ANALYSIS: 'A glorified tin shed': Netball SA Stadium needs desperate upgrade after abandoned game
abc.net.au/news/netball-sa-stadium-in-desperate-need-of-upgrade/102160424On Saturday night, all eyes were on Netball SA Stadium for Super Netball's round two match between the Adelaide Thunderbirds and NSW Swifts.
Then there was the trans-Tasman championship era, where they made it through to three grand finals and clinched two more titles.Now the state finally has a team that looks like it could live up to this history of success, with real ability to challenge the current heavyweights, West Coast Fever and Melbourne Vixens, for a shot at their first Super Netball crown.
Speaking on the Nothing But Net…Ball podcast, Adelaide-born Swifts defender Sarah Klau – who was actually marking her 100th Super Netball cap – told her version of events."We received a phone call on our way to the game and our coach Briony Akle came in and said she was feeling nervous because there had been issues with the stickers on the court.
"It's just disappointing because it was brought to someone's attention earlier in the day … and could have been resolved … hopefully it is a big learning curve, and it doesn't happen again." "We waited for quite some time and the queue snaked all around the car park, there's virtually no shade there," Hook told the ABC.
These days, his ties to the Super Netball club are purely as a fan, attending the matches on a three-game membership with his wife, daughter and granddaughter. A call to the relevant power company revealed it could take hours to fix the issue, and with the little-known rule that Super Netball requires its matches to be played within a 120-minute time frame – likely a hangover from the previous free-to-air deal, with tighter broadcast windows – the match had to be abandoned and the points shared.
This power outage at Netball SA Stadium will also form part of the national and state netball bodies investigation into the events of Saturday night.Overall, it was a disappointing ending for the members that were supposed to be the focus of the game, as well as ticket-paying fans, who at this point, look like they won't be refunded.Hook, personally, said he was happy with the two quarters he did get to see and that the night points to a much larger issue than just disgruntled spectators.
The other venue fit for netball in the city is the Adelaide Entertainment Centre, where the state's elite basketball team can house roughly 10,000 fans. "We reconfigured the car park, increased its capacity and resealed the surface; redid all of the change rooms, upgraded the Thunderbirds rooms with ice baths and a players' lounge, fitted ice baths in the opposing teams' rooms, and also made sure that we built enough change rooms for all Premier League teams; upgraded the public toilet facilities inside and out; and added a new entrance with turnstiles that brought us into the 20th century," Hook said.
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