Yup. Worked a couple, you get slammed during the opening acts, and then as soon as the main act comes on, it's no one for a solid 30mins, then they trickle through, but you don't need a full bar worth of staff after the concert starts. Probably an hour of super busy, another of moderate, and outside of that not much. Will definitely be tested to the max, not sure if that's what they want, but it's what they'll get. A couple of floor bars will help them out though.
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Is that why the government has asked the AFL not to schedule Friday night games until July? They want the full light show for Ch 7 to show case it nationally when its guaranteed to be dark? Its rare 7 cover a game from Perth on a Saturday night.
Ch 7 news report video embedded in this story at 0:40 talks about July
https://thewest.com.au/sport/perth-stadium/perth-stadium-shows-off-new-lights-bc-5558968801001
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Other benefit is its a test run for a cheap event so people will probably spend a lot on food and booze and all those bars and kiosks get put thru their paces. Docklands had problems the first few games and had bad PR as a result, including a bad flooding event.
Adelaide Oval for the Test Match in December 2013 before the March 2014 full opening, had he Western stand and new Southern stand available in full, about 3/4 of the 7,000 ground level seats of the 19,000 seat eastern stand and all the open northern end seats and Hill available . Between 34,000 to 38,000 turned up on each of the first 4 days and about 17,000 on the last day for 3 hours before the Aussies won the Test. I think it was the second largest Test crowd ever after the 1930-31 Bodyline Test when 50,000 attended a couple of days of the five days, most people standing up all day in suits.
So the SMA put a lot of the stadium thru its paces, found teething issues and then ramped up staff, security, police and road monitoring costs etc for the opening Showdown to avoid the bad PR of Docklands back in the first dozen or so games in 2000 when it opened. They admitted they over killed on costs but didn't want a repeated of Docklands and cut costs over the next few games.
No, they have requested july because the footbridge might not be ready until then, and being a 6.10 start there will be traffic chaos if the estimated 14k who will use the bridge have to find another way in. Nothing to do with a light show, the extra cash generated by a friday nght game would outweigh the need to show off the lights.
The "new" footbridge will only add a little capacity to the stadium, as there is already a very adequate footbridge attached to the Windan ( Bunbury ) Bridge. There are walkways on both sides of the bridge, allowing large capacity movement, too & from Claisebrook, East Perth and Mt Lawley.
I disagree. The Windan bridge is the walkway people will use to get to East Perth station. The new footbridge is to link people who have parked in the city to the shuttle buses down Wellington & Adelaide/St Georges Tce. Walking to that bus transfer station near Glouchester Park from the Stadium the long way around is going to be a fair inconvenience. The distance is deceptive.
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They should use one of these until the bridge is finished
Windan bridge does not have foot capacity in mind
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That's true, but who the hell is getting on a shuttle bus from Wellington St just to have to walk a kilometre when you can just get on a train and have you at the stadium gate in about 3 minutes?
20-30 minutes v 3 minutes
I don't know how many of these buses they're putting on but if it's more than about 3 they're going to be mostly empty.
This is true, I'm not sure the shuttle buses need to go that far into the CBD, But they would be handy for anyone parking in that Glouchester Park - WACA - Plain St - Bennet St sort of pocket of the city, perhaps not the CBD itself. A bus route is one of those things that is very easy to adjust later when the actual patronage patterns emerge.
Yeah I reckon the bridge will be used predominantly by people that will park in East Perth (which is where the bulk of parking seems to be at this stage). The rest will be the pubgoers. I doubt more than a few hundred people will use the shuttle buses.
With Docklands, they had no test events to discover and iron out these sorts of issues. Because the turf wasn't laid down in time, all of the Ansett Cup matches had to be moved to Waverley and the Socceroos games against Paraguay had to be moved to Olympic Park. The round 1 game between Essendon and Port was literally the first event held from memory.
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The Ansett Cup GF in 2000 ended up at the MCG due to the expected crowd (got 56k, so probably the right decision then).
I reckon Bankwest is very close to getting the naming rights for the Stadium.
Could be fitting as both WA clubs has had Bankwest as major sponsors in the past. Obviously it would've been nice to keep it Perth stadium but I can live with Bankwest Stadium.
Woodside stadium or GTFO
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Key point to remember is McGowan said that the name will still have Perth in it, so we’re looking at Bankwest Perth Stadium or Woodside Perth Stadium. Can’t see Woodside happening as they sponsor the Dockers.
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Yes I can also - at least the name has "West" in it!
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Will help the Eagles, Bulldogs, and Giants feel at home
quotemokc
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Fremantle Dockers women's team to play new Perth Stadium
$2 tickets
lolololololol, what a shocking way to open the stadium
http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/fr...m/news-story/509303db26653d5a536339644676eeec
$2 tickets
lolololololol, what a shocking way to open the stadium
http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/fr...m/news-story/509303db26653d5a536339644676eeec
I'll be going. Certainly not going to a ****ing NRL double header.
It's actually an ideal opener, they will get a decent crowd, but will not go close to filling it, and it will have the crowd patterns of a normal game. Busy at food stalls at half time and quarter time, quieter otherwise.
Bit of a dick comment really.
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quotemokc
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$2 tickets to open a billion dollar stadium for sub par entertainment and will be lucky to get over 10,000 attendance, only in WA.
