New SFS roof

[dibo]

Not at the Melbourne game I popped along to the other week, and I doubt they'll be clearly visible this weekend against the scum.

[gyfox]

Hmmm… plan for SFS roof and improvements to match day experience are in the news again. Is the Government interested or are the proponents just waving the concept in front of the new Minister's face?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... 6922080457

[Boba Fett]

Hmmm… plan for SFS roof and improvements to match day experience are in the news again. Is the Government interested or are the proponents just waving the concept in front of the new Minister's face?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... 6922080457

The latter I would presume. Certainly nothing that qualifies as 'news' in this article. And considering the Federal Budget has just ripped billions out of health and education, I can't imagine the State government is going to have too much money to throw at stadium upgrades in the foreseeable future.

[yob]

WIFI. That should really help with the glaring shortcomings of the goal ends being too far from the action and having crowd flow dynamics approaching Hillsborough standard.

[dibo]

Wifi solves everything Yob.

But seriously, bringing the ends in so that they're similar gradient and distance to other rectangular grounds (so doing away with the flattened out front dozen rows and bringing the fencelines in by about 5m on each end) would make a massive difference.

The stadium at present is effectively bounded within a 200m circle. The present configuration of the lower tier means it's very hard to clear it out quickly. A steeper lower tier could create the opportunity to have exits through vomitories to a bigger lower concourse, and create space within the stadium for corporate boxes to sit at the top of that tier rather than around the ends.

A bonus is that views would improve for everyone on the lower deck, and especially for corporate guests.

[Rob]

Gee, I never would have expected a Sydney venue coming up with ridiculous plans for stadia expansion that will never happen.

[Boba Fett]

Gee, I never would have expected a Sydney venue coming up with ridiculous plans for stadia expansion that will never happen.

It's worse than that - a quarter of a billion dollars to be spent for, wait for it, NO expansion. A roof, wifi and some fancy lighting effects is what you get. The other laughable thing about that article was that despite the proposed roof being the centrepiece of the proposal, one of the images used shows the SFS WITHOUT a roof. And the article mentions a rooftop swimming pool, yet the image clearly shows the pool on the ground.

And the muppet who wrote the article has the very grandiose title of 'editor-at-large'. Quality News Ltd journalism strikes again...

[yob]

On the bright side, I've found a football stadium with a more useless roof:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... s_Park.jpg

Home of the MLS' Colorado Rapids.

[dibo]

Nice little ground with a completely pointless roof.

[Orel Puppington]

That's like Subiaco Oval's roof

[Simmo79]

What were they thinking?

[yob]

It's very context specific. In Colorado you will have a long bitter winter. The snow falls on the roof and it stays there. The roof is fragmented to prevent there being what equates to a massive heavy glacier sitting on the structure and stressing it for 3 months+. As it's a football specific stadium, and football is a summer league, the roof appears to be designed around the sun access plain, to provide sun protection and nothing else.

So basically you get 2 hours a day of sun protection for part of Summer to avoid the damaging effects of sun exposure in a freezing cold state, where you're about 10 times more likely to die from catching machine gun fire than from a melanoma.

[the crow]

It's kind of like the roof that was proposed at Perth in the reference design wasn't it?..... Goes to show dicks shouldn't design stadiums.

[gyfox]

The roof might get up in the NSW Government's $600m stadium upgrade plan. Latest rumour is that SFS will get half of the money to upgrade to 50k + roof.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/o ... 7162422005