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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Mr Beefy » Fri May 06, 2011 10:10 pm

Booney wrote:=)) =))

"Imagine, the new bars of the casino overlooking the torrens and AO, as the crowds swarm in over the bridge..."

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It'll only be a one way bridge changing directions at half time...
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby 85 WAS A GOOD YEAR » Fri May 06, 2011 10:22 pm

And sceptical me :shock: has visions of Toll machines being installed to help cover the cost of security cameras and guards required around the bridge entrance and exit areas
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby AFLflyer » Fri May 06, 2011 10:36 pm

Mr Beefy wrote:
Booney wrote:=)) =))

"Imagine, the new bars of the casino overlooking the torrens and AO, as the crowds swarm in over the bridge..."

Image

It'll only be a one way bridge changing directions at half time...


yeah good one fellas! :)
and dutchy you can't tell me your not enjoying all the pub "pokie funded" upgrades in Adelaide. Facilities are much better for all to enjoy. what pub hasnt had an upgrade!
nah seriously.... it is a dangerous habit. but it does make our beer gardens more enjoyable ;)
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Rik E Boy » Sat May 07, 2011 10:19 am

The Jack wrote:
Rik E Boy wrote:Gives you a good spot to jump after your footy team has lost and you've done your dough on piss and gambling.

regards,

whufc

:lol:


Could easily be a Dutchy quote too. Fair dinkum! :roll:


Fair dinkum indeed.

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This is exactly the type of post Gingernuts has been referring too.

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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Psyber » Sat May 07, 2011 12:56 pm

scoob wrote:
Gingernuts wrote:Fair Dinkum. The bloody Women's and Children's would've had less crying babies than safooty in the last few days.
I promise to log on in 5 years time so you can tell me 'I told you so'. Now will ya all shaddup??
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A quick calculation based on the figures given in the TV news suggested 49% of the SACA membership voted for this. That made up over 75% of those who voted.
I wonder how upset those who didn't bother to vote will be at some future time?

I'm also still wondering what will happen about cost over runs, as everybody involved seems to be saying they can't, or won't, fund them...
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby fish » Sat May 07, 2011 1:18 pm

I thought I read a few days ago that the AFL will contribute if needed...
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby fish » Sat May 07, 2011 1:28 pm

fish wrote:I thought I read a few days ago that the AFL will contribute if needed...
Yep here it is

THE AFL will kick in money to help redevelop Adelaide Oval, a project Port Adelaide considers its financial saviour.

The South Australian Government has committed $535 million to the plan to transform the oval into a 50,000 capacity multi-purpose stadium.

Both of SA's AFL clubs will move games to the revamped oval, likely from 2014, in a switch set to reap the clubs millions of dollars.

While the AFL has yet to outline any financial stake in the project, chief executive Andrew Demetriou said on Tuesday the league would put money into the stadium.

The $535m cost had already risen from the original $450m quoted by the government last year, with some saying $600-700m was a more realistic estimate.

"We have given a commitment to the South Australian Government that we will do what we always do as a code and that is inject capital into infrastructure," Demetriou told reporters in Melbourne.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby spell_check » Sat May 07, 2011 7:25 pm

Jim05 wrote:I am really worried we wont be able to afford it. The hospital is surely number 1 priority so if that is a billion over budget the money has to cut from something else.
Hopefully the mining at woomera can start asap.


The forest harvesting rights are already being sold off down south, that's one thing they can use the money for. :roll: Wait till they close down a couple of country hospitals, shed a few dollars from mental health, education department - she'll be right, mate! :)

As far as the train station goes, well, I caught the train to Adelaide Oval in 2006 to watch Norwood play Sturt. The crowd was 2,548. The train station had two cats and a dog after the match. So, when the Power play, at best, multiply that by ten and you get twenty cats and ten dogs.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Psyber » Sun May 08, 2011 12:53 pm

fish wrote:I thought I read a few days ago that the AFL will contribute if needed...
Thanks for that, and posting the content later - I'd missed it.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Voice » Sun May 29, 2011 5:27 am

click here Delays already?
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Jim05 » Tue May 31, 2011 7:34 am

Voice wrote:click here Delays already?

Yeah thats the 4th report ive seen on this. No footy until 2015 by the sound of it
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Barto » Tue May 31, 2011 11:13 am

The rumblings have started with Port's financial crisis getting worse.

Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond again has questioned the wisdom of upgrading Adelaide Oval to stage AFL games.

"I'm far from satisfied that it's the right way to spend $600 million of the money that belongs to the taxpayers of this state," she said.

"It's effectively bailing out, it appears now, cricket and football. Why would we do that if, at the end of the day especially, the business case doesn't stack up?"


She does have a point though, what if all that money is spent and Port are still getting sub 20k crowds?
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Jim05 » Tue May 31, 2011 11:23 am

Barto wrote:The rumblings have started with Port's financial crisis getting worse.

Opposition Leader Isobel Redmond again has questioned the wisdom of upgrading Adelaide Oval to stage AFL games.

"I'm far from satisfied that it's the right way to spend $600 million of the money that belongs to the taxpayers of this state," she said.

"It's effectively bailing out, it appears now, cricket and football. Why would we do that if, at the end of the day especially, the business case doesn't stack up?"


She does have a point though, what if all that money is spent and Port are still getting sub 20k crowds?

Port will be in Tassie by then
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby gossipgirl » Tue May 31, 2011 1:48 pm

she does have a good point although the libs were hoping to spend at a min 1.5 bill on a completely new stadium with a roof (everyone knows it was never going to happen just trying to get some votes)
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Hondo » Tue May 31, 2011 3:09 pm

I think it's more of a case of what happens if we stick with AAMI and Port are still getting sub 20K crowds for the next however many years?

I can't believe the Libs are now running this line when if they had their way we'd be spending 2x or more on their brand new stadium and struggling to renovate a very old hospital on it's existing site.

She's just using this to score political points as would Labor if it were the other way around.

Anyway, that's more for the political forum.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby The Sleeping Giant » Tue May 31, 2011 4:26 pm

Just shows how much respect ALL politicians have for the voting public.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Barto » Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:49 am

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/n ... 1fpby.html

PORT Adelaide's off-field crisis has taken a turn for the worse with the possibility of the Adelaide Oval redevelopment being shelved.

The Age understands that the Sky City Casino group, a key investor in the development of the precinct, is about to announce from its Auckland headquarters it has scrapped plans to expand the Adelaide Casino to the bank of the River Torrens.

This upgrade, and a proposed bridge to Adelaide Oval, is a major part of the complete package, and without it the Mike Rann state government faces an even more daunting task to pass legislation on the $535 million project.
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby gossipgirl » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:10 pm

lucky the state is so rich we can afford all of this ;)
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Banker » Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:52 pm

Adelaide Oval currently has seating capacity for 40'000 people.

Why are Port waiting until the redevelopment to move? Do they expect more than 40k?
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Re: Adelaide Oval upgrade gets green light

Postby Jim05 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:07 pm

Banker wrote:Adelaide Oval currently has seating capacity for 40'000 people.

Why are Port waiting until the redevelopment to move? Do they expect more than 40k?

Think there is an agreement in place so crows and power go there at same time.
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