NRL making plans for interstate grand final if stadiums plan torn up

[Cockadoodledoo]

Hillsborough fast facts...

In order to relieve a bottleneck of Liverpool fans trying to enter the venue before kickoff, police opened an exit gate and people rushed to get inside. More than 3,000 fans were funneled into a standing-room-only area with a safe capacity of just 1,600. The obvious crush in the stands prompted organizers to stop the game after six minutes.

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The jury finds, by a 7-2 vote, the 96 fans were unlawfully killed due to crushing, following the admission of a large number of fans through an exit gate. It is decided Duckenfield's actions amounted to "gross negligence," and both the police and the ambulance service caused or contributed to the loss of life by error or omission after the crush began.

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2016/04/25...kduckgo.com%2F

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Twice as many people in the standing room only balcony than it was designed to fit and no policing of this. BOOM! It collapsed, killing lotsa people.

NOT a narrow aisles thing. Gross negligence on behalf of those who let too many people into the stadium.

Hint: Alan Jones is not a very reliable source of facts.

Yeah but you claimed a balcony collapse which wasn't true. Too many tickets were sold for Hillsborough and due to the huge queue's still outside the ground before kick off, a decision was made to throw the gates open to let them in. This created a forward surge of fans into an area that was too small to accommodate them. As a result this led to fans being crushed against the fence, and then against one another as they were pushed forward, leading to asphyxiation as well as fans being trampled.

The difference with Allianz is that Hillsborough was not an all seater, terraces were popular in the day so there was no exact science around tickets being sold, capacity and the lack of a system in place in case of disaster.

The Allianz Stadium disaster plan in case of fire involved fans in the terrace seating, moving forward onto the playing field. In addition the SCG Trust had bolted shut some of the Stadium exits in recent times, so it is a bit rich for them to play the inadequate exit card that they contributed to. Alan Jones also claimed there wasn't a sprinkler system which wasn't true. His main interest was more likely an increase in the number of toilet blocks or additional change rooms for the ball boys.

[ism22]

Pretty challenging keeping up to date with my supposed alts. Can you please share a list so I can keep track. I'll pass this to Austrac for anti money laundering and watch lists

FYI - you should not use people's christian names on this site or anything to try and identify them. You might have actually guessed my Christian name (it is quote common among Italians like myself...Lol)

It is guaranteed that I did not guess your name or your ethnicity. Nice try though...

[The Axe]

It is guaranteed that I did not guess your name or your ethnicity. Nice try though...

Get help. Please. You are delusional.. wearing thin on many here.
weve been patient. Now I’m seriously concerned for you.

im what some would call a white wog. My foreign langauages are rhyming slang and pigeon-French. I think spagetti tastes Best on toast.
you guessed my first name. Congratulations it is probably the first thing you have got right on here in eons

[ism22]

Get help. Please. You are delusional.. wearing thin on many here.

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im what some would call a white wog

Grow up, your pathetic bullboy tactics don't bother me:
1. I've correctly identified your name and surname (which led to me accurately picking your ethnicity).
2. Damn, I was hoping you'd be some full hectic wog. JOKING. I said you have lived in Brisbane your whole life, you mug. This fact has always been clear from my end...

Unless your fingerprints are those of another Italian guy with the same name who lives in Sydney (and uses this forum). Um. Aaaah... you're definitely from QLD, mate.

[The Axe]

Grow up, your pathetic bullboy tactics don't bother me:
1. I've correctly identified your name and surname (which led to me accurately picking your ethnicity).
2. Damn, I was hoping you'd be some full hectic wog. JOKING. I said you have lived in Brisbane your whole life, you mug. This fact has always been clear from my end...

Unless your fingerprints are those of another Italian guy with the same name who lives in Sydney (and uses this forum). Um. Aaaah... you're definitely from QLD, mate.

Final warning. Continue this and it goes to Mods.
You are wrong and cannot see it. I'm wasting my time as you cannot comprehend the written word.
I'm not bullying, I'm responding to your constant incorrect accusations. I can prove to mods who I am and my email is my first and surname. There is someone on this site who has known me since year 3. Does it take a reference from this person to shut you up or will you still keep this rubbish going or claiming an alter ego?

Call it out. what does it take to stop this ongoing gibber? Me to prove to Mods who I am and then you apologise and STFU or just requesting you to be banned for harrassment?

This is beyond tiresome to me and others on here.

[The Axe]

Grow up, your pathetic bullboy tactics don't bother me:
1. I've correctly identified your name and surname (which led to me accurately picking your ethnicity).
2. Damn, I was hoping you'd be some full hectic wog. JOKING. I said you have lived in Brisbane your whole life, you mug. This fact has always been clear from my end...

Unless your fingerprints are those of another Italian guy with the same name who lives in Sydney (and uses this forum). Um. Aaaah... you're definitely from QLD, mate.

