How much money is needed to fix up MES you think?
Dear Lord, if you give us back Johnny Cash, we'll give you Justin Bieber.
In total, no idea. Attached picture is a 12,000 seat stand - cost $40M kiwi in 2000/01Originally Posted by Coach
Sorry if I came across of that, basically I am a volunteer that has covered issues and trying to give the Force what the government is thinking and what will happen, trying to get people not to get their hopes up.Ah you're a reporter that is unbiased and only presents the facts. Ok I just thought you were somebody who makes assumptions based on speaking to people and reading reports and puts these things forward as an opinion. Sorry, got that completely wrong didn't I.
Oh and by the way, compromise is something I deal with all of the time but accepting the minimum is not something I do.
But if you guys want to start going off into dream world and would rather me not get you put down to earth with what is happening...
Then I will not post in stadium threads.
And in regards to your views on Politicians and Reporters
Is there no good ones in the world?
Is it a crying shame that we learn about the issues of politics and the problems in this world, learning about the government.
Luckily Enforcer for you, I have no desire to be a commercial journalist when I graduate or a politician.
Maxine McKew.. Jan 07
Maxine is a spunk rat!
Dear Lord, if you give us back Johnny Cash, we'll give you Justin Bieber.
I thought you only watched her for her editorials, Coach!
Has anyone thought to ask Brian Burke if he will support the development or has that opportunity gone?
Ok a guess as to costs are: Using the recognised benchmark of circa $10,000 a seat for a new stadium, a new build on MES ground will be in the region of $350M. That will give us all the bells and whistles along with carparking etc.
From experience, I know that working on brownfield sites is more expensive than greenfield, unless originally designed for expansion, which MES is not. So for an MES expansion project I would guess circa $300M, based on 25,000 new seats and at a brownfield penalty of say 1.2.
So from my layman’s calculations you are looking at an additional investment of $50M to provide an ideal stadium with the potential for future expansion. Saving $50M will give you a stadium which will be more expensive to expand in the future (if possible at all), have limited parking and with far greater potential of having blow out costs during the design and construction phases.
Just happy to be here
In (1) are you meaning a bulldozer job on the current one?
In(2) do you mean 25k on top of the current 15,000-odd(?) totalling 40K?
Just thinking that if the second is feasible that would probably be sufficient for all bar Bledisloe or Lions and possibly ZA Tests.
$10,000 a seat? I'd consider paying that for a life membership...
Dear Lord, if you give us back Johnny Cash, we'll give you Justin Bieber.
When many new stadiums got built here they charged you $1500 -$3000 a seat for a Personal Seat License. This simply gives you the rights to buy tickets for that seat. You still would have to pay whatever the ticket cost is for the season. You do own the rights and could sell them to whoever you wanted for any price you could get.
I think they also did that for the Olympic Stadium in Sydney....not sure how successful it was...
Pretty successful on the night we packed 104,001 people in for the greatest game of rugby of all time.
ohhh yeah.....and the crowd sang Waltzing Matilda
Ok, ok Gerry knows which game so I'll be the bunny.
Is that the one where we were sitting behind the goals and had a birds eye view of Kef brushing about half a dozen All Blacks aside to dot down a last minute try and send our greatest test captain out a winner?
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