Parra Stadium Porn (Now Parramatta Upgrade Thread)

[yob]

For many the value of a membership is you don't have to worry, or line up, for tickets to the 3 good games.

[RobertHeatleyStand]

Perfect weather last weekend for the WSW. Biggest home crowd in four matches of 12,124, or 59% of capacity. Yep, really need those extra few thousand seats.

NSW SES Sydney Western Region
March 22
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for LARGE HAILSTONES
For people in the Illawarra and parts of the Hunter, Metropolitan and Central Tablelands Forecast Districts.

Saturday, 22 March 2014.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones in the warning area over the next several hours. Locations which may be affected include Penrith, Wollongong, Bowral, Campbelltown, Bathurst and Katoomba.

NSW SES Sydney Western Region
March 22
#Parramatta has now also been included in the storm warning.

The State Emergency Service advises that people should:
* Move your car under cover or away from trees.
* Secure or put away loose items around your house, yard and balcony.
* Keep clear of fallen power lines.
* Keep clear of creeks and storm drains.
* Don't walk, ride your bike or drive through flood water.
* If you are trapped by flash flooding, seek refuge in the highest available
place and ring 000 if you need rescue.
* Unplug computers and appliances.
* Avoid using the phone during the storm.
* Stay indoors away from windows, and keep children and pets indoors as well.
* For emergency help in floods and storms, ring the SES [NSW and ACT] on 132
500.

NSW SES Sydney Western Region
March 23
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for LARGE HAILSTONES, HEAVY RAINFALL and DAMAGING WIND
For people in the Metropolitan,
Illawarra and parts of the Central Tablelands Forecast Districts.

Issued at 12:16 pm Sunday, 23 March 2014.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce large hailstones, heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding and damaging winds in the warning area over the next
several hours. Locations which may be affected include Penrith, Parramatta, Wollongong, Nowra, Bowral, Campbelltown, Orange, Bathurst and Katoomba.

"Perfect weather last weekend for WSW". Yeah, right.

"Biggest home crowd in four matches of 12,124, or 59% of capacity." Not surprising given the weather forecasts all weekend.

2 March v Newcastle - 15mm of rain fell on the day of the game.

16 March v Adelaide - 17.2mm of rain fell immediately before kick off causing the game to be delayed.

You do realise that 65% of seats are not under cover at Pirtek and that in February and March in Sydney when they forecast storms they are talking about rainfall events that often deliver 25mm+ an hour.

Oh, and the 4th "low crowd"? The midweek ACL game. Come on now. 9.3k midweek is well above par.

The last non midweek, non rain affected game at Pirtek was a sell out with 16,401 in attendance.

Muddy car flaps

[gyfox]

Muddy car flaps

Nah, probably washed clean if you happen to be in the storm like hit the area the next afternoon.

Man swept to his death in drain
Two people struck by lightning
Bankstown belted by 56mm of rain
Drivers trapped in cars by floods

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/a ... 6863091506

[dibo]

Simple thing for WSW is to raise membership prices and ask people to make a bigger commitment. If it's cheap enough that people brush games off, the they aren't paying enough.

[bazza]

Perfect weather last weekend for the WSW. Biggest home crowd in four matches of 12,124, or 59% of capacity. Yep, really need those extra few thousand seats.

The Eels have now won 2 home games - so someone will need them

[St James]

Sell out at Parra Stadium today.
Crowd - 18631.
No way was there 2000 empty seats.

[gyfox]

Sell out at Parra Stadium today.
Crowd - 18631.
No way was there 2000 empty seats.

There is a post on WestSydneyFootball site where the Eels are saying they sold 20,207 tickets.

[St James]

Sell out at Parra Stadium today.
Crowd - 18631.
No way was there 2000 empty seats.

There is a post on WestSydneyFootball site where the Eels are saying they sold 20,207 tickets.

Yeh, saw that. Quoted from a newspaper article in one of the Sunday rags. It was a quote from "an official".
Still, my query (claim) still stands. No chance of 2000 empty seats yesterday. Despite its claimed capacity, I'd be surprised if we see another over 20000 attendance again at Parra before any upgrade.

[bazza]

Maybe there were 1,071 empty seats and no one turned up the corporate areas

http://www.parramattastadium.com.au/pag ... -the-venue

[gyfox]

The Eels are to develop training grounds and facilities in North Parramatta. That should clear the way for the upgrade of Pirtek to start and allow the dollars to stretch a bit further.

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/newsloca ... 7058871235

[yob]

if the Eels build a 'high performance training centre' i'm baffled as to who will be using it

[Boba Fett]

if the Eels build a 'high performance training centre' i'm baffled as to who will be using it

Wanderers?

[gyfox]

The stadium upgrade is on again. Seems it will start mid October and be finished by September next season with the stadium remaining operational throughout.

http://m.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw ... 7073281274

[dibo]

Brilliant design...





...if your primary motivation is to preclude any further expansion.

[Boba Fett]

I'm yet to be convinced that the capacity needs to be much more than 25k anyway.