WIN Stadium, Wollongong

[kilonewton]

I disagree entirely with that. Singing for a club requires emotional investment that usually comes with regular spectators. Taking a game outside your usual fan base is about drawing new people who would contemplte beginning that kind of relationship. It's not realistic to expect them to jump in straight away.

The likely make up of the crowd at Wollongong will be fans of Sydney FC, fans of the code that do not attend A League and curious eventers from the town. The whole purpose of this exercise is to get the latter two groups.

Why is it that some football fans think that you can't enjoy a match if you're not standing and singing the whole way through?

[Cheesie-the-Pirate]

[Jeffles]

Ta.

I'm quite taken by the roof.

Maybe the Dragons were too busy looking up there in defence...

[yob]

I'm struggling with the thought water will simply run off the sides.

[the crow]

I'm concerned how that thing is going to work in a good on shore breeze... How are they going to change the lights to the under side of the roof.

[Simmo79]

so this stand will be completely open by 24 September??

[Cheesie-the-Pirate]

No I don't think so. Last I head was that the redevelopment was due to be completed by around January.

[Boba Fett]

Really? Over four months worth of work to go? It looks almost ready to go from the pictures you posted - which were great by the way.

[Simmo79]

so this stand will be completely open by 24 September??

I f***ed up. SFC's fan day is at Kogarah, not the Gong. Lousy Nine network affiliate stadiums!

[Jeffles]

Some of the locals may want to tear that roof down.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news ... 69647.aspx

[Cheesie-the-Pirate]

Some of the locals may want to tear that roof down.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news ... 69647.aspx

I remember reading that and noting what quality article that doesn't even consider the two key questions:

1. Do BlueScope even make the products required for the stand,
2. What is the price differential?

Fundamentally do we want the Port Kembla works to sell steel overseas and to other regions in Australia? I assume for most the answer is yes. Can we therefore really expect that overseas countries and other regions in Australia won't sell steel to the Illawarra region?

[Jeffles]

Governments are already generous by having favouring quotes within their allowable differential. The steel, if appropriate must have been that much more expensive.

They can't win. If they used local steel the headline would have been "cost blowout" or "$x million for a tiny stand."

[yob]

Some of the locals may want to tear that roof down.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news ... 69647.aspx

I remember reading that and noting what quality article that doesn't even consider the two key questions:

1. Do BlueScope even make the products required for the stand,
2. What is the price differential?

Fundamentally do we want the Port Kembla works to sell steel overseas and to other regions in Australia? I assume for most the answer is yes. Can we therefore really expect that overseas countries and other regions in Australia won't sell steel to the Illawarra region?

Bluescope = flat steel products. Onesteel = long steel products.

[the crow]

I did a job for BHP 15 years ago and had to order stainless steel from The UK....

[Spirit of Santos]

WIN Stadium roof buckles in high winds
BEVAN SHIELDS
20 Sep, 2011 03:39 PM
Emergency services are rushing to WIN Stadium’s western grandstand, which has buckled under gale-force winds.

Both ends of the newly completed roof have buckled after strong winds buffeted Wollongong this afternoon.

Engineers on site have deemed the situation a critical incident.

Witnesses say a large structural beam appears to have snapped.

The Steelers Club has been evacuated as a precaution and parts of Harbour and Burelli streets have been closed due to the dangerous conditions.

Police have extended the exclusion zone as the risk of collapse grows.

Employee Megan Jarrett was one of a number of staff members and around 20 patrons evacuated half an hour ago.

‘‘All we know is that we were told it might blow over,’’ she said.

Illawarra Mercury journalist Mario Christodoulou reported the grandstand roof was in a precarious state.

‘‘Every time the wind picks up it seems to be teetering back and forwards,’’ he said.

‘‘It is moving more and more with each gust of wind.’’

Construction on the $29 million grandstand had been nearing its final stages.

The roof is held together by two trusses, each weighing nearly 50 tonnes.

The structure is so large and heavy a 450-tonne crane was required to install it in May this year.

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news ... 98049.aspx