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would be happy with one of these twoQuote:
Originally Posted by hawk
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So NSW Venues has no cash to repair let alone replace the cow paddock that is Hunter Stadiums pitch but on the bright side they are looking to throw some coin at the independent SCG Trust…..
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New hi-tech plan for Allianz Stadium has footy fans covered
Exclusive John Lehmann Editor-at-Large
The Daily Telegraph
May 19, 2014 12:00AM
A $250 million plan is being proposed to transform the out-of-date Allianz Stadium into a hi-tech, fully-roofed entertainment facility to help Sydney’s sports teams shore up their financial futures.
A new master plan for the 44,000-seat venue at Moore Park includes upgraded seating, quality food outlets and super-fast Wi-fi to dramatically improve fans’ match-day experience.
Expanded entry gates, digital video signage and live fan sites will use special lighting systems to enable the stadium to adopt the colours of the “home” teams for different matches.
The master plan, by the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust, includes a permanent see-through roof, which would turn Allianz into Australia’s premier all-weather rectangular stadium.
It would also help Sydney attract more tourists and generate economic activity by staging global sporting events like the successful Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball season opener.
Sport minister Stuart Ayres, who will consider the Allianz upgrade while finalising the government’s stadium investment strategy, said he wants to “roll out the red carpet” to more top American sporting franchises, including ice hockey and basketball teams.
NRL chief executive Dave Smith is a strong supporter of the plan and wrote to former premier Barry O’Farrell last month lobbying for $18 million to be allocated in next month’s state Budget.
About $13 million would be spent installing Wi-fi and internet TV by next March, enabling fans to watch unique replays of the sports action on their phones, access live statistics and order food and drinks.
A similar hi-tech system was recently introduced in the SCG’s new stand, which has also seen fans spending on food and drinks more than double since the quality was lifted at the Ashes Test in January.
Mr Smith said Sydney needed world-class rectangular stadiums to attract more spectators and provide a better experience. He said better stadiums would drive bigger revenues for NRL clubs, which under different deals share a cut of ticket and merchandising sales, corporate hospitality and advertising signage.
“From a financial perspective, quality seating, quality facilities, quality corporate areas all contribute to a better financial position for the game and for our clubs,’’ he said.
Mr Smith said the NRL was “willing to be part of discussions on possible ways to fund” the upgrade, which the Trust wants completed by 2020.
The NRL has battled to increase crowd numbers over the past decade and at least half of the 16 clubs are struggling financially.
Trust chairman Tony Shepherd said Allianz was “tired” and “desperately needs work”.
“Allianz hasn’t had one cent of public money spent on it ever — it was built with members’ money in 1988,’’ he said.
He said Sydney needed sports facilities worthy of a global city and was slipping behind Melbourne.
“We’ve got to stop thinking like Mickey Mouse and just doing a little bit here and a little bit there — the world will pass us by,’’ he said.
“Let’s be honest, the Yarra Park precinct in Melbourne is world-class, but our facilities in Sydney need investment. Melbourne has just announced plans to spend another $700 million on a tennis centre that we would love to have.’’
Allianz is home to the NSW Waratahs, Sydney Roosters and Sydney FC, and hosts rugby league and rugby union Test matches and Socceroos internationals.
BUILDING A PREMIER PRECINCT
A new indoor cricket centre is part of a $90 million plan to establish a high-performance sports centre at the SCG.
The project, known as Sports Central, would include a terraced building featuring fitness facilities, a rooftop swimming pool and a childcare centre.
The SCG Trust is close to finalising a deal with a well-known Sydney university to establish a sports medicine and hospitality campus within this building.
The nearby cricket centre, the home of Cricket NSW, would feature 12 indoor practice wickets, a 60-seat theatrette and a digital coaching centre located underneath a 16-wicket turf training area.
The Sports Central plan also includes an entertainment plaza, featuring an ANZAC memorial dedicated to more than 1000 NSW men and women who have played on the famous grounds and served in Australian defence forces.
The Trust is aiming to further broaden the Moore Park sports precinct and hopes the Sydney Kings basketballers will relocate to the Hordern Pavilion and Sydney Blue Sox to the old Sydney showground.
