Stadium debate

[Brissysaint]

So my fine city of brisbane is hosting the Olympics in 2032, the main debate is why we would even want to host considering the cost but the second raging debate going on is what to do with the stadium The Gabba, knock down and rebuild or refurbish?

It had major renovations done in 2005 about one hundered and sixty million  (site has been around since late 1800’s) and people are saying it’s at ‘end of life’ in 2030 so knock it down, I do not know what end of life means in that context and no one can tell me, will it just fall down on its own? Who knows.

it’s been called the worst major stadium in Australia and has lost the rights to international cricket.

SO my question to the brains trust is this,

considering it’s Reno makes it a bit younger than our Saint Marys (although that was built brand new) and considerably younger than most English football grounds who haven’t had any major work done for years what is your opinion on the state of our stadium and stadia around the country? 

I have been to st Mary’s as a young lad so I don’t remember much but I’ve been to the Gabba recently and it seemed fine, if you’ve been to the Gabba and could compare to English stadiums that would be great too.

[Brissysaint]

Also do you think English fans have a different mindset about it than other countries and we are just more American as in everything has to be big brand new and shiny?

[Patrick Bateman]

My main takeaway from this thread is that the 2032 olympics will be at an unwatchable time of day 🙄

[Saint_clark]

I don't get the recent (last decade really) push back against the Olympics due to cost. Lots of things that aren't necessary cost a lot of money. What a boring existence where we don't pay for anything unless it's vital to sustaining human life. 

I'd wager as well that the financial benefit in short and long term is far greater than the cost. 

[Brissysaint]

13 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

I don't get the recent (last decade really) push back against the Olympics due to cost. Lots of things that aren't necessary cost a lot of money. What a boring existence where we don't pay for anything unless it's vital to sustaining human life. 

I'd wager as well that the financial benefit in short and long term is far greater than the cost. 

There’s a lot of resentment here for a few reason, a lot to do with general distrust of state and federal governments. We won the bid and our state leader flew to Japan to celebrate while the state was locked down due to covid, we’re currently going through a bad housing crisis whilst receiving way more immigration than we can handle, most of the parks around the city have homeless people living in tents which would’ve been unheard of 10 years ago and nothings really done about it. cost of living is through the roof. So spending upwards of 8 billion on the olympics seems a bit off. 
 

plus Queensland government has a track record of building fairly poor infrastructure that goes wayyyyyy over budget so a lot of people don’t really trust them to get this right. 

[GDog07]

4 hours ago, Brissysaint said:

There’s a lot of resentment here for a few reason, a lot to do with general distrust of state and federal governments. We won the bid and our state leader flew to Japan to celebrate while the state was locked down due to covid, we’re currently going through a bad housing crisis whilst receiving way more immigration than we can handle, most of the parks around the city have homeless people living in tents which would’ve been unheard of 10 years ago and nothings really done about it. cost of living is through the roof. So spending upwards of 8 billion on the olympics seems a bit off. 
 

plus Queensland government has a track record of building fairly poor infrastructure that goes wayyyyyy over budget so a lot of people don’t really trust them to get this right. 

Sounds just like the UK 🤣

[Convict Colony]

Interesting I am surprised they are wanting to knock down the gabba given its primarily AFL and cricket the ground doesnt seem to have the right config for olympic sports as the playing surface is too big, although they will probably compress it and use the outside sections more.

Would of thought they either build a new one somewhere else with a retractable roof and one of those sliding pitch things and then knockdown suncorp after the olympics have finished so the reds and broncos can play there.

Edited February 10 by Convict Colony

[Farmer Saint]

Don't knock down the Gabba - such a legendary cricket venue 😮

[Brissysaint]

2 hours ago, Convict Colony said:

Interesting I am surprised they are wanting to knock down the gabba given its primarily AFL and cricket the ground doesnt seem to have the right config for olympic sports as the playing surface is too big, although they will probably compress it and use the outside sections more.

Would of thought they either build a new one somewhere else with a retractable roof and one of those sliding pitch things and then knockdown suncorp after the olympics have finished so the reds and broncos can play there.

The problem is there’s nowhere else to build one, we have absolutely awful public transport to the outer suburbs which would have land available or existing infrastructure.

There’s no way they will touch Suncorp. It’s a brilliant stadium though.

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

Don't knock down the Gabba - such a legendary cricket venue 😮

you won’t be seeing it in international cricket anytime soon given it’s ‘current state’ anyway unfortunately 

[swannymere]

I like the Gabba, the transport links are a little shit and it's surrounded by hills which is a pain in the arse when walking in the Queensland heat. The beer and food are much better than St.Mary's from memory and the vendors have plenty of staff. I don't share the opinion that it should be knocked down.

[Colinjb]

This thread is painting a very different image to the one given of Brisbane in 'Bluey.'

Knocking down the Gabba, what next? Closing down Hammerbarn? 

 

[East Kent Saint]

The olympics needs serious rethinking , reduce it to athletics only , only use existing arenas or if a new one is built it must have a use afterwards etc .