It's Western Stralya mate!
I always just read it as GBH Stadium.
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It's Western Stralya mate!
I always just read it as GBH Stadium.
https://thewest.com.au/sport/perth-...itch-dropped-into-optus-stadium-ng-b88974489zOut with the old and in with the new — Optus Stadium was transformed today from football ground to cricket field.
A little more than a week after the stadium hosted the WAFL grand final and the Eagles preliminary final, five giant slabs of turf were lifted out of the centre of the ground and replaced with clay-based cricket pitches.
The process was painstakingly slow as a 40-tonne wicket transporter crawled across the outfield and one by one removed and replaced 25-tonne sections of the centre wicket block.
In the actual real world, this is a major major issue amongst all AFL teams yet no one in the media is discussing it. I find it incredibly weird the issue is being so protected so to speak.
Its not like the Gabba at all. Its a million times worse. It will have massive ramifications around the league and the future of it as their is more talks going on then just "hey lets fix it". So many different angles are attacking the situation. I think its likely to change how the game is run in terms of player welfare/player health insurance/player travel if it isnt fixed by this time next year.
In my post about the Gabba and Brown's comments I did use the word 'had'. They eventually got on top of the issue but it was very hard in the beginning. Surely the curators at Optus have been in touch with them about how they did so?
Big difference between brisbane and perth is humidity. Perth air is dry and that must have an impact
True but would be say 30% rather than 20% in burbs. Gabba would be 50-70%Although if there is anywhere in Perth that is less likely to suffer from a poor relative humidity it's the location Optus was placed in. Set in the middle of a peninsula with the Swan river snaking by on both sides of it.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/af...f/news-story/17b43a5e212b772134caebd891abd014“They may have anticipated it (when it was built), but I don’t think any of the clubs would’ve been in the planning where they would’ve put in a hard track knowingly,” On the Couch host Gerard Healy said.
“They absolutely had problems at (Marvel Stadium), when the grass started to grow they had the same problems. The Bombers players have been complaining about it for a while.
“But there’s no way they can fix it, they can’t core it because they’ve got cricket, they’ve got soccer and they’ve got every other (event there).”
If you look at the picture they lay down matting to help protect the turf and no doubt spread that weight out on the machine and trucks. It only really impacts a small area either side of the wicket and then the path on and off the ground. The only time that could be an issue might be the early rounds of the season if a player gets injured on those very spots.https://thewest.com.au/sport/perth-...itch-dropped-into-optus-stadium-ng-b88974489z
Let me see, a 40-tonne wicket transporter slowly carrying 25 tonne sections of turf across the ground no doubt compacting it just a tad as it goes.
If you look at the picture they lay down matting to help protect the turf and no doubt spread that weight out on the machine and trucks. It only really impacts a small area either side of the wicket and then the path on and off the ground. The only time that could be an issue might be the early rounds of the season if a player gets injured on those very spots.
I don't think that's nearly the problem compared with the overall hardness of the entire ground.
MCG has a very similar system which doesn't seem to cause any problems.https://thewest.com.au/sport/perth-...itch-dropped-into-optus-stadium-ng-b88974489z
Let me see, a 40-tonne wicket transporter slowly carrying 25 tonne sections of turf across the ground no doubt compacting it just a tad as it goes.
MCG has a very similar system which doesn't seem to cause any problems.
The mats that the wheels go on probably cover maybe a couple of % of the playing surface, I don't think it's really a part of the problem.Differences in soil profile, plus rolling heavy weight over turf that's already on the firm side was bound to lead to problems.
The mats that the wheels go on probably cover maybe a couple of % of the playing surface, I don't think it's really a part of the problem.
Possibly, but I think the problem is too widespread for it to be just that.Possibly, but consider this. You're sprinting flat out across the turf and most of it's not compacted and you happen to be one of the players in that match who is unlucky enough to have one foot solidly strike the heavily compacted part. Would be a similar sensation to having one foot suddenly hit a brick. Would explain why we haven't seen hordes of players with issues, just the odd one here and there. Would also explain why every penetrometer test they did at the ground passed with flying colours. Had they pushed it into these areas - bingo. Just a theory.
When you consider how many k's these players run out during a game it's not quite the 'winning lotto' sort of odds you'd initially envisage.
Possibly, but I think the problem is too widespread for it to be just that.
The Hawks game the other night players were slipping over everywhere, which I believe was due to the hard surface being wet. It didn't seem to be confined to any particular section of the ground. The ground was playing as if it had rained all afternoon, but my understanding is that it had been 24 hours since all the rain.
I think the problem is it is built on top of a tip which was on top of a swamp which meant they did a huge amount of compression work on the ground because the buried layers of rubbish were unstable. I remember reading there were car bodies buried in there. They also installed thousands of giant wicks deep into the ground to dry it out. Messing with soil layers like this is fraught with danger. Perhaps they compressed it all a bit too much?