This isn't a stitch up is it?Other way around now, Geelong cheer squad at the Selwood stand end and the oppo at the Players stand end
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Nope. Traditionally the cheer squad was at the city end. When the doug wade stand was built they moved down to the river end and now weve built the selwood stand we are moving back up.
Thanks, and appreciate its a bit silly of me to ask for help and then doubt it.
Will grab some tickets and hopefully be down at GMHBA for Dusty's 300th
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Fair enough to question it haha, but I would never do that to an opposition supporter... unless you were a hawks fan, in that case I wouldn't rule it out!
But yeah as others have confirmed, not taking the piss on this occasion.
If they’re not replacing it with a digital scoreboard (which would be good… I love a scoreboard that just tells the score and stays put), then I would be happy if they just printed this picture and fixed it in location.
Certainly not blind, there were heaps of empty seats there throughout the game.
Not as many as here though, I couldn't see them from my angle but was quite suprised watching the replay and seeing so many empty for what was supposed to be a full house.
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Against GC in the middle of winter you'd half expect it. Perhaps not for the first home game of the year in the brand new stand. Maybe other events were on that night?
Those blue seats are linked to fred Flanagan room I believe so I imagine most of those people were inside the function room enjoying the game.
It's not the WiFi, it's the phone reception (4 and 5G) how can that be on the club to pay for? It's Telstra/Optus who are responsible for that network.
The stage 5 development included the provision of free wifi network to help alleviate the always terrible data coverage at the stadium, but it seemed to be as overloaded as the cell networks the other night. The Trust could work with the telcos to implement improved mobile coverage if it wanted to, much like the MCC did with Telstra at the MCG 5 years ago, but clearly there's no impetus or funding to do so. The club wouldn't be responsible for funding it because it neither owns nor operates the stadium; the Kardinia Park Stadium Trust does.
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It was the Players Stand for many years until THIS season, they're now back at the city end in the new Selwood Stand.
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I saw the empty seats early in the game and was a little
But later in the game you could see a lot of people actually standing behind the rows of seats, and I then remembered about the Fred Flanagan Room being retained but with a well deserved upgrade - and triggered that those seats would be linked to them. Obviously they'd have the choice to sit in the seats or stay in the function room
One way in which the club can increase capacity is to double sell these seats. Keep the FF room folk behind glass and have people in the seats at all times.
Wont happen at every game, but probably at a potential final
Thats quite ordinary. It really puts a notional next to the 40,000 number. Who knows if it is it possible for the scoreboard to be removed or be elsewhere eventually , the way the word seems to be going everyone has a scoreboard in their pocket.
front row cheersquad member here(you can see me in the first photo, standing up, blue hoodie behind and a bit to the right of the umpire/far left point post)
we have a bay of about 250 seats which is sold out online as we have a waiting list, we were missing a few people for sure but lots of people have there own seats at gmhba (like me, i do have a reserved seat and i will be swapping between through the year) and chose to only sit cheersquad for away matches and games in melbourne, but for the first game it was a bit of a shame the turnout we had.
hopefully we gain more people throughout the year and get louder as the year goes on
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More pics of Selwood Stand please. Looks terrific!
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A Menber's update today from Steve Hocking- and, yes, he knows that the wifi and moble coverage are rubbish.
They were mega loud from level 2 hockey stand on the wing....maybe it's just where you sit.
They were louder than the Geelong crowd to my ears.
A Menber's update today from Steve Hocking- and, yes, he knows that the wifi and moble coverage are rubbish.
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The Trust is furious that Hocking has put the issue with the phone reception onto them
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the trust runs the stadium.. not the club
The Trust needs to talk to the Telcos and get them to fix the mobile failures. The mobile coverage is a Tesltra / Optus infrastructure thing.
The Trust would be the ones to set up and contract/manage the IT WIFI service and system IMO.
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The problem between the two parties centres around the fact that the footy club take all the revenue from match days (catering etc) which is a different set up to the MCG trust. The footy club take all the money and then tell the trust to pay for upgrades when they don't earn any money through football.
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