Adelaide Oval - Discussion

brucetiki

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Given Sheffield Shield and State 50 over games are to be played at Brighton Oval, it is turning into a Footy ground with the occasional Test Match ODI and T20 match being played there.

Some Redbacks matches will be played at Glenelg Oval, not Brighton Oval (hence all the work being down at Glenelg Oval)
 

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Given Sheffield Shield and State 50 over games are to be played at Brighton Oval, it is turning into a Footy ground with the occasional Test Match ODI and T20 match being played there.

& the difference with the MCG is ... maybe the SACA kicks in for SA cricket v the MCC (aka the cricket club) gives to club members, for club members, at the expense of footy fans.
 

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Hasn't been posted here yet. This is the virtual tour of a completed Adelaide Oval. [YOUTUBE]VkIgk_tzA7k&feature=player_embedded[/YOUTUBE]
 

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I believe he's referring to the WACA scoreboard and that West Australians know what it's like to be one of the few remaining stadia with an old style cricket scoreboard.

The WACA scoreboard is brilliant.

It actually has so much more information than the MCG scoreboard.
 

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Up until I saw that, I was convinced that there'd be a spanner in the works and it wouldn't go ahead. Point of no return now and nice to see that one of the hundreds of artists impressions presented over the decades will actually become reality.

Vale the Bradman Stand, we hardly knew ye.
Bradman Stand was a spud stand anyway. Only thing it had going for it was who it was named after. Chappel stands weren't much better. They looked temporary (the middle stand actually was meant to be temporary, but in the last few years they just couldn't be stuffed taking it back down). Even though the stands weren't the best they somehow managed to create the picturesque look that Adelaide Oval had.
 

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Adelaide United weren't happy, charities not happy but 8,000 seats were given away to local sporting clubs for free.

and Adelaide United have every right not to be happy, that was a blatant soccer hate from the SACA.
 

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Conspiracy!!!

Looks much more like a short sighted decision, probably should have just donated all the seats to local clubs and there wouldn't have been a problem.
 

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Looking at those pics they are sure not wasting anytime!
 

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And if the project was pushed out by 3 months because of the extra time spent dismantling the seats, we'd have people up in arms because of unnecessary delays saving 'junk, crappy seats'.

Also, take no notice of Gerard - he's becoming another Clive Palmer, and was going to get Palmer to sponsor Adelaide United until the FFA stepped in.

The sails would have, at best, looked tacky at Hindmarsh anyway.
 

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Soccer hate? Are you fair dinkum?

If they were able to be easily moved and they wanted to piss soccer off, i'm sure they could have moved them to a SANFL venue.

I kinda regret saying it. I was in a bad mood and didn't really know all the facts.
 
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Some new pics and new renders from the sensational-adelaide website.

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This an old render of the re-development

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These are the latest renders

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Drove past the oval today for the first time in a couple of weeks. Quite surreal to see the amount of work already done and the ground currently a pile of rubble on the south and eastern sides with the Western stand becoming more prominent as a result.
 
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...at-adelaide-oval/story-e6freck3-1226333776041

So the seated capacity is 50,000, and with the additional 3,000 (or 4,500 depending on sources) standing room tickets, there's every chance that big games and finals will edge past 50,000.

Also, those images from sensational adelaide brought me immense joy. I had a read of that forum, and I really like the new idea to have the Eastern Stand's stairwells covered in vines. It'll look a bit rubbish during winter, but in summer it'll look amazing.

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I did the same thing just then.

Getting the lift down looked out the foyer window and I can see the actual oval, where before it was the Bradman Stand.

Last Monday it was there.


The Chappel Stands wont take long. Especially the middle "Trevor" stand. A strong gust of wind will see that down.
 
My desk looks out over the oval. I obviously hadn't paid much attention because when I looked out the window this morning my reaction was Holy s**t half the oval is gone!!

I didn't expect it to happen so fast!

Remember that the Western Stand redevelopment was held up by the need to retain the arches and parts of the old dressing room which were incorporated into the new design. None of those factors are in play with the new redevelopments, it's just rip 'em out and put 'em up.
 

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Any word on the stand names?

Surely Bradman, Ebert, Tredders, Jarman, Chappell, Modra, Macca, Wangas and Roo would be the shortlist

Are they going to name the currently unnamed stands as well?
 

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Any word on the stand names?

Surely Bradman, Ebert, Treadera, Jarman, Chappell, Modra, Macca, Wangas and Roo would be the shortlist

Are they going to name the currently unnamed stands as well?
I understand the old names will be returning to the western stands (Sir Edwin Smith, George Giffen, Mostyn Evan).
 
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I understand the old names will be returning to the western stands (Sir Edwin Smith, George Giffen, Mostyn Evan).

I strongly disagree with this. Those guys have been there for 100 years, time to give someone else a turn, someone more relevant to people living today. I'm an avid lover of history, but now these stands have been consigned to history, I think it's time for some new blood.
 
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