This seems kinda odd to me. Football in Adelaide has never had the Us v Them mentality. Sure the Advertiser had a crack at it, but in the real world it just doesn't exist. For me in the schoolyard it was always a case that the aussie rules kids helped us out in the 'wogs on dogs' soccer matches, and the wogs all followed AC Milan and Norwood.Adelaide_United_Red wrote:I agree, but the only sporting club that could get away with something like that in this NIMBified city are the Crows, Seeing as there is still a healthy mentality Football is for Shiela's Wogs and p**ftas in Adelaide(just my opinion-there are plenty of folk writing into AdelaideNow that seemingly can't wait for the Socceroos to fail in ZA - how un-Australian is that to barrack against your own country?) , I dream of a day when Adelaide United FC can garner the support required to build hindmarsh into a 20k seat fortress like the Pohang Steelyard is in Korea.yob wrote:Heritage buildings are problems that can be engineered around. Pick it up and move it. It's been done before, even in Adelaide. For example, a building on Vic Sq was moved to accomodate the SGIC building.Adelaide_United_Red wrote:One thing I'm really hoping for once the Young consortium takes over AdUnited is that if a few home games are moved to AdelaideOval and the crowds respond as they did in Melbourne when Victory moved its home games to Docklands, that a case can be made for expanding Hindmarsh up towards 20,000. The only areas I can see where that could happen though are a taller (and steeper) Eastern stand that tracks back further towards Manton Street and filling some of the corners inwith a second tier (however I believe there is a heritage building in the SE corner that is protected that hems the stadium in even more than is triangular plot of land. I imagine plenty of stadium nerds have thought through the dreams for a bigger Hindmarsh...anyone care to share pics? I love stadium pr0n, even if it is only dream pr0n!
Think about it. If theere was prejudice toward football at a government level, your problems would've started at getting the first 15,000 seats, not the last 5,000.
