Stadium of Canterbury

[Rapido]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@rapido melbourne does have Marvet stadium and AAMI park too i guess

Yeah, I'm not poo-poohing their attendances. I'm very jealous of AFL with their traditional jerseys (and now their shorts aren't porno grade), minimal shirt sponsors and packed stadiums.

[Donsteppa]

Tauranga Domain has gone from 'we need a bigger stadium' to 'just right'. Probably not worth spending well north of $100 million for a massive upgrade that might get filled with a tier two All Blacks match every second year. (Just freeload on the 'Tron ratepayers across the hill ), and maybe one Chiefs game a year.

I've been wondering about lights for the Domain, but even that may be a blessing in disguise with September and October sunny afternoon rugby.

[Rapido]

@donsteppa said in Stadium of Canterbury:

Tauranga Domain has gone from 'we need a bigger stadium' to 'just right'. Probably not worth spending well north of $100 million for a massive upgrade that might get filled with a tier two All Blacks match every second year. (Just freeload on the 'Tron ratepayers across the hill ), and maybe one Chiefs game a year.

I've been wondering about lights for the Domain, but even that may be a blessing in disguise with September and October sunny afternoon rugby.

Definitely a blessing in disguise.

Rotorua gets the crappy Thursday or Friday night games for sky. Tauranga with their 'poor' stadium get only the nice sunny Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

[mariner4life]

@rapido said in Stadium of Canterbury:

They used an athletics stadium in the RLWC? That was a bit shit, I admit.

that's Barlow Park, that will be upgraded, but these guys want rebuilt in to a modern stadium.

Barlow Park has a decent surface, but as a "stadium it's terrible. The crowd is miles from the field (i played the curtain raiser to the Reds v Crusaders in 2011 in front of about 5,000 people and you could hardly hear them on field)

The only national team we have is the Taipans. And i am not sure the recent development of the convention centre even increased capacity. A large stadium makes absolutely no sense

[Kiwiwomble]

@shark you're probably the best person to ask, are the surrounding regional councils chipping in now? i know a couple of years back they generally said no but maybe thats changed?

[dogmeat]

@rapido London 9 Mill Wembley 90K 1% /shrug

[Kiwiwomble]

@dogmeat how many other stadiums over 20k does london have though, id say more than 10

the rational of % of population does have an upper limit as we're just never going to get +200k full seated stadiums

edit: looked it up, exactly 10

• Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
  Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,000 City
  West Ham United London Stadium 60,000 City
  Chelsea Stamford Bridge 41,837 City
  Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,240 City
  Charlton Athletic The Valley 27,111 City
  Crystal Palace Selhurst Park 26,225 City
  Fulham Craven Cottage 25,700 City
  Reading Madejski Stadium 24,161 Region
  Watford Vicarage Road 21,500 Metro

[gt12]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@dogmeat how many other stadiums over 20k does london have though, id say more than 10

the rational of % of population does have an upper limit as we're just never going to get +200k full seated stadiums

edit: looked it up, exactly 10

• Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
  Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,000 City
  West Ham United London Stadium 60,000 City
  Chelsea Stamford Bridge 41,837 City
  Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,240 City
  Charlton Athletic The Valley 27,111 City
  Crystal Palace Selhurst Park 26,225 City
  Fulham Craven Cottage 25,700 City
  Reading Madejski Stadium 24,161 Region
  Watford Vicarage Road 21,500 Metro

Isn't at least one big stadium missing from that list?

[Kiwiwomble]

@gt12 oh yeah! didn't even check it, should you how football focused things in the UK can get

[gt12]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@gt12 oh yeah! didn't even check it, should you how football focused things in the UK can get

Just here to support your argument, there is definitely more than 10.

[Kiwiwomble]

@gt12 just checked and the google result just said london stadiums but the actual list says "football", other than twickers i thin the rugby ones are a bit smaller...checking is a step too far

[Snowy]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

checking is a step too far

For god's sake don't do that, completely against the fern ethos.

Had me worried for a minute there.

[Rapido]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@gt12 just checked and the google result just said london stadiums but the actual list says "football", other than twickers i thin the rugby ones are a bit smaller...checking is a step too far

Lords and The Oval.

However ... Watford and Reading aren't London.

[Kiwiwomble]

@rapido watfords at least inside the M25...;)

[dogmeat]

@kiwiwomble Yeah I wasn't really trying to show the total capacity of London's stadia - after all you can only go to one at a time.

I wasn't even that interested in Wembley's the /shrug was supposed to indicate that I think the whole idea of looking at a stadiums capacity as a % of the local population is meh - so what. Sall population centres will always have a higher % and big ones lower but I don't think it signifies 5/8 Fuck All.

However as you went to all that effort. Craven Cottage is currently being redeveloped to make it even more awesome and will have a capacity of 30K when it re-opens

[Chris]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@shark you're probably the best person to ask, are the surrounding regional councils chipping in now? i know a couple of years back they generally said no but maybe thats changed?

No they are not another sore point as Chch city council have not requested them too.

[Kiwiwomble]

@chris good, i dont feel bad about flaming my aunt and some friends that i know live in rural canterbury suddenly becoming very vocal on the socals about it, fair enough those that will actually pay and use it

[Crucial]

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@dogmeat how many other stadiums over 20k does london have though, id say more than 10

the rational of % of population does have an upper limit as we're just never going to get +200k full seated stadiums

edit: looked it up, exactly 10

• Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
  Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,000 City
  West Ham United London Stadium 60,000 City
  Chelsea Stamford Bridge 41,837 City
  Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,240 City
  Charlton Athletic The Valley 27,111 City
  Crystal Palace Selhurst Park 26,225 City
  Fulham Craven Cottage 25,700 City
  Reading Madejski Stadium 24,161 Region
  Watford Vicarage Road 21,500 Metro

That new Brentford one is 20k isn't it ? Nice tidy development with housing etc.

[MajorStokes]

@gt12 said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@dogmeat how many other stadiums over 20k does london have though, id say more than 10

the rational of % of population does have an upper limit as we're just never going to get +200k full seated stadiums

edit: looked it up, exactly 10

• Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
  Arsenal Emirates Stadium 60,000 City
  West Ham United London Stadium 60,000 City
  Chelsea Stamford Bridge 41,837 City
  Tottenham Hotspur White Hart Lane 36,240 City
  Charlton Athletic The Valley 27,111 City
  Crystal Palace Selhurst Park 26,225 City
  Fulham Craven Cottage 25,700 City
  Reading Madejski Stadium 24,161 Region
  Watford Vicarage Road 21,500 Metro

Isn't at least one big stadium missing from that list?

The information for Spurs is a touch out of date too.

@dogmeat said in Stadium of Canterbury:

@kiwiwomble Yeah I wasn't really trying to show the total capacity of London's stadia - after all you can only go to one at a time.

I wasn't even that interested in Wembley's the /shrug was supposed to indicate that I think the whole idea of looking at a stadiums capacity as a % of the local population is meh - so what. Sall population centres will always have a higher % and big ones lower but I don't think it signifies 5/8 Fuck All.

However as you went to all that effort. Craven Cottage is currently being redeveloped to make it even more awesome and will have a capacity of 30K when it re-opens

There are extremely strict policing laws too around what stadiums can have events on the same day too. Only so many police / stewards to go around.

Reading is a bit of a stretch too as a London stadium.

[Higgins]

@kiwiwomble What has happened to The Den as I thought it had the ability to hold slightly over 20,000? Maybe the visitors end has been closed to prevent the inevitable trouble it's occupation will bring.