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The 157,000-Seat Super Stadium That Never Was - "WOW"
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Lol simple fact Waverley was a cold old windy dump!
The seats were far to away and the oval was to big.
It would have been awesome if they did keep a stadium out that way but it might have helped if the original design of it was better to begin with
I went there once for Auskick when I was about 6 to a hawthorn vs freo game.
My only real memories were buying a new jacket for it and the song that goes 'I get knocked down, but I get up again'
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Wish it was still around... perhaps downgraded to say a 55k capacity but upgraded in features (replacing the wooden seats, more corporate boxes, reduce the gap between the fence and boundary), a train line down there, extending from Glen Waverley to replace the need for buses would have been great.... a venue used each week by Hawthorn and St.Kilda - a place Hawks and Saints fans could call a fortress while other Vic sides and their fans would hate to go down there and getting thumped on a regular basis.
Hawks and Saints would get to play all their home games in Melbourne and not sell them off interstate/overseas.
Play the odd final down there against non Vic sides.
Population Center of Melbourne in the south-east would have loved it. A bit of VFL suburban footy that could have been held onto in modern day AFL.
Hawks and Saints would get to play all their home games in Melbourne and not sell them off interstate/overseas.
Play the odd final down there against non Vic sides.
Population Center of Melbourne in the south-east would have loved it. A bit of VFL suburban footy that could have been held onto in modern day AFL.
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Remember having a footy book in SA in early70's which showed plans for Football Park having capacity of 80k - with upper deck going the whole way round the ground.
Seems it was generally expected in those days to build mega stadiums. Think the oil crisis in 73-74 probably put paid to some of this ambitions - inflation and unemployment rose.
Seems it was generally expected in those days to build mega stadiums. Think the oil crisis in 73-74 probably put paid to some of this ambitions - inflation and unemployment rose.
This is not new news. Everyone who is not a child already knew this. Should of posted it back on Big footy 40 years ago.
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Absolutely they would. Super wide exits though to accomodate the mass exit of Crows supporters that always seem to leave early when you lot are getting beaten.
If you want a lesson on stadiums out of the city with shit transport and congestion issues go and look at Footy Park. Adealide Oval is the best thing to happen to SA footy and the two ideas (Waverly/MCG) are very similar.
The northern stand of the MCG s back row is ten rows fuurther away from the action, but the number of rows is the same, there is simply more space per row.
I think footy can be appreciated better than some ball sports from a bigger distance, so it works, and the unbuilt waverley park would have worked
I think footy can be appreciated better than some ball sports from a bigger distance, so it works, and the unbuilt waverley park would have worked
We should have our own ground. The MCG revenue from footy would far, far surpass that of cricket.
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Michael Jackson would have filled it. That's it pretty much.
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I always enjoyed the atmosmosphere at Waverly. It enabled a calm meditative state, of self awareness, of oneness with now and enabled one to empty the mind of thoughts and emotions and just watch the game in perfect silence.
Yeah...comprehension isn't your thing. 'we' as in us, the AFL community.
I thought West Coast supporters would be some kind of experts at 'staitments of inclusion'
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Massive overkill. 100k is more than enough for Australian sports and the like.
Only the GF regularly fills our bigger stadiums to a point you could argue more seats would be needed.
Only the GF regularly fills our bigger stadiums to a point you could argue more seats would be needed.
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Imagine how bad your view would be from up the back of the stadium
157,000 capacity, zero MCC members allocation. There'd have been easily enough tickets to go round for competing club members to get one. But that chance is gone forever.
About 122,000 at the 1970 Grand Final so they were thinking in right region of crowds of those times.
Actually 115,000 seemed like a grand final crowd until they OH & S systems came into being.
I think the 1982 crowd was over 110,000 when Carlton and Richmond played.
When it fell below 100,000 in 1983 it was smallest grand final crowd for 26 years.
Waverley Park was a poor design in right region of Melbourne for another big footy ground. Real pity there is none in the south-eastern region central to many more people.
The Docklands a worse design than even Waverley and made smaller on purpose to force people to learn to book tickets and pay premium prices.
The fence was too far from boundary at Waverley and the gradient of the stands meant you were too far away from action to make it ideal.
Still enjoyed plenty of games there. Went to many a big Carlton and Collingwood game out there.
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Can't they add another 50k to the mcg?
I second this post. Every point made I agree with.
You also have to remember how society was when Waverley was designed.
1. No live sport on TV (We didn't get the GF live until 1977, and then every year we had to endure 'If it's not a sell-out the game wont be shown live').
2. Black and White 20-inch TVs. Even the Western Oval on a freezing, blowy July afternoon was a better footy experience than trying to watch on the box.
3. No international sport to take people's interest. The NBA wasn't shown in Australia until the early 80s. English soccer was a 1-hour highlights package a week late. Hell, down here we didn't even get to see the NRL.
Thje 1930 GF drew 45,000. The 1950 GF drew 85,000. The 1960 GF drew 97,000. The 1970 GF drew 121,000. Based on that growth rate, they were proabably planning to upgrade Waverley early 2000s to about 200,000.
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