The future for Carisbrook?

From time to time at What if? there’s been talk about Carisbrook’s status and condition, the location, its importance to South Dunedin and the region, its national and international historical significance as a sports facility, and the future potential of the complex and the site – that we’re doubling up facilities by building another rugby [...]

DCC blacks out figures for Carisbrook rent

### ODT Online Wed, 23 Sep 2009
DCC silent on Carisbrook charge
By Chris Morris
The Dunedin City Council is refusing to reveal how much it is charging the Otago Rugby Football Union to use Carisbrook, despite speculation it could be receiving up to $490,000 each year.
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Post by Elizabeth Kerr

Malcolm Farry: “Inconceivable we won’t be ready in time”

### ODT Online Sat, 19 Sep 2009
World Cup backup plan
By David Loughrey
The Carisbrook Stadium Trust will have a backup plan for Rugby World Cup seats when they go on sale next year, in case the Forsyth Barr Stadium is not ready.
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Seating numbers
Forsyth Barr Stadium
South stand: 10,784
North stand: 8450
East stand: 6060
West stand: 5220
Total: 30,514*
*Includes “terraces” [...]

RWC 2011 – Snedden: “Carisbrook will be fine to host test rugby”

The new stadium probably needs to be finished by early August 2011, to host matches…
### ODT Online Wed, 9 Sep 2009
Rugby: Commitment to stadium praised
By Steve Hepburn
Rugby World Cup boss Martin Snedden says Dunedin has turned itself upside down in its pursuit of a stadium and that has to be acknowledged when going ahead with [...]

RWC 2011 tickets, Otago rugby & issues with NZRU

Here’s another invitation to go into personal debt for rugby…
### ODT Online Sat, 5 Sep 2009
Rugby: Repayment plan for World Cup tickets
Cash-strapped New Zealanders are to be offered interest free repayment plans to assist them to buy top-priced tickets to 2011’s Rugby World Cup.
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### ODT Online Sun, 6 Sep 2009
Rugby: Otago pipped at Carisbrook
Otago [...]

Glink’s “xtra” non sustainability banner + Civis

### ODT Online Fri, 04/09/2009 – 1:15pm.
Comment by Glink on Old stadium just that
Sorry but the old Carisbrook stadium is just that – old.
It’s a disgrace of a place in modern terms (sorry I know it has history but that’s all it has). And I would say who are the idiots but the ones who [...]

D Scene: The STS Special

The issue you’ve all been waiting for…
### D Scene 2-9-09
Ratepayers rucked (page 1)
The stadium’s cost to the average ratepayer has long been quoted as $66 a year. But it is $110 and could go higher. Barrister Len Andersen has analysed the figures and they make interesting reading. See page 8.
Tough task (page 3)
By Dave Wood, [...]

Carisbrook valuation

### ODT Online Fri, 28 Aug 2009
Value based on splitting Carisbrook
By David Loughrey
A Dunedin valuer’s assessment of Carisbrook, which the Dunedin City Council says guided its thinking when it bought the stadium, valued the property at between $7.1 and $7.5 million, Mayor Peter Chin said yesterday.
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D Scene: Delta, STS, DCC larks

### D Scene 26-8-09
Suite for some (page 1 headline)
Stop The Stadium has lost another legal fight, but it’s still throwing punches. One target of the-cash strapped group is Delta Utilities spending on a corporate suite. See page 5.
Thank you (page 3)
By Dave Wood, acting editor
Dunedin councillor Richard Walls was heard to ask at a recent [...]

DCC press release – Carisbrook

Council Acquires Carisbrook
Dunedin (Monday 17 August 2009) – The DCC has completed negotiations with the Otago Rugby Football Union that sees the Council assume ownership of Carisbrook.
The all up price of the purchase is $7 million which includes three packages made up from Carisbrook, the adjacent car park site and a block of rental housing [...]

Carisbrook purchase debatable + Test $hype

### ODT Online Tue, 18 Aug 2009
Council’s Carisbrook deals released
By David Loughrey
The Dunedin City Council will underwrite Otago Rugby Football Union debt for the next three years as part of a deal which includes the purchase of Carisbrook for $7 million. The council confirmed the cost yesterday, and that the Otago Rugby Football Union had [...]

Carisbrook deal

### ODT Online Wed, 12 Aug 2009
DCC finalises deal to buy Carisbrook
By Chris Morris
The Dunedin City Council has confirmed it is the new owner of Carisbrook, having finalised the deal to purchase the ground from the Otago Rugby Football Union. Details of the deal would not be made public until after they were presented to [...]

