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Magical morning at Gosch's Paddock

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Great support for the boys at training today. Collingwood are gone from Gosch's. It was a busy morning with The Dees, The Storm and The Victory all training at the same time and a great turn out of supporters to give the boys a boost. Get there tomorrow if you can. Who cares if they get beaten. They are still our team.

Gosch's Paddock now belongs to us ==> http://six6six.smugmug.com/Sports/Training-GP-1242013/28876147_DTZWSX

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great work six. great to see a good turn out to training, wish i could make my way down there, but just can't seem to make the time.

cool pics

-_-

 

Well done to everyone who went down today best news i herd all week spewing i could get out of work but il be there on Sat.

Go Dees!!


Great support for the boys at training today. Collingwood are gone from Gosch's. It was a busy morning with The Dees, The Storm and The Victory all training at the same time and a great turn out of supporters to give the boys a boost. Get there tomorrow if you can. Who cares if they get beaten. They are still our team.

Gosch's Paddock now belongs to us ==> http://six6six.smugmug.com/Sports/Training-GP-1242013/28876147_DTZWSX

Well done six6six - I knew your comeback would come sooner rather than later.

Hopefully, your pictures can chronicle some more happy times for the club soon.

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Nice work six.

What are you shooting on and what lens you using for those? Looks great.

Thanks thbt,

I'm a Canon man. I have a couple of cameras but these were mainly taken with a 7D and Canon 70-300 mm f4-5.6 lens. A few of the really long shots across to the far side of the ground were with a Sigma 50-500 f4.5-6.3 lens

Nice!

I have a 7d at home and a couple of 5d's (mk 2 & 3) I use for work (video stuff).

Looking at getting a long lens for still stuff as all my lenses are short and fast. On a crop sensor do you find yourself using the length beyond the canons 300mm? I'd like to do more sports and wildlife stuff on my 7d.

 

Gosch's paddock was an unofficial name give to that place but eventually stuck, given it is now ours I feel a rename is in order. Perhaps Barassi Oval?

Gosch's paddock was an unofficial name give to that place but eventually stuck, given it is now ours I feel a rename is in order. Perhaps Barassi Oval?

What about Stynes' Green?


What about Stynes' Green?

I think anything that's "Melbourne" would be great, the Stynes name would obviously carry a lot of emotion to it.
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Nice!

I have a 7d at home and a couple of 5d's (mk 2 & 3) I use for work (video stuff).

Looking at getting a long lens for still stuff as all my lenses are short and fast. On a crop sensor do you find yourself using the length beyond the canons 300mm? I'd like to do more sports and wildlife stuff on my 7d.

thbt,

Because the players are in all parts of the ground I use the full range of focal length from 50 through to 300. Because it is a compact lens, it is better suited to hand held. The Sigma is pretty big and generally needs a monopod to get steady shots. My other body is a 5D Mk3. I normally only use this with my faster prime lenses.

Gosch's paddock was an unofficial name give to that place but eventually stuck, given it is now ours I feel a rename is in order. Perhaps Barassi Oval?

Leave it at Gosch's Paddock. There's history ... William Henry Gosch leased the land from the Melbourne City Council in the 1870s as a holding area for his local transport company's horses.

Great support for the boys at training today. Collingwood are gone from Gosch's. It was a busy morning with The Dees, The Storm and The Victory all training at the same time and a great turn out of supporters to give the boys a boost. Get there tomorrow if you can. Who cares if they get beaten. They are still our team.

Gosch's Paddock now belongs to us ==> http://six6six.smugmug.com/Sports/Training-GP-1242013/28876147_DTZWSX

A fan-tastic Idea & turnout to help the lads... It may be a help to turn a corner.

I was glad to see & read about the encouragement for the boys, Unfortunately I couldn't make the trip down to Melbourne, having building work done.

good luck to the boys today, & Go-Dees


I think anything that's "Melbourne" would be great, the Stynes name would obviously carry a lot of emotion to it.

No lets leave the Heritage angle, but let us Build an Office & Social Hub next door to AAAMI Park & adjoining that Medical centre...

... we could call it the RedLegs centre by Gosch.

this is the Edwin Flack Field on which AAMI Park is built.

edwin-flack-field-jan-2006.jpg

... notice the top right hand corner of the picture, there is a structure. If we built our home base just Nth-East of that structure we could have an Office & Social Hub right there on Olympic Boulevard within easy distance of the 'G'.

... and it would overlook the training fields we could develop just off Olympic Boulevard, & a little away from the petrol fumes of Punt Rd. But right next to the Public Transport of Trams & Trains.

For the past couple of years we've had a B grade training oval, and we've performed accordingly.

Here's hoping some of the success the smelly pies have had whilst training at Goschs paddock rubs onto us.....

Ps. And the Pies new oval riddles them with injuries....I'm not bitter, seriously I'm not ;)

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