Remove the existing roof.
Replace with clear translucent material which covers the top deck only.
Replace with clear translucent material which covers the top deck only.
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I've only been there for cricket, and only with the roof shut back in the 2005 Super Series vs the World XI, so I'm not hugely qualified to comment. The small roof opening compared to an open stadium does make the sunlight have somewhat of a "pinhole" effect where the brightness appears brighter and shadows appear darker when watching on TV.unique north-south orientation of the ground
I'll take a permanent glass dome. Just give me some sunshine when it's out and about. Nothing worse than going from a sunny 25c day to fluro lights and aged concrete.Replace with clear translucent material which covers the top deck only.
How many excuses does this bloke have going for him?It's unfortunate for Brad Scott that they only decide to leave the roof closed for all games after his coaching career is over.
Its just a **** stadium, full-stop.
That’s An oxymoron if I’ve ever seen one.bright sunny Melbourne.
Bellerive (Blundstone Arena) was always a terrible ground to watch footy at even back in the days before it became a Test cricket venue.The only AFL-used grounds I know that DON'T run north-south or something near to that are the MCG, the Gabba, and Optus Stadium. Subiaco didn't either.
Adelaide Oval is north-south, running the same way as the cricket pitch. GMHBA runs NNE-SSW. SCG runs north-south. Sydney Showground is NE-SW. Bellerive is N-S, as is York Park and Metricon.
Nailed it. Wayne Jackson worst president ever for the league. It is one thing for the designers to build a s**t stadium. The fool that buys it to shut down another is the complete deads**t. Worst move made in my time of watching football.
Bulldoze it would be ideal.
Crikey.
Shutting a s...hole like Waverley to build a modern stadium with a roof and with a bazillion public transport options is the worst move made in your footy watching time?
Wrong.
Shutting a ground that held over 70,000 in a location that has lots of suburban population and people from beyond metro in Gippsland and Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley is a crime to football loving public of Victoria. Especially when it just adds another ground in city when we already got the MCG to cater inner city. Design is f’ed, capacity is f’ed, reserve seating costs is not anything we needed.
Worst move in my time of watching football and going to football in Victoria.
Wayne Jackson is worst president we had as a result.
It's location and capacity gone is the football crime.Apart from perhaps its location, Waverley
You don't need another 70,000 seater in Melbourne.
Wrong.
Shutting a ground that held over 70,000 in a location that has lots of suburban population and people from beyond metro in Gippsland and Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley is a crime to football loving public of Victoria. Especially when it just adds another ground in city when we already got the MCG to cater inner city. Design is f’ed, capacity is f’ed, reserve seating costs is not anything we needed.
Worst move in my time of watching football and going to football in Victoria.
Wayne Jackson is worst president we had as a result.
I'm sure you are in the minority. Essendon fans went to Waverley Park in good numbers like my own fan base.fu** country people. If Essendon played in Mulgrave and I had to drive or catch a bus I'd never go.
Shutting a ground that held over 70,000 in a location that has lots of suburban population and people from beyond metro in Gippsland and Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley is a crime to football loving public of Victoria.
There is the MCG a stone throw away. Plus Geeong have their own homeground and Ballarat even get games themselves now.What about the rest of the regional population such as Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and beyond who find it much easier to catch a v-line to Southern Cross rather than then having to catch a train another 50 minutes on top to the middle of nowhere suburbia?
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 the afternoon in the Northwest - particularly moreso in the Southern latitudes like Melbourne, hence the problem of the Sun shining straight from the NW end to the SE in the Winter afternoons.
Maybe a well designed 50k seater in SE Melbourne with good surrounding transport and infrastructure may change my mind but not Waverley as it was.
Where would you suggest these stadia be built? The issue with the suburbs is that there are few connections that don't go through the city. Western Oval might work for the west, but there are few places that work in the east until the Suburban Rail Loop gets built. Dandenong maybe?Sell it off, and build two 30k stadiums in the east and western suburbs.
Subiaco was shockingly developed in the way the sun set out here. Everything with that ground was only designed for the spectators, and with that in mind it was only for the elitist flogs who could afford a grandstand seat to watch the sunset.