It happens…

### ODT Online Fri, 7 Aug 2009
Southland beats Otago 26-19
Another chapter in the long history of deep south rugby rivalry was written tonight when Southland beat Otago 26-19 in an Air NZ Cup match in Dunedin.
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Ripper rugby tournament at Carsibrook 7th August
### ODT Online Thu, 6 Aug 2009
Your say: Otago rugby union being miserable
By [...]

Cari$brook…

### ODT Online Sat, 1 Aug 2009
Price still unknown
By David Loughrey
“Minor technicalities” have held up a final agreement on the sale of Carisbrook to the Dunedin City Council, meaning it will be another week before the price is known.
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D Scene: mere trifles

Last week, editor Ryan Keen invited readers to send in nicknames for the stadium. In this week’s edition there isn’t a terrific number of suggestions or terms of endearment.
It used to be the “Awatea Street stadium” (note lower case s), then “Otago Stadium”, superseded by “Forsyth Barr Stadium” at what’s it.
When Malcolm Farry suggested “it” [...]

Chin's writing team and the dull thuds

Today in the Otago Daily Times, Mayor Peter Chin emoted a response to two letters to the editor that, I suggest, includes part-texts that others at DCC have dished up as the party line.
The letters and the reply address DCC’s purchase of Carisbrook. But where ORFU truly sits in the council’s financial plans, heaven knows. [...]

Is rugby a "rock-solid" investment…

The Highlanders have not returned a profit since 2006…
### ODT Online Sat, 4 Jul 2009
Editorial: Rugby mad?
Doubtless there will be those on the Dunedin City Council and elsewhere to whom it makes complete sense, but to others, including those ratepayers already angered by and deeply opposed to the council’s backing of the new Forsyth Barr [...]

Housebus watcher at Awatea Street site

### ODT Online Fri, 3 Jul 2009
Carisbrook fan drives his point home
By Chris Morris
Wayne Squire, of Dunedin, has been documenting daily progress at the Forsyth Barr Stadium construction site from his house bus for nearly two months. [He]does not like what he sees taking shape outside the windows of his house bus.
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D Scene: What Cr Eckhoff believes

### D Scene 1-7-09 (page 3)
You be the judge
By Ryan Keen, Editor
Not often you get a councillor coming out and pouring scorn on the decision-making of another council. But that’s just what outspoken Otago Regional councillor Gerrard Eckhoff has done in D Scene today (see p10). In a scathing opinion piece he calls into question [...]

DCC not talking to ORFU Debt, yet

More about DCC’s new rugby franchise…
### ODT Online Wed, 1 Jul 2009
Council says little as $2m ORFU loan expires
By David Loughrey
The term of the Otago Rugby Football Union’s $2 million loan from the Dunedin City Council ran out yesterday, but the sale of Carisbrook to the council appears to have taken care of the debt.
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D Scene gets its information from?

### D Scene 24-6-09 (page 1 headlines)
‘Brook deal danger
“It now looks as though council is on hand to tit-feed all these others that are going belly up.”
Former city councillor Maurice Prendergast’s warning: p7
Plus: More details of DCC’s confidential Carisbrook deal revealed
Register to read D Scene online at http://fairfaxmedia.newspaperdirect.com/
(page 7)
Carisbrook deal: ‘Sets dangerous precedent’, critics [...]

Confidence in DCC, joke…

### ODT Online Sat, 20 Jun 2009
Editorial: Subsidising rugby
Will the Dunedin City Council be able to surprise ratepayers and prove it negotiated a good deal in buying Carisbrook? Or will it emerge that the council has paid over the odds and granted largesse to the Otago Rugby Football Union?
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Rugby support down in Christchurch

Venues such as Hamilton and Dunedin looming as major threats to Christchurch to host other Tests…
### TVNZ News Published: 9:00PM Friday June 19, 2009
Christchurch under threat as Test venue
Source: NZPA
Christchurch’s status as a host of major rugby Tests is under threat because of poor ticket sales ahead of next week’s fixture against Italy. About [...]

Carisbrook purchase by borrowing

UPDATED
### ODT Online Fri, 19 Jun 2009
Carisbrook difficult to value
By David Loughrey
It emerged this week [Carisbrook] will be sold to the Dunedin City Council in the next few weeks for $7 million, and while he was unwilling to confirm the figure, council finance and corporate support general manager Athol Stephens said yesterday the money would [...]

DCC hedges on details of Carisbrook deal

UPDATING
DCC says sale price not included in the $198 million cost of the Otago stadium. Just how much is DCC prepared to spend of ratepayers’ money on the stadium project…
### ODT Online Thu, 18 Jun 2009
Carisbrook deal believed to be $7m
By Chris Morris
The Dunedin City Council will be handed the keys to Carisbrook within weeks [...]