Cricket NSW chief executive Andrew Jones said Sydney’s cricket facilities had fallen behind those in Brisbane and Adelaide.
“We see a lot of money being spent in AFL, but cricket has many more participants and generates far higher TV ratings,’’ he said.
POLES SALE TO EMPOWER $30 BILLION GRAND PLAN
Fast-rising Baird government minister Stuart Ayres reckons voters are not really in love with power poles.
“Do you really want to go up to the power pole outside your home, wrap your arms around it and say I love owning you?’’ he told a Committee for Sydney meeting in Parramatta.
Mr Ayres believes Sydneysiders might be more enamoured with better roads, rail services, sports venues and cultural facilities.
Of course, many of these goodies can only be funded if Premier Mike Baird wins support at the 2015 election to sell the state’s electricity assets. That will be the central battleground of the election, with Labor glued to its ideological opposition to such a sale.
The key to the Baird government’s success will be deciding in the months ahead how the proceeds from such a sale — expected to be about $30 billion — will be invested and then exciting voters in those plans.
Expect much jockeying from various interest groups — including the major sports codes and venues — to get on the Premier’s shopping list.
It is time to invest in major stadiums. We are a sporting town but venues like Allianz have been neglected.
Previous governments spent $280 million in eight years patching up suburban grounds, rather than major stadiums like Melbourne and Brisbane have done.
At least Mr Ayres is on the right track, saying recently his focus will be on improving the SCG Trust venues and Homebush’s ANZ Stadium.
geez, how good is that article! nice little puff piece about funding a stadium upgrade written by what appears to be a tame journalist, slide in that it'll only get funding if you sell off existing assets, then get in a subtle jab at labor and their "ideological opposition".
gold. whatever spin doctor set that one up will have earned their Christmas bonus already!
anyway Pico, surely our $250m stadium upgrade is part of the port lease proceeds!
NSW doesn't exist outside the walls of the big city. The mere idea of having anything more than tokenistic election sweeteners done in the provinces is fanciful :deadhorse:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pico
You only have to look at the names on the board of the SCG trust to understand why they get stuff done.
We seem to have a bunch of people just happy to have a job and not cause a fuss.
Money made in the Hunter spent in the Hunter what utopia are you living in Grim.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Say what?Quote:
Originally Posted by Premy
My bad I don't know what I read then total thought that was your post I quoted...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
carry on nothing to see here.
Okay.
And if you want the answer to that question, the utopia I am living in is called Adelaide. It's lovely.
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Originally Posted by belchardo
Yeah I can see the pigs in flight now. I'm not sure if that was a newspaper article or a government memo.
I wonder how much of this $30b we'll see in the hunter, if any.
Maybe that's what I was thinking subconsciously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Easy take 10 apple'sQuote:
Originally Posted by Pico
Times them by 3
Subtract 10
Divide that by 5
Then take 4 away.
Both play Foolish Games TBHQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
time to secede from straya, let alone nsw
make it happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by snake
@FOXFOOTBALL: Fox Sports understands @SydneyFC have turned down an approach from the management team of former Argentinian striker Javier Saviola.
Would be a good signing?
Normally Sydney are the greedy, corpulent fat-kid at the party, attempting to take everything in sight.. The fact they turned this guy down is an immediate concern and would have me questioning why..Quote:
Originally Posted by lquiquer
we should sign him
Playing at a fair level, and still scoring goals. Perhaps...Quote:
Originally Posted by lquiquer
My concern is that we are filling our front third with very little pace. With the exception of taggart we weren't overly quick.
However, it depends on what system Stubbins wants to play.
From what i remember of Saviola he is pretty mobile. More mobile then Heskey. Seeing as Heskey and probs Taggart are leaving we could get a mobile winger as well as Saviola.
his stats in a better league than us but also in the Champions League are impressive
http://www.whoscored.com/Players/218...Javier-Saviola
Saviola is still pretty quick. and would be more than capable of winning the golden boot in the A-league. The only minus I can think of is that he's under 170cm tall so the physical part of the A-league may not suit him.
