Hoops

Where will Sydney play next season?

Should def take a couple of games to Canberra

The Kings drew an average crowd last season that would fill the SSC, theorise what you will about "greebie" tickets, I would say half is exaggerating, but it will be very interesting to see how much of a drop off they experience...

I think a lot of that would be down to how many weekday games we get and if there are any other clashes with other sports... What would be smart would be to try to partner with other sports that would be out there and get a daily double where you have a lunchtime Kings game then can walk across the precinct to watch whatever else is on... Really push it for families...

The Kings front office really have their work cut out for them this season and they really need to step up... With Bankstown basketball royalty in Jason Cadee and another young Westie Angus Brandt on board, they really need to push that connection and in the first half of the season, really need to prepare and sell the move, as it will be indicative of the following full season(s) out there...

My biggest problem in the past with the SSC is that they have the seating all messed up, so what would normally be the end of row in say a 20 seat row has 1 and 20 next to each other, and trying to get that across to the ticket selling people when you want an aisle seat is painful...

Not really, think about it. Any time empty space in a big city goes up for grabs.. whats the first thing that people shout out for...thats right...

HOUSING!

Apartments, Units, Homes etc. Developers want to subdivide it for places for people to buy, rent out, and negative gear.

Building a new Stadium for a sport that isnt all year around, its pretty much again a niche sport in Australia and that dosnt have the huge sponsorship Money isnt a high priority for any state government.

If they had a bigger fanbase than the Kings, they wouldn't have gone under, even with the disastrous name change to the Spirit...

As to the OP, the larger stadiums just aren't viable from both a rental and "being able to even partially fill them" standpoint, and I think there was talk about the Dome but it's all retractable/removeable seating or something? Also not really viable, unfortunately, as that I think has a bigger capacity and would work better from that POV (and is closer to the train station and other places out there compared to the SSC I think?)

It's pretty disappointing that in a city the size of Sydney, there isn't any better options...

I believe they will try to have as many home games as possible at SEC for the first half of the season, then play the rest at Homebush. It's certainly not desirable and the Kings have sought to find alternative venues such as the Hordern Pavillion but Homebush is essentially the only venus that they could use in the interim.