Fans not being able to get any ticket for a match, i.e a complete sell out, has been rare but if there increased membership numbers have a flowon to bums on seats at the SCG, as they should, then we may start to see some more regular sellouts.
I think a capacity of 46,000 is more than adequate for the medium to long term. If the SCG Trust were able to get their hands on some of that land behind the Bill O'Reilly then I could see a new stand there as having the potential to push capacity past 50,000 and there's not many teams in the world that average over that in a long season format (most NFL teams do but they only play 7 home matches a year).
The problem will be, of course, that when the construction is on the capacity will be reduced for 2-3 seasons and the d-heads at the SCG Trust always plan the construction to minimise the cricket season even though we are the major tenant. The same knobs that accepted a cricket pavilion design for the latest redevelopment that is totally impractical when the winter weather arrives. I was totally 100% behind to move to have all our games moved back to the SCG but if wee do have to deal with a 35,000 seat stadium for two seasons then we may well wish we still had ANZ as a fallback.
I think the next priority for a stater government handout will be the Brewongle, though I think that is a major renovation and not a complete re-build. It is looking tired but I'd do the BOR first and get the capacity up before taking one of the biggest stands out of action.
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