Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: The Roaring Silence https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Neil Smart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3775#post3775 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3775#post3775 (Mallard waves this great idea in front of our noses and then lets our local govt decide. It was dead from that moment on and they should have known that..)

Perhaps they did!! The Christchurch Mayor managed to think it through!

(The other problem with NHS is that you will…

]]> Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:31:39 +1300 Neil Morrison https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3696#post3696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3696#post3696 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:11:42 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3689#post3689 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3689#post3689

The North Harbour Stadium, situated as it is in the middle of a vast industrial area, would seem the most common-sense and least offensive of all the options — though I must confess to finding the Carlaw Park presentation most appealing.
The NH option, apart from being the cheapest and…

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:58:59 +1300 John Francis Logan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3675#post3675 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3675#post3675 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:57:51 +1300 Neil Smart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3639#post3639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3639#post3639 The only sensible suggestion was Grant Fox who said , "once the decision is made everyone should get behind it".

North Harbour seems sensible from a distance but it is not where the powers to be decided to go. Although looking here you would wonder why? LINK

Northern and Western…

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:02:54 +1300 Gareth Jenkins https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3621#post3621 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3621#post3621 Now that the excitement of the Waterfront stadium has worn off, most of the people I talk to seem to be leaning to the "sensible" option, i.e. temporary seating at Eden Park, done on the cheap.

I still haven't heard a good reason why Auckland needs a permanent 65,000 seat…

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:07:04 +1300 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3617#post3617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3617#post3617 I guess the challenge now is to think of which of Auckland's half-arsed stadiums is going to be used and upgraded for le grande event.

I'm guessing Graham you'd favour North Harbour?

But yeah, everyone has more or less run out of puff on the issue, as you suggest, meaning…

]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:32:48 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3613#post3613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3613#post3613 Well, I'm not sure whether a 10-storey high stadium — which will be kinda permanent, right? — is such a crash-hot idea, let alone a "legacy". A 10-storey anything in a residential suburb — albeit one where there is a long-established venue like Eden Park — is going to be… ]]> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:10:08 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3612#post3612 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/random-play-the-roaring-silence/?p=3612#post3612 Discussion from blog post.

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