The Casey Connection

[Biffen 12,949]

Is it time to review our association with this FIASCO of a council?

Who signed our deal?

Discuss.....

[Ethan Tremblay 31,271]

What’s the deal? Corrupt Councillors? Faeces being posted to council members? 

[Lord Nev 13,512]

Councils are temporary, and our association is with the city not the council members.

Plus, we're only 11 years into a 30 year agreement with the City Of Casey.

[dazzledavey36 55,984]

1 hour ago, Biffen said:

Is it time to review our association with this FIASCO of a council?

Who signed our deal?

Discuss.....

I believe this was signed under the Connelly/Schwab era? They were very big on growing Casey as a whole. Chris Connelly was very hands on with this project...

[Biffen 12,949]

1 hour ago, Lord Nev said:

Councils are temporary, and our association is with the city not the council members.

Plus, we're only 11 years into a 30 year agreement with the City Of Casey.

The City is the Council .They are one and the same.

[Lord Nev 13,512]

15 minutes ago, Biffen said:

The City is the Council .They are one and the same.

The city is a city. The council is people.

 

[Diamond_Jim 12,719]

2 hours ago, Biffen said:

Is it time to review our association with this FIASCO of a council?

Who signed our deal?

Discuss.....

the local problems won't do us any good as I expect the council's longer term major expenditure plans are on hold. You would expect that there will be a major turnover of the councillors at the next election together with changes at its executive level. It's also not good for the MFC brand but I think most people will be able to disassociate our connection from the alleged shortcomings of the councillors. Unless we are dragged in by some media revelation or the like I suspect few people would know or care about our Casey presence.

At a more practical level I am more interested  in whether they have fixed the drainage on the oval. For half of the oval you literally sank through the surface as you walked across it. A local told me that the rumor was that the contractor never connected the underground arena drainage to the outside pipes. Apocryphal perhaps.

Overall it is an excellent sporting complex (or could be) with pools , athletic tracks etc etc... but it is a loooooong way from the CBD.

Edited January 10, 2020 by Diamond_Jim

[old dee 24,028]

12 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

the local problems won't do us any good as I expect the council's longer term major expenditure plans are on hold. You would expect that there will be a major turnover of the councillors at the next election together with changes at its executive level. It's also not good for the MFC brand but I think most people will be able to disassociate our connection from the alleged shortcomings of the councillors. Unless we are dragged in by some media revelation or the like I suspect few people would know or care about our Casey presence.

At a more practical level I am more interested  in whether they have fixed the drainage on the oval. For half of the oval you literally sank through the surface as you walked across it. A local told me that the rumor was that the contractor never connected the underground arena drainage to the outside pipes. Apocryphal perhaps.

Overall it is an excellent sporting complex (or could be) with pools , athletic tracks etc etc... but it is a loooooong way from the CBD.

Hi DJ, your last sentence probably says it all. I think people long ago work out there was 9 tenths of nothing available in the inner Melbourne area so outer surburbs it was. So far they have been proved correct.

[Bring-Back-Powell 15,350]

On a side note, is there a contractual agreement in place to play a pre-season game at Casey Fields every year?

This year will be our 4th pre season game there in a row.

Edited January 10, 2020 by Bring-Back-Powell

[old dee 24,028]

1 hour ago, Biffen said:

The City is the Council .They are one and the same.

I live in a council area that has had its councillors removed twice over corruption etc issues.

The best results have been achieved when we had administrators. 

Without the petty self interest of councillors every thing works well and things get done properly.

I believe the Casey council is heading for the high jump. The state government is just going through the process. IMO the council will be sacked before Casey plays its first game in 2020.

What effect that will have on our relationship is not clear but it will depend on the attitude of the administrator / s. In My experience decisions will be made on the worth of individual projects not the pets projects of councillors.

[old dee 24,028]

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

On a side note, is there a contractual agreement in place to play a pre-season game at Casey Fields every year?

This year will be our 4th pre season game there in a row.

And this is bad because??????

[poita 3,914]

I'd love to know how many new members we have picked up in the past ten years from the Casey region. Surely that is the only metric that matters, particularly given that the football team has been diabolical for most of that period and hence the facilities at Casey Fields are clearly not providing us with any benefit. 

[Diamond_Jim 12,719]

9 minutes ago, poita said:

and hence the facilities at Casey Fields are clearly not providing us with any benefit. 

but we don't use them other than the occasional visit. Even the listed MFC players who make up half the Casey team train at Gosch's paddock.

[old dee 24,028]

2 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

but we don't use them other than the occasional visit. Even the listed MFC players who make up half the Casey team train at Gosch's paddock.

Don't the girls train there DJ?

[Diamond_Jim 12,719]

33 minutes ago, old dee said:

Don't the girls train there DJ?

sorry... you may well be right. The Casey Demons VFLW side train there but I am not sure about the MFC AFLW team. The info on the net had pictures of them training at Gosch's Paddock but that may have been a one off.

[Bring-Back-Powell 15,350]

1 hour ago, old dee said:

And this is bad because??????

No it was a question rather than an opinion or gripe.

Just wondering if there’s a contractual obligation that states we have to play there, or the AFL showing us a bit of good will by allowing us to play an annual game at Casey.

 

[Biffen 12,949]

4 hours ago, Lord Nev said:

The city is a city. The council is people.

 

OK. I'm going to bash my head against a brick wall for twenty minutes then come back.

[Neil Crompton 5,780]

I used to play football with Mr Woodman - the b astard would never even shout a drink, let alone offer me money!