as long as the force can play at MES in 2010
They built a whole new stadium for the Llanelli Scarlett in under a year. It looks great too if a little short on seats
http://www.scarlets.co.uk/stadium/
why start at the start of the playing season? why not AFTER the season?Originally Posted by KenyaQuin
They did that same craziness at Leederville Oval or whatever TF its called now, right before the start of the WAFL season. Sat in the stand looking at huge piles of sand for most of the season.
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You think that A government and probably a Union (CFMEU) project would have any logic to it?
If 18 months is the construction period, obviously it will impact both Football and Rugby, UNLESS Rugby stays at Subi until completion, which you would think they would.
I wonder If the Glory would in fact continue to play at MES through the construction, they Played at Arena Joondalup when MES was first redeveloped, I wonder if they would look to do something similar to that. Every way I think about it, the construction period of 18 months will impact at least a season and a half for the Glory (unless it started today)
I think the likelyhood of the Force playing its regular season matches at MES for the 2010 season is pretty remote.
If they did so - they would loose $$$,$$$ from the corporates they are unable to look after.
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If it is 18 month from February 2010, I wuldn't count on playing at MES 2011 either. But when they say it will take 18 months, it will depend on the construction methodology. If the idea is some Subi style concrete monolith, then yeah, it will be your typical Multiplex/Leighton clusterf***. But that is not how everywhere else in the world delivers fast, low cost stadia - they use steel. In that case, the stand would largely comprise prefabricated units and, while there will be some ground works (particularly levelling and piling), it won't take a year and a half. Design would be committed in February, the rest of the year used in other upgrade works and steel prefab for the stand, with groundworks maybe around the end of the year and grandstand installation early 2011.
MES currently claims 34 corporate boxes and 13 executive suites, so what they must be talking about is additional suites rather than the cubicle type areas in the existing grandstand. They will presumably be retained, but I would like to see them have a look at refitting the existing stand - there really does seem to be a lot of wasted space as it is currently laid out. I assume some refit is inevitable anyway, for coaches boxes and broadcasting facilities as a minimum.
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