Build up Sky Park until Wentworth is up for sale/redevelopment 
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If the government knew this was coming then the stadium should have had a retractable pitch similar to the Tottenham or Real Madrid stadiums.
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While the surface was seemingly playable, the Cove end looked pretty awful after this year’s concerts…
And all you need is a downpour during a concert and I suspect the crowd on the ground can wreck the grass under the plastic.
Given the Cove End is built to have seats removed, could you build a stage over concrete rather than grass.
Depends on the weight of the stage.
And international acts that use these big stadiums tend to have custom stage set ups that may not work with tiers underneath it.
The sensible thing to do would be to do what the seppos do
Some facilities (for example SeatGeek Stadium, Toyota Stadium and Historic Crew Stadium) have a permanent stage at one end of the stadium used for staging concerts.
Yeah, that’s a little bit fucked. Confirm 20 concerts a year and can bet your bottom dollar most of them will be Summer / Spring and impacting our season rather than Winter.
That is fucked, especially ad it conveniently doesn’t impact the Roosters or Tahs nearly as much.
How many home games do Chooks and Waratahs play collectively? Surely it’s more than 20? Having said that, obviously concerts tear the ground to shit more.
What’s the cap for Commbank? I was supposed to attend a concert there in February but it got pushed back to October.
Time for another rebuild then, this time we’re definitely getting that LED curtain!
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Yeah, great, fab, Chris Minns. We have to suffer for the sake of “revitalising nightlife”. I don’t know, maybe something like better and later running transport would help. Last bus from Central to Glebe on a Saturday night/Sunday morning is at 1am? Last L1 between the Star and Dulwich Hill at 11:30 every single night.
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And an actual roof!
I like how part of the pitch that’s still fucked from the concert three months ago is clearly visible in the press photos from the announcement that they’ll up it to 20 per year:
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I’ve also been kinda concerned that neither the club nor the FA nor any prominent football voices really went on the front foot on this where it was clearly being canvassed through the media months ago.
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Chris Minns is such a moron, you can just imagine the Utopia plot that led up to this.
Music is considered legit art and entertainment and sport just isn. The attitude became clear to me in the midst of the pandemic.
One of the papers called him “Chris Rock” (Geddit, cuz music.). Maybe a slap is coming.
Would there be 20 “acts” a year touring Aus that would have a big enough pull to justify using the stadium?
That’s what I’m thinking. This is the new cap. It doesn’t mean there’ll actually be 20 concerts each year.
It’s a taxpayer funded stadium, it isn’t ours, Easts or Waratahs.
Anything that gets more use out of a $800m stadium is a good thing.
It is up to the club to negotiate a good deal when it comes to how much we pay for hiring the venue.
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Sydney Football Stadium should probably be fit for the purpose of Football.
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Nobody is saying it’s ours, Eddie. We’re just suggesting perhaps tenants deserve some degree of respect when it comes to planning. Once again, with most concerts being in spring and summer, the move affects the AL more than the NRL or SR. It’s like when they put the megascreens in at the old stadium during our season, the only sport where people generally stand at the ends even when it isn’t full.