They talk about how running tram lines down to places like North Adelaide will increase foot traffic and patronage to those businesses...

Yet they seem to not understand that the same logic works for having a stadium in the city. If ~50,000 people are going into the city to watch an event, that's a huge number of people that will potentially empty their pockets into hospitality businesses in the CBD.

sell football park

go into partnership with Adelaide Oval, redevelop and bang...fantastic location, super ground and a reduction in wasted space, lets be honest, footy park is used maybe 20 hours aweek out of a possible 168...what a total waste.

That would be the last game of footy I go to see. Its almost impossible to get out of the city when there 20,000 at the cricket, never mind about 40,000 crows fans.

I suppose I could switch to Power, that crowd is more like a 36ers crowd in size anyway!

Not delusional at all, in truth it is our sporting leaders that are delusional.

we have a superb stadium that is used for approx 10% of its usable time.

If the leaders of our codes got togethr and sorted things out, they could both make a very very successful agreement. The costs of running 2 stadia is absurd and unnneccessary.

Here is a thought, imagine that a single entity owned both stadia (umm lets say the government) and they decided to close one down and amalgamate. The owners then decided who got what and when as required by the public interest.

Suddenly, the oval gets a huge upgrade, the sports save themselves a fortune and the public has a great stadium in the best location.

what have we lost?...maybe 2 or 3 days where they would bicker over who should use it?

common sense?...delusional?

who me

so your telling me its easy to get out of footy park??

If it was going to be upgraded and bigger than YES! (But that's not going to happen).

Adelaide Oval should be utilised more and the boost to the city would be substantial.

Pre game early dinner in the city, head to the game (football, cricket, whatever code) and than out for a few drinks afterwards.

I would certainly support the joining of netball and Basketball, again it makes sense.

These kind of amalgamations cause minimal problems for players and fans...its just the administrators that lose their little kingdoms.

the costs to players, fans and the world are much lower, we end up with 1 international quality arena instead of 2 sub par.

can anyone give 3 good reasons why it would not work?

Who Me - have you ever tried to get in to or out of footy park? There are only a couple of main roads that are all majorly congested before and after games. At least in the city there are many more roads in different directions that people can take - also more public transport

3 teams who each train for maybe 3 hours per day on court? (and thats being generous) so fitting them all on court and in change rooms isnt a challenge, (not to mention the differing seasons) and as i said... there will have to be negotiation as to who goes where and when.

This thought was focussed on elite level...not the local netball and basketball comps..nothing would change there.

By the way...Footy and cricket have shared the Oval in the past... just a simple argument about timing and who is more important was the reason for the millions wasted on Footy Park.


The fact that you cannot so much as contemplate an alternative...suggests to me you will have a great career in local sports administration.

again....WHY cant it work...you have not given ANY REASONS at all.

Acceptable reasons do not include because the administrators cant get along.

Not being grundsman, nor an engineer, so i dont have the answer to the pitch... but i am sure if this were to be looked at seriously, it could be overcome.

yes the concessions are admin related, however, if the SANFL and the Cricket Board are both saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in their running, upkeep, power, water, personel, etc etc. then I am sure that could find its way to the grass roots.

And do tell how much revenue has been created at the Adelaide oval and Footy park this month? in fact how much revenue have both locations created in the past 3 months?

You keep saying it...but that doesnt make it right.

I dont expect that they ever will, because petty empire building is more important to the people in power. BUT, as a fan you would be much better served if they combined.

Yes they have corporate facilities, which i know very well just how much use they get (i have used them myself on many occasions) I also know those facilities would be even better if they were at one location.

There is no question that both the footballing and cricketing public would be better off if they combined and rebuilt the adelaide oval. It is also fair to assume, the businesses themselves would also be better off given the reduced running costs..the only losers are the Admins.

as an aisde..."the revenues to grass roots", imagine you sold off Footy Park for... ohh lets guess 20 million dollars, you invest that 20 million at..oh lets say 10%...theres 2 million a year going back into grass roots... FOR NOTHING!

FOOTBALL SUCKS, GET A LIFE LOSERS