Stadium of Canterbury
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@rapido want to do the same for the Aussie stadiums?
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The most enjoyable looking rugby atmosphere i have seen in NZ in recent years (apart from club finals on grassroots rugby) has been NPC games at Tauranga.
With a stadium of just 3% of their total population, and no lights, so all sunny afternoon matches. Looks good fun.
Albeit, on an athletics stadium with a temporary seating built over the track.
Dumb mistake to build an expensive athletics track on the domain once Builder Bob built that enormous stupid speedway stadium in the swampy boondocks. Yet, despite this, the best looking rugby atmosphere in the country. I guess that is a sign of how dire things have got in NZ rugby.
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@rapido i can buy that
have to say ive enjoyed standing on the sideline in the sun with a beer and BBQ down the park has been more enjoyable this year than going to a big stadium or even the pub
I've been to a couple of pre season otago games in Queenstown and theyre very enjoyable
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@kiwiwomble said in Stadium of Canterbury:
@rapido worth a shot
But I will drop this back of the envelope calulation - Eden Park compared to Auckland's population is actually a bigger ratio than 98,000 MCG in a 4,000,000 Melbourne (2.45% of Melbourne to fill the MCG, compared to 3% of Auckland to fill Eden Park).
Actually. I should have googled first ... I see Melbourne is now 5 million, which is 1.96%. Buof course it's been that capacity roughly , despite the guises of the stands, since approx 1956 olympics when population was about 1.5 million.
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@rapido melbourne does have Marvet stadium and AAMI park too i guess
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I remember 1993 Bledisloe in Dunedin. They added extra capacity. 39,000 in a city of about 105,000 at the time.
Let alone seeing 1970s Okara Park full with 30k etc, or say 1983 Rotorua for the Lions match with 30k - each in a town of about 40k at the time.
It was very cheap to maintain a ground that is 85% grass banks. Just a bit of gas money for the tractor mower.
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
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@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
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@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?
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@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
- Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
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@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?
- Wembley Stadium 90,000 City
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@gt12 oh yeah! didn't even check it, should you how football focused things in the UK can get
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@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.
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@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
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@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.