Personally, I'd be very happy to see him play as a Jet.
Didn't suit ADP either.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Class players just bludge defensively and then do the business with the ball to justify their big bucks.
With this blokes pedigree and experience in the game I am sure he would have worked out how to play against robust physical players hacking the shit out of him all day
I'd agree. If you look at his goals in Greece he's too slippery for defences even at 32 years old.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
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He is definitely a level above the HAL. Watched him a bit this year and he doesn't play like a 32 year old at all.
Olympiacos sold their main striker mid season to Fulham and they will be losing Joel Campbell back to Arsenal so he would have plenty of opportunities to play next season, and they have Champion's league football. He only signed a 2 year deal at the start of this season and played plenty games.. so i would be surprised if he came to the HAL this season.
If he does sign for the jets i would definitely be a happy little Vegemite. Just not getting my hopes up.
So apparently we are safe & business as usual....
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Jets safe in A-League: FFA
By JAMES GARDINER
May 20, 2014, 10:30 p.m.
FOOTBALL Federation Australia has given assurances that the Newcastle Jets’ future in the A-League is secure as embattled owner Nathan Tinkler is poised to relinquish control of the Knights.
Hunter Sports Group, which operates the Knights and the Jets on behalf of Tinkler, has been in an ownership wrangle with the Knights Members Club after the former billionaire defaulted on a $10.52million bank guarantee on March 31 – a fundamental breach of the 2011 privatisation agreement.
The situation reached crisis point on Thursday when HSG failed to pay about 20 players and staff their monthly wages.
It has been business as usual for the Jets, but there has been growing concern among fans that the Knights’ troubles will flow on to the A-League club. FFA has been monitoring the developments with the Knights.
‘‘FFA has discussed the situation with the Newcastle Jets management today and we have been given an update on the club’s off-season plans,’’ an FFA spokesperson told the Newcastle Herald yesterday.
‘‘However, FFA is not in a position to comment about Hunter Sports Group’s business interests and dealings.
‘‘FFA can reaffirm its commitment to Newcastle’s place in the Hyundai A-League for season 10 and beyond.’’
The Jets’ wages are due in line with the rest of Hunter Sports Group staff, including the Knights, on the 15th of every month.
A-League players, through their union, Professional Footballers Australia, negotiated a safety net to ensure salaries were met in the most recent collective bargaining agreement. The FFA distributes $2.45million in grants to each club which basically covers the salary cap.
The Herald has learnt that clubs have a written commitment to FFA that the distribution will be used for payroll only, which includes superannuation. On that basis, Jets players’ entitlements should be up to date.
The Australian Tax Office launched wind-up proceedings against HSG, the Knights and Jets over $3.19 million in unpaid tax 18 months ago.
The debt was subsequently settled. There has been speculation that Tinkler is positioning the Jets to be put on the market.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/22...ue-ffa/?cs=306
good. Hopefully they are looking for potential buyers
Oh and it seems that no one remembered that SFS can't increase capacity or undergo major renovations til 2030 due to a deal with Olympic stadium and state govt.
No roof for you.
Toby must be expecting a call.
that be straight outa nf.net brazQuote:
There has been speculation that Tinkler is positioning the Jets to be put on the market
there will be a story on ABC 7:30 tomorrow night about corruption in socceroos matches. i don't think they're alleging match fixing by socceroos players, but by players from opposition teams in matches played in foreign countries.
what a pity i'll miss it as i'll be watching the socceroos match!
What an interesting time to air that story…Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
if theres competition theres corruption on some level. remember the game where players were trying to score a goal in their own net. Just another easy story to fill airtime. Bit like saying lets do a story on bullying. happens in every school, every day, easy. I 'll put $5 on "damning evidence" being said. just gotta make a call, toots.Quote:
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In a move that seems bound to be strongly opposed by the game's authorities, the Dutch football federation (KNVB) wants to introduce video technology from next season. For the past year the Dutch have been experimenting with an unofficial pilot scheme but will need the permission of the game's lawmakers, the International FA Board, to make it permanent.
