Posts by Yamis
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Aside from people who live on the North Shore is there anybody in Auckland happy to go all the way up to Albany to watch sport?
The Harbour side get about 5,000 along after winning the Ranfurly shield for christssakes.
It is so far behind the waterfront stadium that its not funny. I'd prefer Eden Park over NH simply because it would not draw the numbers.
It would be the biggest white elephant you've ever seen whereas at least the waterfront stadium has a decent hope of being something cool.
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Cheers for the info Gary H. I think though that if Wellington can sell out 30,000 seats Auckland would breeze past 50,000. It can't be at Eden park I suspect because it will no longer exist if a waterfront stadium does. certainly not in it's existing size anyway. And Mt Smart seats less than 30,000 so it is a no go.
North Harbour is also not big enough. I'm also wondering why on earth NH are still suggesting themselves as a legitimate venue. I'd prefer Eden park to that joint. It's barely an Auckland stadium let alone a national one. They need to seriously wake up and smell the flowers, coffee and crap that is rotting between their ears.
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Hager is a loon. I'm not concerned if he wants to come up with yet more stupid conspiracies. It is the Labour Party, through their sudden desire to paint him as a respectable investigative journalist, who have credibility issues here.
Where are they doing this?
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Regardless of motives lets see what National says in its emails. If they have nothing to hide then people can crawl back into their holes.
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On the same theme. The Wellington sevens soldout in a split second today and tickets are 145 bucks.
If the waterfront got that event (which it probably would due to commercial reasons) then you are looking at 8.7 million dollars in ticket sales alone from two days of sport.
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So, aside from the wonderful things we may or may not get out a big stadium, and considering 90,000 seats will seemingly be unlikely to pay it's own way in a city of 1.5 million, has anyone mentioned temporary seating?
Well for starters they are looking at a 60,000 seat stadium not 90,000.
I think it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that it can turn a profit or at least break even. It will draw more to a league test than Mt Smart will so the Kiwis are likely to shift there for tests, and other such things.
One of the issues most stadiums face is that they don't get enough big drawing events/pay days in a year. A waterfront stadium as I've said before will attract more big events than any other venue and in a location which can't really be beaten in terms of accessibility and proximity to the population.
It will have to a be a major stuff up for it to not do quite well at the very least.
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Shortland Street: explosions, death, mayhem, cheating adults, evil villains.
Oh, hang on, that's a normal episode on the tellie. Not much point turning it into a movie.
What Now?: But change the title to WTF Now?! and have a bunch of immature dipshits running round doing crazy things to each other while telling kids not to do this in the home (try it in the garage).
Outrageous Fortunes: but change it to Outrageous Foresk**s and it can be NZs first block buster porn movie. Though having seen bits of it recently it may have already gone there. On that note, anybody remember that TV series from the early 90s or late 80s "Chances" ? I was disappointed. Here was I, a randy teen expecting free to air porn and all I got was ... well nevermind.
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I've heard (and it was a few years ago) that Mt Smart is the only stadium in New Zealand that makes a profit. Just wondering if anybody can confirm or deny this????? Obviously things change for each stadium from year to year because they get a different number of events and different numbers showing up.
If (and it's a big if) a waterfront stadium gets built and goes off is it conceivable that it may actually have some cash left over once all the bills are paid?
It would have significant advantages over other venues in New Zealand, ie location, location, location and also that it would be truly multipurpose. It can feature rugby union, rugby league, cricket, soccer, rock concerts, irb sevens circuit (sorry Wellingtonians) convention facilities and.... ("and...." means I can't think of any more for the moment). Most other venues in NZ are home to one or two teams and feature the odd interntaional match.
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Rich of observationz:
Will eight times more people turn up for the world cup than the Lions tour? Where will they all stay? - they won't be spending much money if they're all sleeping in carparks.
Even if they did, that's only maybe $400million in extra tax revenue - so as taxpayers we're spending $600-1000 mln to make $400mln - doesn't sound like a very good deal to me!
That is phenomenal!!! One event will nearly pay for the entire thing. Build it immediately. A soldout Alll Black test would generate anything from 10-20 million dollars on its own so in a few years its paid for and we actually have some of our waterfront back. It's making more sense by the day. And for the record.... Eden Park's revamp IS NOT BEING DONE FOR FREE OR BY THE NZRU!
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Where in hell was DC educated?