New stadiums being build in South Africa

[jargan83]

stadium may not have met FIFA requirements?? And a major tournaments give governments an excuse to splash out on new stadiums and infrastructure
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[robyn <3]

bloody hell!!! those durban people will pay me out for this... we should have one!!

[beige]

stadium may not have met FIFA requirements??

Apparently - something to do with it being too dangerous if the crowd surges

[Moses]

amazing what one can do with an endless supply of cheap labour.

btw pieman this week is talking of SFS upping it's capacity to 50-55k, nice.

[beige]

That would be a nice size

[jargan83]

is it just pieman dreaming or an actual plan??
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[Swee_82]

The idea sounds a good one, but for the most part, that kind of capacity would only be required for smaller test match crowds, NRL semis, and presumably some football matches (I have no idea how crowds compare for A-League finals, friendlies, qualifiers etc)

Only problem there is the ARU are locking into playing ALL tests out in the middle of nowhere (oops, I mean ANZ) until 2011, no doubts the NRL and other teams have similar obligations.
For followers of football, given the odd bit of gossip about the 2018 FIFA world cup bid, would a pool game (not involving Aus) be more suited to that kind of stadium, or would they likely still fill out the Olympic stadium?

[BLR]

amazing what one can do with an endless supply of cheap labour.

btw pieman this week is talking of SFS upping it's capacity to 50-55k, nice.

How many extra pie stalls?

[jargan83]

they would pack that stadium swee. The hordes of foriegn supporters descending on Australia for such a tournament will be phenomenal (espeacially if England make it)
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[Moses]

the ARU deal as you said is only till 2011, 3 years to plan, approve and actually build the upgrade sounds about right.

[Weebie]

FIFA has very strict standards or the quality of stadia for world cups.

Essentially only ANZ would qualify as a world cup venue for an Aussie bid

[pieter blackie]

The new look Ellis Park in Johannesburg now also called Coca-Colapark I could not find an english article on it but the picture is an artist impression of the final result The white building on the left next to the staduim is a car parcade for a 1000 cars They are spending around R600mil (100 mil dollar) on the upgrade

[LarryNJ]

Check out this new stadium that the Cowboys are building. The 60 yard video screen looks awesome for replays.

http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/

[The Lone Hydrangea]

Awesome!

[UNSEEN]

Now thats a rectangle stadium!!!!!! Nice work LarryNJ.