The Kai Sotto Effect

With the desdtruction of the industry building on Crittenden Road the venue finally has some traffic exposure from a Main Road.

The venue was world class when built but BASA couldn't afford to maintain it, Eddy's millions dried up after 6 months and a $3m investment and since then its only investment has come from grants.

It's a money pit (no pun intended) but great that an owner is willing to throw some money into it for the community. Will never run at a profit but hopefully can build its use up as a hybrid venue.

36ers are moving home games back there. It 100% will be their game day venue once the Entertainment Centre agreement expires.

If the 6ers are back, I'll be back. The current stadium is sterile and has no feel.

Bring it back as the Powerhouse!!!

Is ALP win the state election next year they'll abandon the city entertainment venue which the 36ers were originally going to be a tenant at. As it is their PR campagin will make it hard for the Libs to still go through with it.

That being the case they'll return to the Arena for the foreseeable future.

As much as I hated travelling to Findon to watch the games, I'd rather have them move back there than the Riverbank project to go ahead. The Ent Centre is fine, but a bit meh, lacks something (probably history).

Which is exactly why it won't happen in Adelaide. Makes too much sense and its not for footy.

KET you're leaving out the bit where they hid an $85m gift to SACA to pay off all its debts in the cost of the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval.

While they blew up basketball in SA over a $13-$15m debt they caused due to their stupid restrictions on the Arena and high interest rate on the loan to buld a venue for them (as part of their Commonwealth Games bid) as much as for basketball, to save the Ent Centre from going bankrupt.

I note in these plans the Council will lease the balance of the Oval to the current owner for $1 a year, yet in the BASA days this was over $60k a year. All levels of Government in SA just see basketball as a cash grab.

In return they got about $3.5m of the debt back, barely covering the cost of bringing in the administrators and all the committees etc they created to rebuild the sport. As a result we got the mess that is multiple terrible 36ers owners/managements, Lightning being run by a dad for the benefit of his daughter then on a budget by muiltiple owners and even BA and BSA at one point and don't even get started on the state of Basketball SA right now.

Yeah, somehow an entertainment venue (or just basketball stadium as Labor have been calling it) became the opposite of fixing ambulance ramping for Labor's campaign. So, I've got no clue how the 36ers are going to find another venue in the next 20 years, it's going to be political suicide to propose an entertainment venue again.

Redevelopment of Adelaide Oval was always going to be a vote winner as it houses the most popular sport in most of Australia, plus with BBL and the test. At the time they maybe could have tacked on a multipurpose indoor sports arena adjacent.
And since the pandemic a lot of eyes are on the health system and staffing issues. Yet we only recently built a billion dollar hospital. There's a yes minister episode where they have a fully staffed public servant administration, but no patients as they would get in the way.
And another TV reference, some swindler must have got in Noddy Marshall's ear ala the Simpsons monorail episode and convinced him this would take the public's mind off covid. But the recent bungling should hand power to Labour in a landslide. Even though they were probably the ones cutting health funding in the first place, can never keep up.
Just dust off the Powerhouse, couple of coats of paint, new seating and whatever they're doing outside.

Both ALP and Libs have destroyed the Health system and cut staffing down to unsafe levels. But they'll point the finger at each other and point score at every chance. And the majority of ill-informed voters will eat it up while BSA allows basketball to continue to be a punching bag because they got 4 new basketball courts in 20 years.

Let's build spaceships so everyone can go to space as well. Where's the money coming from.

Interesting you bring up spaceships as both Feds and State Governments are investing billions in developing a space industry, in Adelaide.

One plan had them selling off Hindmarsh as well and turning thr Riverbank stadium into an indoor/outdoor rectangular stadium for basketball, netball and soccer as well as concerts and conventions.

The cost was just too great and the value of the land Hindmarsh Stadium is on was way too low.

The Riverbank Stadium is all but dead now.

State ALP PR has branded it a waste of money.

Fed LNP has invested in known sporting brands (AFL) and will instead invest millions more in new training facilities for both the Power and Crows.

BSA and the Lightning aren't interested and have gone another way with the Wayville development.

36ers along with GK and LK's mates at Pelligra have instead invested in the 36ers Arena as a "new" home.

Netball is on the slide since the the ANZ Championship ended, and AFLW has decimated their playing numbers.

Concerts and even major conventions appear a while away giving the ongoing issues around COVID.

It's done. If the Libs get ousted in March, State ALP will never consider it.

KET the playing Arena has already started being made over. The news is about the additional areas but the playing arena is being upgraded consistently.

The NBL games will move back. AEC normal pricing makes it pointless running the Arena at a loss and paying and losing money playing at the AEC. They're only there now to show they were committed to the Riverbank move and because the AEC offered them a 3 year contract at a heavily discounted rate.

I think most of the general public are looking at priorities, health being headline news every day. Noddy Marshall really shot himself in the foot going after the new arena. In another time it might have sparked some outrage, but wouldn't have been that big a deal. And Chapman or some other liberal might have profited, corrupt as they are.
It will probably happen in the future, either in its current format or cheaper, but definitely not a vote winner next year. Noddy is probably happy to handover the shit heap he's got ATM anyway.

Health and the stadium can both hae money allocated to them. The Goverment spend millions every year on their mates, on themselves, on winning the next election.

ALP have made it a stadium vs health choice.

It's not.

The State Budget isn't that simple, surely people understand that.