Andywalkersgirl wrote:
Carrara to host AFL games?
Ridiculous.
The gound is B grade. Enormous contrast with Aurora Stadium teh week before. The facilites at Carrara are shocking - see the players sitting on revolting classroom type chairs on the bench?
I can't see this move being a successfull one for the AFL. Did not like the ground at all, the facilites looked shocking. b grade facility at best. needs a lot of work done to it. Perhaps we just dont need games in Carrara????
I'm a Carrara local.
The dimensions of the ground itself are similar to the MCG, and the surface itself is superb. On Saturday night I didn't see any player slip anywhere on the ground, and I'm told most of them love getting out there.
The lights are also as good as those at any other AFL venue.
The existing grandstands are reasonably good, but the capacity is only around 15,000. Facilities for visiting teams, and indeed the 'Roos themselves need upgrading, and this will apparently be one of the priorities when the Gold Coast Council starts work on the ground.
The road outside Carrara is being upgraded to double lanes both ways, and should be finished this year.
Because there are a high proportion of expat Victorians, Taswegians and other true believers on the Gold Coast, AFL is strong at junior level. But as Orangewhip rightly says in his post on the subject;
"The Kangaroos will work on the coast. But it will have to be lock, stock and barrell. No half-and-half, 'Are we North Melbourne and sort-of Queensland?' stuff. They must be The Gold Coast Kangaroos."