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Roarcelona vs Nix Wed 26 Jan 8pm

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Apparently now a fire at Suncorp, overloaded generator or transmitter or something

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

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BRISBANE'S Suncorp Stadium is on fire after rising flood waters short circuited after, fire-fighters believe, a generator box short circuited after rising flood waters.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/suncorp-stadium-on-fire/story-e6freuy9-1225986138040
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Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium is on fire, after a generator box apparently short-circuited due to rising flood waters.

According to the Daily Telegraph, a large explosion occurred shortly after 10.30am.

Nearby streets surrounding the stadium have flooded, some almost 2m high.

The water level is about 1-1.2m high on the ground floor of the stadium, but the playing surface inside the stadium is yet to be covered by water.

Firefighters are still trying to find a way into the stadium.

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
so still a maybe?

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Can't they just move the venue? Play the game at Skilled Park
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
If they played at Skilled Park, hardly anyone supporters would turn up and.. oh wait....

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
or maybe where the Jest played in Port Macquarie

Yellow Whever Whanganui

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Luis Garcia wrote:
Can't they just move the venue? Play the game at Skilled Park


...
sarcasm?
please tell me it was sarcasm.
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hepatitis wrote:
Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium is on fire, after a generator box apparently short-circuited due to rising flood waters.

According to the Daily Telegraph, a large explosion occurred shortly after 10.30am.

Nearby streets surrounding the stadium have flooded, some almost 2m high.

The water level is about 1-1.2m high on the ground floor of the stadium, but the playing surface inside the stadium is yet to be covered by water.

Firefighters are still trying to find a way into the stadium.

The twitpic picture seems to contradict that!
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Haha, good old twitter.
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Luis Garcia wrote:
Can't they just move the venue? Play the game at Skilled Park
 
or RoF?
 
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'd place good money on the game being rescheduled BUT has anyone heard? Has FFA made an announcement?
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Herbertimo wrote:
I'd place good money on the game being rescheduled BUT has anyone heard? Has FFA made an announcement?
rock is saying 6:30pm for announcement
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Junior82 wrote:
Luis Garcia wrote:
Can't they just move the venue? Play the game at Skilled Park
 
or RoF?
 
 
As good as that would be, we've already dropped in the cricket pitch for the ODI on the 22nd.
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

PLay it in Said-knee. I've got enough on my plate.

Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Logistics currently being looked over as we speak but chances are very slim. There's more than just the pitch to worry about.
Fruglo on 15.01.2013 wrote:

Fuck this stupid game

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TopLeft07 wrote:
Logistics currently being looked over as we speak but chances are�very slim. There's more than just the pitch to worry about.

Ok... I'll shoot over and iron the flags
E + R + O

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Turns out the stadium isn't on fire like reports said.
#MythBuster Suncorp Stadium is NOT on fire - Small fire is in isolated transformer room #QldFloods #TheBigWet
2 hours ago

Twitter is handy.
It'll be ages before Brisbane fully recover, so maybe they'll just move it, or cancel it. There's the matter of disease, electricity.. it won't be safe to travel there for a while.
Hopefully Brisbane can overcome this quickly. (Not for the sake of football, for the sake of lives).
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"Ninety per cent of the ground [Suncorp] was under water late on Wednesday morning and the stadium will no longer host Sunday's A-League clash between the Brisbane Roar and Wellington."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/4533952/Suncorp-Stadium-flooded-Phoenix-match-unlikely


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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I have seen a tv doco on the 1974 Brisbane flood and it showed someone swimming the width of Suncorp Stadium (Laing park as it was known then).
Looks like the Phoenix will have the week off.
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Just saw on sky news that suncorp is closed due flooding and a fire.

GET YOUR SHIRTS OFF FOR THE BOYS

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Interesting it says one option is calling the match off and splitting the points..
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Luis Garcia wrote:
Interesting it says one option is calling the match off and splitting the points..


This late in the season, this is a real possibility. It would be very good for us if it did happen.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Don't you have to change it all around fast after the ODI anyway? Because aren't we scheduled to play Perth here on the 23rd?
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simon_hampton wrote:
Don't you have to change it all around fast after the ODI anyway? Because aren't we scheduled to play Perth here on the 23rd?


Its not hard to take the drop in wicket in and out, which is the whole point of a drop in wicket.

Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Play it in Wellington. I need something to do this weekend and what better than a Nix game

End of an era.  Vinnie - It's over.

If anyone cares for my inane babbling follow @iluvnix17 on the Twitter.

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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I'm not sure you understand that moving the wicket is not the only thing that needs to be changed.
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about 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
couldn't the players just wear those floatie things?
I like tautologies because I like them.
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patrick478 wrote:
Luis Garcia wrote:
Interesting it says one option is calling the match off and splitting the points..


This late in the season, this is a real possibility. It would be very good for us if it did happen.
 
1.5 each or 2 to the home side and 1 to the visitors?
 
 

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

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Cosimo wrote:
couldn't the players just wear those floatie things?
 
That would look just plain silly at Westpac.
 
And it wouldn't solve the ODI pitch issue either.
 
Junior822011-01-12 16:53:10

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

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simon_hampton wrote:
I'm not sure you understand that moving the wicket is not the only thing that needs to be changed.
yeah, a lot of other things is well, all the big national Bank logos painted on the pitch (may not be National Bank this time but it will be something), 30 metres circle and boundary. I guess the mowning has to be changed as it is done differently for cricket. So yeah, a lot, and it would take a while to turn over. But at least the drop in wicket is good for the football. But not the cricket!
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