Nib stadium? Yeah i doubt thats getting an upgrade anytime soon. It barely gets half filled now.
Perth Stadium (Optus Stadium)
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Nib stadium? Yeah i doubt thats getting an upgrade anytime soon. It barely gets half filled now.
Talking with mate at the footy last night who does planning with PTA. Said the reason the 2nd Ed concert was a lower capacity was because they don't have enough train drivers available to work the required shifts. They can't do 2 nights in a row at the stadium ATM, but will be getting more drivers on in the future. OHS requirements of time off between shifts and so on. They already had got all the spare drivers to do the Saturday night concert then the Friday one came on and they had no one left.
Also said the bridge being delayed is causing other issues. The stadium site needs to use the land where the bridge infrastructure is, but because its not finished and won't be for ages the site can't use the land. The bridge was meant to be completed by now, so obviously no other work can be done around that area of the site until its finished.
Also said the bridge being delayed is causing other issues. The stadium site needs to use the land where the bridge infrastructure is, but because its not finished and won't be for ages the site can't use the land. The bridge was meant to be completed by now, so obviously no other work can be done around that area of the site until its finished.
Surely there's only a reason to upgrade the capacity if those seats are actually going to be filled?
I can understand why you may want to upgrade the standard of existing facilities, but why would any tenant want more seats? A Perth NRL team would be doing extremely well to average 10,000, at least initially. The last thing they would need as an extra 10,000 empty seats. The Glory as well. The A-League has enough of a problem in other cities playing out of ludicrously big stadiums.
I would hope Perth gets a NRL team soon to make up for the probable loss of the Force. Otherwise the last stadium upgrade becomes a white elephant, since the Glory only half fill it these days.
Thanks for this.
"the allocation of 10,000 “daily admission tickets” in the 60,000-seat stadium will be broken up into five categories — 1000 tourism package seats, 1385 stadium membership seats, 424 complimentary tickets for the football club playing on the day, 191 complimentary tickets for VenuesLive and 7000 general admission tickets."
7000 General admittance seems pretty good.
Are the complimentary tickets for the home team or the away team, or both?
The 1385 stadium membership seats will be worth $1.4 million a year to each Home club. That's $1010 for a home season (need to add profit of course), or $92+ a game. I'm guessing a stadium membership would be a premium seat. Sounds like a stadium membership would cost at least $3000 a year (probably much more), and because there aren't many, they will sell.
Are the 191 complimentary tickets for VenuesLive the same as the 13 corporate boxes that they will have access to, and presumably be able to sell? And how many corporate boxes will the clubs get to flog off?
From the article, it looks like the agreement is trying to foresee a number of scenarios, so they don't get to the situation Adelaide Oval had (for example), where the football clubs were losing money even when they had full houses.
The only scenario published in the article was based on gross assessable revenue of $31.5 million. The clubs would pay $5.9 million for this. If that was for a full stadium (members at 50,000) that would mean seats would average $630 a season, or $57 a ticket, and about $11 of that price would go to the stadium operators.
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Now to how the clubs deal with their seating.
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That's the interesting question. Even 4-5k GA should be fine though. Especially for Freo where we won't fill the ~50k seats with 11 game memberships whereas you guys will come close at the very least.
I understand the stadium and the railway station will be pretty much ready on time, but the pedestrian bridge is the issue - that was supposed to have been finished by end of this month.
http://www.perthstadium.com.au/project-design/construction-progress-graphs
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Good luck with that. Ashes tests bring in 90k on day 1, India tests 70k at the MCG. The rest of them are being played at the 15k WACA so obviously theyre not expecting big crowds with them either.
Boxing day BBL game would look great I reckon. Probably more likely to pack the stadium as well.
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Whilst acknowledging that there are only a certain number of "blockbuster" fixtures each year, PS should work towards making their "own" major events for the stadium, such as Adelaide has done with the NYE match. Get CA to lock in a Boxing Day double-header with WBBL and BBL, or something like that. Far as the international calendar is concerned that is more difficult because the schedule changes depending on who is touring and the timing of other tours but if they can get an international of any format locked for the week after the Sydney Test so that everyone knows it's coming (like Jan 26th in Adelaide - apart form some changes in the last few years due to redevelopment and the "CWC excuse" we basically know we'll have a game going that day) that'd go a long way towards building it as Perth's event.
Christmas eve bbl double header each year?
I wonder if they could get a mlb season opener ? Or an nfl pre-season game?
Maybe an english championship season opener-direct Qantas flights to london may help? Some big but relegated teams?
I wonder if they could get a mlb season opener ? Or an nfl pre-season game?
Maybe an english championship season opener-direct Qantas flights to london may help? Some big but relegated teams?
There are two issues with attracting international events.
1. If you pay for an event to come then you have to be sure it will generate the returns.
2. There are only so many high profile sporting attractions and people budget to attend what they consider the best.
3. Repeat events generate only a fraction of the interest.
IMO, NFL and MLB good every ten years. Soccer and rugby once a year.
nice. the one at southbank in Brisbane is pretty good
As long as they don't try and lock in another rugby game every September. That is so frustrating and annoying for the code that pays the bills.
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