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12 hours ago, old dee said:

Yawn!  

Yeah....    i looked around for any sign that may have suggested " new home of the MFC" ..   strangely none to be seen... odd ....lol

  

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    I stated a few months ago that I would be patient about this issue of a Home Base for the Melbourne Football Club.

    However, I am starting to side more with the option of using the Caulfield Race Course as a more plausible option. Mainly because of the frustrating difficulties of trying to get anything done in the MCG precinct due to their being so many stakeholders and lack of land to build on.

    Eddie Maguire and Collingwood really did a number on us taking Olympic Park. It really should of been claimed by us. But unfortunately you cannot change the past.

    Anyway, I will continue waiting to the end of this season and then I will start asking questions again. The Melbourne Football Club Board needs to remember that we have not forgotten about this issue and it will continue to be raised until the matter is finally rectified.

    I will not rest until the Melbourne Football Club has a proper Home Base finally built.

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    2 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

    I stated a few months ago that I would be patient about this issue of a Home Base for the Melbourne Football Club.

    However, I am starting to side more with the option of using the Caulfield Race Course as a more plausible option. Mainly because of the frustrating difficulties of trying to get anything done in the MCG precinct due to their being so many stakeholders and lack of land to build on.

    Eddie Maguire and Collingwood really did a number on us taking Olympic Park. It really should of been claimed by us. But unfortunately you cannot change the past.

    Anyway, I will continue waiting to the end of this season and then I will start asking questions again. The Melbourne Football Club Board needs to remember that we have not forgotten about this issue and it will continue to be raised until the matter is finally rectified.

    I will not rest until the Melbourne Football Club has a proper Home Base finally built.

    the filth didn't take olympic park off us

    they took the glass house + gosch's off us

    they got olympic park much later only by some very nefarious methods by chins mcguire (which is another story)

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    I see funding as an issue together with any attempt to limit public access.

    Timing wise.. a training ground by 2030.. is probably optimistic

    TBH like many I'm losing interest

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    41 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Been the same for the past 40 years.....plenty of promises and no action. 

    We were given definite announcement to be made before Bartlett left......he's gone. 

    Current Board promised announcement to be made by end 2021....crickets. 

    Strategic plan 2020-2023 promised construction by the end of 2023.....tumbleweeds! ( see if you can find it on the club website any more....google provides though). 

     

     

    Surely, as it’s one of the biggest items on the Board Agenda, as you say, for the last 10 years at least, you would expect to receive updates, whatever the progress.

    We have heard absolutely nothing.

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    1 hour ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Been the same for the past 40 years.....plenty of promises and no action. 

    We were given definite announcement to be made before Bartlett left......he's gone. 

    Current Board promised announcement to be made by end 2021....crickets. 

    Strategic plan 2020-2023 promised construction by the end of 2023.....tumbleweeds! ( see if you can find it on the club website any more....google provides though). 

     

     

    Someone got in on false pretences methinks.

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    5 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Been the same for the past 40 years.....plenty of promises and no action. 

    We were given definite announcement to be made before Bartlett left......he's gone. 

    Current Board promised announcement to be made by end 2021....crickets. 

    Strategic plan 2020-2023 promised construction by the end of 2023.....tumbleweeds! ( see if you can find it on the club website any more....google provides though). 

     

     

    It may have finally dawned on them that nothing significant is possible while they maintain the romantic but unrealistic view that the facility MUST be within cooee of the G no matter what.

    Old Dee has well and truly covered this aspect over a number of years now in terms of all avenues of that nature having been investigated and exhausted.

    Of course i could be wrong and they're in the midst of lining up a mega project with an announcement to follow shortly.

    And we are at long last going to see a new facility built as our home base / HQ right near the G.

    Something fabulous that will tick all the boxes, the home we've been hoping & waiting for since we were kicked off the G by the MCC 38 years ago.

    However, i won't be holding my breath as the silence has become pretty deafening for a while now.

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    Are we yet again a nomadic existence for  professional afL team who can’t train @ Aami / Joschs paddock due to women’s Wc & players needing to drive 50-60 mins to Casey, which other afl club is facing to deal with this??

