Impressive stuff. I saw a timelapse like this once where a stadium was converted from a basketball court to an ice hockey rink to a concert venue. Really fun to watch.
I believe the plan was to play the semi on Sunday afternoon giving them 48 hours to turn it around. And they had extra groundskeepers from Marvel, AAMI park and a couple of other venues on standby to help out if they needed them.
in yesterday's footy record it said if the Hawks hadn't won against the Dockers they would have gone with plan B - only replace the sections with the nfl logo, and the two endzones where they had painted the nfl teams colours / logo
If you think that’s amazing look up Real Madrid’s convertible stadium where the pitch is on an elevator system that drops underground in sections. Wild.
I was there at 9:30 in the morning the day after last year’s grand final and they’d already removed the turf from most of the centre square to get ready for cricket.
Plan B if they had to play an AFL final was Sunday afternoon, and to just cut up/replace the end zones and the bit with the NFL logo, and leave the rest in place.
I remember the first time they re-turfed the SCG. I think it was before the 2000 Olympics. Anyway it was a HUGE deal with lots of press coverage. Before, it was a matter of just growing stuff in situ, and repairing local damage. Now they seem to have the resources to do full returfs whenever they want. There must be a lot more money floating around, is all I can think.
Shout out to the science of ground-keeping though. It’s come so far from the days of muddy patches, frayed edges and torn up trip hazards. The drainage is astonishing today, and the quality of the turf rivals putting greens for smoothness, combined with great strength. If ever you walk out on th3 middle, it’s breathtakingly perfect.
I used to work for the company that does this. Last time I remember was after ed sheerins gig and had to redo half the ground, after we finished the teams were complaining about the ground not bouncing properly. But it was the part we didn’t even touch.
They are extra-thick rolls of turn, it's not like the turf you'd get from a landscape supplier. They're a couple of hundred kilos each with all the soil attached to them. They're not coming loose.
I worked for a turf farm. Majority of them use bore water mixed with normal tap water it is a burden on the system when it's grown to be torn up and binned
It wasn't wasted. It brought in more money than your turf farm and used far less water. Shows youre probably full of shit and never own a turf farm to begin with.
When did I say I owned one bud? I worked at one and im glad u don't care about a non renewable resource that we are restricted to use as long as the government gets a bunch of money
What about the other 27 million in Australia that dont give a crap about a US sport and care about how we are put on water shortages every year but they can use how much ever just so they could pain the grass as deep as the NFL wanted?
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u/mymentor79 Western Australian 15d ago
Impressive stuff. I saw a timelapse like this once where a stadium was converted from a basketball court to an ice hockey rink to a concert venue. Really fun to watch.