chygry;3779732 said:
It's Hunter Stadium in Newcastle - the 2nd biggest city in New South Wales & it's a pretty diverse sports city with long historical ties to association football.
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AFC Asian Cup 2015 {P + R}
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It's Hunter Stadium in Newcastle - the 2nd biggest city in New South Wales & it's a pretty diverse sports city with long historical ties to association football.
Am I the only one watching the bronze medal game? 
Omar Abdulrahman > Iniesta.
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side note: Char Do Ree looks like the Korean version of Nigel De Jong.
side note: Char Do Ree looks like the Korean version of Nigel De Jong.
Incorrect. Stade de France and Parc des Princes (they officially put down Stade de France as Saint Denis, but Saint Denis is closer to Paris than Homebush is to Sydney).RobbieD_PL;3778980 said:
2002 we had Seoul and Incheon both being Seoul stadiums and Yokohama and Saitama are both Tokyo stadiums.
2010 we had Soccer City and Ellis Park both in Jo'berg.
That's just looking at World Cups.
The general rules are one stadium per city, but one city (usually the host city of the Final) can have two stadiums (one is usually purpose built for the World Cup).
For an Asian Cup precedent, look at 2007 (as you've excluded Qatar and 2011 from the list yourself) - Bangkok had two stadiums.
Glad we got the result - they were probably the better side in the Final, as opposed to the group game where the result was the inverse, but I thought we were clearly better.
That was possibly the worst performance by a referee that I've seen in my life.
That was possibly the worst performance by a referee that I've seen in my life.
Alex;3780466 said:
MCG & AAMI Park?
I was referring to Qatar's ridiculous 2022 bid btw.
2002 - both were venues in separate areas of a broader metropolis. Same goes for St. Denis/Paris.
As for Joburg: Ellis Park was the 1995 RWC final venue & Soccer City has been the home of assoc. football in RSA.
If a city has two venues it makes sense to have games there instead of building a white elephant. But the other cities had competent facilties + Other cities in Australia could have easily hosted too.
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And same goes for SFS and Stadium Australia. St Denis is closer to the Paris CBD than Homebush is to Sydney's. The distance between the two stadiums in Paris is less than that of Sydney's two, and the time to get from one to the other is less than Sydney's two.RobbieD_PL;3780477 said:MCG & AAMI Park?
I was referring to Qatar's ridiculous 2022 bid btw.
2002 - both were venues in separate areas of a broader metropolis. Same goes for St. Denis/Paris.
You can try and justify all you like. What you said is clearly wrong, and the evidence illustrates that.
The point was that the other cities DIDN'T have competent facilities. Especially considering Australia weren't guaranteed to make the final. We were lucky UAE beat Japan, as if we lost to them Newcastle would have been a huge waste for the third placed playoff. It already was for the semi final - who knows what the crowd would have been in a decent sided stadium (and again this would have been an even bigger crowd had Japan made it through).
Other cities could have hosted, but the only cities with equal/better facilities for football are Brisbane and Melbourne.
The Sydney Football Stadium is the second best rectangular stadium in Australia, behind Lang Park. Melbourne Rectangular is decent too, but holds less than Sydney. The issue with all of these stadiums for the semi is travel time, flights etc. I'm sure that's why both semis, the 3PP and final were all in NSW.
Good to see Canberra and Newcastle get good crowds, but it's not hard to fill 20k!
They should have had no quarter final in Sydney if they really wanted to include Newcastle, and had the Sydney QF there instead. Then the two semi finals at the SFS and Stadium Australia.
The total attendance fell just short of the 650k - had both semis been in Sydney, that wouldn't have been the case.
Playing group games with non Australian sides at Stadium Australia is ridiculous too. Everyone in Sydney knows that stadium feels horrible and empty with anything under 45k. I guess they needed to worry about the west though. In an ideal world where they weren't worried about how many stadiums each city got, they would have played non-Au Sydney group games at Parramatta and the SFS, then used Stadium Australia for the semi and final. Stadium Australia throw money around and always get big events though - even when it means a horrible atmosphere.