Sydney Football Stadium

[Jacks Fur Coat]

I am a member of SCG. This update from the CEO

STADIUM CLUB & SFS REDEVELOPMENT
The government has progressed the planning application for the new stadium and is seeking finalisation before the end of the year. At the same time, the tender process is being finalised and the government is seeking to award the tender by year end. We look forward to sharing more details as these come to hand.

The members facilities will form part of the stadium footprint generating a vibrancy to the club with the adjacency to the action. The facilities will be fully self funded by the Trust’s debt facilities.

When you’re here during the summer, you will get a good view of the construction site from the Noble Bradman level 3 atrium or level 4 rooftop, and will gain appreciation of the extent of work that’s been completed as part of the demolition.

And also the Liberal Party...you da goto man!

[Bondicigar]

I don't care if I drags out for years, the SCG is the new grave yard for travelling nrl teams

[Waylander]

Building a max security jail at work? I hope you work in a prison!

Nope, a childcare center.

[Easts75]

Nope, a childcare center.

That is exactly what it is like, especially a female centre

[Mickie Lane]

It might take 3 years instead of 2 but I dont think it will drag on for years.

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

Don't get me wrong, I am pleased that the SCG has turned into a fortress for us, but I just hope that the general match day experience could be improved or enhanced somewhat. I also hope that we can eventually have more games at our spiritual home within Sydney's eastern suburbs. Example, I think the 2020 magic round game will have been one of our home games for two years in a row. That should level up from 2021.

[Paddo Colt 61]

Bondi Boy was a big booster before the election urging us all to vote anti Labor but he's MIA lately and, clearly, the stadium's not looking too flash since the gross mismanagement of the light rail has doubled the original estimate. Alan's wet dream is a Rugby HQ replete with rah rah museum - would have to be a small one, there's only so much Ella memorabilia available.

[bondi.boy]

Bondi Boy was a big booster before the election urging us all to vote anti Labor but he's MIA lately and, clearly, the stadium's not looking too flash since the gross mismanagement of the light rail has doubled the original estimate. Alan's wet dream is a Rugby HQ replete with rah rah museum - would have to be a small one, there's only so much Ella memorabilia available.

The new stadium [2% of Gladys' construction budget] will be fine.
Govt should design a great stadium, and build it to its full design...unlike what happened with the Opera House.
Govt should never have engaged an overseas co to build the light rail...but it too will be fine when it starts operating soon.
Labor couldn't even figure out how to introduce an Opal card type system...kept announcing a scheme then canning it.
...let alone build a new stadium or light rail.

["gaz"]

Nope, a childcare center.

Funny you mentioned that, my son escaped from a child care centre at 3 years old by scaling the fence, crossing the road and went into a shop. Fortunately the shop keeper realised what had happened.
The whole place had to be upgraded to max security after that

[easts4eva]

My mate a works in the building industry, he's adement it won't be built, I said bullshit at the start but yeah I drive past it a few times a week and nothing.

[Paddo Colt 61]

Comforting to have Bondi Boy's assurances on the new stadium except that the analogy he uses suggests otherwise. Anti Labor was a strident opponent of the Opera House build (as it had also been of the building of the Sydney Harbour bridge during the Great Depression) and it was Anti Labor, under brown paper bags Askin - whatever graft he got, he was "askin" for more - that that finished the build off in more ways than one as BB rightly points out and we have a similar situation with the NBN. The cock up part of the otherwise glorious Opera House story is the Libs' legacy.

[Mickie Lane]

Still think the Roosters should move to Henson Park on a 25 year lease, its better than what the new stadium will be.
I love taking my dog to the footy.

[Paddo Colt 61]

Oh and Bondi Boy's further claim that the Light Rail outrageous overspend is not down to a Lib cock up but rather to the ineptitude of a foreign contractor also needs to be put to bed. The fact is that Acciona (the company involved) claims to have been misled about the extent of underground services that needed to be contended with during the build and the upcoming court settlement appears to bear those claims out. Clearly, that sort of ineptitude on the part of Gladys' government is monumental in anyone's book. Of course it is little reported in the Murdoch media but I did read that "NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance today revealed the Government was looking to settle that court battle.
"Whilst we're still in the midst of negotiations we don't have a final number and that's why were continuing discussions," he said. Mr Constance's rhetoric today was a far cry from his description of the legal action in April last year, when he called Acciona's claims "ridiculous" and said they needed to "get on with it.....We will throw the book at them in terms of this contract," he said. "We are not going to muck around."
Your entitled to your own opinions BB but not your own facts unforch.

[Paddo Colt 61]

And finally Bondi Boy, because you shouldn't be allowed to get away with the sort of nonsense you peddle, transport ticketing in this State has a long and complex history. Any caution on the part of Labor with regard to the introduction of automated ticketing centred on job loss and their replacement by machines. With Opal came the retrenchment of hundreds of bus and rail jobs and a Party whose central concern is the welfare of working people, like most of us here on this site - League is, after all a working class sport, must have serious misgivings about that sort of impact on ordinary families.The fact is that the median wage - the most common wage paid in NSW is around $46K and judging by the anti Labor rhetoric about Newstart and automation, the Libs certainly ain't lookin out for us. Like the AJC and the Cricket Ground Trust, the new stadium is a big end of town wank. You must be from the new Bondi, not the one that I remember.

[bondi.boy]

And finally Bondi Boy, because you shouldn't be allowed to get away with the sort of nonsense you peddle, transport ticketing in this State has a long and complex history. Any caution on the part of Labor with regard to the introduction of automated ticketing centred on job loss and their replacement by machines. With Opal came the retrenchment of hundreds of bus and rail jobs and a Party whose central concern is the welfare of working people, like most of us here on this site - League is, after all a working class sport, must have serious misgivings about that sort of impact on ordinary families.The fact is that the median wage - the most common wage paid in NSW is around $46K and judging by the anti Labor rhetoric about Newstart and automation, the Libs certainly ain't lookin out for us. Like the AJC and the Cricket Ground Trust, the new stadium is a big end of town wank. You must be from the new Bondi, not the one that I remember.

Nonsense?
Nah.
The major cause of people losing their jobs is massive immigration...millions of immigrants pouring in every decade...including students who never seem to go back home.

Bus passengers sitting around twiddling their thumbs while the drivers collect money from boarding passengers, wait while said boarders search in their bags/purses for money, was absolutely ridiculous.
Bus conductors trying to move around buses, including double decker buses, "fares please", lurching around selling tickets out of their bags...also ridiculous.
Labor's NBN...more ridiculousness.
Most people had Optus or Telstra cable internet already.

In the days of 'old Bondi', SCG and AJC members...were mostly Labor politicians, Labor stalwarts, and their families?