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    Thumbs up Melbourne's New Stadium

    MELBOURNE-based Cox Architects & Planners has been chosen to design a new "state of the art" sports stadium at Olympic Park in Melbourne.

    The stadium, expected to cost $100 million, will provide Melbourne with an international standard facility catering specifically for top-level rugby union, rugby league and soccer matches.

    The new rectangular-pitch stadium, with 18,000 to 20,000 seats, will be home to the Melbourne Storm National Rugby League Club and soccer club Melbourne Victory.

    The firm has previously designed the Rod Laver Tennis Centre and the northern stand of the MCG.

    The architectural firm is also active in overseas markets, including Malaysia, where it designed components of a large urban redevelopment, Kuala Lumpur City Centre.

    Its last commission in the project, the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, will be officially opened soon.

    The $220 million centre, catering for more than 3000 delegates in a single seating, adjoins the Petronas twin towers, Malaysia's best known high-rise landmark.

    The Cox Group has also designed an accompanying 590-room hotel that will open for trading in the new year.

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    Cant wait for this staduim to get underway and see the final product...then hopefully it helps the storm with crowd etc.







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    Fantastic - This will help Melbourne no ends!!!

    How good are some of the suburban grounds that the NRL plays on starting to look.

    Robina, Olympic Park, Dairy Farmers just to name a few... And then you have ones like WIN and Parra stadium.


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    Many people labelled the old Olympic Park as the worst rugby stadium to go to. This will help a lot.
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    The new Olympic Park will be a jewel in the rugby league crown. Olympic Park even though it is an awful ground has amazing atmosphere.

    More rectangular grounds showing off rugby league in the best way is the way forward.

    Finally we will have top class facilities. The Storm's future is secure.
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    DESIGNERS of a big-ticket sports stadium in Melbourne are promising an iconic venue to help lure large crowds to soccer and rugby.

    The new Olympic Park stadium could be "wrapped in its skin" with a futuristic design to set it apart from the city's existing stadiums according to Cox Architects.

    The firm, one of the five architectural groups behind the MCG's $434 million northern stand, has won the contract to design the new venue.

    Intended to replace the existing Olympic Park stadium, the new centre will initially seat about 20,000 with room to grow by an extra 5000 seats.

    Offering some early insights into how it might appear, Cox director Jonathan Gardiner said seating would be concentrated on the wings of the field.

    He said that while existing Melbourne stadiums "really express their structure" with trusses and cables visually prominent in the design, the new Olympic Park venue was likely to be different.

    Unlike the last three stadiums built in central Melbourne, it will not feature a retractable roof.

    The stadium could help bolster the fortunes of its principle tenants, the Melbourne Storm and Melbourne Victory rugby league and soccer clubs, Mr Gardiner said.

    "It really does need to be sustainable, not just environmentally, but in terms of the health of the codes that are playing out of it," he said.

    "The history of rugby league, for instance, in this state is not particularly long yet.

    "We would like this to be this city's way of saying these codes are important to us.

    "The whole design will be based around getting people as close to the action as possible. You can no longer just put a game on and throw a few seats around a boundary and hope that people will come."

    The Melbourne Demons, Australia's oldest football club, will also train at the country's newest world class sports stadium, to open in 2008.

    Mr Gardiner said the elite training centre would take Collingwood Football Club's much-vaunted Lexus Centre nearby "the next step".

    Dining areas and bars will also be features of the new venue, to be built on a 50,000 sqm site between the existing stadium and Gosch's Paddock, to the east.

    Though it has been trumpeted as a $100 million project, Mr Gardiner said the final cost would not be known until the State Government decided on a design.

    The stadium will do away with the athletics track which currently separates Olympic Park spectators from the action.

    The fate of the existing stadium, built for the 1956 Olympics, had not been decided, Mr Gardiner said.

    "I know that the Olympic Park (Trust) is looking at some options for that site with the government," he said.

