This is the way an issue should be addressed - open about the situation, why it exists, frank about how it is to be addressed. We don't expect the 36ers to be flush with money and replace things at a whim.

Finally some news from the club about it via the newsletter, certainly appreciated.

Agreed, KET. Should have happened for game 1 of the season, but at least it's out there now.

Im actually surprised the NBL dont kick in some funds for this. They are trying to show the best product they can so it makes sense if Adelaide cant currently do it, they might.

Anon, it's an expensive item that isn't necessarily affordable

They've struggled with that thing for probably a decade. Has antiquated cabling, requires an ancient computer to interface with it, etc.

Also - the Club don't own the scoreboard and the ownership of the Club changed hands only 4 months ago.

This email takes away most of the frustration that fans have been feeling for months (years?).

Excellent that they have finally explained the situation. As said above, this is how issues should be handled - frank, open, honest.

Anyone have any idea of the approximate cost? Personally, I'd be happy if the club asked every member for a reasonable contribution. Surely, even $10 per member (3000+ members?) would be of some help.

Even better, how about having the "On the Run" scoreboard, Mr Shahin....??

Well done by the club to get it out in the open. Should reach out to sponsors or other companies to cover the scoreboard in a logo to help cover cost . It's is the 2nd most viewed part of a basketball game.

They need to go for the same size cube but with video screens instead. Would be interesting to know the estimated cost for a project like that

I don't believe the 6ers owners OWN the building. I think they have full rights over the building and its use for the next 10 years?

Sponsorship would definitely help with the Scoreboard and a South Aussie company would be great.

Don't they have sponsors with the Hindmarsh Stadium soccer one? Footy Park was sponsored etc.

Agree with you Dave. The building is actually owned by the Scouts and Church Basketball. Not sure about the leasing arrangements. As per previous posts, the scoreboard came from Apollo Stadium along with the computer system/program to run it. There have been problems with the system since that time. Maybe if the problem had been addressed earlier the solution may have been cost effective. Whole thing let go for too long and the costs have spiralled. Not sure what the answer is but it will probably be a huge cost as per previous comments, and not sure that the owners have cash to splash, if indeed it is up to them to replace the board.

Press release says
"and instead post the stats on the screens on either side of the court."

if this is happening it is not happening enough.
why show the game live on the screens when you can see it on the floor?
PLEASE show some stats on these screens. Scorers, fouls anything would be better than what is not happening now.

Some wild speculations on prices going around. No you can't just hang 4 x 80" LCD for $20,000. Job not done. For 1 you have to remove the old scoreboard. Do you know how you need to do that? No off-course you don't. That alone will blow your $20,000 budget way out of the water. Think along the lines of between $7,500 to $15,000 per square meter of display depending on how low a pixel pitch you want to go for. I would estimate you would want at least 20 square meter per side, 80 square meters total. So between $600,000 and $1,200,000 is the figures you are looking at. In very rough numbers. Now if they get an install partner/sponsor or similar you might be able to drop that figure quite a lot but still it's a very expensive exercise.

Maybe the Dallas Cowboys Owner can buy us one.
Damn! that 50m long screen @ there stadium.

The Church own the 36ers?

So when you are going to a game, what you are doing is effectively ... praying?

Latest Member Info night was transcribed, here's the update (albeit a bit long-winded) about the status of the Cube. Sounds promising without being a sure thing.

"Could we take the risk of the cube freezing and then having to restart it during the games? The simple answer is with the new broadcast deal with FOX SPORTS, we cannot do that."
"There is a five year television deal, which is very important to the NBL and very important to basketball and had we got ourselves in the situation if the cube froze, it takes approximately 60 seconds to restart, we would have stopped the television broadcast and that would have been the end of the five-year FOX Sports broadcast deal which they can step out of after the first year."
"Now basketball in Australia has gone through challenging times throughout the last decade, what is really important to us and the NBL is to grow the basketball brand again. The NBL is a great brand, we have around 400 Australians playing basketball in the US College system and 10 players in the NBA which per capita head is the largest number from one country and is a tremendous achievement."
"I believe that the NBL competition is really good and strong, so what the Arena then had to look at was we've now got to replace the cube and what I didn’t want to do was to replace one score cube with another score cube that did exactly the same thing. What I want to do is replace it with replay screens, like we have at the ends of the court and have a similar type score board which you would see in the NBA or other major venues around the world.”
“Now I am sure that every one of you here tonight knows that the LED screens do not come from Australia, are not manufactured in Australia, they are manufactured in China, there is a lead time to do that to get them here and to install and configure them.”
“As I am sure you have seen, we have a very weird draw over December, where we have quite a big break between the December 23 game and then January 20 game. In that period, we’re getting LED screens and currently trying ensure that we get it financed.”
“We have ordered four screens and the score cube will be coming down and be replaced with the four LED screens of a similar size, that way you can still see all your statistics and scores in one place rather than the two end screens which you are currently getting.”
“Now as basketball fanatics, those statistics are important to you, I understand that ( member says it is not the same without it), and I understand the frustration to look at the score on the score cube and then the end screens to get the statistics, all I can say to you, is that you will have to bear with us until the new screens get installed during the Christmas break, as there is nothing we can do prior to that. (member says that you cannot read the names down the bottom of the screen down the eastern end as the steel bar is in the way ) Same principle, I understand that and we will look at how we can adjust the feed. ( Operations Manager says that we get the feed from Live Stats and initially we though that we could just put the five players who are on the court, but we have not been able to adapt it that way, and we want to make the names as large as possible, now we have added minutes played, assists, rebounds which were not on the old score board, so you are getting more information but unfortunately, however yes, the names at the bottom and Mitch Creek happens to be one that everyone likes, down the eastern end you cannot see it, there is a little bit of pain to go through unfortunately ) You could be in a worse situation like me who is both vain and blind and cannot see it all (laughter).”
“(Member says that half the season is going to be over before we get the stats ) Correct, no matter what we do, it is going to take that time to get here. (Member says you can’t tell me that there is nothing off the shelf that we can get from China ) Well if you find one, that will work, please let me know. I’m afraid that it is not hard to believe, it is a fact, a reality, I am not putting a cube up, I am putting LED screens up so we can have a decent stadium and venue. I wish we could find something locally that could replace it with, but we can’t.”