{"id":328334,"date":"2023-09-04T07:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=328334"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:02:25","slug":"eddie-lifts-lid-on-plan-to-put-a-roof-on-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=328334","title":{"rendered":"Eddie lifts lid on plan to put a roof on the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Collingwood president \ufeffEddie McGuire<\/a> has revealed there are plans to redevelop parts of the MCG<\/a>, with the possibility of installing a roof being floated.<\/p>\n

McGuire, who \ufeffhas previously proposed building a roof to increase the stadium's commercial opportunities, believes parts of the MCG are in desperate need of redevelopment.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Nine's Eddie and Jimmy<\/em><\/a> podcast, McGuire said he was privy to a conversation surrounding the Great Southern Stand (now the Shane Warne Stand).<\/p>\n

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"There's been discussions in the last few days about this, unofficial discussions that I may have been a party to," he said.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffSo, really we need a new stand but because of the state of the economy and the likes, there would be no change out of $1.5-2 billion to do it now and to do it properly.<\/p>\n

"So, in my mind, \ufeffI'm thinking what we need to do is build it out over the rail yards but put things in \u2014 put sports medicine, MRI, all those types of things to really take it to the next level."<\/p>\n

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McGuire contended that not enough groups were using the ground for commercial activity.<\/p>\n

"(The Shane Warne Stand) is the equivalent of a 70-storey building, that for all sense and purposes gets used on Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday afternoon," he said.<\/p>\n

\ufeffMcGuire added that a roof was once again on the cards.<\/p>\n

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"Here's where the \ufeffcurrent thinking is bouncing around at the moment; do a refurb of the Southern Stand \u2014 and maybe they were saying this was a good idea to shut me up \u2014 but somehow working on how we get a lid (roof) on this is probably more for the future than maybe having to rebuild the Southern Stand," he said.<\/p>\n

Asked if the cover would take the form of a retractable roof like at the AFL-owned Marvel Stadium or a more perspex-style, like what is used at many stadiums across America, \ufeffMcGuire floated a "combination".<\/p>\n

He used Hard Rock Stadium, which has a structure built over \ufeffthe ground which you can retract at both sides, as an example.<\/p>\n

In \ufeff\ufeffvouching for a roof, McGuire was bullish about the business opportunities outside of footy.<\/p>\n

"If we had this, and you look at the way concerts are going now, the big concerts want to come and do one concert," he said.<\/p>\n

"You come here, get 120,000 people inside, you put the stage at one end, you've got the ground and the stands around."<\/p>\n

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McGuire also addressed the purists opposed to weatherproofing the stadium, claiming the installation of a retractable roof would allow codes and broadcasters to strike the perfect combination.<\/p>\n

"So for everyone who says, \ufeff'Oh, we don't need a roof, it's an outdoor game'. We'll keep it as outdoor as possible," he said.<\/p>\n

"Friday's (elimination final) is a good example. It's going to be 12 degrees and absolutely belting down. Would it be better if we had a roof over that game?<\/p>\n

"\ufeffWet weather football is part of it \u2014 I love wet weather football \u2014 but you could open (the roof) for the two hours of the game. You don't want to have to open it 24 hours before so you run out and you're playing on quicksand.<\/p>\n

"Whether you like it or not that is the discussion\ufeff that's going on at the moment."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Collingwood president \ufeffEddie McGuire has revealed there are plans to redevelop parts of the MCG, with the possibility of installing a roof being floated. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328339,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328334\/revisions\/328339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}