Jump to content

Training Ground?


Romey

Recommended Posts

On 10/6/2022 at 12:47 PM, Supreme_Demon said:

Just been reading with jealous eyes what the Brisbane Lions are getting built for both their AFL and AFLW teams at their new Springfield training facility.

Here is the link to the article from a few months ago: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-10/brisbane-lions-new-facility-almost-complete-springfield/101050930

This is definitely something the Demons should look to get done at Gosch's Paddock.

Anyway, we will just have to continue to be patient and keep bugging both the State and Federal Governments for funding. Unless, someone knows an extremely generous billionaire who has a soft spot for the Melbourne Football Club? 

If we can recreate what brissy have in springfield at casey, sign me up.

Cran-bourne sounds close enough to mel-bourne. 

  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Whatever is done with a new administration and training base for the Demons it will also be crucial to appeal to the Government by saying it will include facilities for both the Melbourne Football Club's AFL and AFLW teams.

It seems that is how Carlton got their extra funding at Ikon (Princes) Park as can be seen via this link: https://sport.vic.gov.au/news/articles/work-underway-on-new-elite-womens-facilities-at-ikon-park

By explaining that our new home base will have elite training facilities for both the men's and women's teams will be the key priority to obtain funding.

The main challenge, as previously mentioned is that all the other AFL clubs already have their own pre-existing home grounds such as Arden Street Oval (North Melbourne), Punt Road Oval (Richmond), Whitten Oval (Western Bulldogs) etc. Whereas, our home ground, the MCG, belongs to the MCC.

Anyway, we just need to continue to push for a home base to be built and keep the pressure on the Melbourne Football Club board and the home base committee to get this project completed....eventually!

Patience is a virtue as they say! 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I agree that Casey is our best chance to get the facilities and funding that we need. There is no other AFL presence out that way besides us.

We’ll just have to make do with Gosch’s as our city ‘campus’, with facilities not the optimal, but good enough.

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

As an interstate member there is no way i will be getting an uber or hiring a car to watch the boys train during the season at Casey.

If we are lucky enough to make and win another premiership where will the Sunday premiership celebrations take place? Casey? The Parklands?

Something has got to give with the Gosch's precinct an Oval redevelopment wouldn't have taken place without further infrastructure coming.

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

Looks like the Brisbane Lions have had their brand new $80 million dollar training facility for both their AFL and AFLW  teams completed.

Here is the link to the article: https://www.afl.com.au/news/858701

Let's hope the MFC board and home base committee takes note of this.

Fingers crossed we hear some good news regarding an update for our own home base soon. 🤞

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

The only thing you can fault the club for atm and it's the final piece.

The clock is ticking, clubs are overtaking us in this space already and the heavyweight clubs just keep getting bigger.

Whilst we're in our window, this needs to happen and every year without an announcement sets us further behind the clubs that have consolidated new facilities and home-bases.

 

I didn't mind Lyon's thoughts on a move down to the Peninsula either...  

 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, Clintosaurus said:

Springfield has been about 20 years in the happening. I don't think ours will take anywhere near that long.

On the basis that we have been looking for a home for 40+ years I don't agree. It has been 6-7 under the current board and still zero. I have no confidence we will see a finished home before the  end of this decade. The silence is deafening. 

  • Like 3
  • Sad 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites


On 10/8/2022 at 2:25 PM, Demon Disciple said:

I agree that Casey is our best chance to get the facilities and funding that we need. There is no other AFL presence out that way besides us.

We’ll just have to make do with Gosch’s as our city ‘campus’, with facilities not the optimal, but good enough.

I would argue our current set-up in the city has far more appeal to most players than a first-class set up down at Casey.

It’s 30km further away from the city than Dingley - there aren’t many young blokes earning plenty of $$ that have much interest in being primarily based 30km past Dingley

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Can we shoe horn a new item into the Special General Meeting about the constitution, in that every 3 months the club needs to provide an update to members on the training / social / admin facility and share their current plans? Not likely l know, but seriously poor to keep us all guessing. I guess if they had positive progress then they would have shared it atleast some of it

  • Like 3
  • Haha 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

17 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

I would argue our current set-up in the city has far more appeal to most players than a first-class set up down at Casey.

