6 hours ago, pitmaster said:

Reading this morning's Age (Sept 1) where Tim Membery talks about the difference between being at St Kilda (where players talk passionately about ending the club's premiership drought), and Collingwood (where reminders of past glories are everywhere - "it's painted on the walls"), so that "you just feel that as a player being in this environment it's going to be successful", this new base cannot come fast enough.

For all our sakes I hope Brad Green, Paul Guerra and Steve Smith make it happen and give us something to see taking shape by the end of 2026. It would make a great marker for a 100th premiership anniversary.

I notice this nwhen I see Collingwood's rooms at the MCG. Honour boards are all over the walls. Where f. are ours? Club with the richest history and nothing to be seen of it in OUR rooms. That should be improved. I love walking through the MCC and seeing photos of the Team of the Century, but that stuff needs to be exposed to the players too.

4 hours ago, bluey said:

Maybe we could cross the track at intervals.

Better still see if we can get it to be part of the level crossing removal project??

20 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

Better still see if we can get it to be part of the level crossing removal project??

Dont be ridiculous. We will need a tunnel so it will be part of the SRL.

4 hours ago, Trident22 said:

I notice this nwhen I see Collingwood's rooms at the MCG. Honour boards are all over the walls.

Pity no one at the club will be able to read them.

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Edited September 1Sep 1 by daisycutter
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2 hours ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Dont be ridiculous. We will need a tunnel so it will be part of the SRL.

tunnels ... level crossings ... cfmeu

what could go wrong?

i love it

1 minute ago, daisycutter said:

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putting a full stop to proceedings, eh?

15 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

putting a full stop to proceedings, eh?

just making a point

10 hours ago, Trident22 said:

I notice this nwhen I see Collingwood's rooms at the MCG. Honour boards are all over the walls. Where f. are ours? Club with the richest history and nothing to be seen of it in OUR rooms. That should be improved. I love walking through the MCC and seeing photos of the Team of the Century, but that stuff needs to be exposed to the players too.

It’s how you look at it, don’t the current players want to create their own history? Having reminders of past glories can also work against you.. Yze at Richmond removed premiership stuff , theres the right place but in change rooms it should be about the present

In the train heading in to town and passing Caulfield RC/Station precinct right now. This third proposed site at the Racecourse is the best of the options having been suggested. Finally looks like some real 'movement at the station' is occuring. Positive signs for the Dees 👍

19 hours ago, Trident22 said:

I notice this nwhen I see Collingwood's rooms at the MCG. Honour boards are all over the walls. Where f. are ours? Club with the richest history and nothing to be seen of it in OUR rooms. That should be improved. I love walking through the MCC and seeing photos of the Team of the Century, but that stuff needs to be exposed to the players too.

have you actually seen these in person or just on the TV. I believe they are Vic cricket honor boards not Pies

at this point I won't believe or trust in any news on this front until i actually see an earth mover breaking ground on this facility. we have been promised so much and received absolutely nothing.

2 hours ago, BangBnagBang said:

have you actually seen these in person or just on the TV. I believe they are Vic cricket honor boards not Pies

Don't all MCG tenants share the rooms? I don't think any club has designated rooms, so I would be very surprised if there were honour boards there. I agree that these are most likely cricket related.

That said, it would be great to have a place that members can access to see all of this kind of memorabilia.

19 hours ago, poita said:

Don't all MCG tenants share the rooms? I don't think any club has designated rooms, so I would be very surprised if there were honour boards there. I agree that these are most likely cricket related.

That said, it would be great to have a place that members can access to see all of this kind of memorabilia.

Pretty sure all clubs share the rooms but Collingwood have the same rooms regardless of whether they are playing home or away. Part of the MCG deal which also sees them have the ponsford stand as reserved seats whether home or away.

This may be a stupid question but has caulfield always been there & we've just stumbled upon it or is it a new things that's just recently come up?

1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

This may be a stupid question but has caulfield always been there & we've just stumbled upon it or is it a new things that's just recently come up?

The clubs been discussing Caulfield since the 1980’s, on and off.

It’s their fall back position as long as I remember.

It was built in the early sixties after criminals were paid to burn Williamstown racecourse down.

1 minute ago, bluey said:

It was built in the early sixties after criminals were paid to burn Williamstown racecourse down.

This I wanna know about!

Had a look at the new designated area this morning and it looks perfect. Straight across from where all the rail replacement buses line up.

1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

This may be a stupid question but has caulfield always been there & we've just stumbled upon it or is it a new things that's just recently come up?

Well it has always been there but our preferred option was the MCG precinct. Obviously that option has withered but also our needs have got larger with the growth in AFLW.

Furthermore Caulfield would have ben a difficult proposition with horse training going on but this is no longer the case. Training has moved out in recent times.

And compared with 50 or 100 years ago no one goes to the races anymore. Hence the closure of the guineas grandstand and the flat. The Caulfield Cup drew 25k people last time. The MRC probably wants to reduce their onsite footprint to save $$$ and invest in an updated grandstand.

Also the Govt is determined to get better value out of public assests.

Timing is right.

2 hours ago, dees189227 said:

This may be a stupid question but has caulfield always been there & we've just stumbled upon it or is it a new things that's just recently come up?

Roffey explained at the AGM I think the year before last that Caulfield had only come up as a proposition at that time. The MRC hadn't contemplated it being available before then. Possibly because they have a debt problem they have had to solve.

In 2018 the MRC signed a 65 year lease. This includes the guineas car park.

There was a disagreement over the amount of rent to be paid and an independent valuer set the rental at $333,333 per annum for the next 10 years.

Source is the CRRT Annual Report 22/23.

fyi

On 01/09/2025 at 12:17, sue said:

If it was impossible to reconfigure, it wouldn't be totally stupid to have some material layed out for the players to walk over and taken away when they have finished. I suggest red carpet.

Red and blue carpet.

7 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

This I wanna know about!

Me too!

7 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

Red and blue carpet.

Red and navy blue carpet 🤓

6 hours ago, No. 31 said:

Red and navy blue carpet 🤓

We seem to have a moved to a slightly lighter shade of navy on our jumpers these days No. 31. I seem to remember it being darker when we first switched back in 1987.