Advertising revenue would be my guess. The sight-screens are prime advertising space, they become massive billboards every alternate over.
I guess that's why they are so heavy and need an electric motor to shift them on their tracks.
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Advertising revenue would be my guess. The sight-screens are prime advertising space, they become massive billboards every alternate over.
I guess that's why they are so heavy and need an electric motor to shift them on their tracks.
hitthepost
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Adelaide Oval still use the advertising screens as required by CA or whoever is running the match. They just don't need to be moved. The only risk is then if the software fails or some looser walks in front of it. If it breaks down they can just cover it with a white sheet until it's fixed.
Michael Thompson on 6PR this morning said that the WAFC's move to the WACA is almost a done deal. A WAFL club will also move into the WACA, probably East Perth, and there will be regular night matches at the WACA.
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First they need to make the ground longer, its not even 150 metres so they cant play until that is done
Barnett has said the Government will give the WACA money to expand and upgrade the ground if the WAFC move in and they need to make the ground longer.
Barnett's not going to be around much longer
But the Liberals will be.
Sounds good.
Isn't the minimum length of a ground for WAFL/AFL 130m? It'd have that covered. Obviously it will need some reworking, but for WAFL it wouldn't need all that much.
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I'm predicting a hung parliament
The Nationals aren't going to flip sides, they'll return a Liberal/National Government if it is.
hitthepost
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I don't think you can have a ground less than 150m goal-to-goal if you're playing any level above about under 14's.
AFL and state-leagues play on full-length fields, as do the respective state underage comps.
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Labor has said they won't do a deal with the nats........so I guess you are right
Well that's pretty silly of them.
Steve Smith might have different ideas
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Not really. They need people to vote Labor. Coalition's been back together for 8 years, Nationals won't be flipping.
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His ideas mean sh!t
What year were those concrete light towers put it at the WACA?
I still cant believe the West Coast and Freo played AFL footy there.. it wouldn't have fit more than 30K in there back then? and the eagles even hosted the 94 prelim there!
I still cant believe the West Coast and Freo played AFL footy there.. it wouldn't have fit more than 30K in there back then? and the eagles even hosted the 94 prelim there!
The light towers were put in 1986 I think.
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Subi didn't fit much more back in the day. It was only the redevelopment for the Olympic soccer in the late 90's that got the attendance up to 42k today.
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Subi fitted over 50 000 people for the WAFL grand finals in the 1970s
Top 10 Attendences of Subiaco oval. The next 30 odd are all WAFL as well.
1 55,000 U2 360° 18 December 2010
2 52,781 WAFL Grand Final 22 September 1979
3 52,322 WAFL Grand Final 27 September 1975
4 51,385 WAFL Grand Final 27 September 1969
5 50,975 WAFL Grand Final 2 October 1971
6 50,883 WAFL Grand Final 18 September 1982
7 50,517 WAFL Grand Final 3 October 1981
8 48,247 AC/DC concert 6 March 2010
9 47,760 WAFL Grand Final 17 September 1983
10 46,885 WAFL Grand Final 29 September 1973
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Most of those crowds (bar the concerts) would've been before the days where there was less concern for spectator safety (noting they once got 65k into Footy Park for a Grand Final where people were sitting on the boundary line and on the time clock).