Like the English Premier League, top-flight Dutch clubs have already implemented goalline technology which has been now approved by FIFA and will be used for the World Cup. But expanding this to include further video aids seems likely to be considered a step too far. UEFA president Michel Platini, for one, is fiercely opposed and has ruled out any sort of technological aid in UEFA competitions.
Nevertheless project manager Gijs de Jong said: "The KNVB is of the opinion that the video referee is the future of football. That is why we would like to further develop this system and officially use the video referee in the next season.
"We are very happy with the first year. In 24 (games) we have used the video referee, 22 of the games being in the top division, and there was an average of two to three situations in which resolution by the video referee would have been of benefit.
"If our proposals are accepted, it would represent a revolutionary step in football: We would then be the world's only country working in football with a video referee."
Can't people just accept that the refereeing decisions not being perfect are what makes the game great??
Even the ****ing video regularly gets it wrong
**** How much breath has been wasted discussing whether that goal in the 66 WC Final actually crossed the line
100% agree MFKS. Video ref killed rugby league, amongst other things
Always say....mistakes are the essence of sport. A game of football with no mistakes would be pretty sterile. Bring video refs when the players and coaches are perfect themselves.
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Originally Posted by WolfMan
As for use in top flight football, it's something that we probably should get right. just put it in stop listening whining sh1tcunce (me included).
Arguments can still be had over offsides, fouls, poodle dogs on fields etc
the Fifas wont even allow refs to be miked up, sif they are gonna allow video review.
The only thing video should be used for is to identify and prosecute people who start Mexican waves.
thats the biggest blight on our game at the moment.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-2...-story/5479174Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Can't see any dramas with zads leaving gives Stubbins more cap and more squad space to work with, be interesting to see who the new captain is.Quote:
Jets skipper Ruben Zadkovich poised for Perth move
By JAMES GARDINER
May 27, 2014, 10 p.m.
NEWCASTLE Jets captain Ruben Zadkovich is close to finalising a move to A-League rivals Perth.
Zadkovich, 28, has a year to run on his contract in Newcastle, but sources have told the Newcastle Herald that the Jets have agreed to release the feisty midfielder.
The Perth deal is for two years with a year option and could be completed as early as today.
Zadkovich has called Newcastle home for the past four years. He met his fiancee in the city and took great pride in wearing the Jets armband.
However, the security of potentially an extra two years beyond his Jets contract was enough to lure the Bulli-bred enforcer out west.
Glory signed Brisbane defensive midfielder Diogo Ferreira yesterday but consider Zadkovich a like-for-like replacement for retired skipper Jacob Burns.
Burns, 36, was one of eight players released by Glory coach Kenny Lowe, who was given the job full-time last month.
Apart from Ferreira, Lowe has brought striker Dino Djulbic back from Abu Dhabi and recruited Youssouf Hersi from Western Sydney Wanderers.
Zadkovich’s imminent departure will free up about $220,000 a year in the Jets’ salary cap.
He was close to joining English Championship club Millwall at the start of last season, but the clubs could not agree on a transfer fee. Instead, he stayed in the Hunter and was the only Jet to play in all 27 games.
Midfield is one area where the Jets have depth.
Josh Brillante, Ben Kantarovski and Zenon Caravella were used in tandem with Zadkovich last campaign. Jacob Pepper is also adept in the centre of the park and Young Socceroo Mitch Oxborrow is expected to push for a regular spot this season.
Zadkovich joined the Jets from then English Championship club Derby County in 2010 and was made captain in February 2013 after the mid-season release of Jobe Wheelhouse.
He won the club’s Ray Baartz Medal that year and earned a Socceroos recall for the East Asian Cup.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/23...h-move/?cs=303
Griff for captain?Quote:
Jets coach Phil Stubbins' first task to fill squad vacancies
By JAMES GARDINER
May 27, 2014, 10 p.m.
PHIL Stubbins is yet to meet owner Nathan Tinkler, but the Jets coach hopes the A-League club benefits after the mining magnate’s decision to relinquish control of the Knights.
