hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
Card-only is the way of the future.
Adelaide Oval - Discussion
- Thread starter Red Crow
- Start date
- Tagged users None
- Moderator
- #3,802
At the time the SMA was formed, I thought it was great that football/cricket people would be running the oval and not some professional venue management group (ala Optus Stadium, Docklands until a few years ago etc), so we wouldn't have the issues the Docklands tenants had.
For the SMA to be that incompetent that they make professional venue management groups look good really says something.
Mind you, look at who's running the SMA.
Be careful what you wish for.
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
How can Cannel 7 not know that the southern end of AO is the RIVER END, not the "City End"? Only been that way forever.
- Moderator
- #3,805
Looks like the Strikers have adopted the strip scoreboard that’s been used for the internationals this season, albeit just the one on level 4 of the Wanganeen Stand.
Dirty Bird
Pokémon Master
I thought it was the city end until the development?
Only been the last 5 years they started calling it the river end?
But let me guess, they also ****ed up cathedral end?
- Sep 21, 2004
- 36,993
- 25,771
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
Just build it. Allow visiting teams to stay there. I dont think it looks that bad really.
After a few weeks no one would know its a hotel. Just the outside of the ground.
After a few weeks no one would know its a hotel. Just the outside of the ground.
- Moderator
- #3,808
Always been the River End. The old Chappel Stands even had the kiosks at either end named the Cathedral (southern end) and River (northern end).
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
Hill/Scoreboard End and City/Riberbank Stand End I hear sometimes and it shits me.
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
Nope it's always been the River End. Back in the old days of just the centre members' pavillion and until they built the Creswell Stand at the southern end you would have been able to see the banks from the ground and if you got it right you could lose the ball into the drink.
RussellEbertHandball
Flick pass expert
Pre the redevelopment it was always referred to as either the River Torrens End, or River End for short.
The Riverbank Stand was supposed to be named the Torrens Stand and they actually put up some plaques/ billboards or whatever you call them, with the words Torrens Stand up at AO about 3 or 4 weeks before the Dec 2013 test against the Poms, but 2 weeks before the test the government named it the Riverbank Stand as they had plans to redevelop the whole of the southern end of the River Torrens from Festival Plaza to the Morphett St. They wanted to promote the Riverbank precinct like South Bank in Brisbane and Southbank in Melbourne. Once the change happened, they covered up those plaques/ billboards. They didnt actually put up the lettering on the stand until February 2014.
The Riverbank Stand was supposed to be named the Torrens Stand and they actually put up some plaques/ billboards or whatever you call them, with the words Torrens Stand up at AO about 3 or 4 weeks before the Dec 2013 test against the Poms, but 2 weeks before the test the government named it the Riverbank Stand as they had plans to redevelop the whole of the southern end of the River Torrens from Festival Plaza to the Morphett St. They wanted to promote the Riverbank precinct like South Bank in Brisbane and Southbank in Melbourne. Once the change happened, they covered up those plaques/ billboards. They didnt actually put up the lettering on the stand until February 2014.
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
Still disappoints me that the team names on the scoreboard aren't in team colours like for international/state cricket. Would be good to have them up the top but even where they are - use some colour!
- Moderator
- #3,813
McArthur Recruitment, who provide staff for Ticketek at the ground, directed staff to tell indigenous people a game was sold out when it really wasn’t.
The incident took place during a curtain raiser between two indigenous teams.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...ff-discrimination-claims/10948084?pfmredir=sm
The incident took place during a curtain raiser between two indigenous teams.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...ff-discrimination-claims/10948084?pfmredir=sm
Disgraceful.
Responsible person merely stood down for two weeks. They should be sacked, named and shamed.
To turn away patrons based on the colour of their skin is horid.
Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
Softening us up, flying the kite, for the inevitable 'trees are dead sorry - oh well they're gone now so we may as well build another stand here'
Tandy
Norm Smith Medallist
Bye bye figs
- Sep 21, 2004
- 36,993
- 25,771
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
Yep. Give it 5 years. Figs n scoreboard gone. Dome look completed.
On SM-G925I using BigFooty.com mobile app
On SM-G925I using BigFooty.com mobile app
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
Scoreboard won't die from lack of rain tho.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 36,993
- 25,771
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
That's a bit hard when it's heritage listed. So unless it gets irreparably damaged it's not going anywhere.
If the trees die it will not be from lack of trying to save them, but trees die sometimes.
Maybe a dying tree falls onto the scoreboard?
Or... as the scoreboard has already been moved... maybe it can be incorporated somehow into a new stand, or between stands ect?
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
When was it moved?
- Sep 21, 2004
- 36,993
- 25,771
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
Theres no rule saying it cant be inside the new stand.
Almost like a museum.
On SM-G925I using BigFooty.com mobile app
Almost like a museum.
On SM-G925I using BigFooty.com mobile app
hitthepost
Norm Smith Medallist
So long as it can still be used in matches.
- Sep 21, 2004
- 36,993
- 25,771
- AFL Club
- West Coast
- Other Teams
- Norwood & Liverpool.
