Fred wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:00 pm
The the AFL now have the best stadiums across the country - next is a new SCG lol. That’s what you get when you can draw predictable and large crowds.
Spot on Fred.
‘Old and tired’: Greenberg warns SCG needs upgrade as Brisbane promised first Test after Olympics
Tom Decent
By Tom Decent
March 26, 2025 — 7.30pm
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/ol ... 5lmpo.html
Cricket Australia has promised Queensland hosting rights for the first Test of the 2032-33 summer at a newly built Brisbane Stadium, immediately after a home Olympics and Paralympics, as chief executive Todd Greenberg declared the SCG “desperately” needed future upgrades or risked being left behind.
Greenberg, a former board member of Venues NSW, which oversees the state’s major sporting facilities, including the SCG, says Sydney’s premier cricket venue needs upgrades.
“Incredibly, what we’ll possibly see now is the SCG will desperately need some attention because it will fall far behind some of these other iconic stadiums across the country,” Greenberg told SEN.
“Some of those stands there are extremely old and tired [at the SCG]. The people who are running Venues NSW and the SCG know that. We’ve helped them strongly advocate for more funding.
“No one loves the SCG more than me. I’m born and bred in Sydney, so I spent a lot of time there, but this is what happens in modern sport; investment goes into stadiums and it creates a new benchmark. The new stadium in Brisbane will do that.
“We’ve got to continue to lift the bar all over the country.”