Australain Football stadiums overseas

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Fremantle couldn't score a goal at the staples centre.

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yob wrote:Fremantle couldn't score a goal at the staples centre.
Maybe you are thinking it's more suited to a Nate Myles touchdown .

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"for the week"

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“The result is our very own “MCG” in Potch - a ground comparable in size to the Sydney Cricket Ground
sounds like its bigger than both... :der:


check out the seating for 100000 in the background... are the trees the boundary line?

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The new MCG = "Miller lite, Carlton ale & Grolsch" :lol:

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Anyone have the playing field dimensions for this new one in Durban?

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Looks ANZ'ish. :wink:

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Do they want an AFL side from Durban?

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RobertHeatleyStand wrote:Anyone have the playing field dimensions for this new one in Durban?
Not sure of the dimensions but there are some brilliant shots from the air on the site below.

http://www.flyafrica.info/forums/showthread.php?t=23638

The infield is sized for a future athletics track and appears to be about 182m x 115m give or take a few metres so it is about the same size as the Olympiastadion in Berlin. For the World Cup the ground will have 70,000 seats but 16,000 of these will be removed post Cup.

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Egan wrote:Do they want an AFL side from Durban?
No AFL side as such but there's talk (SEN) of a possible future exhibition match...

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gyfox wrote:
RobertHeatleyStand wrote:Anyone have the playing field dimensions for this new one in Durban?
Not sure of the dimensions but there are some brilliant shots from the air on the site below.

http://www.flyafrica.info/forums/showthread.php?t=23638

The infield is sized for a future athletics track and appears to be about 182m x 115m give or take a few metres so it is about the same size as the Olympiastadion in Berlin. For the World Cup the ground will have 70,000 seats but 16,000 of these will be removed post Cup.
Thanks . . . from that site - Stadium: 320m x 280m x 45m

The infield looks wider and more oval'ish than Berlin to me.

The extra seats (like Cape Town) will be a temp third tier that will only be used for major events. It will be installed just prior to the WC along with the FIFA garnishing and taken down shortly after.

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RobertHeatleyStand wrote:
gyfox wrote:
RobertHeatleyStand wrote:Anyone have the playing field dimensions for this new one in Durban?
Not sure of the dimensions but there are some brilliant shots from the air on the site below.

http://www.flyafrica.info/forums/showthread.php?t=23638

The infield is sized for a future athletics track and appears to be about 182m x 115m give or take a few metres so it is about the same size as the Olympiastadion in Berlin. For the World Cup the ground will have 70,000 seats but 16,000 of these will be removed post Cup.
Thanks . . . from that site - Stadium: 320m x 280m x 45m

The infield looks wider and more oval'ish than Berlin to me.

The extra seats (like Cape Town) will be a temp third tier that will only be used for major events. It will be installed just prior to the WC along with the FIFA garnishing and taken down shortly after.
Skyscrapercity has a thread on the stadium and on page 26 there are cross sections of the various stadiums. By scaling off the cross sections the Moses Mabhida Stadium is 115m across the infield as I estimated/interpreted from Google Earth.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... 2%26um%3D1

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Can't find Nines's posts anywhere lauding the work of Brian Clarke here in the UK in his attempts to promote Australian Football in this country, so here will do.

DISCLAIMER: The following is all second/third hand information
Scuttlebut around the Aussie Rules community here is that Mr Clarke overstayed his visa, and when asked to produce said visa by his employers, Sport England, promptly went to Heathrow. This has resulted in Sport England cutting all funding to Australian Football and the 9-a-side ARUK competition being in disarray.

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It's all a conspiracy.

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kilonewton wrote:Can't find Nines's posts anywhere lauding the work of Brian Clarke here in the UK in his attempts to promote Australian Football in this country, so here will do.

DISCLAIMER: The following is all second/third hand information
Scuttlebut around the Aussie Rules community here is that Mr Clarke overstayed his visa, and when asked to produce said visa by his employers, Sport England, promptly went to Heathrow. This has resulted in Sport England cutting all funding to Australian Football and the 9-a-side ARUK competition being in disarray.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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