Yep there should be state of the art training and recovery facilities that can be utilised by the junior development programs of both AFL and Cricket, The Western Warriors, Perth Scorchers, travelling AFL sides and then various youth development teams. I think that is a valid enough reason for some federal and private funding.
Well look at you all high and mighty.
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Was the Velodrome there while they played soccer? Also by 'we,' do you mean Floreat Athena, and do you mean to say you played with them? You played with Alistair Edwards? And when did WA play Hammers at the WACA? Sounds crazy, even the very notion of a state team has been destroyed in the last decade. Even before that it was lingering in state league player irrelevancy for a few years.The Velodrome was ok, because the pitch was tiny, but the crowd was very close. Red Star Belgrade played WA there and their skill level was so immense, the small pitch worked in their favour. Saw Bobby Charlton play there in the night series one year. He was still amazing. Only a small capacity though and players taking corners often slipped during the wet when they had to step onto the wooden slats at the bottom of the ramp. I remember we got knocked out of the cup in juniors playing there when Ali Edwards missed a penalty in the shoot out.
The fans were too far away at the WACA. Like watching soccer or rugby at Subiaco, but the surface was brilliant. The highlight was Stan Lazarides performance against West Ham for WA. He was brilliant.
The fans were miles away at Perry Lakes. I remember playing there and you could not hear anybody in the stands at all. Not that I ever gave anybody anything worth clapping. I saw the All Blacks beat WA there about 90-3. Grant Fox was the best kicker in World rugby and missed something like his first 6 shots because of a swirling breeze, then kicked about 9 straight. I saw Ben Johnson run an amazing 100 metres there too and Steve Cram do his hamstring.
Looks like a very major rebuild of the northern end. Unsure if this is remodeling of the Inveraity & Prindiville Stands or a complete knock down and rebuild.
No walk-up start indeed.
Subiaco with the dimensions there can only be used for football. The WACA can easily be used for both sports so it's obvious which one stays as a 'mini' stadium.
Adelaide's short boundaries are east to west, not north to south like Subi. You can't have a cricket pitch running east to west because of the sun. So Subi with a cricket pitch would have to have extremely short straight boundaries that wouldn't fit in with current icc regs iirc.
