Talk:Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub

To do

• Expand history, providing some content about the construction, including recycling of demolition material from Lancaster Park, and material excavated from the nearby wetland reserve and stormwater detention system.
• Add the area of the site.
• Include a brief description of the adjacent wetland and stormwater management system [Wigram basin] (consider separate article for the wetland area). Good technical article on the stormwater management is here: [1]
• Search for further major sporting events that have been held, eg first national championship etc held at the venue.
• Investigate the construction of the hockey pitch (a "water-based pitch" ??). See: Field_hockey_pitch#Artificial_playing_surface

Marshelec (talk) 07:16, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Association football

@StolenThought. That is good content you have added, but I am a bit unsure about where is the best place for it. Let's have a discussion about this and see if we can come to an agreement about how best to present this information. It is definitely relevant for the article about the Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub venue to add content about Association Football being played at the venue, and especially the first major national games. On the other hand, details such as a player scoring a hat-trick seem more suited for a different article. My concern is that the article about the sports hub venue is not really the best place for detailed accounts of sporting events, unless they are quite extraordinary - perhaps like the breaking of a world record etc, and even then I am unsure. The content you have added is focussed on the role of Cashmere Technical in hosting the games. As an alternative, how about copying all of this content into the Cashmere Technical page, and then edit the content about Association Football on the Ngā Puna Wai Sports Hub to make it shorter, and more focussed on the fact of the first national Association Football games being played at the venue ? What do you think is best ? _05:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC) Marshelec (talk) 05:55, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@Marshelec. I see, I wanted to show that this venue has hosted National League matches, and also wanted to show what teams played there and what the score line was. It was also just a coincidence that Garbs scored a hat-trick here as it was his 1st of the season, 2nd of the two season (score 1 in the previous season, the very first season of the National League) and generally it is an uncommon feat to achieve at that level.

'With the National League come the Grand Final and potentially OFC Champions League. What if the venue gets used to host the Grand Final here, crowing the National Champion. What if the OFC NZ national playoffs get hosted here. Those are two significant events, much greater than the National League, but they should be included.' What is written before I went to check the other stadiums that the host the national league, as well as proper stadiums that host the Premier League is that most of them don't event mention that the National League is even played there that season and none of them mention the other details like what team won, any hat tricks scored ect.

I apologize for semi causing that mess and will make it shorter focusing on 'the first national Association Football games being played at the venue'. - StolenThought (talk) 07:04, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

@StolenThought No apology needed at all. :) None of us can "break" the encyclopedia. We work progressively towards improvement, and sometimes this means reworking things a bit. I used to find it difficult when other editors changed content I had added (and perhaps I still do sometimes), but most often I realise that the other editor's perspective was valid, and that their changes have improved on what I had done. Thank you for donating your time to improve these articles about sport. It is only through efforts like yours that the whole Wikipedia movement continues, and makes this extraordinary project so successful. If you have the time and energy, there is lots more that could be done to improve Sport in Christchurch. I ran out of steam on this one._Marshelec (talk) 07:37, 4 September 2024 (UTC)