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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ

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10 minutes ago, rjay said:

Try and get the players out there to train 'old dee'...

That move would torpedo any idea of us being a destination club...

Arctic & Dingley are right on the Monash, an easy trip from the leafy Easterns.

Cranny is a bridge too far.

Ok Lets take over the Hawks old site at Arctic Park or the wastelands of docklands.

Just joking, I think in the real world we will just have to make a better job of using Goschs.

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    2 hours ago, old dee said:

    I have got to say Ernest that I can see  that side of the argument.

    We are where we are because of the failure of a number of administrations  over half a century.

    It is now very difficult to fix the problem. 

    If something cannot be done to fix the problem in the Goschs area then I see no alternative but to move to the Boon docks.

    Which will be a pity, out of the way and disconnected for most of us.

    Set up to fail if it does go down Darklands way..  

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    10 minutes ago, hemingway said:

    Which will be a pity, out of the way and disconnected for most of us.

    Set up to fail if it does go down Darklands way..  

    Why ? The Hawks left their home land 20 years ago and they seem to have done alright since.

    They are now moving to Dingly, not exactly close to Hawthorn.

    The undeniable problem is that with the exception of Goschs there is no viable alternative in the inner suburbs.

    IMO it is make Goschs work or head for the outer suburbs.

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    1 hour ago, CBDees said:

    The proposal for the new building is 100% on the rail reservation with no encroachment onto Yarra Park! As for the oval, what it will mean is that the area will be curated grassland available to the public all except for 5-6 hours training per week (which fall between the most popular early morning late afternoon dog walking hours)! Currently, with event parking and events themselves, public access is compromised/denied for more hours than that. I think my fellow residents should take their blinkers off and think this through! 

    you (being a local) could try mail dropping them, cbd, to try and turn them around, but i suspect they are hard-boiled and wouldn't even read it. I would have thought the mfc would have held meetings already with them but have heard nothing

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    19 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    you (being a local) could try mail dropping them, cbd, to try and turn them around, but i suspect they are hard-boiled and wouldn't even read it. I would have thought the mfc would have held meetings already with them but have heard nothing

    I suspect the MFC have been taking a very low profile till after the election dc.

    Sadly will make no difference. No matter how logical the proposal it will be lost in the " taking park land " cries.

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    13 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    you (being a local) could try mail dropping them, cbd, to try and turn them around, but i suspect they are hard-boiled and wouldn't even read it. I would have thought the mfc would have held meetings already with them but have heard nothing

    The MFC have met with them (and found them most negative)! Best to not reveal your hand as they will misrepresent (embryonic/preliminary) information and it gives them time to get advanced with their campaign as at present when they have letter-boxed 4000 households (except mine) and pressured the three major parties!

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    16 hours ago, ding said:

    I guess this means the Yarra Park idea is dead in the water. I can see us homeless for another few years, before announcing a poor second  best option, with a far inferior building than we planned over the railway tracks.  Was hoping that we had secured political support by dumping our poker machines. Guess not.

    Oh well, at least i wont have to vote Labor now. :)

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    Front row, second from the right (in glasses) is the President of the East Melbourne Group!

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    14 minutes ago, CBDees said:

    Front row, second from the right (in glasses) is the President of the East Melbourne Group!

    Who does he follow?

    Should ban them all from the MCG.

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    11 minutes ago, CBDees said:

    Front row, second from the right (in glasses) is the President of the East Melbourne Group!

    Seriously? Looks like he'd need verbal instructions on how to breathe.

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    4 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    Who does he follow?

    Should ban them all from the MCG.

    He told me that he is a Melbourne ‘supporter’ (but I would be positive that he wouldn’t fork out for a membership or be interested enough to attend games)!

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    4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    I suspect the lack of foresight wasn't the only problem. I presume we would have had insufficient financial resources to do anything there anyway.

    You find a way to do it...

    We didn’t. 

    There is Good and Bad Debt...

    Edited by Sir Why You Little

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    1 hour ago, deebug said:

    What about all the ovals around near the zoo?

    There is good one near there, I think it is called Princes Park.

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    7 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    We have an oval already right in the middle of Yarra Park.  

    It's called the MCG.

    It's our home ground.

    That's where we should train.

    And dominated by 10 drop in cricket pitches right now. Not to mention the surface grass cut to 12mm length for cricket (24mm for football) making it rather hard.

    I certainly wish we could but not possible any more.

     

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    11 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    We have an oval already right in the middle of Yarra Park.  

    It's called the MCG.

    It's our home ground.

    That's where we should train.

    No argument on that but the proposal is about centralised administration, gymnasium etc as well!

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    19 minutes ago, Dee Dee said:

    And dominated by 10 drop in cricket pitches right now. Not to mention the surface grass cut to 12mm length for cricket (24mm for football) making it rather hard.

    I certainly wish we could but not possible any more.

     

    Meer details.

     

    Who watches the cricket anyway, we're crap.  Tell them to go play at the Junction Oval.

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    1 hour ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    We have an oval already right in the middle of Yarra Park.  

    It's called the MCG.

    It's our home ground.

    That's where we should train.

    balls your about 53 years too late.

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    2 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Who does he follow?

    Should ban them all from the MCG.

    Red, I assume you would be happy if it was in your backyard ?

    Any options down your way? 

    If not there is a derelict Manor ripe for redevelopment down Romsey way, wherever the hell that may be.

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    3 hours ago, old dee said:

    Why ? The Hawks left their home land 20 years ago and they seem to have done alright since.

    They are now moving to Dingly, not exactly close to Hawthorn.

    The undeniable problem is that with the exception of Goschs there is no viable alternative in the inner suburbs.

    IMO it is make Goschs work or head for the outer suburbs.

    My old friend, can you imagine travelling out to Dingley for a single malt. Have you lost your mind ?

    Unless you think that following the Hawks is the way to go. 

    Its simple, the location has to be central and accessible by car and public transport.

    It has to be near the MCG or central Melbourne. 

    Like Eddy, you have to think big and not accept the cheap option.

     

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    18 minutes ago, hemingway said:

    My old friend, can you imagine travelling out to Dingley for a single malt. Have you lost your mind ?

    Unless you think that following the Hawks is the way to go. 

    Its simple, the location has to be central and accessible by car and public transport.

    It has to be near the MCG or central Melbourne. 

    Like Eddy, you have to think big and not accept the cheap option.

     

    Ernest I would not go to Yarra park for a single malt. But back to the real world. Besides Goschs there is nothing in inner Melbourne. It is Goschs or the burbs. Why is so hard for people to understand that simple fact. As for eddy he got the easy option when we abdicated. 

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    How about Fed square, never really quite got the architecture, there,

    • Build a Gym in the VR ballroom across the road,
    • central,
    • close to public transport, and
    • across the road from Y and J's  

    Perfect

     

    OH and sign up Apple as our new BOJ sponser

    Edited by Demon_spurs
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    7 minutes ago, Demon_spurs said:

    How about Fed square, never really quite got the architecture, there,

    • Build a Gym in the VR ballroom across the road,
    • central,
    • close to public transport, and
    • across the road from Y and J's  

    Perfect

     

    OH and sign up Apple as our new BOJ sponser

    Hell no sell them the club.

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