Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 3

[Chief]

Part 4 is here:

The Perth Thread - Part 4

Did you see that article in the local paper (not The West Aus) about a forum on the 15th to discuss ways to make crossing Charles st safer/better? I personally don't and have never (even as a child) had an issue with crossing it. Don’t even get me started. Yes it’s difficult to cross and I’m...

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Scotland]

Apparently they are going ahead with the massive expansion/upgrade they've been talking about for probably a decade now.

Gotta build those apartments to feed the demand all those people who want to live in a shopping centre.

I saw they finished the small block of flats at the end of Marmion St where it meets Riseley. What a fantastic view from the balcony those people have of a car park and bus station...

 

[JackOutback]

I still call Crown Burswood. And I still call it Docklands. Marvel Stadium is just taking the pi$$.

 

[Scotland]

I still call it Burswood or "the casino". It is still in Burswood after all. I never referred to Subiaco Oval as Domain or Patterson's Stadium.

Docklands has been Colonial Stadium, Telstra Dome, Etihad Stadium and now Marvel Stadium. Telstra Dome or "the dome" probably sticks with me the most as it's somewhat unique. Etihad and Emirates already sponsor a bunch of things and Colonial has almost no public presence these days. Colonial Stadium just sounds like something that people who read Buzzfeed would be offended by.

 

[Billy ray]

Disney dome

 

[Beerfish]

Gotta build those apartments to feed the demand all those people who want to live in a shopping centre.

I saw they finished the small block of flats at the end of Marmion St where it meets Riseley. What a fantastic view from the balcony those people have of a car park and bus station...

Would probably suit downsizing self funded retirees. Walking distance to everything they could need.

In reality will probably become another rental slum like Cockburn central.

 

[ioppolo]

Dick's Sporting Goods Park or the KFC YUM! Centre should've been considered

 

[Billy ray]

Dick's Sporting Goods Park or the KFC YUM! Centre should've been considered

Bangbros arena

 

[ioppolo]

Bangbros arena

I can't believe that is legit. Imagine the announcers on tv with that one

"We're live from the BangBros arena for the Miami Heat versus the Chicago Bulls!"

 

[Big Cox 88]

I'd rather live Innaloo than Upper Swan. Both are hurrendous though. Not SOR.

 

[Taylor]

I can't believe that is legit. Imagine the announcers on tv with that one

"We're live from the BangBros arena for the Miami Heat versus the Chicago Bulls!"

It seems like a match made in heaven for Aztec Stadium in Mexico City which due to it's higher elevation has much better penetration on the long plays toward the end zone.

 

[Scotland]

 

[Plugger35]

There was talk that Subiaco Oval was going to be renamed Crazy John's Stadium at one stage but thankfully they rejected that bid.

 

[Beerfish]

If had been Crazy Ben's Stadium though..

 

[Scotland]

I supported the original decision to stick with Perth Arena and Perth Stadium for a few years.

RAC Arena and Optus Stadium could be anywhere. Should've gone with WA specific sponsorship like Gina Arena and Brownes Choc Chill Stadium.

 

[Mr_Bojangles]

Noel Crichton-Browne Beaten Wife Arena.

 

[Scotland]

‘Sterile’ Optus slammed

Cricket journalist Gideon Haigh has sensationally claimed Optus Stadium will never host a Boxing Day Test or any showpiece event, due to having an atmosphere ‘as sterile as an operating theatre’.

www.perthnow.com.au

“No I don’t. I don’t see with the best will in the world that Perth Stadium is ever going to be up to hosting a Boxing Day Test or a showpiece event,” Haigh said.

“It’s got about as much atmosphere as an aircraft hangar and it’s as sterile as an operating theatre."

EAD Gideon. I'm sure the atmosphere was electric last year at the MCG when India walked out and batted for 170 overs. Even better a week later when they declared 7/622.

 

[Beerfish]

Well of course it's like that when it's empty.

It's certainly not sterile when it's heaving with The West Coast numpties.

 

[Scotland]

Booooooo. Ballllll. Deliberate!

The atmosphere of the MCG has to be one of the most overrated things in sport. Decent sized crowd and a good game of footy, great atmosphere. 15,000 people hiding in the MCC reserve watching Melbourne lose by 15 goals not so much. Shield game, hit a decent cover drive and it sounds like someone has cracked a whip.

 

[JackOutback]

Well of course it's like that when it's empty.

It's certainly not sterile when it's heaving with The West Coast numpties.

Is this a reference to our urine samples?

Booooooo. Ballllll. Deliberate!

The atmosphere of the MCG has to be one of the most overrated things in sport. Decent sized crowd and a good game of footy, great atmosphere. 15,000 people hiding in the MCC reserve watching Melbourne lose by 15 goals not so much. Shield game, hit a decent cover drive and it sounds like someone has cracked a whip.

The area around the MCG itself isn't full of atmosphere either, it's just a footy ground surrounded by a carpark and train station. It's where you walked from that's heaving.

 

[The Speaker]

Hulking arenas generally don't make for good Test venues.

 

[Kram]

Lost a bit of respect for Gideon after the Ashes when Shaun Marsh made a heap of runs and he was still crapping on about Glenn Maxwell should have been picked instead.

 

[Scotland]

The WACA isn't a hulking arena or a good test venue. The attraction was always the billiard table outfield and fast, bouncy pitch. Survive the new ball, get good value for your shots, capitalise on day 2/3 when the pitch is flattest then hope you don't get a broken toe from a short pitched ball on day 4/5. Unless you are in the members or have a shady spot on the hill on cool afternoon then you are probably sitting in one of the many un-shaded sports in a concrete bowl of radiating heat that offer about a 2 degree incline in view from the playing surface.

The MCG holds 100,000 and has a record crowd of 270,000 for a Boxing Day test. Most years the crowd is sub 200k and in recent years some of them have been sub 150k. There's usually a good crowd on day 1 because it's a public holiday and day 1 of the test but after that it drops off. Most of the time the atmosphere is only lively if we are playing India and the crowd is full of Indians.

 

[The Speaker]

The WACA isn't a hulking arena or a good test venue.

Which means we have 0 good Test venues

 

[woota]

The WACA isn't a hulking arena or a good test venue. The attraction was always the billiard table outfield and fast, bouncy pitch. Survive the new ball, get good value for your shots, capitalise on day 2/3 when the pitch is flattest then hope you don't get a broken toe from a short pitched ball on day 4/5. Unless you are in the members or have a shady spot on the hill on cool afternoon then you are probably sitting in one of the many un-shaded sports in a concrete bowl of radiating heat that offer about a 2 degree incline in view from the playing surface.

The MCG holds 100,000 and has a record crowd of 270,000 for a Boxing Day test. Most years the crowd is sub 200k and in recent years some of them have been sub 150k. There's usually a good crowd on day 1 because it's a public holiday and day 1 of the test but after that it drops off. Most of the time the atmosphere is only lively if we are playing India and the crowd is full of Indians.

Brian Lara scored 132 against the aussies in 1997 at the WACA and that game will always have a special place in my memory. That was the first summer of test cricket I ever watched.

 

[Scotland]

Well we have a brand new stadium which last year at least provided an entertaining contest between bat and ball. So that's something.