stadiums in Australia to watch Rugby League at.

Newcastles ground will be hot on it's heels when that's completed too.


This thread has raised a couple of salient points (ignoring the purile Victorian baiting - yes DKoR amusing as you were, that means you too) about the quality of stadiums in Australia.

The only stadiums I see as being in the "embarrassing" category are Shark Park (horrible place to watch Rugby League if you have general admission pass and dont pay for the premium seating and Brookvale. Which is awkward to get to. Terrible to get food or toilet facilities and which has virtually no covered seating. I'm sorry, but plonking yourself on that grass embankment in the wet if bloody awful.

Leichhardt is also a dump, but the Tigers rarely use it and when they do it's so packed the atmosphere makes up for the lack of amenities as long as you dont want to drink anything or go to the toilet or sit and getting blinded and sunburnt or soaking wet is your thing.

Penrith and WIN are in need of updating but they have potential and Jubilee has been improved out of sight from the sh*thole it was in the late 90's.

In short, the quality of the stadiums is being improved and is better than it was 10 years ago. more improvement needed, but things appear to be heading in the right direction.

Good post.

I think these new stadia should bring a new audience to the game as well which should boost crowd numbers. Try getting a family who have never seen rugby league to stand on the gravel behind the posts in the pouring rain at the graveyard. However try having them seated in the new stadium in comfort with good entertainment and facilites etc and they may well come back again.

 

[Mr Angry]

The answer is no.

 

[Goddo]

Well, I don't know if it is or isn't till I see a game there. But the swamp is well and truely the worst in the game. I know the Sharks are proud of owning their own ground, but it is a dump.

 

[Evenflow]

The answer is no.

Serious question, why? Because it's not as big as Suncorp? If you've sat right up the top of Suncorp it's not such a bad thing the new stadium holds 31,500. Much less sh*t seats.

 

[Perth Red]

Has a very good chance I'd say. Size isn't everything! Can;t wait to see it at the first game.

 

[bobmar28]

No. It will never be any good because it will be filled with victorians.

That will be good news if they are there to watch the Storm play.

 

[Loudstrat]

Hope they have the cardboard cutouts ready. Still wondering how many Storm fans turn up to the new Union side by mistake because they dunno the meaning of the word "Rugby".

If the Storm eclipse soccer crowds on that field I'd be impressed.

 

[big_matt]

Hope they have the cardboard cutouts ready. Still wondering how many Storm fans turn up to the new Union side by mistake because they dunno the meaning of the word "Rugby".

If the Storm eclipse soccer crowds on that field I'd be impressed.[/QUOTE]

So would I but it's unlikely, and that's because soccer is much bigger than league in Victoria. The Victory can on occasion sell out etihad stadium and the storm are nowhere near that support yet. The immediate goal shouldn't be to get bigger crowds than the victory, it should just be to get significantly bigger crowds than at the graveyard.

 

[1999]

no club in the nrl sells out games loudstrat, your anti melbourne propaganda is wearing thin maggot.

 

[adamkungl]

I think this new stadium will be brilliant and will instantly join Suncorp, the SFS and Skilled Park as one of the best stadiums in Australia to watch Rugby League at.

Newcastles ground will be hot on it's heels when that's completed too.


This thread has raised a couple of salient points (ignoring the purile Victorian baiting - yes DKoR amusing as you were, that means you too) about the quality of stadiums in Australia.

The only stadiums I see as being in the "embarrassing" category are Shark Park (horrible place to watch Rugby League if you have general admission pass and dont pay for the premium seating and Brookvale. Which is awkward to get to. Terrible to get food or toilet facilities and which has virtually no covered seating. I'm sorry, but plonking yourself on that grass embankment in the wet if bloody awful.

Leichhardt is also a dump, but the Tigers rarely use it and when they do it's so packed the atmosphere makes up for the lack of amenities as long as you dont want to drink anything or go to the toilet or sit and getting blinded and sunburnt or soaking wet is your thing.

Penrith and WIN are in need of updating but they have potential and Jubilee has been improved out of sight from the sh*thole it was in the late 90's.

In short, the quality of the stadiums is being improved and is better than it was 10 years ago. more improvement needed, but things appear to be heading in the right direction.

Lies. there's nowhere I'd rather drink than Leichardt! You can actually get beer in cans rather than f**king plastic cups. Hey, its not bottles but it beats the sh*te any decent stadium has.

 

[parra-matters]

i have photo of the outside i took a few weeks back somewhere i'll try and find it, still have a lot of work to do before it's ready.

 

[miccle]

I think comparing between the stadiums in our comp, particularly with the wide variety of capacity sizes, is somewhat pointless really. I can't see how/why we should be labelling one or the other "the best" here - the most important thing by far is that the new Vic stadium will sh*t alllll over Olympic Park from a great height and will be a first class facility for a very much first class team.

Hope they get it cranked full of people each fortnight & I'm honestly confident that it will help the Storm crack into the top five or six in crowd averages over the coming years...

 

[Lambretta]

Lies. there's nowhere I'd rather drink than Leichardt! You can actually get beer in cans rather than f**king plastic cups. Hey, its not bottles but it beats the sh*te any decent stadium has.

I'd rather drink in the comfort of the Lord Dudley by the fire in winter watching the Tigers on television and supping my beer from cool schooner glasses than sit on the grass hill at Leichhardt getting shat on by the elements. But if you feel the need to drink out of cans (which marks you as a wannabe Westie) whilst getting grass stains on your shorts, then you go right ahead mate

Nah, honestly, I get the whole Leichhardt hill thing. I just think it belongs in a different era. Having spent time sitting in comfortable seats at Stadium:MK in a purpose built rectangle stadium with an excellent view for everyone and plenty of facilities for the viewing public, including easily accessible clean toilets, I know which sort of stadium I'd rather watch football at.

Australia needs more stadiums like the one in my home town. The idea of building a stadium you can add to for future growth, where everyone has a brilliant view of the action is one we should adopt here.

The stadium was built during the UK building boom at a cost of 50 million pounds. That's about $100million at a time of high building costs in the UK.

The clever thing is that whilst it's been built with 22,000 seats there atm, there is space to add another 10,000 seats on another unfilled tier and the roof can be removed and another 13,000 seats added to an additional floor at a fraction of the original building cost (as much of that cost goes in aquiring land and digging foundations etc). So the stadium can potentially be 45,000 if needed.

Give Sydney two of these for the NRL and we'd be in a brilliant position stadiums wise. One in Blacktown for sharing between Parra and Penrith and one at Homebush for the Dogs and Souths to use.

So does anyone have a quiet $200,000 knocking around?

 

[adamkungl]

I'd rather drink in the comfort of the Lord Dudley by the fire in winter watching the Tigers on television and supping my beer from cool schooner glasses than sit on the grass hill at Leichhardt getting shat on by the elements. But if you feel the need to drink out of cans (which marks you as a wannabe Westie) whilst getting grass stains on your shorts, then you go right ahead mate

:lol: lived out west for 20 years. If anything, I'm a wannabe Eastie!

But seriously. Cans > watered down overpriced sh*te in plastic cups.

 

[Perth Red]

Hope the Storms haven't caused any damage or set the building works back.