Talking Footy

Beaussie wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2026 9:40 pm

leeroy*NRL* wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2026 2:14 pm

i am surprised GWS have not thought of this every season..

Tonight, Caro again reported on The Agenda Setters the $1 million figure required to reconfigure Accor Stadium. I’m still astonished it would cost that much to push the seats out for oval configuration. Perhaps I missing something here? Leeroy, Wookie, perhaps you know more? Does that $1 million figure sound right? Haven’t seen anyone from the AFL or the Giants confirming Caro’s reporting.

what i found a few sites about the configuration of the seating was this

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Changing the seating configuration at Olympic Park (Accor Stadium) is incredibly expensive ($1 million+ per transition) because the lower and middle tiers sit on massive, mechanically shifted bleacher modules. It requires specialized engineering, cranes,
Time and labour costs
Massive Engineering Scale: The movable tier system weighs thousands of tonnes. Shifting it to change from a rectangular field (rugby, soccer) to an oval field (AFL, cricket) requires heavy machinery and highly specialized structural engineers

I think it comes down to the Stadium was not really designed to be oval to rectangle properly.
so it is hard and expensive to do at Olympic and quite time consuming..

i would not be surprised the NRL put matches on the same weekend to really stuff up this idea.

(for the GWS i do not know how you make back 1 million dollars)
i wonder if it also includes leasing the stadium as well.

i have actually never heard of that expense until CARO mentioned it

wasn't Marvel stadium seating configured to slightly come in..
but they never did it because it wrecked the field and was expensive ??