Tinkler has also sold his horse racing operation, Patinack Farm, leaving the Jets as his sporting flagship.
‘‘Hopefully, from a selfish point of view, Nathan sends a lot of direction to the Jets,’’ Stubbins told the Newcastle Herald yesterday.
‘‘Now he can really focus on us as the entity, his Newcastle baby, so to speak.’’
Stubbins, who signed a two-year deal this month, said it was full steam ahead as he began preparations for his first season in charge of an A-League club.
‘‘The plans have not shifted,’’ he said. ‘‘I have spoken to [CEO] Robbie Middleby daily about everything that is going on. It is business as usual.’’
After a short trip to Thailand to finalise his departure from previous club Ayutthaya, Stubbins has spent the past fortnight in Adelaide, where his wife, Anna, has a business.
He cancelled a trip to the United Kingdom.
‘‘I wanted to hit the ground running so I thought it was better to stay here and put preparations in place.’’
He travels to Townsville tomorrow to finalise the Jets’ involvement in a pre-season tournament with Brisbane and Sydney FC in August and arrives in Newcastle on June 6.
The Jets start pre-season on June 16.
Stubbins’s priority is completing his squad and has at least five places, including potentially a marquee, to fill.
He is close to signing a defender to replace Connor Chapman, who was released to join Melbourne Heart.
The Jets have been in talks with Michael Beauchamp, but Stubbins would not elaborate on whether the former Western Sydney Wanderers skipper would replace Chapman.
‘‘There is somebody we have organised at the back,’’ he said. ‘‘Pending dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, that will be a good signing.
‘‘We have also looked at the pointy end. We have to get more goals from different sources. We have looked at an attacking midfielder and also a striker. That might lead to two strikers if Adam Taggart was to leave.’’
Perth Glory flyer Chris Harold has been linked to the Jets, despite having a year to run on his contract in the west.
‘‘He is a name that has popped up,’’ Stubbins said. ‘‘He brings a fleet of foot and has a dynamism about his play.
‘‘I know that [Glory coach] Kenny Lowe is trying to balance his squad, which is difficult with the salary cap. There is nothing concrete.
‘‘There are a lot of names on the table, a few from overseas that we are down the road a little bit with in terms of bringing them to the club.
‘‘Whether that falls into place you never know.’’
Stubbins has a close association with former Adelaide attacking midfielder and Johnny Warren medallist Marcos Flores, who has been released by the Mariners.
The skilful playmaker has returned to Argentina to complete the final stage of rehabilitation from a knee reconstruction and is keen to return to the A-League.
‘‘I spoke things through with the club about Marcos,’’ Stubbins said. ‘‘He certainly has some attributes that can help any team in the A-League.
‘‘The injury he sustained is a road block, but he has been a great player. We are trying to explore every avenue to help us bring the right players in.’’
Given the Jets’ costly experience with Jason Culina and his knee injury, Flores would need to satisfy a stringent physical assessment and trial period.
Stubbins said he was expecting a major contribution on and off the field from veterans Joel Griffiths and David Carney, who have inked one- and two-year deals respectively.
‘‘We needed some experience around the place. Joel was a no-brainer. He is Newcastle through and through. He knows the club and I, along with the rest of the staff, will put an onus on him to lead.
‘‘David Carney is another one. He has terrific experience and is a left-sided player as well, which are hard to come by. When I spoke to him face to face and digged in to where he wants to go with all this ... he has not had that rock of stability in terms of playing for a club week-in week-out.’’
Socceroos trio Taggart, Josh Brillante and Mark Birighitti have been linked to overseas moves, but Stubbins said he was planning for the contracted trio to be at the Jets.
‘‘Taggs is the one who has had the most talks surrounding his potential departure. As yet we have had nothing tabled from any club,’’ he said.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/23...ancies/?cs=306
Some interesting players being linked to the club. The Harold link might explain why we are happy to release zads to go to perth. Stubbsy being a bit vague on the Beauchamp rumor might mean he's the back up plan in case the good signing falls through.
Good to see stubbins is a bit better with working with the media than GVE was.
Zads leaves I'm expecting someone like Kilkenny to replace.