Our Butt Ugly Sand Pit

[Jesus]

Are you saying Jesus that they withhold/don't feel it necessary to spend a third each year...?

No he is saying it comes under Council's Open Space and Leisure Servives R0 rated sports grounds and that of all the allocated funds for ALL sportsgrounds in the LGA, Grahame Park gets two thirds of the funds.

That

 

[Jesus]

Graham park for units? link with the fabled "marina/fast ferry" project

Build a 25k (upscaleable to 40k) rectangualr flat pack stadium at Adcock?

too hard but a lovely idea

The stadium should have initially been built at adcock IMO, or, as was the other option, kariong showgrounds. Then would not have been cramped in so much

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Graham park for units? link with the fabled "marina/fast ferry" project

Build a 25k (upscaleable to 40k) rectangualr flat pack stadium at Adcock?

too hard but a lovely idea

Personally I'd like to see something incredible that would put us on the global map.
(And help lift Gosford out of its coma)

I say build a new stadium out over Brisbane Water, Dubai style. NZ were also looking at one instead of upgrading Eden park.

You have multiple piers surrounding and leading out to it with eateries, boutique shopping, entertainment etc...

Home of the Mariners... Out over the water... Australia first...

The eye catcher of the Australian 2018 World Cup!

Come on how good would it be?

 

[marinermick]

would be a shocking eyesore on the natural beauty of brisbane water

 

[dru]

would be a shocking eyesore on the natural beauty of brisbane water

So another Iguanas or Boathouse restaurant

 

[Andre_1]

would be a shocking eyesore on the natural beauty of brisbane water

So another Iguanas or Boathouse restaurant

Oyster treatment facility please Dru 

 

[dibo]

would be a shocking eyesore on the natural beauty of brisbane water

and would only contribute to the massive damage that was caused by building a causeway across the mouth of phegan's bay, with the resulting siltation and mangrove damage.

adcock park ftw.

So another Iguanas or Boathouse restaurant

tbh, i don't mind either of those. if anything, i'd rather that there were more stuff by the actual waterfront than just a couple of sore thumb restaurants, a swimming pool and a road. if they had company and the strip along there was made into a nice little restaurant district or somesuch it'd be a good change for gosford in my opinion. and it'd give something else to do either side of mariners games.

 

[elevated position]

The plan for Gosford central is due to be released in Nov and after talking to the Holstein I got the impression they are still lost in what they are going to do. (unless he & council are out of the loop at this stage) However a stadium over the water would be interesting.

How about CCM getting the Gosford showgrounds and building their set up. Only have to snot a couple of dog trainers and the odd dirt bike rider.

 

[Roy Law]

The solution is simple: make a bid to host games at the World Cup; Stadium would have to be upgraded to 40,000. Dane Drive would have to disappear. This would mean getting rid of those poisonous weeds at the end masquerading as heritage listed palm trees. Then get a tunnel built from the swimming pool under the railway popping up somewhere on the Pacific Highway, say, near the racecourse. This would enable the true beautification of Gosford as public could walk unimpeded to the waterfront without having to negotiate four lanes of busy traffic. The ground would be converted back to a 20,000 stadium with covered stands at both ends (like, you know, a real football stadium) after the WC. Costing? About a 1$billion. Too hard? No, not really, given that the Feds and State Governments are backing the bid and that St Kevin wouldn't miss a lazy billion here or there (could perhaps reduce broadband roll out from $43 billion to $42bln?). Lets face it, we got the new stadium cos John Howard lobbed in the money purely for political reasons, so why wouldn't Kevvie lob in the money to help Belinda who despite going to all the Mariners games still is living on a knife edge to keep her seat at the next election. Too hard? Not when politics and easy money comes to town  verhead:

 

[dru]

Boathouse restaurant

Oyster treatment facility please Dru 

It is what it is now though.

Cluster F#$K  from day one really, As soon as they started dumping fill in at night you knew it wasn't going to be anything like an Oyster treatment facility. Still better than the service station option they floated after it was completed. That was one disaster waiting to happen.

I even know people who refuse to go there because of the way it was constructed.

So another Iguanas or Boathouse restaurant

tbh, i don't mind either of those. if anything, i'd rather that there were more stuff by the actual waterfront than just a couple of sore thumb restaurants, a swimming pool and a road. if they had company and the strip along there was made into a nice little restaurant district or somesuch it'd be a good change for gosford in my opinion. and it'd give something else to do either side of mariners games.

I think you are thinking of the sailing club dibo, but yes more stuff between Iguanas and the pool would be decent, needs to be set back from the waterfront though. anything going out over the water is wrong for the area and is what my main gripe with iguanas is.

 

[dibo]

The plan for Gosford central is due to be released in Nov and after talking to the Holstein I got the impression they are still lost in what they are going to do. (unless he & council are out of the loop at this stage) However a stadium over the water would be interesting.

How about CCM getting the Gosford showgrounds and building their set up. Only have to snot a couple of dog trainers and the odd dirt bike rider.

Could build a couple of platforms to function as a special events station for matchdays, or even go silly and run a shuttle train up the sidings from Gosford station, and pass pedestrians over a bridge over Showground Rd.

There's plenty of space there, there is no residential stuff on that side of Narara Creek, the dog track itself is higher than the floodplain... There are loads of good things about that site.

Build a flatpack single tier four stand 25k rectangle (think like Robina) and for the WC they'd just add an extra tier as four separate stands over the top holding an additional 20k. after the wc they can take the upper decks and put them down somewhere else - probably in a city needing a football ground to have HAL team but which doesn't have a rectangular stadium.

if across the country we build just four stadiums that way, we get 8 little rectangles of just about perfect size after the world cup.

 

[dibo]

basic idea is a bit like this:

during the WC:

after the WC:

except our grounds would be a bit better balanced and have rooves before and after.

 

[curious]

Without knowing what singos mob tip in, Gosford City Council tips in $270 000 towards field maintenance each year.

That's a very small amount for a stadium hosting in a major national league, even when considering it has less use than most. Especially in major maintenance year where a couple of hundred k is only a start. It's no surprise there is only patching being done if that's the limit of the grounds works funding.

 

[Jesus]

Without knowing what singos mob tip in, Gosford City Council tips in $270 000 towards field maintenance each year.

That's a very small amount for a stadium hosting in a major national league, even when considering it has less use than most. Especially in major maintenance year where a couple of hundred k is only a start. It's no surprise there is only patching being done if that's the limit of the grounds works funding.

Im not certain that figure is correct. I think it is actually double that, but can not find the article online, so could be that, or more. I thought 270k was what the rest recieved, with the stadium getting double that

 

[dibo]

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

 

[Arabmariner]

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

But is it suitable for knuggledragging ?

 

[FFC Mariner]

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

But is it suitable for knuggledragging ?

Hopefully not

IIRC, isnt the foreshore actually Commonwealth land hence issues in the past if the pool was to go?

 

[Bex]

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

But is it suitable for knuggledragging ?

Sure, just ask Willie Mason LOL

 

[Jesus]

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

ARTIFICIAL. TURF. FARKEN!

$1m and a tiny fraction of the annual maintenance.

But is it suitable for knuggledragging ?

Hopefully not

IIRC, isnt the foreshore actually Commonwealth land hence issues in the past if the pool was to go?

Arent they doing something to the pool? Closing it down or something? I saw a petition to keep it open somewhere?

 

[offtheball]

Talk of Gosford Primary School being moved to The Showground.