    The venue will also provide a new option for concert and special event promoters, already spoilt for choice in Melbourne.

    With its 20,000-25,000 capacity, it would hold more than the two arenas at neighbouring Melbourne Park that seat about 15,000 and 11,000 respectively.

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    This is a good thing for league in Melbourne , Lets not have any Melbourne bashers saying "its no point for a big stadium if they cant draw a crowd" cause thats just plain stupid, look at Souths using Telstra stadium, it will be so empty u could hear a pin drop.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Queenslander
    This is a good thing for league in Melbourne , Lets not have any Melbourne bashers saying "its no point for a big stadium if they cant draw a crowd" cause thats just plain stupid, look at Souths using Telstra stadium, it will be so empty u could hear a pin drop.
    Yeah but they are making the new staduim to attract more people. Olympic park is just an awful ground from what ive heard from friends that been there...i have seen pics of teh seats aswell..your knees are touching the seat in front...very uncomfortable. hopefully the new look and facilities will encourage some of the old diehard fans to come back and start supporting the storm. aswell as some new ones.







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    Fantastic news for the Storm and Victory. Will help boost the Storm's crowds. I like the line;

    "We would like this to be this city's way of saying these codes are important to us.

    "The whole design will be based around getting people as close to the action as possible. You can no longer just put a game on and throw a few seats around a boundary and hope that people will come."
    Getting people close to the action is one of the best ways to promnote our game down there. Currently people are way to far away at Olympic Park. When this is built I think Ill make a trek down there to go to a Melbourne game and see the new stadium.


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    Im not going to say that you wont draw a crowd. ill wait and see the results.






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    Melbourne will be a success and the NRL MUST do whatever it taked to ensure that. Even if it means salary cap concessions etc. The AFL would never let an expansion team die - look at Sydney and Brisbane - both were given huge advantages to suceed and they have. Both will need ongoing help but that is part of expanding into non traditional territory.

    If we dont we may as well give up and call ourselves the East Coast Rugby League.

    I hope they become another Brisbane and become regularly competitive with a good off field following.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dakink
    Melbourne will be a success and the NRL MUST do whatever it taked to ensure that. Even if it means salary cap concessions etc. The AFL would never let an expansion team die - look at Sydney and Brisbane - both were given huge advantages to suceed and they have. Both will need ongoing help but that is part of expanding into non traditional territory.

    If we dont we may as well give up and call ourselves the East Coast Rugby League.

    I hope they become another Brisbane and become regularly competitive with a good off field following.
    next year we will be seeing some more funding and more work going into promoting league down there by the NRL and the storm. just hope that we can get back upto the good crowd days of 98-00....this staduim plus funding and other junior league delvelopments will help grow the game down there.







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    So i other words do everything to help melbourne even if it means to merge a sydney team with them????????? same as AFL did with Brisbane






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    Quote Originally Posted by Teegy
    So i other words do everything to help melbourne even if it means to merge a sydney team with them????????? same as AFL did with Brisbane
    no. they need help but merging with a sydney team shouldnt be the answer. The NRL wants a team in melbourne, the team is competitive on field, now we need to be competitive off field...and in the near future we shall see how its looking.







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    Quote Originally Posted by Teegy
    So i other words do everything to help melbourne even if it means to merge a sydney team with them????????? same as AFL did with Brisbane

    If thats what it needed to make a success then yes. The AFL werent afraid of the hard decisions and neither should we. Having said tha there is no need for a Sydney team to merge, Melbourne will be a success on its own given time and proper support facilities, which it is now getting.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Teegy
    So i other words do everything to help melbourne even if it means to merge a sydney team with them????????? same as AFL did with Brisbane
    This should only occur if the NRL wants to get rid of some sydney teams (but this will never happen). However if a sydney club wants to merge because its in financial trouble or any other niggles then i would say no. Plus i couldnt stand having the Melbourne Rabbitohs, it should always remain the Storm



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