Dumb Changes For Mt. Smart?

To accommodate the speedway from its current home in Western Springs, Speedway, Mt. Smart Stadium would lose 10,000 seats. Promoters including Phil Sprey from Capital C Concerts – which toured Bon Jovi and Elton John – predicted to the NZ Herald that promoters would have to raise ticket prices.

To accommodate the speedway from its current home in Western Springs, Speedway, Mt. Smart Stadium would lose 10,000 seats. Promoters including Phil Sprey from Capital C Concerts – which toured Bon Jovi and Elton John – predicted to the NZ Herald that promoters would have to raise ticket prices.

Accommodating the speedway at Mt. Smart Stadium would mean rugby games would shift to the North Harbour Stadium in the Auckland suburb of Albany and cricket games to Western Springs. Jim Doyle, managing director of the Auckland Warriors rugby team, which used Mt. Stadium its home since 1985, said he would rather move the team outside Auckland.

He said he had asked the Council-controlled stadium operator Regional Facilities Authority for a list of options it had considered for the sports moves. “I have not been provided of any such evidence,” he said. He also expected that the National Rugby League could look at holding its competitions outside Auckland.