Talk:Mount Smart Stadium

History of Mt Smart Stadium

The land occupied by the stadium which was first developed by the Mt Smart Domain Trust(MSDT) was generally believed to have been donated by Sir Maurice O'Rourke who maintained a large home with stables and extensive gardens on ten acres of land on the northern slopes of the mountain. O'Rourke was at times Speaker of the House of Parliament and Chancellor of Auckland University. Starting approximately in the 1930's the mountain was quarried away with steam powered excavators, the rock (mostly scoria) crushed and loaded in railway wagons (which utilized a spurline off the Penrose - Onehunga line) and used as railway ballast by New Zealand Railways. The MSDT received royalties.

From 1940 through through the early 1960's when it was acquired by the MSDT, the O'Rourke property was owned by Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Clinton Kennan who operated the Blue Cross Hospital. The house was destroyed by fire in 1966.

How do I know all this? I lived there 1940 though 1963. Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Clinton Kennan was my father.

Peter Perry Kennan pkennan@msn.com 66.65.153.166 (talk) 20:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Supertop or Mt Smart Stadium?

Many of the concerts listed here were not in the stadium itself, but adjacent to it, in the giant marquee called the Supertop. Of the ones listed here, this includes at least Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Guns 'N Roses, The Cure, MC Hammer, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bon Jovi, Pearl Jam, and KISS. It's inaccurate to lump these concerts under the "stadium" because that was not the venue. Mentioning the seating capacity of the stadium is misleading in this context because those artists who performed in the Supertop would have played to no more than 13,000 people. https://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=48374 MrDeclanDwight (talk) 01:35, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm just going to remove it (and the league matches) because it is largely unsourced and listing every event at the stadium is out of scope for the article. Traumnovelle (talk) 10:53, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

Name of article

@ChampsRT if you think that Mt Smart Stadium is a former name you should start an RM. Sources still regularly use the name Mt Smart sometimes without even using the branded name, it is incorrect to list it as a former name and if the infobox contradicts the article it is the infobox that should be changed not vice versa. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:03, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

So then should we change former_name in the infobox to not include "Mount Smart Stadium" then? ChampsRT (Profile • Talk) 04:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, as the name is still in use. The brand name is just for sponsorship purposes and does not mean the name Mount Smart Stadium is not a current official name. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:06, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

But I think "currently known as ....." means that its just temporarily known as another name to the stadium due to sponsorships, so it does mean that the stadium is still named "Mount Smart", but at the same time it is also known as "Go Media", which would make sense and not mean that Mount Smart is a former name ChampsRT (Profile • Talk) 05:10, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Currently known implies it is the common name where as stating it is branded states it is just a brand name. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:25, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

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Update images?

The images in this article are really out of date. For example the seats aren’t even that colour anymore. 2404:4408:877A:3B00:599F:6A9F:A434:83BE (talk) 07:56, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

There were updated images but I removed them as they were copyright violations and are now deleted. Traumnovelle (talk) 08:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Naming rights

The section begins by saying that in 2006 it reverted to its original name, strongly suggesting it had been called something else for some time but without saying what or when. I'm aware it was Ericsson stadium for a while, but when? Were there other names? ~2026-17550-3 (talk) 02:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

I removed that part as it was tagged as being uncited since 2017 and as you've said yourself, didn't really explain anything useful. Traumnovelle (talk) 03:08, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

According to this spinoff article it was Ericsson stadium from 1995 to 2006, which answers my first question ~2026-17550-3 (talk) 01:31, 11 January 2026 (UTC)