Posts by LegBreak
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How about we just let them play together from now on and enter them in 2011?
Or even just keep them away from a coach who is so staggeringly patronising that he can’t tell his team how many points they need to win by to win a trophy.
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Ask Tew where he stashes all that Teflon.
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The only vote that “matters” in this is the “No” vote. That’s the Family First / Simon Barnett / Nanny state is upon us brigade.
The “Yes” vote is for those who passionately supported the original amendment, the spoiled vote is for those who also side with the “Yes” vote but think that silly CIRs also need shutting up, and those who don’t bother voting (the largest sector I’d guess) are those who think “yes” but basically can’t be bothered.
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And I guess they’re giving it a couple of years before moving Cory Jane to centre.
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Given it's in Auckland, I'd say an IMAX screen or five, a food court, branches of all leading chainstores and convenient parking for 5000 cars.
You forgot the celebrities.
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None of these were anywhere the entertainment landscape of the 20th century, but once they arrived there was one stadium able to cash in on it.
I felt the same way about the would-be Stadium New Zealand in Auckland -- although I'd have been inclined to add value with decent conference facilities. Far more so than the Wellington stadium, it would have worked for a wide range of social activities. Imagine a wedding in a room on the Eastern side, looking out to the Gulf, for example.
And I do suspect that, even given the qualms about its cost now, Dunedinites will find plenty of uses for a stadium with a roof.
Re Dunedin. Exactly.
Especially since it's likely to be the only indoor stadium in the country for 25 years (no science in that prediction)
So it's the old competitive advantage situation like Wellington currently has with outdoor events as mentioned earlier.
So think Tua v Cameron, an annual beer fest, circus de soliel, take the Edinburgh Tatoo off Wgtn etc...
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Without wanting to sound like John Morrison, really I don’t, the Caketin / Railyards Stadium in Wellington is a good advertisement for the “Build it and they will come” theory.
What’s its most profitable arm? No, it’s not All Black tests, it’s the Sevens. And when the stadium was conceived in the mid 90s there was no such thing as a World Sevens Circuit, and there was no way New Zealanders were going to dress up to party (Central?) for 2 days in summer.
It also generates money from Home and Garden shows. Remember them in the 90s? Of course not.
As well as the regular income derived from having a Wellington side in a professional Australian football competition.
And now there’s T20 cricket.
None of these were anywhere the entertainment landscape of the 20th century, but once they arrived there was one stadium able to cash in on it.
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Except he's playing numbers 6 and 8 in their wrong positions.
Same old mistakes....
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Dear Auckland,
I don’t get it.
You get offered some central money to develop and improve your city, just like what happened with the Waterfront Stadium.
You’re getting this offer on the back of a national event around the corner, even though you’re getting over half the good bits of that national event.
Yet, like you did with the Waterfront Stadium, you seem to be trying to find reasons why it shouldn’t be like this.
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Pop quiz: Can anyone actually remember the last time the All Blacks scored an intercept themselves?
Grant Batty 1977?
Good question though.