SA Footy

Imho we do need a new Stadium. It is not the biggest necessity but it can generate tourism,money and just a genuine sence of pride in the South Australain sporting public.
I'd like to hear peoples proposed site plans.Btw I think all state and international cricket should stay at Adelaide Oval.
My proposal is build a new stadium in the Bonython Park vicinity.Plenty of parking and plenty of major roads connecting.
The government would build the state of the art stadium and then give it to the SANFL and in return the SANFL would give the government all of the land in and around footy park so the government can sell it of to housing developers??

I think the SANFL would agree it's the right thing to do

LaughingKookaburra wrote:Imho we do need a new Stadium. It is not the biggest necessity but it can generate tourism,money and just a genuine sence of pride in the South Australain sporting public.
I'd like to hear peoples proposed site plans.Btw I think all state and international cricket should stay at Adelaide Oval.
My proposal is build a new stadium in the Bonython Park vicinity.Plenty of parking and plenty of major roads connecting.
The government would build the state of the art stadium and then give it to the SANFL and in return the SANFL would give the government all of the land in and around footy park so the government can sell it of to housing developers??

It wasn't you on the 5aa sports show was it.

MightyEagles wrote:

LaughingKookaburra wrote:Imho we do need a new Stadium. It is not the biggest necessity but it can generate tourism,money and just a genuine sence of pride in the South Australain sporting public.
I'd like to hear peoples proposed site plans.Btw I think all state and international cricket should stay at Adelaide Oval.
My proposal is build a new stadium in the Bonython Park vicinity.Plenty of parking and plenty of major roads connecting.
The government would build the state of the art stadium and then give it to the SANFL and in return the SANFL would give the government all of the land in and around footy park so the government can sell it of to housing developers??

It wasn't you on the 5aa sports show was it.

Haha,nah but I was going to go on and put it forward though.

Hands of the Parklands! Start stealing bits for a stadium then you can't complain if the next step is tower blocks for "affordable housing".

I heard the same interview on 5AA and agreed with Grahams point about why not simply put the cash into Adelaide Oval. Run the Trams down there, let the Power play several home games there and the place would be jumping.

Love them or hate them Port would be a good chance of building themselves up quite some home ground advantage if they were able to make Adelaide Oval there own, with the atmosphere to boot!

Sojourner wrote:I heard the same interview on 5AA and agreed with Grahams point about why not simply put the cash into Adelaide Oval. Run the Trams down there, let the Power play several home games there and the place would be jumping.

Love them or hate them Port would be a good chance of building themselves up quite some home ground advantage if they were able to make Adelaide Oval there own, with the atmosphere to boot!

i like that idea, i like it alot

Good idea.

Give FootyPark back to the SANFL.

AFL can go to the Parklands.

hearts on fire wrote:

Sojourner wrote:I heard the same interview on 5AA and agreed with Grahams point about why not simply put the cash into Adelaide Oval. Run the Trams down there, let the Power play several home games there and the place would be jumping.

Love them or hate them Port would be a good chance of building themselves up quite some home ground advantage if they were able to make Adelaide Oval there own, with the atmosphere to boot!

i like that idea, i like it alot

Serious question.....how? It didn't work for Sturt and South, and given it's not the 80's/90's when they left, but I'd be intrigued as to how it's going to make you better for leaving Alberton?

Note that Sturt and South have both moved back to their home ground because of increased revenue/membership.

gadj1976 wrote:
Serious question.....how? It didn't work for Sturt and South, and given it's not the 80's/90's when they left, but I'd be intrigued as to how it's going to make you better for leaving Alberton?

Port don't play their home games at Alberton, so how would that make any difference ?

Why do we need another stadium? whats wrong with Aami stadium?

If we need something bigger (for Crows games), extend Aami.
Priorities people. It seems like some spin doctors are in action to take our minds off the new hospital, state of the roads, schools being run down, lack of a definite plan to relieve our water crisis.
don't get me wrong i love my sport but all the pollies seem to do is take the easy popular option and neglect the important infrastructure issues.

It would be cheaper to build more stands at Aami or if its a traffic issue arrange cheaper and better buses.

Or if the pollies want spin build new tram line to West Lakes.



Moore important things to fix than a new & shiney stadium Rann could stand in front of and tell us all how good he is.

Build it

AFL stadiums have to be fully seated.So if they went to Adelaide Oval they would lose the hills.Not going to happen.Also im not a fan of the parklands.I see them as a haven for homeless alcoholics,drug addicts and a homosexual preditors.Yes have some parklands but we dont need them all.

Sojourner wrote: let the Power play several home games there and the place would be jumping.

Hmmm Port Adelaide playing in Adelaide and Adelaide playing in Port Adelaide territory. I love the irony.

Dogwatcher wrote:

Sojourner wrote: let the Power play several home games there and the place would be jumping.

Hmmm Port Adelaide playing in Adelaide and Adelaide playing in Port Adelaide territory. I love the irony.

Don't get me started DW...

why not?

grant j wrote:Why do we need another stadium? whats wrong with Aami stadium?

If we need something bigger (for Crows games), extend Aami.
Priorities people. It seems like some spin doctors are in action to take our minds off the new hospital, state of the roads, schools being run down, lack of a definite plan to relieve our water crisis.
don't get me wrong i love my sport but all the pollies seem to do is take the easy popular option and neglect the important infrastructure issues.

It would be cheaper to build more stands at Aami or if its a traffic issue arrange cheaper and better buses.

Or if the pollies want spin build new tram line to West Lakes.



Moore important things to fix than a new & shiney stadium Rann could stand in front of and tell us all how good he is.

Mike Rann says it will become "The biggest white elephant in Australia if we dont win the world cup." Here is the single biggest problem with moving forward in SA.Mike Rann is a dead set drop kick.Has no vision for SA in 20 years,is not prepared to take risks for the benefit of SA and then pulls some new radical preoject out of his arse like the RAH and trys to tell SA its the cheaper option.Ill put it on here he will do a massive backflip within 6 months (Because he will see the opinion polls) and we will have a new stadium (That will co-inside with a new rail system) within 8 years.Media Mike has no idea

LaughingKookaburra wrote:AFL stadiums have to be fully seated.So if they went to Adelaide Oval they would lose the hills.Not going to happen.Also im not a fan of the parklands.I see them as a haven for homeless alcoholics,drug addicts and a homosexual preditors.Yes have some parklands but we dont need them all.

The main reason we, as Adelaidians born and bred, live in Melbourne not Adelaide is Adelaide's poor air quality, which knocks around my wife's asthma and other chronic lung problems. Our brief return to Adelaide in 2003 proved the point. So we think Adelaide needs every air scrubbing tree it can get/keep.

From memories of living there, I suspect part of the problem may be the airport being in the city and the prevailing westerly winds blowing the industrial muck from the west so it all pools against the hills and can't get away. When we lived there back in the 1990's I remember driving down from the Adelaide Hills wondering whether I wanted to enter the brown murk I could see over the city. Melbourne by contrast is more open, the hills are further away, and it is more windy. On a bad day Melbourne's skies look grey, but not brown. From outside Adelaide's air often looks like nitrogen dioxide in colour.

That said, I miss how easy Adelaide is to get around in by car - we were over several times last year for family reasons.

My experiences in Melbourne I have found it to be dirty and heavily polluted.Hard to argue against an asthma sufferer though but I find it hard to beleive that the air quality in Melbourne is better in Adelaide especially with 3 times the population.Dont get me wrong I love going over to Melbourne and its social scene.Definatly would not live there though.