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2 minutes ago, Gouga said:

I was told that the upgrade of aami park for the 2023 womens world cup would include a new base for MFC. This hasn't happened. Something has gone wrong...

Probably be announced during the election campaign.

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    18 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    Probably be announced during the election campaign.

    The state govt has already annouced. Only $25m, i think we were hoping for something much bigger.

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    11 hours ago, Demons1858 said:

    Honestly, if Kate can't get a govt announcement with funding by mid 2023 she needs to walk and let someone else try. Terrible that we still don't know anything even at this stage ... people might say its like watching grass grow ... but atleast the grass is doing something

    If Kate and her connections and past achievements in this space can't get a government announcement then I doubt if anyone can.

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    32 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    If Kate and her connections and past achievements in this space can't get a government announcement then I doubt if anyone can.

    That's what i am afraid of, i doubt anyone can solve this mess. 

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    41 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    If Kate and her connections and past achievements in this space can't get a government announcement then I doubt if anyone can.

    l'm not so forgiving ... if that's the case they should have realised earlier and gone outside the mcg precinct. As Kate has said before she knows what she is doing in this space and we need to trust her

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    My question is, what were they going to announce, that they now aren’t?

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    1 hour ago, Redleg said:

    So what was the 12 months plan?

    How about explaining where it was to be  and why it failed.

    Being told nothing is pretty poor, especially  from a Board that won’t let anyone else who might be able to help, get onto it.

    This is a discreet issue that has we have been trying to solve for decades. What is the current situation?

    We are a member base organisation they need to explain what went wrong ... if they were dudded then they need to explain it or whatever else that might have happened

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    3 minutes ago, Demons1858 said:

    l'm not so forgiving ... if that's the case they should have realised earlier and gone outside the mcg precinct. As Kate has said before she knows what she is doing in this space and we need to trust her

    I do trust her but by your earlier comment:  "...if Kate can't get a govt announcement with funding by mid 2023 she needs to walk..." I'm not sure you do.

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    Nothing will be built in my lifetime. 
    Just keep winning Flags Demons, they are more important to me

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    4 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    I do trust her but by your earlier comment:  "...if Kate can't get a govt announcement with funding by mid 2023 she needs to walk..." I'm not sure you do.

    Correct, what has she actually done so far? The team hadn't lost a game when she took over in 21. This was what she was hanging her hat on

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    IF we win the big one will it be cheese boards and hipster food trucks at Gosch's or can we talk the MCC in to letting us into our home ground.

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    Time to move from the MGC precinct. Wasted enough time. 

    Fisherman's bend is a good location and should be looked at.

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    44 minutes ago, Demons1858 said:

    We are a member base organisation they need to explain what went wrong ... if they were dudded then they need to explain it or whatever else that might have happened

    But they can't burn their bridges with the Government, so it's a delicate situation.

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    56 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    My question is, what were they going to announce, that they now aren’t?

    I think they expected aami park to be extended with new change rooms, meeting rooms, gym, indoor practice area etc. to allow certain world cup teams to be based there during the tournament. I think the hope was after the cup those would be handed over to the dees. We would continue to train at gosch's. Was meant to be a big state government annoucement. 

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    39 minutes ago, mo64 said:

    But they can't burn their bridges with the Government, so it's a delicate situation.

    But is there a “relationship” with the Government or is it just Fluff that we are told?

    not one plan has been shown to Members over many years. 
     

    Nothing

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    25 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    But is there a “relationship” with the Government or is it just Fluff that we are told?

    not one plan has been shown to Members over many years. 
     

    Nothing

    And that is the problem.

    We are basically told it is going well and will be announced soon, but nothing.

    Members don’t need to be told every minute detail, but at least something.

    Have we got a plan, a site, an idea, a dream, a wish, a hope, anything?

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    3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    And that is the problem.

    We are basically told it is going well and will be announced soon, but nothing.

    Members don’t need to be told every minute detail, but at least something.

    Have we got a plan, a site, an idea, a dream, a wish, a hope, anything?

    The problem is, that's already backfired badly for us once when the whole Yarra Park debacle happened.

     

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    6 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    The problem is, that's already backfired badly for us once when the whole Yarra Park debacle happened.

     

    Then say we have something in place, but we can’t give the details yet.

    The members were told of an announcement that never happened.

    Or just tell the likely truth, we haven’t got  anywhere yet.

    It is probably the biggest off field issue for the club and to date we seem to have achieved nothing, after years of working on it. 

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    In Alternate Training ground news....

    The Doggies are in for an interesting finals,  walking past Whitten oval this morning, and i see some bright spark has decided Now is the right time to dig up the turf for replacement....  So no training for them.

     

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    2 hours ago, Redleg said:

    My question is, what were they going to announce, that they now aren’t?

    To give the benefit of the doubt, this was only my reading of the interview. Has anyone else listened to it yet? Maybe she just used the wrong words when explaining it - she did say she discusses the issue with Pert daily - but to say that they both want to at least have the "answer" to the home base by the end of their terms was only one way to read it for me. If they're still only talking about the answer to the location then they are basically at square one.

    I wouldn't want to destabilise the board during this period of onfield success - I think we all know onfield success cannot happen with off-field destabilisation - but this board has hung their legacy on getting a home base setup and if they don't it will be a big mark against them despite the premiership(s?).

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    It's beginning to look like the devolved SNP government in Scotland where the next independence referendum is always just over the next hill then around the next bend. We'll all be deid before we see it. 

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    1 hour ago, BDA said:

    Time to move from the MGC precinct. Wasted enough time. 

    Fisherman's bend is a good location and should be looked at.

    Or make a claim on the old Collingwood oval, Vic Park. Pies cannot claim two precincts.  

    Could force the Pies to make a decision on whether they are leaving the Glass House.

    For us, we could be chasing the Glass House (Olympic oval) or Vic Park.

     

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    15 minutes ago, red and blue forever said:

    In Alternate Training ground news....

    The Doggies are in for an interesting finals,  walking past Whitten oval this morning, and i see some bright spark has decided Now is the right time to dig up the turf for replacement....  So no training for them.

     

    That's interesting RABF. The surface there is actually really good. My guess is that they will be training at Skinner Reserve in Braybrook then which is being set up as a secondary training facility for the club. For anyone that's interested here's a link to the work that will be done to Whitten Oval. 

    https://www.westernbulldogs.com.au/redevelopment/whitten-oval-redevelopment-faqs

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    8 minutes ago, kev martin said:

    Or make a claim on the old Collingwood oval, Vic Park. Pies cannot claim two precincts.  

    Could force the Pies to make a decision on whether they are leaving the Glass House.

    For us, we could be chasing the Glass House (Olympic oval) or Vic Park.

     

    Why did the Pies leave their spiritual home in the first place?

    I think the Dees deserve more the location at Olympic Park.

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    17 minutes ago, red and blue forever said:

    In Alternate Training ground news....

    The Doggies are in for an interesting finals,  walking past Whitten oval this morning, and i see some bright spark has decided Now is the right time to dig up the turf for replacement....  So no training for them.

     

    Dont matter.

    The umps will look after them but they'll still lose.

    Their hysterical behaviour on falling into the 8 even beating us after returning from the NT is quite sad really.

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