Australia's most sponsored sporting club

[serious14]

Id love a steeper end. We can be the true kop end because our team wins premierships.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

 

[rooboy91]

He said the figures will certainly make them the most backed A-League club and possibly the most sponsored sporting club in Australia's history!

Pretty sure the Sydney Swans have more than 200 sponsors...

 

[striker]

A staff member was carrying on at work yesterday about the money to be spent on AFL out at Blacktown by the state government. Turns to me for support and asks " ... the government shouldn't spend money like that on sporting facilities ....  I say, I don't know my team plays out of one largely funded by the government at Gosford - money very well spent! 

IMO the proposed money for AFL out west is a total waste..... The Gov has a fair bit of money allocated for sporting facilities, and that's why Gosford should try to get some of it asap before they piss it off on AFL facilities....

Dibo - you know the heritage regs better them me  - so what happens if the trees are replanted across the road closer to the bay- would they loose heritage status?  .... ??

 

[SNOWMARINER]

Geez I start thinking about things and click on the site and people are already talking the same stuff. I think if the money is there then an expansion of the stadium is a great idea. Honestly I would hate to lose the unique look of the stadium by closing in the south side. I think a second tier around the northern end linking the west and eastern stands would provide a reasonable amount of extra seating and really all that could be considered viable financially at this stage anyway.

The time will come when we need a new, bigger stadium and look foward to the day but don't envisage it happening in the near future. Unless ofcourse we win the ACL and a multi national company wants to build us a mega state of the art stadium as part of a sponsorship deal.

I know the perfect place. Lake munmorah (haha) one minute from home would be ideal. Glad to hear they are planning to build a training facility up my way atleast.

 

[~Floss~]

What about the supposed "$20Million" that the ACL is apparently going to earn for the Central Coast?

More importantly, who decides how it i spent?

As for the stadium, the only ways I can see extending it to 30k would involve combinations of some or all of the following:
- No more RL or RU matches (no dead-ball line allows the fences to be brought closer to the goals)
- Relocate the bowlers to Leagues Club Park, Baker St, or some other alternate site (and compensate for / fund the relocation)
- Remodel the east & west stands (not ideal)
- Knock-down & rebuild the whole north end (steep, double-tier)

...BUT, looking to the future it may not be too long before we're saying the same things about a 30K stadium (10yrs is not long in the life of a stadium) - especially with ACL and WC talk, 40K would be required to host matches. You'd hate to do all that work to squeeze 28-30k in, then miss out on hosting 2018WC matches, and still be paying for the too-small stadium.

 

[marinermick]

He said the figures will certainly make them the most backed A-League club and possibly the most sponsored sporting club in Australia's history!

Pretty sure the Sydney Swans have more than 200 sponsors...

most sponsored in terms of dollars

i think that the west coast eagles own that title at the moment

 

[Andy]

Did anyone watch NBN news tonight?

They had Peter Turnbull saying that the club will announce two major sponsors in the next couple of days.

He said the figures will certainly make them the most backed A-League club and possibly the most sponsored sporting club in Australia's history!

F*cking great stuff!

I remember reading we were on par with Melbourne just before the season but to hear that news is brilliant!

 

[marinersman]

I remember listening to Lyall early in the season on "Football Fever" on 2KY saying that our sponsorship this season is worth $3.1m and that we had the highest sponsorship in the HAL.

 

[Jocwa08]

That is great to hear that a NRL official is stating that the Central Coast is now 'Football' heartland.. The Mariners are the best thing to happen on the sporting front for the Coast.. It would be great to see massive crowds for every game next year. Everyone needs to get behind the Asian games too... 

an extension to the stadium might be needed ?  what you think?

It has been discussed elsewhere on the forum for calls of extending the stadium.. It would be great to see a roof and second level at the Northern end of the ground..

Me and my mates have had many convo's bout this,
i say get f*cked to the train station and bowling club
and expand behind there.
I dunno where else an extension could go.

 

[Rowdy]

2 birds, 1 stone.
Build Stadium Northern End w/ train tunnel running underneath.

Engineering wise don't know how it would cope with the constant rumbling of trains going through it 24/7 over time, but hey have ya seen some of that shit the Chinese are building on the Discovery channel 

Extend a platform or build a 'walk link' to the station either alongside the tunnel or on top of it.
Easy exit for train travelling fans and we get our massive Northern End.

 

[cruiser]

Correct me if I'm wrong but havent we only sold out BS once, being the last SF? I think it might be a bit premature to be talking about expansion. At the moment I'm just looking forward to selling out and filling every Mariners game at BS as it is currently.

 

[fish]

dreams are what sunday is about mate.
while were flying lets have more of them.TBH I cant really ever see them putting a roof over it purely for the cost of it.The stadium has had very little occupation aside from the Mariners and the Carols.

 

[Rowdy]

Correct me if I'm wrong but havent we only sold out BS once, being the last SF? I think it might be a bit premature to be talking about expansion. At the moment I'm just looking forward to selling out and filling every Mariners game at BS as it is currently.

Hey, hey, hey........what's with the BS! Our stadium's NOT Bull Shit 

We've had 3 games in a row that were 'deemed-close' to sell-outs.

 

[striker]

Build Stadium Northern End w/ train tunnel running underneath.

......... the northern end could be redeveloped by adding a second level fully covered with private boxes and convention facilities behind the stadium right next to a new station.... that would mean pissing off the bowling club, but who cares?

......... the east and west stands could also be remodeled eg. take away the current private boxes and extend the seating and improve the roof to cover the bottom level as well...

(it might be costly but eventually the cost can be recovered  50 -60 years)

 

[Omni]

you could always have the "new station" at the grassy area now, a tunnel going from where the train would stop to inside the ground, through ticketing gates for the stadium of course, and have trains stop there only on event days.

It'd be good to have CCM's office actually AT Bluetounge one day!

 

[marinermick]

Build Stadium Northern End w/ train tunnel running underneath.

......... the northern end could be redeveloped by adding a second level fully covered with private boxes and convention facilities behind the stadium right next to a new station.... that would mean pissing off the bowling club, but who cares?

......... the east and west stands could also be remodeled eg. take away the current private boxes and extend the seating and improve the roof to cover the bottom level as well...

(it might be costly but eventually the cost can be recovered  50 -60 years)

yeah, the bowling green would have to go

you can could then build proper ticketing boxes, extra exits, and facilities for storage and merchandise that the stadium severely lacks

heck, you could even keep the actual licenced bar of the bowling club - now that would be cool

 

[serious14]

Most sponsored club??    In the view of some that makes us a pack of dirty sellouts...... oh my.  Still, guess it's better to have 20 than one, yes??

 

[tim...]

Cruiser... while we haven't had pre-match sellouts bar the semi just gone, we have had two games I think where the crowd nudged the 19k mark... one of them a ground record from memory. Three all up in that vicinity I think.

 

[striker]

you can could then build proper ticketing boxes, extra exits, and facilities for storage and merchandise that the stadium severely lacks

heck, you could even keep the actual licenced bar of the bowling club - now that would be cool

Yep..... entrances/exits would have to meet the FIFA specs..... (hope Beth Morgan is employed to approve the project)

The booze licence would have to sray - of course....

P.s.  I just found out that SFS does not fully meet the FIFA specs !  ..any one know how many of AUS stadiums comply?

 

[Omni]

Striker, what are FIFA's Specs? Know where we can see them?