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    On 7/6/2023 at 12:13 PM, Supreme_Demon said:

    I stated a few months ago that I would be patient about this issue of a Home Base for the Melbourne Football Club.

    However, I am starting to side more with the option of using the Caulfield Race Course as a more plausible option. Mainly because of the frustrating difficulties of trying to get anything done in the MCG precinct due to their being so many stakeholders and lack of land to build on.

    Eddie Maguire and Collingwood really did a number on us taking Olympic Park. It really should of been claimed by us. But unfortunately you cannot change the past.

    Anyway, I will continue waiting to the end of this season and then I will start asking questions again. The Melbourne Football Club Board needs to remember that we have not forgotten about this issue and it will continue to be raised until the matter is finally rectified.

    I will not rest until the Melbourne Football Club has a proper Home Base finally built.

    Be careful SD I hope you have plenty of years left as this will not be resolved in my life time. 

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    Roffey has a lot of answering to do imho.

    Not really sure whats she's doing there.

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    2 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    Roffey has a lot of answering to do imho.

    Not really sure whats she's doing there.

    On the phone to her lawyers I suspect BB.

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    Unfortunately club decision of must be near MCG precinct has backed them into a corner & perhaps blinkers to not look elsewhere… now looking at another decade of nomadic style between AAMI & Casey … and getting kicked off from AAMI due to WC… nothing easy for the MFC 

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    I found the following video:

    some updates on the development of Casey and some minor upgrades in our MCG offices.

     

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    If Roffey and Pert take us out of this premiership window period without commitment for a permanent home ground it could potentially screw this club for another 30 years. 

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    14 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Sounds like nothing. 

     With more funding going into Casey, it looks like the clubs facilities will remain split between the country side and the city. Walking away from Casey will cause it to become a "white elephant", which wouldn't be appreciated by those funding it, causing a backlash against our club if we ever end up with stand alone AFL, AFLW and VFL facilities, close to the CBD. 

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    Disappointing that we're still at this point where it seems we are no where near close to finding a home base.

    Wasn't this the reason why Roffey was put in place for president because of her expertise in this field of work?

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    22 minutes ago, kev martin said:

     With more funding going into Casey, it looks like the clubs facilities will remain split between the country side and the city. Walking away from Casey will cause it to become a "white elephant", which wouldn't be appreciated by those funding it, causing a backlash against our club if we ever end up with stand alone AFL, AFLW and VFL facilities, close to the CBD. 

    Not to be cheeky @kev martin the Saints redeveloped Moorabin after the AFL and Government poured millions into a white elephant down at Seaford.

    Whatever happened to that development? 

    Edited by YesitwasaWin4theAges

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    31 minutes ago, kev martin said:

     With more funding going into Casey, it looks like the clubs facilities will remain split between the country side and the city. Walking away from Casey will cause it to become a "white elephant", which wouldn't be appreciated by those funding it, causing a backlash against our club if we ever end up with stand alone AFL, AFLW and VFL facilities, close to the CBD. 

    You can have both...  You could say develop Caulfield as your primary base and still utilise Casey. After all Casey would still use/need Casey..  

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    39 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Not to be cheeky @kev martin the Saints redeveloped Moorabin after the AFL and Government poured millions into a white elephant down at Seaford.

    Whatever happened to that development? 

    I would imagine the Seaford community is very happy.

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    Casey is in a population growth area. Any investment in sporting facilities will not be wasted and the community will get benefit out of it. Aren't Melbourne City of the A-League Soccer also setting up new facilities at Casey? 

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    47 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Not to be cheeky @kev martin the Saints redeveloped Moorabin after the AFL and Government poured millions into a white elephant down at Seaford.

    Whatever happened to that development? 

    The Seaford community is not happy at all, we are not allowed to use their facility.  No body is using their ground or rooms, the  council keep it in great condition, all to not avail.  Not even the local clubs are permitted to train or play on their fantastic facilities.

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    The MCG precinct is not going to happen, way too many stakeholders and interested parties there. 

    Caulfield option is a gift from the Gods. MFC should be throwing all their chips in for it otherwise its a life of couchsurfing for a long, long time.

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