For those that remember the original movie. More apt

[The Axe]

Here’s a related article of interest

[Kelby]

I am out of Sydney, but what happens if labour wins ().
Do they do up SFS again?

[fletch]

Anyone have access to that Telucrap story suggesting the SFS rebuild has been delayed again?

[elo]

Construction of the Sydney Football Stadium redevelopment has blown out by several months and will not begin until the middle of March at the earliest, with further delays likely to jeopardise the project’s deadline of hosting the 2022 NRL grand final.

While the NSW government on Sunday moved to quell any concern that the project would be delivered late, documents published by Infrastructure NSW reveal the work is running months behind and building isn’t set to begin until next month.

Building was supposed to have started last October and be finished by June 2021, with the stadium to open nine months later in March 2022, according to an indicative timeline released by the government.

But the updated tender documents list a revised construction timeline, with works expected to finish about July 30, 2022, about two months out from grand final, assuming no more delays.

Despite the evident stasis in the project’s construction, the government said on Sunday that the rebuilt stadium was on track for completion. It said Bankwest Stadium in Parramatta hosted its first match only a month after building ended last March.

“The new Sydney Football Stadium will be finished in time to host the 2022 NRL grand final,” said a spokesman for Infrastructure NSW, the agency leading the project.

Notes from a community consultative committee meeting earlier this month at the stadium reveal the above-ground demolition of the site has been completed, but pile demolitions from the former site were not likely to be finished until the end of February.

“John Holland expects to start on site in mid-March if the site is handed over in February,” said Paul Cassel, project director for John Holland, the multinational construction company now in charge of the operation.

The two-stage project was originally contracted to Lendlease for $729m until the company revealed its costs would go well past what the government had set aside at the 2019 election. The project was subsequently put back out to tender and John Holland won the contract for $828m, a process that ultimately delayed the construction.

“Lendlease’s bid for Stage 2 was well above that from John Holland,” said Tom Gellibrand, head of NSW projects for Infrastructure NSW, at the meeting. “The original design was done a long time ago and roughly costed. A number was arrived at and $729m allocated. Since then things have moved, the design changed, planning approval ?received, a contract signed.”

A John Holland spokeswoman said the company was “committed to delivering the Sydney Football Stadium on time”.

Labor sport spokeswoman Lynda Voltz said she was not confident the stadium would be built in time for the grand final, given the delays already besetting the project.

“It’s hard to argue that this project can be fast-tracked, given the pressures on other infrastructure projects around Sydney,” Ms Voltz said. “The project is already so late.”

Greens MP David Shoebridge said to meet the deadline the government would have to deliver the project without any further delays, something it had found challenging to achieve in the recent past.

“Every project this government touches is over time and over budget,” he said. “There’s a reason we opposed this project in the lead-up to the election. It’s because it was already going to run over budget and almost certainly going to see taxpayers paying over the margin to replace a perfectly functioning stadium.”

There you go.

[fletch]

There you go.

Thanks, so it looks like 2023 at the earliest for the Roosters to start playing at the new stadium.

[bondi.boy]

Thanks, so it looks like 2023 at the earliest for the Roosters to start playing at the new stadium.

All fine by me.
Stadium must be built properly. Slowly, carefully, no more "leaning towers of cracking" please.
No shortcuts, every single thing must be inspected and signed off on by a 1st rate group of engineers.
No foreign steel that doesn't meet specifications either. Cheap is not always best.
I don't want to be sitting in the stand watching a game and next minute be crashing to ground below as the inferior steel collapses.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/...724-22loz.html

2012

There are large cracks in the partially collapsed roof of the car park of the Westfield shopping centre in south-eastern Sydney and the potential for a major collapse is very real, Superintendent Tom Cooper of Fire and Rescue NSW says.
Part of the roof collapsed before the main opening time today, emergency services said. Emergency crews, who evacuated the shopping centre, believe no one was injured or trapped. Police say it could have been disastrous if the incident had happened a few hours later when the shops were open.

Earlier, Superintendent Rick Parkes, of Fire and Rescue NSW, said a second-level steel beam that supported the car park roof had "weakened and broken".

[NorfolkStreetKid]

I believe it makes sense for the NRL Grand Final to be rotated amongst the best stadiums in the country, just like the Superbowl is in America,

[bondi.boy]

I believe it makes sense for the NRL Grand Final to be rotated amongst the best stadiums in the country, just like the Superbowl is in America,

Only Sydney and Brisbane though...it would be an insult to fans in NSW and
Qld to play the NRL Grand Final in an AFL heartland state.

[GC6]

If you look at who is actually saying their will be delays it’s the opposition governments. This project will be delayed but I believe it will be ready for the 22 grand final. And I will say Roosters will get a couple of games before that as well.