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Training Ground?

Romey
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It's going to be a long summer...

When does the footy start?

Please!

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    46 minutes ago, rjay said:

    It's going to be a long summer...

    When does the footy start?

    Please!

    You mean a furlong summer

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    The tail of which track. In hindsight, we should have got on the favourite, and not a bet each way, no more horse feathers. Now we are on the home straight, with our noses in front. Saddle up, we have been taken on a ride, can see the finish line, and are running on strong. We flogged the dead horse many times, the blinkers are off. We now know it was not a sprint, but an endurance race. Go you good thing!

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    On 13/12/2024 at 10:34, No. 31 said:

    I was listening to SEN on my way to the beach yesterday afternoon. Mr. Kanga, newly minted MRC chairman was being interviewed. Was certainly not enthused with the idea of the Demons moving into the precinct but was guarded in his comments and I got the impression from his comments that both the Scopus acquisition and MFC had been in the pipeline for quite some time and were well advanced. I suspect some had suggested to him to tone down the rhetoric.

    BTW, the bay was quite nice, sea temps fairly warm for December 👌

    Is that his real name?

    Asking for a friend (8yo me)

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    1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Is that his real name?

    Asking for a friend (8yo me)

    He shortened it from Kangalaris. If he was in the North Melbourne cheer squad I might smile, he isn't. It just sounds tacky to me.

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    7 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

    Anyone read this? Bloody terrible article and opinion piece. Peter Ryan is very condescending throughout, didn’t think he was like that.

    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why-not-waverley-demons-should-take-over-hawks-nest-20241216-p5kyqm.html

     

    He lost me when he said the ten Victorian clubs have all had their fair share of government funding.

    WTF?

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    Not having any of Hawthorns sloppy seconds. Ryan must be a mate of Kanga’s too.

    Along with the Saints, Waverley was Hawthorns home ground. We have no affiliation with that bog mire. Our former zone and heartland is around the Caulfield/Glen Iris/Bentleigh area.

    Throw in that Waverley is now seriously outdated with only the 1 oval, we’d be limiting ourselves the moment we moved in. Would rather stay at Gosch’s than move there.

    Caulfield or nothing

    Edited by Demon Disciple

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    If Waverly is so good why are the Hawks vacating?

     

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    13 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

    Anyone read this? Bloody terrible article and opinion piece. Peter Ryan is very condescending throughout, didn’t think he was like that.

    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/why-not-waverley-demons-should-take-over-hawks-nest-20241216-p5kyqm.html

     

    How could Ryan write an article encouraging us to move to that [censored] hole ground and not mention the worst football experience many of us have had - the 1987 preliminary?

    Mind boggling.

    As is this line:

    'Waverley Park is also close enough to Melbourne’s traditional zones to enable their supporters to watch training and socialise at the club.'

    I mean, is he serious?

    60 years after the VFL built that monument to stupidity there is still no decent public transport out there and it's in a Bermuda triangle for roads.

    [censored] off Ryan.

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    He doesn't really explain why MtScopus acquisition is a problem, just seems to imply that it is.

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    18 hours ago, Mister Ed said:

    No you're not.

    Apologies no identity theft intended!😀

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    1 minute ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    One oval, and cannot use lights to train under in winter…..what a rubbish idea. No improvement over Gosch’s and AAMI..

    Downgrade on Gosch's, which you can at least get to by PT.

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    I’m sitting on a train passing through Caulfield as we speak. This is a perfect location for a training base. So accessible. 

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    Ahhh, this thread is again 'On Track' !!! 😉

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    A few of my favorite snippets:

    Re: Waverley: “The ground is pristine, players don’t complain about being there..”

    “ the region was going to be the centre of Melbourne by now, so you could argue, on that basis, the club would be, eventually, home.”

    “the Demons would need to swallow their ego to approach the Hawks, as it might initially look as though they are getting a hand-me-down, however it wasn’t a problem when Jordan Lewis arrived.”

    Is this guy serious? Haha honestly his arguments sound like he’s trying to convince himself that this was an article worth writing. Probably his last piece for the year and he’s just phoned it in!

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    2 minutes ago, DemonWheels said:

    A few of my favorite snippets:

    Re: Waverley: “The ground is pristine, players don’t complain about being there..”

    “ the region was going to be the centre of Melbourne by now, so you could argue, on that basis, the club would be, eventually, home.”

    “the Demons would need to swallow their ego to approach the Hawks, as it might initially look as though they are getting a hand-me-down, however it wasn’t a problem when Jordan Lewis arrived.”

    Is this guy serious? Haha honestly his arguments sound like he’s trying to convince himself that this was an article worth writing. Probably his last piece for the year and he’s just phoned it in!

    You forgot to mention it’s 20 mins closer to Casey than goschs. A real game changer 

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    How could Ryan write an article encouraging us to move to that [censored] hole ground and not mention the worst football experience many of us have had - the 1987 preliminary?

    Mind boggling.

    As is this line:

    'Waverley Park is also close enough to Melbourne’s traditional zones to enable their supporters to watch training and socialise at the club.'

    I mean, is he serious?

    60 years after the VFL built that monument to stupidity there is still no decent public transport out there and it's in a Bermuda triangle for roads.

    [censored] off Ryan.

    I'm all for lateral thinking but Ryan's article really takes the biscuit. 

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    Waverley Park is inferior to Gosch's Paddock/AAMI: centrality, transport links and scope for improvement (Melb Rebels are no more and Melb Storm are moving to a new facility).

    1. Caulfield;

    2. Gosch's/AAMI;

    3. Daylight;

    4. Hawks hand me down in Mulgrave.

     

     

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