Sydney Showgrounds (Spotless Stadium)
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Nope. And after 2017 itll be a rectangle.
So regardless we wont be able to, physically, play there.
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True, so finals will be played at the SCG in the future where the crowd is expected to exceed the Showgrounds capacity.
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Id say for derby finals and against the big 4 then yes.
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To add.
The push is to have the extra stand brought in on the cheap to bring it up to 33k.
If done then all finals played at Spotless.
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Jon Ralph reporting tonight on fox that GWS have today unveiled a plan to upgrade spotless to 30,000, following a similar model to Geelong in terms of upgrading it bit by bit, though a quick scan of the GWS website and a google news search suggests that there has been no such announcement. He also wrote the following on the HS website:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...s/news-story/a0a7c84571f6e7f5d3dd55ffd101ad63
The Giants will soon return to their Spotless Stadium home after several games at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
GWS chief executive David Matthews said the club was keen to increase its capacity from 25,000 to 30,000 in coming years.
The ground is also shared with the Western Sydney Wanderers while their oval is developed and used by BBL team Sydney Thunder.
“In a short space of time we are going to be needing to upgrade Spotless and get a bigger capacity there,’’ he said.
“It is 25,000 capacity and the next stage would go to 30,000. We have 2.2 million people in western Sydney and we are planning around the Geelong model.
“We are keeping an interest in how Geelong has added seasons to Simonds Stadium.”
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It will be interesting to see how soon this gets off the ground, and if they can actually get the funding given that the recent plan for funding stadiums from the (state?) government didn't include it.
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http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/a...s/news-story/a0a7c84571f6e7f5d3dd55ffd101ad63
The Giants will soon return to their Spotless Stadium home after several games at Canberra’s Manuka Oval.
GWS chief executive David Matthews said the club was keen to increase its capacity from 25,000 to 30,000 in coming years.
The ground is also shared with the Western Sydney Wanderers while their oval is developed and used by BBL team Sydney Thunder.
“In a short space of time we are going to be needing to upgrade Spotless and get a bigger capacity there,’’ he said.
“It is 25,000 capacity and the next stage would go to 30,000. We have 2.2 million people in western Sydney and we are planning around the Geelong model.
“We are keeping an interest in how Geelong has added seasons to Simonds Stadium.”
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It will be interesting to see how soon this gets off the ground, and if they can actually get the funding given that the recent plan for funding stadiums from the (state?) government didn't include it.
Interesting. Gauarantees a mostly full stadium to most games by slowly revamping but wouldn't it also be cheaper to just expand to 35,000?
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Do they have any of the "temporary" seats (over the dirt track) in use for BBL? Straight they'd be out to aid the length of the ground but what about at midwicket?
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They have some out. Some haven't been used so that the Thunder can set up a 'beach' on the boundary.
Sorry, when did GWS start filling their stadium enough to warrant more seats? I can understand why plans would be in place if lack of seats becomes an issue, but that's not even close to happening now.
More seats though means more empty seats for GWS. It just doesn't seem like the sort of thing they would want at this point in time. The final against West Coast was a tad embarrassing for that reason.
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GWS get more than most NRL games right?
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Some.
We have more members than most of the Sydney NRL teams and both ALeague teams.
We avg higher than a few.
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Suns games get more so haha..your team is just full of bandwagon so-called 'supporters'
That's not a very productive comment to the discussion and reflects poorly upon yourself. Think twice before posting in the future.
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At least the Giants have something to bandwagon on
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Actually, since I'm here and while we're on the topic, why are NRL crowds so poor. I don't feel like it's because of AFL but surely there's a reason.
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To be frank. Its a tv game.
That and Sydney stadiums and transport suck.
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As someone who grew up in perth and had no exposure to league at all during 80s and 90s (and even SoO was on after midnight back then), i really only started seeing the game in the last 10 years or so. And i think its a terrible tv game (better live at stadium).
League?? It's far better on telly than live!
I would say its a 2/10 live and 1/10 on tv.
AFL is 10/10 live and 8/10 on tv.
My personal view of course.
