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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ

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Had a look at Gosch Park area.

They could develop a warf and social club on the yarra.

Just walk under the freeway. 

Be a great meeting place and people could ferry to the area of sporting and botanical.

Parks and waterways victoria would need to invest.

By the way saw rehabbers;

Tim smith, oscar Mcdonald, Michael Hibberd and Neville Jetta.

Hibs and jets working with Crossy. Clean at the ball and good foot skills.

Can't be far off.

Oscar working on kicking skills mainly the stab pass.

Tim marking well.

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    51 minutes ago, kev martin said:

    Had a look at Gosch Park area.

    They could develop a warf and social club on the yarra.

    Just walk under the freeway. 

    Be a great meeting place and people could ferry to the area of sporting and botanical.

    Parks and waterways victoria would need to invest.

    By the way saw rehabbers;

    Tim smith, oscar Mcdonald, Michael Hibberd and Neville Jetta.

    Hibs and jets working with Crossy. Clean at the ball and good foot skills.

    Can't be far off.

    Oscar working on kicking skills mainly the stab pass.

    Tim marking well.

    Would be great if we could make it happen?

    I think we need help with $$$, and sadly our government, will not be giving us any help. like all the other clubs in the AFL.

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    Club have gone very quiet about this. Hope they are working on something.

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    38 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Club have gone very quiet about this. Hope they are working on something.

    They are, working hard on being quiet and waiting for us all to forget and move on.

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    3 hours ago, kev martin said:

    Had a look at Gosch Park area.

    They could develop a warf and social club on the yarra.

    Just walk under the freeway. 

    Be a great meeting place and people could ferry to the area of sporting and botanical.

    Parks and waterways victoria would need to invest.

    By the way saw rehabbers;

    Tim smith, oscar Mcdonald, Michael Hibberd and Neville Jetta.

    Hibs and jets working with Crossy. Clean at the ball and good foot skills.

    Can't be far off.

    Oscar working on kicking skills mainly the stab pass.

    Tim marking well.

    The Yarra would be a fitting place for us to truly, go under.

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    1 hour ago, Redleg said:

    Club have gone very quiet about this. Hope they are working on something.

    Of course they have. Tipping they have finally realized the MCG precinct idea development is Disneyland stuff and now are waiting for an alternate proposal to sell to the fans. With no history of property acquisition or development I have grave doubts about our ability to pull it off.

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    1 hour ago, Gorgoroth said:

    They are, working hard on being quiet and waiting for us all to forget and move on.

    That hasn’t worked either.

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    1 hour ago, Sorry kids said:

    Of course they have. Tipping they have finally realized the MCG precinct idea development is Disneyland stuff and now are waiting for an alternate proposal to sell to the fans. With no history of property acquisition or development I have grave doubts about our ability to pull it off.

    Bentleigh club says hi!

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    1 hour ago, Redleg said:

    Bentleigh club says hi!

    Interesting that you raise the Bentleigh club in a thread where many have lamented the absence of a social club.

    I have little knowledge of the place but without pokies would it have survived and was it ever used as a social club?

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    Who the f cares about a social club? They wouldnt get more than 2 mice and a cockroach at a social club outside of match day. Not viable, not a priority, not need.

    A good training ground, good indoor training facility, good admin centre. That's what is needed.

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    A football club from a sport that runs for 6 months of the year, during the coldest part, that has 40k members, has sworn off pokies and has just sold off a similar business should never be investing in a 'social club'.

    Why not try venturing down to The Sporting Globe sometime on game day and see if you think the 'crowds' justify MFC investing in such an endeavour.

     

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    If developing then admin overlooking the yarra.

    Would help them feel professional, proud and privileged.

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    10 hours ago, kev martin said:

    If developing then admin overlooking the yarra.

    Would help them feel professional, proud and privileged.

     

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    The Club has officially dumped the Yarra Park plan. Pert said this in a pre game interview on radio. Still wants to create the base in the inner city sports precinct. 

    My bet is we stay at an upgraded Goschs Paddock and build nearby for gym, FD and admin centre.

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    50 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    The Club has officially dumped the Yarra Park plan. Pert said this in a pre game interview on radio. Still wants to create the base in the inner city sports precinct. 

    My bet is we stay at an upgraded Goschs Paddock and build nearby for gym, FD and admin centre.

    I knew I shouldn't have opened this thread.  Just so depressing to be homeless.

    Back to the drawing board.

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    On 6/21/2019 at 4:47 PM, Redleg said:

    Club have gone very quiet about this. Hope they are working on something.

     

    My understanding is that Pert has spent his time on little else since starting. No stone unturned, although I think the Andrews govt used us a pawn at one stage. 

    East Melbourne society or whatever they are called can GAGF. 

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    It was a silly idea and was never going to be approved. Too much loss of parkland, and too much local opposition.

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    38 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

     

    My understanding is that Pert has spent his time on little else since starting. No stone unturned, although I think the Andrews govt used us a pawn at one stage. 

    East Melbourne society or whatever they are called can GAGF. 

    Any idea of options on the drawing board?

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    6 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

    It was a silly idea and was never going to be approved. Too much loss of parkland, and too much local opposition.

    But there was no loss of parkland.

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    23 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    But there was no loss of parkland.

    The original article referenced in the first page of this topic says "The Herald Sun can reveal the ­Demons are eyeing a prized parcel of parkland, in the northeastern corner of the MCG precinct, for a full-sized football oval".

    The reality is not important when the perception is that open parkland, accessible to residents 24/7, will be lost and subsumed by a football club.

    The idea of a building over the railway line was never going to work either.

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    3 minutes ago, mauriesy said:

     

    The idea of a building over the railway line was never going to work either.

    Aren't the State Government looking at that over the rail lines, from Flinders Street to near the G?

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    40 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    But there was no loss of parkland.

    A sporting oval is not the same as parkland, Red. Parkland is what is there currently. Despite our needs, changing the use of land on that part of Yarra Park was always going to be pushing the proverbial up a hill.

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    3 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

    A sporting oval is not the same as parkland, Red. Parkland is what is there currently. Despite our needs, changing the use of land on that part of Yarra Park was always going to be pushing the proverbial up a hill.

    Oh well they have kept their parkland and they can watch their dogs deposit presents on it for others to step in.

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