News GMHBA Stadium Stage 5 Redevelopment

[Tony Barber]

We used the 3g when we come home from LA bc Telstra uses that for the prepaid local system when we come home to use local numbers and not get charged the seppo international roaming fees.
Was a great network. Have no doubt quality of service has dropped bc 3g while slow at least worked everywhere

Go Catters

The loss of 3g did plenty of other damage. i.e I have an older BMW. BMW's entertainment system and also help system all used 3g. Lots of people now have entertainment systems that are effectively bricks.
Plenty of people paid subscriptions so that if something went wrong they could directly contact BMW to get roadside assistance etc.

 

[cats_09]

 

[bombersboy]

That photo really shows up the Hickey stand. Looks out of place. I remember when it was built and thought how good it looked. State Government is bankrupt so we will have to live with it for a long time. When it does come time for redevelopment it will need to cantilever over Moorabool Street. Would that be allowed or would local residents object? Could it lift the ground capacity by another 5000 or so?

 

[Tony Barber]

That photo really shows up the Hickey stand. Looks out of place. I remember when it was built and thought how good it looked. State Government is bankrupt so we will have to live with it for a long time. When it does come time for redevelopment it will need to cantilever over Moorabool Street. Would that be allowed or would local residents object? Could it lift the ground capacity by another 5000 or so?

It would be a massive waste of money. Won't happen.

 

[cats_09]

 

[iameviljez]

That photo really shows up the Hickey stand. Looks out of place. I remember when it was built and thought how good it looked. State Government is bankrupt so we will have to live with it for a long time. When it does come time for redevelopment it will need to cantilever over Moorabool Street. Would that be allowed or would local residents object? Could it lift the ground capacity by another 5000 or so?

IMO we need to fill out what we have before eyeing off the bulldozers again.

 

[bombersboy]

IMO we need to fill out what we have before eyeing off the bulldozers again.

I would agree with you but I'm not sure there is much scope for anything without the bulldozers. The ramps either end of the Hickey stand and how close the light tower is to the ground at the river end of the Hickey stand will severely limit any "filling in". In my initial post I did say that I thought redevelopment of the stand was a long way off.

 

[iameviljez]

I would agree with you but I'm not sure there is much scope for anything without the bulldozers. The ramps either end of the Hickey stand and how close the light tower is to the ground at the river end of the Hickey stand will severely limit any "filling in". In my initial post I did say that I thought redevelopment of the stand was a long way off.

Sorry, by "filling out" I mean getting a capacity crowd.

 

[magic_johnson!]

That photo really shows up the Hickey stand. Looks out of place. I remember when it was built and thought how good it looked. State Government is bankrupt so we will have to live with it for a long time. When it does come time for redevelopment it will need to cantilever over Moorabool Street. Would that be allowed or would local residents object? Could it lift the ground capacity by another 5000 or so?

I think there’s opportunity to make something of its uniqueness; celebrate somehow its differences from the rest of the ground and contrast it even more. As you say, in isolation it is a unique and nice stand, but in its new context sometimes looks a little out of place. It would be wasteful and currently unnecessary to be replaced, but there’s probably things that could be done in the next 5 or so years to improve it.

I’ve mentioned before that having the standing room on the bottom level rather than in the Selwood stand could have been fun. Making more of the premiership flags and having one for each of the premiership would be great. Something like a contrasting seat colour could work, but a bit wasteful. Perfect spot for a return of a ‘go cats’ pattern.

 

[kurt_kb]

Still struggling to understand the necessity of this. The existing one was already large, so are they making it larger? It'd be nice if they could make use of the existing screen real estate and actually present basic information like the current time or quarter number, or even the score in the BBL instead of filling a quarter of the screen with logos or ads.

 

[cats_09]

Still struggling to understand the necessity of this. The existing one was already large, so are they making it larger? It'd be nice if they could make use of the existing screen real estate and actually present basic information like the current time or quarter number, or even the score in the BBL instead of filling a quarter of the screen with logos or ads.

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The old one had reached the end of its life and was in desperate need of replacement - I took the photo below didn't the season & it gives an indication of how pixelated it was

That black square in the A isn't meant to be black, and over the past season there was increasing periods where the patch of black would extend to a decent portion of the screen before returning to normal some minutes later

I'm not sure the size of the new screen compared with the old, but it's a def requirement

Totally agree though about making better use of the real-estate on the screen

 

[kurt_kb]

The old one had reached the end of its life and was in desperate need of replacement - I took the photo below didn't the season & it gives an indication of how pixelated it was

That black square in the A isn't meant to be black, and over the past season there was increasing periods where the patch of black would extend to a decent portion of the screen before returning to normal some minutes later

I'm not sure the size of the new screen compared with the old, but it's a def requirement

Totally agree though about making better use of the real-estate on the screen

True actually. Reminded me that I took this one in April. At least it was better than this most of the time.

 

[pattymalone00]

Still struggling to understand the necessity of this. The existing one was already large, so are they making it larger? It'd be nice if they could make use of the existing screen real estate and actually present basic information like the current time or quarter number, or even the score in the BBL instead of filling a quarter of the screen with logos or ads.

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The old one had reached the end of its life and was in desperate need of replacement - I took the photo below didn't the season & it gives an indication of how pixelated it was

That black square in the A isn't meant to be black, and over the past season there was increasing periods where the patch of black would extend to a decent portion of the screen before returning to normal some minutes later

I'm not sure the size of the new screen compared with the old, but it's a def requirement

Totally agree though about making better use of the real-estate on the screen

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I’ve always laughed and it’s probably not that big of a deal but the Geelong scoreboards have to be the only scoreboard in the afl that didn’t display the quarter surely