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Yep fully agree
I don't think the design for Macquarie Point includes a roof either so it should be considerably cheaper.
The report commissioned by the government to assess possible stadium locations had Macquarie Point as it's top scoring site. Has all of the benefits of Regatta Point, but is closer to the city/Salamanca and would be significantly cheaper to build considering most of the site work is pretty much done already.
I still think there will be a roof. That's what the AFL has asked for.
Not necessarily true. Sponsors will pay more if they are able to communicate and engage with bigger numbers.
We don't know that. The proposed stadium also had moveable stands for rectangular sports and there is no way that the AFL would have asked for that. Reckon it will be a 30K stadium, no roof, no rectangular mode. Cost $350m - $400m. Launceston to possibly be scaled back a fraction to 23k-25K (just a new outer wing, no moveable stands).
The rectangular configuration will definitely be included. They'd already committed to a new rectangular stadium so it saves the government building a separate one for $200m.
For what purpose? It simply will never be used. The commitment by Labor was for a 10K - 15K stadium, but they are not in power. You could build a 10K stadium for 100K if Hobart ever got an A-League club. And a 10K - 15K stadium was never going to attract marque events anyway, so for the once in a decade NRL, Rugby test, or soccer international, it will be much better to have a bigger crowd in an oval stadium. Moveable stands reduce capacity and are expensive/time consuming to operate (which is why they were very rarely used at Docklands) and sitelines for 30K smallish oval stadium will be much better than MCG or Optus. It for have a spare $100k put it into increased capacity rather than white elephant movable stands. Or go the cheaper, pretend rectangular option of drop in seats like Optus (have only been used once despite numerous rectangular events - will be interesting to see if they use them next week for SOO).
Yes, strange how that has almost become accepted. Footy clubs have a lot of churn, so maybe it was 90K that have ever been AFL club members. That would still seem high. You would think that 20K from north, 20K from Hobart and 10K from the mainland would be about right. One thing for sure is that they will be bigger than GC and GWS form day 1.
The hawks wouuld have the biggest based Tassie members and the biggest figure I saw for them was 6,800 in ome of their premiership years. No way say 10 clubs would have 5k or more members down in Tassie.
Hawks have been steady at around 9K for more than a decade. Most was 9564 in 2019.
I think a a fully sheltered venue is required but you can save soo much by not having a roof.
The specs make it look as if part of the stadium will either be built over water, or some of the bay will be filled and land reclaimed. Is this correct? If so, which one?
The Regatta Point one will be built over water by the looks of it but the proposed Devils Den would be completely on land.
Devils Den sounds awesome. If I was rich enough to fund and own the stadium rights outright, that's what I'd call it.
Definitely would be a great name, hopefully it get's built.
If you can keep a lot of the wind out then that will make it warmer.
But will it be on concrete pillars and have a concrete base and 200mm of grass and soil and be completely f@cked up at growing grass like Docklands, or will they reclaim land so that there is no concrete base and the grass can grow normally because there is a few metres of soil, so it has worms, soil biology and most importantly warmth, so that grass can grow compared to a cold concrete base.
Ok 6,800 must have been the figure after the 2008 flag. This hawks article said you broke 9,000 barrier in 2016.
Here's a bit of info on the Regatta Point site from the location report:
www.macpoint.com
Optus has such a configuration, but it hardly ever gets used. I think it's been used twice since it was built. Its was a total waste of money - they can't use it during winter as it screws up the surface.