It’s 30km further away from the city than Dingley - there aren’t many young blokes earning plenty of $$ that have much interest in being primarily based 30km past Dingley

starting from the cbd casey fields is 24km more than dingley

if you were going to casey fields from the cbd you wouldn't go via dingley

but i agree casey fields at 52.8km from the cbd is one helluva long trip one-way

couldn't imagine bbo popping in to watch training 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Yawn yawn yawn….how long MFC?  This issue has dragged on longer than St Kildas last flag.  Members are fed crumbs every once in a while to shut us up.  How many Presidents before this is agreed and commenced.  Frankly, it’s a disgrace that it’s taking so long.

  • Like 3
  • Sad 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

57 minutes ago, Soidee said:

Yawn yawn yawn….how long MFC?  This issue has dragged on longer than St Kildas last flag.  Members are fed crumbs every once in a while to shut us up.  How many Presidents before this is agreed and commenced.  Frankly, it’s a disgrace that it’s taking so long.

Can’t do much if Governments aern’t interested sadly. 
The only chance we have to build a Serious facility is when The Great Southern Stand gets demolished and rebuilt. 
Underground and above, whilst still having Gosch’s Park

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Give up SWYL.

There is a car park under the stand today.  There are railway tracks and a road alongside. The re-development is 5 years away.

There is not enough room.  Look at the size of the Brisbane facility.  Look at the size of the Essendon facility.  They are both bigger than the MCG!

  • Like 1
  • Sad 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Give up SWYL.

There is a car park under the stand today.  There are railway tracks and a road alongside. The re-development is 5 years away.

There is not enough room.  Look at the size of the Brisbane facility.  Look at the size of the Essendon facility.  They are both bigger than the MCG!

Not at all.
You just have to be creative with the way Space is used. We have Gosch’s Paddock, we need indoor Facilities for administration and Football Department. There is loads of space before anything gets close to the Railway Line. 
5 years is a lot closer than anything else offered so far….

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites


1 hour ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

Perhaps he feels an obligation, what with the Pies still paying part of his wage. 

could be, there again he probably left his kit there, went to collect it and thought may as well do a few laps while i'm here, as you do

either that or he did a jackson and got homesick

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

6 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Can’t do much if Governments aern’t interested sadly. 
The only chance we have to build a Serious facility is when The Great Southern Stand gets demolished and rebuilt. 
Underground and above, whilst still having Gosch’s Park

I reckon this might be what the long silenced delay has been all along SWYL.

If this is the grand plan this would be magnificent.

A Women's flag wouldn't hurt either to help aid our cause to go along with our AFL Premiership in 2021, would be the first club in Victoria to win both.

Nice little kicker and talking point to lather up those pollies.

 

  • Like 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Our stubbornness to have a facility in the shadows of the MCG is killing us. Does anybody really care if our training facility is or isn't in the sports precinct? From what I'm hearing we could get approval on a number of different locations but for some reason we have to be next to the MCG. I agree Casey is to far out for a permanent base but if there's a number of closer locations then let's get moving. 

  • Like 7
  • Love 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

21 hours ago, Demons1858 said:

Can we shoe horn a new item into the Special General Meeting about the constitution, in that every 3 months the club needs to provide an update to members on the training / social / admin facility and share their current plans? Not likely l know, but seriously poor to keep us all guessing. I guess if they had positive progress then they would have shared it atleast some of it

They will shut you down faster than a lightening strike. 

