Optus Stadium

[WellardSaint]

Today it rained very heavily in Perth.

2 EPL soccer teams due to play tonight on the ground.
Man U and Aston Villa (I think Aston Villa, definitely Man U)

As I type, I can hear a huge downpour at my place (about 18kms from Optus) and it sounds like a good old-fashioned monsoon.
It's heavy.

This arvo, about 2 dozen staff at Optus (i kid you not) spent 3 hours drying the surface with industrial blow-dryers and pitchforks.
Obviously their efforts are now undone by the current downpour.

Shades of Moorabbin back in the day, with a surface better suited to water buffalo rather than humans

[samuraisaint]

Today it rained very heavily in Perth.

2 EPL soccer teams due to play tonight om the ground.
Man U and Aston Villa (I think Aston Villa, definitely Man U)

As I type, I can hear a huge downpour at my place (about 18kms from Optus) and it sounds like a good old-fashioned monsoon.
It's heavy.

This arvo, about 2 dozen staff at Optus (i kid you not) spent 3 hours drying the surface with industrial blow-dryers and pitchforks.
Obviously their efforts are now undone by the current downpour.

Shades of Moorabbin back in the day, with a surface better suited to water buffalo rather than humans

Might help our small forwards and our undersized defense.

[bangaulegend]

Rain will be gone by game time apparently & been wet & wild today at times but tomorrow arvo is looking good ATM

[loris]

Took the hound out for her usual Sunday walk past Optus Stadium this morning. Still a bit of ‘English Mizzle’ when we left at 7.30am this morning. The ground was very sodden, pools of water everywhere that hadn’t had the opportunity to drain away. It’s been raining consistently around Burswood (where Optus is located) all week. And yesterday around 2 pm we had a thunderstorm & torrential rain which gave the area a good soaking.
However, on my walk home past Optus around 9am, sun was shining (rather weakly) though and clouds had disappeared from the area. Still heavy overcast clouds across the Swan river to East Perth & the city. They definitely aren’t rain bearing clouds though. It’s just going to be a cloudy day with intermittent appearances of the sun.
Already on the walk home the pools of water on the ground were soaking up…… our sandy soil is very thirsty & soon drains off water very quickly.
So I imagine the Oval will be rather slippery today as the sun won’t be that drying. Not so good for Jimmy Webster, who has trouble keeping his feet at anytime let alone if the ground is slippery.
So cross your fingers the cloud coverage that is around today won’t be rain bearing. Me don’t thinks it will be and the BOM backs me up.

Actually I went to Mineral Resources Park yesterday at about 2.30pm after the thunderstorm. That is the Eagles training grounds. It’s about 2 kms from Optus Oval. Eagles have 2 ovals there. One is the size of Optus Oval the other is the exact dimensions of the MCG.
Perth were playing Peel Thunder, I watched through the fence. There weren’t any players slipping over at all in that game. I walked my hound around the other oval and it wasn’t sodden or spongy at all.
So if the Eagles training grounds can absorb all that downpour of rain all week, I’m sure Optus Oval will be ok. Just a little slippery.

[asiu]

One is the size of Optus Oval the other is the exact dimensions of the MCG.

thats smart

[loris]

One is the size of Optus Oval the other is the exact dimensions of the MCG.

thats smart

Trouble is they had to bulldoze down 96 mature eucalyptus trees to fit both ovals of those dimensions in. It was roosting spots for endangered black cockatoos…… the b@stards!
Ou bloody council & state government (at the time) were complicit in the dealings.
We had so much community support to stop such environmental vandalism. The flaming bulldozers came in at 5 am one morning to start ripping trees out. Laws are you are not allowed to start such works until 7am in the morning, so it caught most of us protesters off guard, and we were too late to get there and create a human shield to stop such devistation.
However to the Eagles admins credit they have done a lot of planting and revegetation of the area. Which is looking fabulous & great to stroll around. Still, it will take another 100 years for the trees to mature to be sites again for the black cockatoos - if there are any black cockatoos left in Australia in 100 years

[saynta]

Crazy Loris absolutely crazy.

ps. We had two black cockatoos alight for several minutes in our backyard yesterday and a couple of weeks ago we had three in our silk trees out the front. Magnificat birds.

[The_Dud]

A brand new state-of-the-art stadium would have excellent drainage, probably be bone dry by the first bounce

[bangaulegend]

A brand new state-of-the-art stadium would have excellent drainage, probably be bone dry by the first bounce

Has been mostly sunny all day so far so I'd say perfect conditions for footy

[The Fireman]

We have black cockatoos here(wauchope) they decimate my banksias and it rains after their visit

[Trev from the Bush]

We have black cockatoos here(wauchope) they decimate my banksias and it rains after their visit

I'll send you up some corellas, they decimate everything. Perhaps a thousand or so sulphur-crested cockatoos, anything thinner than you index finger is fair game to them.

[saynta]

We have black cockatoos here(wauchope) they decimate my banksias and it rains after their visit

And we have f****** possums that decimate my lemon trees. Eat all the new leaves and peel the actual lemons. I would trap them but.....Would swap them for your black Cockies.

[bangaulegend]

We have black cockatoos here(wauchope) they decimate my banksias and it rains after their visit

And we have f****** possums that decimate my lemon trees. Eat all the new leaves and peel the actual lemons. I would trap them but.....Would swap them for your black Cockies.

Had a bumper tomato season last year woke up one morning & rats had eaten 75% over night fu--ing devastated

[asiu]

the black cockies were still in Jindy at Easter

(they scarper downhill when the cold comes
according to the locals)

anyways
i set up
(guerrilla camping in No Camping Country)
under what i'm about to discover
is THEIR tree amongst this stand of dominant old pines

for two days
they purposefully detached green hard cones
and dropped them into my site

4 weeks later (the pair)
were willing to be videoed
funning around just above head height

amazing creatures


they shred those cones in an instant
... i couldn't cut one with a handsaw