What If Port Entered The AFL In 1991?

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Adelaide Oval's redevelopment cost over 500 million, close to 600 million if not just over if you include the Western stand redevelopment which came first.
Capacity is around 53,500..+standing room for 3,500. Chuck in another stand on the northern end and you are talking possibly around 65,000. Another stand will cost around 70-100 million at least. So total cost will exceed 700 million.

How do you figure that redeveloping Alberton oval to a 60,000 seat arena, will cost less then 500 million?

To expand Alberton to that capacity you would need significant property acquisition surround the stadium. You'd need to buy at least 5-6 of the surrounding blocks(and I don't mean individual property blocks..but as in..drive around the block). Probably a few more. Because nobody wants to have a 60,000 seat stadium on their front door step or over their back fence.

The footbridge is part of the overall and wider redevelopment of the area in relation to Adelaide Oval to make it more accessible and appealing.
The footbridge cost around the 30 million dollar mark.
To make Alberton more accessible you would need to extend the tram line up Port Road towards the Port. The Cheltenham stop on the Outer Harbor train line would also need to be redeveloped to cope with the extra people. Those works alone will far exceed the cost of the footbridge across the torrens.
Whilst I agree with your comments, however I could also argue that it could have been money well spent for the development of not just the club, but the whole of Port Adelaide.
 

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I'm not sure we necessarily would have had Modra if we came into the AFL in early 90s.

May have happened, but he was back and forth with Westies to the Riverland, and with his reputation for off field problems, I think there's a fair chance we would have overlooked him.
 

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Re: Alberton, IIRC, Ross the Boss said they'd put up temporary seating like at the Grand Prix.

If so, scaffolding coming out the wazoo...
 

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We'd have had to have bought out the bowling club, surely? Then those houses at the Scott Hodges End would have to have been bought.

I always regret not having become a hedge-fund billionaire so I could have redeveloped Alberton properly....
 

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#61
If Port had entered in 1991 -

September 11 would not have occurred
Princess Diana would still be alive
Dimebag Darryl would still be shredding
Justin Bieber and the kids from One Direction would never have been born
The 2nd Amendment would of been adjusted...
Calvin and Hobbes would still be in syndicate.
Firefly would have gotten more than one season, while shows such as Bachelor, Big Brother and Sex and the City would never of existed
The Y2K bug would of been an actual event.
 

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If Port had entered in 1991 -

September 11 would not have occurred
Princess Diana would still be alive
Dimebag Darryl would still be shredding
Justin Bieber and the kids from One Direction would never have been born
The 2nd Amendment would of been adjusted...
Calvin and Hobbes would still be in syndicate.
Firefly would have gotten more than one season, while shows such as Bachelor, Big Brother and Sex and the City would never of existed
The Y2K bug would of been an actual event.
The sanfl should be put before the international court at the Hague for crimes against humanity!
 

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If Port had entered in 1991 -

September 11 would not have occurred
Princess Diana would still be alive
Dimebag Darryl would still be shredding
Justin Bieber and the kids from One Direction would never have been born
The 2nd Amendment would of been adjusted...
Calvin and Hobbes would still be in syndicate.
Firefly would have gotten more than one season, while shows such as Bachelor, Big Brother and Sex and the City would never of existed
The Y2K bug would of been an actual event.
haha!

But, would Pantera still be together?!?
 
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