Docklands Stadium

This is a great venue. I’ve been to several AFL football matches here and a few music concerts too. In both cases the seating is good — you will get a great view, no matter where your seat is. For sports, if you’re in General Admission it’s easy, but make sure you’re not sitting too high up on Level 3, or your view of the big screens will be obscured by the roof structures. The ground is easy to get to — by trams along Collins and Bourke Streets, or by train to Southern Cross Station — then a few hundred meters walk into the ground. There’s lots of places to get food and drinks both at the stadium and as you approach. Overall, the venue is a winner.

Melbourne’s second AFL stadium and it’s only purpose built one. It has a very different atmosphere to the MCG.
It’s all new and clean and shiny and a little bit more clinical. Having said that it has a retractable roof which, when closed, makes all the sound reverberate. Imagine 50,000 mad and drunk Australians yelling at the tops of their voices in a closed room?
Also because it’s smaller and the seats are designed well and steep, you can see the action very well form all vantage points.
Beer and pies are a bit more expesive than the G and so is entry, but I admit that I do enjoy watching games here.
Oh and they have concerts and other shows like soccer as well but I don’t bother with that.