World Cup 2011 - Stadia

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10671090

Quake: Stadium suffers minor damage

Christchurch's AMI Stadium has suffered only minor damage in this morning's quake, Rugby NZ 2011 chief executive Martin Snedden says.

"The very preliminary assessment is that there's no structural damage there, that there's a heap of minor breakages and what not, but no structural damage," Mr Snedden told NZPA.

"They tell me they're going to start a proper assessment process on Monday about that, but they say there's nothing they can see with their eyes at the moment."

Mr Snedden said the quake had come just days after Rugby NZ 2011 had looked specifically at how such a situation would be handled if it were to arise during the tournament.

"Last week the group that is responsible for dealing with this type of occurrence had actually run a three-day exercise just dealing with something major and just working through what would happen in these circumstances, so it's certainly something that had already been on our radar in terms of preparing for eventualities and an earthquake's an obvious one," he said.

"It's just a reminder that it's just not theory, it actually can happen, and that will no doubt focus us even further."

[IanRitchie]

apparently the condemned stand at rugby league park is still standing too.

[Jeffles]

Ian

Will you go to Eden Park's open day? Or will you be too busy creating mischief on ABC Grandstand's Facebook page?

[IanRitchie]

decisions, decisions. i'll probably leave the kids on grandstand alone for the day, i think.

[Jeffles]

Don't leave them for too long. It's fkn hilarious.

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Photo's taken by Mr_kiwi_fruit from the Eden Park thread at Skyscrapercity.com







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[IanRitchie]

i f***ing forgot!

[crabs]

i f***ing forgot!

I had "family commitments"

[beastjim]

It's very grey, very very grey.

[crabs]

I actually don't mind the grey, as opposed to Wellington's bright yellow where every vacant seat stands out like a sore thumb.

[Boba Fett]

It's very grey, very very grey.

I agree - it's very drab and austere. The whole ground looks like it belongs in Cold War era East Germany. Functional, but without any artistic merit or colour...

[Jeffles]

Yeah it is grey. Some Auckland blue would've been nice.

It appears the middle section of the bottom tier is retractable but it only extends around 40m either side of half way. My preference would've been to see it extend the whole length like the ASB Stand does along the northern wing.

I get to experience the place proper when I go to the Four Nations. Too broke to buy an airfare but will have to dip into the savings this week.

i f***ing forgot!

Too busy baiting Aussie sports fans on ABC Grandstand's Facebook page?

Actually, I was going to text you yesterday at lunch time to ask if you'd gone. Maybe I should have.

[hot_dogma]

Where the hell is a cricket pitch supposed to fit in there?

[crabs]

Where the hell is a cricket pitch supposed to fit in there?

The Cricket set up -



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And some progress on Dunedins Forsyth Barr Stadium -

[Jeffles]

Fkn love it! Loads better than before.

Dunedin looking good too.