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Collingwood and the Holden Centre

xarronn
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Many of us have felt that the MFC missed a great opportunity when Collingwood took over the facilities at the old Olympic Park and Glasshouse. Things have since improved for the club with training and Admin facilities, but there is still a twinge of regret in my mind.

However, perhaps not everything has worked out for the Magpies at the Holden Centre. Reading a Collingwood fan site, it appears establishing a social club there has not been successful. 

I have copied three posts from Magpies supporters below:

What's the go with the social club & glasshouse
Went to the game on Saturday and walked past the social club as I walked to my car over the river. I am a social club member and haven't been to the new glasshouse facility once.I wandered in and got told by 2 security guards that social club members had no access to the glasshouse.

 And because it's so isolated, nobody wants to go there. 
The club never should have moved it's admin base from Vic Park. 
If we instead spent the money we've spent on the Glasshouse at Vic Park we'd have top notch facilities there.

Closed due to lack of interest, the email said it in double.speak way

 

The other matter which was mentioned is that the Magpies are no longer using the once highly touted Altitude Room at the Holden Centre. 

I am not suggesting that the Pies, have a white elephant of a facility, but as they say, "not all that glitters is gold".

 

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    I still think we should have a social club in the CBD of Melbourne somewhere. 

    We are Melbourne...

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    23 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    I still think we should have a social club in the CBD of Melbourne somewhere. 

    We are Melbourne...

    Not sure that social clubs are the big things they were 20 years ago SWYL.

    I was big on the idea 20 years ago but now I probably would never go. After a game i sing the song ( well do win fairly often now ) and then go home.

    Celebrating consists of a couple of single malts and some reflection on life and football. 

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    When we win the Granny we sure as hell will want a meeting place within stumbling distance of the G.

    I'm not going home for a month!

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    5 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    When we win the Granny we sure as hell will want a meeting place within stumbling distance of the G.

    I'm not going home for a month!

    By then Mr Shadow I will probably be in a wheel chair can you push me to where you are going please?

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    22 minutes ago, old dee said:

    By then Mr Shadow I will probably be in a wheel chair can you push me to where you are going please?

    Sure thing mr old. Don't ask me to help at the toilet though.

    Might be sooner than you think!

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    5 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    Sure thing mr old. Don't ask me to help at the toilet though.

    Might be sooner than you think!

    I will probably have a bag.

    i hope you are correct but half a century of experience has taught to keep your expectations in check.

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    35 minutes ago, old dee said:

    By then Mr Shadow I will probably be in a wheel chair can you push me to where you are going please?

    What's going to happen to you in 3 months? :P

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    48 minutes ago, old dee said:

    Not sure that social clubs are the big things they were 20 years ago SWYL.

    I was big on the idea 20 years ago but now I probably would never go. After a game i sing the song ( well do win fairly often now ) and then go home.

    Celebrating consists of a couple of single malts and some reflection on life and football. 

    The kids might ;):unsure:

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    I would love if we had a social club. Three reasons, one is it brings more money for the club, two my friends and i wait around after a match to wait for the car park to empty and three i would love to meet more demon fans.

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    1 hour ago, old dee said:

    Not sure that social clubs are the big things they were 20 years ago SWYL.

    I was big on the idea 20 years ago but now I probably would never go. After a game i sing the song ( well do win fairly often now ) and then go home.

    Celebrating consists of a couple of single malts and some reflection on life and football. 

    It would probably be better to have an after game facility at the G somewhere for a little eat and drink, although it may not be as frequented as it once would  

    After the game, most do what you do and go home. Drink driving laws have changed the face of after game celebrations. 

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    6 minutes ago, Dante said:

    It would probably be better to have an after game facility at the G somewhere for a little eat and drink, although it may not be as frequented as it once would  

    After the game, most do what you do and go home. Drink driving laws have changed the face of after game celebrations. 

    these days if you want anyone to turn up (and stay) you probably need the social club to be in king street :lol:

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    Who's the 'partner' pub these days ?

    That i have to ask shows how often I'd get there !! :rolleyes:

    Was the "Duke" ...now ?

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    6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    these days if you want anyone to turn up (and stay) you probably need the social club to be in king street :lol:

    We can do shots there...

    :cool:

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    2 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    We can do shots there...

    :cool:

    What calibre ?:unsure:

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    51 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    The kids might ;):unsure:

    Do we have supporters younger than 35 bb?

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    58 minutes ago, Pates said:

    What's going to happen to you in 3 months? :P

    I might be in one now Pates!

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    23 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Who's the 'partner' pub these days ?

    That i have to ask shows how often I'd get there !! :rolleyes:

    Was the "Duke" ...now ?

    Can I have an easier question bb

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    4 minutes ago, old dee said:

    Do we have supporters younger than 35 bb?

    Got to be a couple.... surely...lol

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    2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Got to be a couple.... surely...lol

    I think we have a few under ten who have been browbeat by parents but the group from 20 to 35 I imagine would be few by comparison to those 50+.

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    We have a social club already.... at Mt. Hotham!

     

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    37 minutes ago, old dee said:

    I think we have a few under ten who have been browbeat by parents but the group from 20 to 35 I imagine would be few by comparison to those 50+.

    You'd be suprised. Had more dees supporters than any but Tigers at my old club, all between 20-35. We weren't hopeless from 98-06.

    Not many in the u16 and u18 though

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    45 minutes ago, old dee said:

    I think we have a few under ten who have been browbeat by parents but the group from 20 to 35 I imagine would be few by comparison to those 50+.

    I'm 25 :) I'm hoping we pinch a flag in the next couple of years so I can take full advantage of the celebrations and come home just in time for christmas

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    Should be called the Trabant Centre: a car described as something that gave communism a bad name and was described as 'a hollow lie of a car constructed by recycled worthlessness.' Seems apt somehow.

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