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Proposed new Darwin stadium
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$300m is a lot to pay for 2 AFL games per year. Unless they're hoping to pick up the matches that Tassie drops if/when they get their own team?
FWIW Option 1 from the OP would be my choice.
FWIW Option 1 from the OP would be my choice.
Dying to see the Business Case on this one.
Probably like the stadium in Perth, 22 AFL games alone do not make it viable.
Tourism is a good excuse ...
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Not worth it for just 1 game a year. Maybe could help them with an expansion team. Add Tasmania Devils (7 games Hobart, 4 Launceston) and the Northern Crocodiles (7 games Darwin, 4 in Cairns)
Option 1 looks mint but building this type of stadium for cyclonic conditions would put the costs through the roof ... literally!
Building anything in the North of Australia has to be massively over engineered to cater for the weather up there.
Building anything in the North of Australia has to be massively over engineered to cater for the weather up there.
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Considering option 2 looks like someone's tried to set a tent up over the stadium but half of it was missing, option 1 it is.
Big fan of open end, but roofed stadiums. Reminds of some Ballparks.
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I hope the hard hit taxpayers are not expected to pay for it
There are better things to spend taxpayers money on than a sports stadium that will be underused in these troubling times
I would suggest that if the AFL wants a stadium in Darwin they finance it themselves.
Option 1 looks weird with the open sides and the glass roof. Needs to closed in I reckon
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just chuck a normal roof on it and none of this s**t
Hard to justify a new stadium with no full time Team.
Wonder if it would be better investing in a world class indoor entertainment centre and try to attract events in a comfortable air con environment.
Wonder if it would be better investing in a world class indoor entertainment centre and try to attract events in a comfortable air con environment.
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Well they spent $250 million to build a 25,000 capacity rugby only stadium in Townsville for 11 rugby games per year. I think that it has been used for one State of Origin, a boxing bout and a concert in addition to the 11 games per season since being opened. It probably makes better sense to spend money developing cricket grounds because at least they do get used all year round. I think that in Townsville's case it possibly might have made better sense to re-develop the Riverway's Stadium as a 20,000 capacity cricket ground that could have been used for the trifecta of T20 Cricket, a couple of AFL games per season and NRL.
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Surely it should be used for union, Rugby League and Cricket and then gets used all year round
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The ARU don't play in Townsville and its dedicated rectangular stadium is too small for cricket ... French cricket possibly
The thing that must thoroughly irritate the Federal Liberal Party is that even though it was funded in the 2016 Federal election as a blatant vote buying exercise, they still didn't win the seat then or in 2019.
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Play soccer on it and its a summer sport hereThe ARU don't play in Townsville and its dedicated rectangular stadium is too small for cricket ... French cricket possibly
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They have to A. Get an A-League soccer team, and B. Have you been to Townsville during wet season? It's 90% humidity, the constant 30 degree days feel like 40 degrees and the temperature only drops a few degrees at night but humidity remains. It's hardly conducsive for soccer teams (all from the South) to be running about for 90 minutes.
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Didn't they have a A league team up there before?They have to A. Get an A-League soccer team, and B. Have you been to Townsville during wet season? It's 90% humidity, the constant 30 degree days feel like 40 degrees and the temperature only drops a few degrees at night but humidity remains. It's hardly conducsive for soccer teams (all from the South) to be running about for 90 minutes.
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I'm really not sure. The climate up there wouldn't support Australia's soccer season. The season would align with the wettest and most humid time of year in what is coloquially referred to up there as "cyclone season".
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