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Guess what - without the stadium, there’ll still be the exact same problems with public housing and hospital beds. And a world which only has public houses and hospitals to offer would be a thoroughly miserable place to live in. Bread and circuses make life worth living.

BREAKING NEWS - Two Tasmanian state Liberal MP’s have just quit the party because of the stadium funding deal and will sit on the cross bench, making the Gov’t a minority on the floor. This moves now puts huge doubt on the government being able to get funding the new stadium through Parliament...

Thanks to the genius decision to import cheap steel from Qatar, of all places - which, of course, turned out on installation to be totally defective and unsafe and subject to collapse - the new stand, which was meant to be finished by the end of May, will now not be completed until 2024 -...

Latest news - Macquarie Point now the preferred site. This is easily the best site in Hobart for any new stadium - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-17/tasmanias-afl-stadium-to-be-built-at-macquarie-point/101451196

Another Sydney test ... another load of rain delays. Happens every ... single ... year. The stats show Sydney tests have more play lost to rain than all the other Australian test venues ... combined! It also has more rain delays than English test venues - even Manchester! Rain delays in...

Reported about an hour ago on the HS website - but the article itself is paywalled - $142m free kick for Geelong home ground The final stage of the Kardinia Park upgrade has been revealed, with taxpayers to foot the bill for the swanky revamp of the Cats’ home ground.

Poor old Pip .... got it wrong again.

Just another of those myths that still gets around. However, the fact is that Melbourne's actual built-up suburban area is larger, more spread out than Sydney's - https://architectureau.com/articles/australian-cities-among-the-largest-and-least-densely-settled-in-the-world/ ... and, if the...

I had wondered what poor paranoid Pip would do following his ban from 'The Footy Industry' sub-forum. Good to now see him giving maximum exposure to Giants Stadium. Well it's clear in Melbourne that the overwhelming majority of the descendants all those migrants that came out in the 50's, 60's...

These diagrams shows the orientation of Docklands Stadium as being clearly the worst amongst the major stadiums - it's the worst possible direction, being from Northwest to Southeast. This might be OK in Summer, but in and around the Winter months (i.e. the footy season), the Sun lowers through...

Excellent rant! And yeah, I know what you mean by the problem of self-serving, power tripping inner city greenie counsellors, who are universally useless at anything apart from the opportunities to be obstructive if not destructive. And don't get me started on the lemming who votes these loons...

Ah, thank you. So the suggestion for an indoor stadium has been made by the outgoing Tasmanian Cricket CEO before he returns home to Melbourne. Ambitious. Plenty still to play out before the proposal for Port Macquarie starts to become a reality. The site itself though seems perfect for an AFL...

Who said that?? If so (which I doubt), that would make it much more expensive. Just being undercover for spectators seems a more realistic, affordable aim for Hobart

So long as the new stadium has overall majority popular support across the total metro area of Hobart (as opposed to just the inner suburban greenies), then State Gov't approval, given its involvement in the bid, ought not be a problem. One of the conditions imposed for an AFL license should be...

I noticed in the Age article about the Tasmanian application for a provisional AFL license - https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/tasmania-set-to-apply-for-a-provisional-afl-licence-20190823-p52k4n.html "... There is strong support for the establishment of a new stadium and training facility at...

Seems like the bloke that SEN had from the Dandenong council (I didn't catch his name or position in the council) was full of it. The bid failed. He also said the council would be replacing "most AFL ovals with loads of football pitches in the city as grassroots AFL had mostly died in the city...

Just listening to SEN - sounds like the State Gov't will commit to a new rectangular stadium to cost approx $200 million in Melbourne's South East, providing they get the new A-League franchise.

I've been there. It's a very underwhelming stadium with decrepit facilities (at least by Australian standards) cramped seating for # 78k and it's much much smaller than the MCG, with few corporate boxes etc. In fact Docklands is way more impressive.

Got me. Freudian slip that one. As for the available space for a footy oval - yeah, that could be a problem.

Perhaps so, though the Gov't falire to build the railway originally promised in the 1960's went heavily against it. It also would've required a complete stadium rebuild as the stands were much too far from the actual playing area. In any case, that bird has flown. The Dandening stadium doesn't...

That would be good for soccer - but not for Australian Football. Spending a bit more money on a suitable stadium that St Kilda and Hawthorn to use for suitable games for their large supporter bases in the outer S.E. suburbs would also provide far and away better value than a privately owned...

Fair point - however I would envisage only St Kilda and Hawthorn using this stadium. That would only mean clubs like GC not playing these 2 clubs at Docklands or Launceston like at present.

I'm guessing many here saw this article or reports thereof - http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/a-league/team-11-aleague-expansion-bid-reveals-plans-for-15000seat-stadium-in-dandenong/news-story/16aa14e9df4eba28a68d3e954ad2d20a This proposal is asking for the Gov't and council to spend...

Yeah, you could use that argument ... but that is implying some sort of equivalence between WA TV viewing numbers compared to the rest of Australia. According to the BOS, as at March 2017, WA has a population of 2.57m whereas the rest of Australia has 21.94m. It follows thus that for any...

4 pages in and no-one's mentioned the MCG has the GF contractually locked in up to 2040 - so if the GF ever does move, it won't be for quite a while.

Add to this list Coburg Oval for 1965 - North played at Coburg for all home games because of a ground rent dispute with Melbourne City Council. They returned to Arden St in 1966.

I'm originally from Western Victoria and totally concur. Ballarat is a very poor choice - it has only half the population of Geelong, and are already thoroughly rusted on to their AFL clubs and used to the hour and a bit trip by rail or car to Docklands and MCG - and few of them support North...