AFL @ Adelaide's Oval - That time is now.

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Is that meant to benefit the city?
DOmestic exposure is a larger key. Showcase the oval to those who might actually come here and spend money to see and experience it.
Cricket fans from overseas were coming or not anyway. Makes no difference at all.
Heh?

International cricket means it's shown internationally on tv. If anything the internationals would also entice interstate travelers more than a domestic game would as hardly anyone watches it or it's not even televised.
 

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Not sure why we arguing over what is better for AO - Cricket or Football. Would have thought the answer is both!

Easier to have a viable modern stadium with both codes playing at AO.

Really looking forward to the massive crowds at the Ashes & equally watching footy will be much more pleasurable experience at AO.

Bring it on!
 

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Both projects started at roughly the same time with AO having probably double the amount of construction... What the hell are they doing in Sydney???
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Sydney was a very complex and constrained demolition. Very very complex. Compared to adelaides, which was pretty easy really.

The SCG was used all season.

The staging was different. The actual tiers and seating are almost cosmetic additions. As you will see that seating will go in very quickly.

They did a lot of work behind the scaffolding on the spectator and player facilities ( the things that take the time).

If you just put up the front of house stuff, both projects would have finished months ago.

Adelaide put in the front of house stuff then changed to the facilities and are now finishing both.

Both these projects have world class spectator facilities and they take time.

Also you can build two houses in the same time as one. You just can't pile people into a project to speed it up.

Or yay adelaide, everyone in sydney is useless.

You choose
 

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Did anyone see in the Saturday Advertiser that Adelaide plan on hosting an international band to perform before and after the game, in round 3 next season?
I hate this crap.

I go to the footy for the footy - if I wanted to go to a concert, I'd go to a concert.

Pre game should be a curtain raiser game of footy, half time should be for discussion of the game. Have a band after if you must.
 
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I hate this crap.

I go to the footy for the footy - if I wanted to go to a concert, I'd go to a concert.

Pre game should be a curtain raiser game of footy, half time should be for discussion of the game. Have a band after if you must.
Agree.

As a football club, we already have a reputation of being a bunch if theatre goers, now this. We need to make football the number one attraction, not a secondary even.

If we got the Foo Fighters, U2, KISS, Blink 182 or some think like that, how many non footy people would go just for the music.

As a club, we have it back to selling football as our core business and looking after our key demographic, instead of just pissing them off even more with stupid ideas.
 

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Read my sig peeps.

I'm actually from darwin. The nearest afl club to me is 3000km away and i dont have an affiliation with any of them. Any that come near me only do so because they are told too. I am from an old st marys family in darwin, thats my team.

As to the answer, zaccas post reeked of yay adelaide rather than any thought or research as to why the SCG project is progressing as is.

These are complex and difficult buildings and both the ao and scg are extremely high quality.
 
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