Perth Stadium (Optus Stadium)

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W.C. Fry said:
WTF are you on about. Melbourne hosting Melbourne Storm in a one off match is not the best example. That game was only ever going to be played in 2 cities. Melbourne or Leeds.

Or are you now talking about actual stadium hosting the game. Melbourne kinda has more options as it has more grounds. Options to host a game at a different stadium are vastly different in WA its not even worth compairing.

As for the rest....
New stadium will host Wallabies games.
Heard UFC is coming also.
State of Origin, already locked in.
A League GF. Maybe Perth Stadium could have hosted Victory v Adelaide GF. Would have made as much sense as Storm vs Leeds... But yes, if Glory ever host one I would imagine the new Stadium would host it.
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Keep those blinkers firmly in place, its the latest example of Government funding attracting sport & sports tourism - being aware of what the opposition is doing is clearly beyond your scope.
 

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Kwality said:
Keep those blinkers firmly in place, its the latest example of Government funding attracting sport & sports tourism - being aware of what the opposition is doing is clearly beyond your scope.
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Blinkers on for what? Of course stadiums want to host events.
But which fantasy world do you live in where any state in Australia would have tried to get a Melbourne vs Leeds Rugby league game besides Victoria?
Hosted in WA it would have drawn in a total of 5 fans, all expat poms from Leeds living in Joondalup.
 
Kwality said:
Keep those blinkers firmly in place, its the latest example of Government funding attracting sport & sports tourism - being aware of what the opposition is doing is clearly beyond your scope.
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Clearly you are the one with blinkers on if you don't recognize that Perth is the most isolated city in the world and the cost of travel to Perth is prohibitive.
Clearly you are the one with blinkers on if you don't recognize that Perth has limited support for non mainstream sports.
Clearly you are the one with blinkers on if you don't recognize that Perth can support only so many "theatre" sports events.

Let's say you stage an NFL game in Perth. That would probably fetch a decent crowd. Try it again - no way.
Soccer and rugbys could probably support two games each a year.
 
RedV3x said:
How about because NIB is more suitable !
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...not for 40,000 people it aint!

Adelaide United got 50K+ at the Oval for their GF the other year. For the small sacrifice of people having to sit a little bit back from the pitch, more than twice as many people could attend. Fair trade-off.
 
W.C. Fry said:
Blinkers on for what? Of course stadiums want to host events.
But which fantasy world do you live in where any state in Australia would have tried to get a Melbourne vs Leeds Rugby league game besides Victoria?
Hosted in WA it would have drawn in a total of 5 fans, all expat poms from Leeds living in Joondalup.
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I posted:
Example of the competition in the event space:
THE World Club Challenge is coming to Melbourne for the first time.

... the competition in the event space - I didn't suggest it was an event for WA, but it is the latest example of a State Govt taking out the cheque book to attract sports tourism. Shame you took it as me suggesting it was an event for WA.

There is a big world out there in sports tourism, we can learn from being across them, e.g Newcastle hosting the final round of the V8s next weekend, not that I'm suggesting ......
 
flamingEMBERS said:
Perth stadium has an extra 5k seats for rectangle sports and the ground tier actually is raised 1.5m. go figure


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How is that a "go figure"? Of course you can fit extra seats inside the oval for a rectangle sport, thus increasing the capacity. Raising the ground tier also means better viewing from Row A.
 

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RedV3x said:
You mean like the AFL and Punt Road ? Sorry I thought you were talking about soccer.
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40k would not fit into NIB.
Thus NIB is not the most suitable stadium in Perth to hold an A-League GF because it holds SFA people based on NSL GF crowds at Subi and A-League GF crowds over the past few years. Even though it's an oval.

If you still are uncertain go back and read the comment thread.
 
hitthepost said:
NIB is not the most suitable stadium in Perth to hold an A-League GF .
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Soccer has really gone off the boil in Perth since Glory last appeared in in G.F.
IMO NIB would be sufficient. Doesn't matter really. It Optus is required then so be it.
But it does make a joke of people insisting Sydney needs a rectangular stadium.
 
RedV3x said:
Soccer has really gone off the boil in Perth since Glory last appeared in in G.F.
IMO NIB would be sufficient. Doesn't matter really. It Optus is required then so be it.
But it does make a joke of people insisting Sydney needs a rectangular stadium.
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Thank you for your reasoned and passive reply. Agree that NIB could be big enough - they'd definitely want at least 40k at Optus to make the switch otherwise it looks empty and bad image. Sydney I think is probably more in need of a bit rectangular stadium (eg renovated ANZ) than Perth - the majority of their football is rectangular (soccer, league, union) and thus it would/could/should mean it's worthwhile, as opposed to where these codes run a strong second to Aussie Rules and thus for marquee games it's worth sacrificing a bit of "optimum seating location" to double+ the available tickets.
 
hitthepost said:
Thank you for your reasoned and passive reply. Agree that NIB could be big enough - they'd definitely want at least 40k at Optus to make the switch otherwise it looks empty and bad image. Sydney I think is probably more in need of a bit rectangular stadium (eg renovated ANZ) than Perth - the majority of their football is rectangular (soccer, league, union) and thus it would/could/should mean it's worthwhile, as opposed to where these codes run a strong second to Aussie Rules and thus for marquee games it's worth sacrificing a bit of "optimum seating location" to double+ the available tickets.
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:thumbsu: begs the question (Melbourne) why League went with the 30k rectangular AAMI Stadium, not the 50+ of Etihad.
 
Kwality said:
:thumbsu: begs the question (Melbourne) why League went with the 30k rectangular AAMI Stadium, not the 50+ of Etihad.
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Because a standard NRL match in Melbourne doesn't count as a marquee match, and playing Etihad during AFL season would mean being very restricted in your fixturing as you'd have to schedule Storm games when Etihad is free. And some weekends there is an AFL game Friday, Saturday AND Sunday.

Between crowd size and fixturing integrity it's not possible.
 
hitthepost said:
Because a standard NRL match in Melbourne doesn't count as a marquee match, and playing Etihad during AFL season would mean being very restricted in your fixturing as you'd have to schedule Storm games when Etihad is free. And some weekends there is an AFL game Friday, Saturday AND Sunday.

Between crowd size and fixturing integrity it's not possible.
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The clash, to be held on Friday 16 February at AAMI Park at 8pm, will be only the third time the World Club Challenge has been played in Australia; with Brisbane and Sydney the other cities to have hosted the showcase event.

Crowd size is one point, rejection of the bigger AFL owned venue is interesting.
 
Kwality said:
The clash, to be held on Friday 16 February at AAMI Park at 8pm, will be only the third time the World Club Challenge has been played in Australia; with Brisbane and Sydney the other cities to have hosted the showcase event.

Crowd size is one point, rejection of the bigger AFL owned venue is interesting.
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it is completely stupid, but the afl may have declined

February 16 Etihad is hosting AFL-X
 
Kwality said:
The clash, to be held on Friday 16 February at AAMI Park at 8pm, will be only the third time the World Club Challenge has been played in Australia; with Brisbane and Sydney the other cities to have hosted the showcase event.

Crowd size is one point, rejection of the bigger AFL owned venue is interesting.
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You didn't specify for that Match!
Depends I guess if they even expect to sell-out AAMI. Also as RFCTiger said, the venue may not have been available.

I just read the AFLX fixture in the paper and wondered why they weren't using AAMI Park - it would have been somewhat of a faux pas if AFL was using "rugby's" stadium at the same time as rugby was using theirs!
 
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