Adelaide United in the Asian Champions League

[Bacon]

Mafau is banned from any political discussion, he's a commie

I do remember back in the day when there was a big whinge about the govt spending all that money on the west grandstand at Hindmarsh, I think it had a fair bit to do with cost blowouts as well.

It was labelled a 'white elephant'.

Different story now though, it's getting decent crowds on a fairly regular basis and the venture into the ACL has only added to that.
If the govt knew at the time that we'd be playing in an international competition I think they'd have thrown even more money into it for the whole exposure and tourist dollar thing.

Spending money to make money.

I have, and will continue, to call it "Howmuch Stadium" because of the beat up & blow-outs, but if the government at the time (and even now) had even the slightest bit of foresight, they'd have made the place bigger.

[bennymacca]

I have, and will continue, to call it "Howmuch Stadium" because of the beat up & blow-outs, but if the government at the time (and even now) had even the slightest bit of foresight, they'd have made the place bigger.

why would you build a stadium to hold 30 thousand when it would only ever be filled once in a blue moon? they usually dont sell out when the ground holds 16 thousand or whatever it is.

now that is a waste of money.

boo hoo, people are going to miss out. its life. if they wanted more crowd, they could have moved it to aami or adelaide oval, but they prefer to keep a genuine home ground advantage, and that is fair enough.

apparently they are going to put up a big screen somewhere

[maccatak11]

boo hoo, people are going to miss out. its life.

Ok im not getting you a ticket anymore.

You can be in the boo hoo party then.


(we are gonna try and get some tickets on tuesday, i dont know how successful we are going to be though)

[BigPete33]

I have, and will continue, to call it "Howmuch Stadium" because of the beat up & blow-outs, but if the government at the time (and even now) had even the slightest bit of foresight, they'd have made the place bigger.

why would you build a stadium to hold 30 thousand when it would only ever be filled once in a blue moon? they usually dont sell out when the ground holds 16 thousand or whatever it is.

now that is a waste of money.

boo hoo, people are going to miss out. its life. if they wanted more crowd, they could have moved it to aami or adelaide oval, but they prefer to keep a genuine home ground advantage, and that is fair enough.

apparently they are going to put up a big screen somewhere

I love it when you don't know what you are talking about benny the cunt

I actually agree with your first point about it just being built bigger in the first place. The size of the stadium is about right for the amount of use they envisaged it would actually get. The only problem with that is the sport got reformed (and I'm very, very happy about this) and there are now international club games which actually mean something being played there. Suddenly it could have been bigger.

AAMI stadium was overlooked almost instantly (so I read) because it's just plain not suitable at ALL. The only thing going for it is that it holds more people.

Adelaide Oval is a much better option than AAMI stadium, and they've played there before, however there's something to do with the cricket at around that time (again, so I read).

So, if the only other realistic option isn't available who's fault is that?

Absolutely nobodys.

In addition, home ground advantage is a MASSIVE thing in a two legged tie especially when the 2nd leg is at your home ground. They'd be crazy to negate that factor. Vidmar himself is dead against the game being moved to another ground because of that very reason.

[bennymacca]

I love it when you don't know what you are talking about benny the cunt

pete, you have agreed with every point that i have made, so i guess that means that you don't know what you are talking about either?

[BigPete33]

You know what, I just skimmed over your message and said in my head "rubbish, rubbish, rubbish, "boo hoo", rubbish, rubbish" and then summarised it with "benny the cunt knows nothing" and let my mojo take over

I think I've actually got to the point where I've stopped reading what you write due to your past efforts at fantasy

I love sport, it's fantastic.

[Des]

You know what, I just skimmed over your message and said in my head "rubbish, rubbish, rubbish, "boo hoo", rubbish, rubbish" and then summarised it with "benny the cunt knows nothing" and let my mojo take over

I think I've actually got to the point where I've stopped reading what you write due to your past efforts at fantasy

I love sport, it's fantastic.

Good to see a moderator admit he actually doesn't read posts

[Chelsea4thewin]

theres no way in hell it would be played at AAMI, if you have ever been down on the boundary line there u would know the ground is not completely flat to help drainage during the winter, the ball would be running away from the players

funny sight to see however

[BigPete33]

I especially dont read benny the cunt's hand discussions (or AK's)

[rcon]

Got my tickets