  • Shocked 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Demonland Forums  

  • Match Previews, Reports & Articles  

    2024 Player Reviews: #5 Christian Petracca

    Date of Birth: 4 January 1996 Height: 187cm Games MFC 2024: 13 Career Total: 189 Goals MFC 2024: 14 Career Total: 184 Brownlow Medal Votes 16 Melbourne’s most important player who dominated the first half of the season until his untimely injury in the Kings Birthday clash put an end to his season. At the time, he was on his way to many personal honours and the club in strong finals contention. When the season did end for Melbourne and Petracca was slowly recovering, he

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 6

    2024 Player Reviews: #2 Jacob van Rooyen

    Date of Birth: 16 April 2003 Height: 193cm Games MFC 2024: 21 Career Total: 41 Goals MFC 2024: 30 Career Total: 58 Brownlow Medal Votes 1 Strong marking youngster who plays forward and relief ruck, continued to make significant strides forward in his career path. The Demons have high hopes for van Rooyen as he stakes his claim to become an elite attacking forward.

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 11

    LIVE AND LET DIE by Meggs

    The Demons’ impressive late season charge to finals will most likely come unstuck this Saturday evening when the Bombers blow up the also-ran Blues in the Ikon Park double-header.   To mangle McCartney, what does it matter to ya? To have any chance to play next week Narrm has got a job to do and needs to do it well.  We’ve got to give the Pie sheilas hell, say live and let die! It’s Indigenous Round for this game and the chance to celebrate and engage with Aboriginal and Torres

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    AFLW Melbourne Demons

    2024 Player Reviews: #32 Tom Sparrow

    Had to shoulder more responsibility as the club’s injury concerns deepened but needs to step up more as he closes in on 100 games. Date of Birth: 31 May 2000 Height: 186cm Games MFC 2024: 21 Career Total: 95 Goals MFC 2024: 6 Career Total: 34 Games CDFC: 1 Goals CDFL: 0

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 24

    2024 Player Reviews: #35 Harry Petty

    Date of Birth: 12 November 1999 Height: 197cm Games MFC 2024: 20 Career Total: 82 Goals MFC 2024: 9 Career Total: 28 Brownlow Medal Votes 3 Failed to fulfill the promise of his breakout six goal effort against the Tigers in 2023 and was generally disappointing as a key forward. It remains to be seen whether Simon Goodwin will persevere with him in attack or return him to the backline where he was an important cog in the club’s 2021 premiership success.

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 17

    2024 Player Reviews: #22 Blake Howes

    After a bright start to the season, playing mostly in defence, Howes seemed to lose his way in midseason but fought back with some good performances at Casey and finished the year back at AFL level. One to watch in 2024. Date of Birth: 7 March 2003 Height: 191cm Games MFC 2024: 15 Career Total:  15 Goals MFC 2024: 0 Career Total:  0 Games CDFC 2024: 6 Goals CDFC 2024: 0

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 5

    2024 Player Reviews: #33 Tom Fullarton

    Originally an NBL basketballer with the Brisbane Bullets, he moved across town in 2019 to the AFL Lions where he played 19 games before crossing to Melbourne where he was expected to fill a role as a back up ruckman/key forward. Unfortunately, didn’t quite get there although he did finish equal sixth in Casey’s best and fairest award. Date of Birth: 23 February 1999 Height: 198cm Games CDFC: 14 Goals CDFL: 13

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 5

    2024 Player Reviews: #10 Angus Brayshaw

    Sadly, had to wrap up a great career in midstream on the back of multiple concussions which culminated in the Maynard hit in the 2023 Qualifying Final. His loss to the club was inestimable over and above his on field talent given his character and leadership qualities, all of which have been sorely missed. Date of Birth: 9 January 1996 Height: 188cm Games MFC 2024: 0 Career Total: 167 Goals MFC 2024: 0 Career Total: 49

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 8

    2024 Player Reviews: #40 Taj Woewodin

    The son of former Demon Brownlow Medalist Shane, Taj added a further 16 games to his overall tally of games but a number were as substitute. He is slowly fitting into the team structure but without doing anything spectacular and needs to take further steps forward in 2025 for his career to progress. Date of Birth: 26 March 2003 Height: 182cm Games MFC 2024: 16 Career Total: 20 Goals MFC 2024: 1 Career Total: 3 Games CDFC 2024: 6 Goals CDFC 2024: 1

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Melbourne Demons 5
  • Tell a friend

    Love Demonland? Tell a friend!

×
×
  • Create New...