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    With the ANZ stadium deal - do GWS have any "home" games at ANZ ??
    Or are all the ANZ games - per year - Swans games ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by WolfGang View Post
    With the ANZ stadium deal - do GWS have any "home" games at ANZ ??
    Or are all the ANZ games - per year - Swans games ??
    GWS didn't exist when the contract was signed with the AFL. If they earn a home final, I guess it will be at ANZ.
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    Quote Originally Posted by erica View Post
    If they earn a home final, I guess it will be at ANZ.
    I can just see it, GWS V Freo. Crowd 6029. What an atmosphere! They'd only have to open 2 Bays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aardvark View Post
    I can just see it, GWS V Freo. Crowd 6029. What an atmosphere! They'd only have to open 2 Bays.
    That's mean.....

    True, but mean.

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    So, the roof is going ahead. I know the contract has been awarded but not sure of the program or if the stadium will be closed over a winter to build it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jewels View Post
    That's mean.....

    True, but mean.
    Mean and insulting to freo.

    GWS can play in front of 10 support staff and two real fans for all i care and i wont feel one bit of sympathy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by churry View Post
    Unfortunately it doesn't look like anything with the top tiers will change. From looking at the video nothing on the top tier will change. The major changes with the stands looks like there will be 2 tiers at both ends of the ground now and all the bottom stands move closer into the ground when soccer or rugby is played so that it is entirely enclosed around the whole ground. So the surface will have to be even worse than it is currently as more turf will be covered and removed each time all the stands move in towards the center...
    This is right.
    The existing stands and general structure will remain as is. The only change to seating will be the bottom tier of end stands moving in for Rugby and soccer.
    The only change AFL fans will notice will be the roof.....And the added substandard surface close to goals at both ends, that these moving stands will cause.
    Throwing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars at this crap venue is, IMO, a shortsighted, disgraceful, decision.
    It will only marginally improve what is presently a poor viewing experience for most seats, in one of the most uninspiring, soulless, venues in the country.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ernie koala View Post
    This is right.
    The existing stands and general structure will remain as is. The only change to seating will be the bottom tier of end stands moving in for Rugby and soccer.
    Actually Rugby League will be the biggest users of the ground post restructure, as it is now, with a good number of NRL games there. Rugby and soccer will continue to play plenty of internationals there, plus the odd big Super Rugby game and the Sydney FC v Wanderers derby would probably be a good fit too. The changes should suit all 3 of those codes quite well, to the detriment of AFL. Surely they'd stop playing AFL games there after they've finished?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jono2707 View Post
    Actually Rugby League will be the biggest users of the ground post restructure, as it is now, with a good number of NRL games there. Rugby and soccer will continue to play plenty of internationals there, plus the odd big Super Rugby game and the Sydney FC v Wanderers derby would probably be a good fit too. The changes should suit all 3 of those codes quite well, to the detriment of AFL. Surely they'd stop playing AFL games there after they've finished?
    I was being lazy when I wrote "rugby & soccer"....I meant both rugby codes.

    Anyway the point is, as you and I both say, there will be no improvement to viewing distances, angles etc, for AFL games.
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    Personally, I would love it if we never played at ANZ again. That is purely a club oriented opinion, but we always play better at the SCG, and the atmosphere is heaps better there. On TV as well. Soccer can have ANZ, and stay away from the SCG! Cricket and the Swans only.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevoswan View Post
    Personally, I would love it if we never played at ANZ again. That is purely a club oriented opinion, but we always play better at the SCG, and the atmosphere is heaps better there. On TV as well. Soccer can have ANZ, and stay away from the SCG! Cricket and the Swans only.....
    I think you should look at our overall record at ANZ before you conclude 'we always play better at the SCG' - its certainly nowhere near that clear cut. We have a very good overall record at ANZ - especially when you consider a hell of a lot of the losses has come at the hands of Collingwood.

    Don't get me wrong - I'm all for more swans games at the SCG, but that isn't to say our record at ANZ is not pretty decent.
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    Personally I don't care where we play so long as we never again play like we did in the Grand Final.

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