Have you considered the people that previously couldn’t walk the distance to the station? It’s awesome you’re happy to walk, but I’d be dreading having to walk up that hill from Central with a child in tow, or an older relative.
I mean what did you actually expect would change in your match day experience? The tram wasn’t exactly linked to the stadium and is a separate situation. But at the end of the day, the stadium exists so that people can go and watch sports being played with the ability to eat and drink and use the toilets. There’s not too many revolutionary ideas that can be implemented to change that concept??
For me, the rebuild means I don’t have to change a shit covered nappy in the middle of a seat that’s most likely been covered in beer and sweat. Plus I can give my daughter something better to snack on than chips that have been fried in month old oil or a meat pie that’s been sitting there for god knows how long.
There are TVs in the parents rooms now - right above the change station. Mate changed his boy there and took a photo he was that impressed - only missed as long as it took him to walk to the room. Perfect. Actually looking forward to more family friendly times in the coming years so our group gets bigger and bigger as the kids can come along.
Nothing will ever impress this person.
I found the limitation of these on Sunday. When someone drapes their arm around their partner sitting next to them in front of you. Blocks your access and risks sweat running down their arm and dropping into the cup on hot days.
My solution was to constantly be drinking my beer.
I posted in this thread I think it was, about a guy in a wheelchair at the Roosters vs Souths game who couldn’t stop talking about how amazed he was at being able to watch a game from the sideline for the first time in his life.
The new stadium has changed everything for him. Even if very little has changed for me (which is not actually the case) the fact that everything has changed for a lot of other people is worthwhile in my opinion.
I think it’s a huge blessing and oversight in all this convo that the old stadium had no real major emergencies having to evacuate a large crowd.
Functional is a loaded term and subjective for individuals. But two aspects that most won’t ever consider are accessibility and fire/emergency evacuation. Those with physical disabilities are far greater served, fire/escape provisions are a million times improved.
Even more simply speaking, a friend of mine was able to wheel his infant door to door in a stroller including public transport with little trouble, which is a massive advantage.
Personally I’ve ditched the car to home games and enjoying the walk/train/tram trip in. It also cut 10min off my door to door trip compared to a car. I also live 10min from Kogarah and would still not go back there.
Random question.
Anyone have platnium plus seats and still haven’t got their plastic pass with lanyard? My parents still have a bloody print out peice of paper with their seat numbers on it, pretty poor