Talk:Telstra Stadium

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Why is this stadium part of the Defunct Stadia group? It is currently in use for many sporting events, as the article clearly states. - Alex

The category is [[Category:Defunct athletics stadia]] which is correct - the athletics track has been removed. -- Arwel (talk) 16:43, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Seating capacity and Record Crowds

In the seating/capacity records,can someone amend the Rugby rectangular record to 83,418 which occured between Australia vs NZ All Blacks on 7/8/2004.This is higher than the World cup final attendance.

[edit] Financial and Management issues

I think this article might be considered incomplete and unbalanced if it only mentions sporting events with record crowds etc, but does not contain some mention of the financial problems surrounding this stadium. For example it appears to have been built at a cost of $690 million, but by April 30, 2005 the Sydney Morning Herald was reporting that it was mired in debt and almost as hard to fill as it would be to demolish. The article goes on to state that "market capitalisation of the stadium, based on a share price of 8c, is less than $10 million"... although "independent valuation is in the range of $143 million to $157 million".

On November 16, 2006 it was reported in a Sydney Morning Herald article, that the ANZ Bank are to take control of Stadium Australia Group (and therefore the stadium itself) for $10m. Xagent86 21:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)