I’ve always had a big group but will have to get social this year, as I am Han Soloing it… I think that’s the issue with the Clubhouse. I couldn’t understand whether you can buy tix for friends (don’t think so), plus it was out of price range for most of my casual mates. I’m pretty social so just see it as a new opportunity.
I saw a picture of a bunch of craft/independent beers. Does anyone know where those are served and if it is somewhere accessible to all?
Was out of town for the weekend so couldn’t get to the open day. All the pictures look great! Excited to get in there now.
Probably double the cost in construction materials just for the roof and support.
And then you ideally need a rollout field (as grass under domes struggles (see Melbourne) for which there isn’t really space at the SFS site.
That and can you imagine being in a dome in 40C heat? The aircon would have to be mental
Just whack some R7.0 up there.
Small world fellas… also in Row S of the same bay. I didn’t manage to get to the stadium on the weekend though from the images tend to agree that we might be getting a little wet when there is inclement weather around… Did you managed to perch yourself in that seat/row to see for yourself?
I didn’t get to go (I’m still overseas) so I’ll just see what it’s like in the first game. Seriously can’t wait.
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They have the fluro grow lights on the pitch during the night, these days it doesn’t matter when you lay turf on professional sport fields
Yeah I did, in row R. It’s under the roof by a good few metres. But the roof is very high, so I don’t reckon it won’t take much wind to wet a lot of the bottom deck.
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It really does matter what time of year turf is established. The turf combo typically used on sydneys sports stadiums is couch sown with perrinial rye. Couch becomes dormant and growth slows down when night temps drop below around 14°c and perrinial rye slows doen when temps drop below around 18°c. Chlorophyll simply can’t photosynthesise light at low temps no matter how much light is supplied.
It’s why stadiums are regularly returfed during the a league season and not the nrl season.
Edit: just did a bit of reading on stadium grow lights. It is plausible to use HPS lights that give of radiant heat and in turn heat the growing surface to help establish and maintain turf during winter. Fluoro or led wouldn’t provide the heat provided. Crazy to think how much electricity would be required for some of those systems. If they’ve got something like this in place at the new stadium I hope the thing is covered in solar panels.
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NERD!
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Ha. Greenkeeper once upon a time.
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Roy and HG from this weekend just past went into some detail on the composition of the new stadium turf, the name of which two cultivars are used escapes me, however.
Was some info upthread. Still a couch + rye combo, but a different couch to what’s been used previously.
Kinda surprised they’re not using some form of re-usable cup for the beer.
The new stadium over here (SoFi) has aluminium cups and you get $1 off your next beer if you bring it back.
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Same deal in Germany, you pay a deposit on the cup for your first beer to get a reusable thick plastic cup. At the end of the match you can return it and get your deposit back.
It’s common in Germany for lots of public events, not just at stadiums.
I went to a Big Bash game in Sydney a couple of years ago and they had reusable plastic cups, sounds similar to what himmelblau mentioned. I think you paid a deposit for them, which you could get back if you returned the cup at the end of the game. It was only like $2 or something like that.
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Was trialled at the Showgrounds / Giants stadium for a couple of years and was meant to be coming to the SCG but then all went quiet.
Was using Wise cups
https://itsinyourhands.com.au/
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Yeh something like that would be cool.
I get rolling out new tech to old stadiums would take time but for a brand new stadium to not have the latest and greatest is a bit surprising.