55 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Honestly, the amount of money being splashed around on these training centres makes me sick. $110M is like 1/10th of what Tassie are proposing to build an entire stadium. People are arcing up about the money being spent on the Tassie stadium, but not excessive Taj Mahal type training facilities of the Hawks, Essendon, Geelong,Collingwood etc.

All this money being splashed around, while country and suburban footy scrapes for funds.

The AFL need to put in-place some kind of equalisation measure and cap on excessive facilities development. Obviously the big clubs have already cashed in, so they need to impose a tax on the to provide a similar level of amenities for those that haven't yet.

It's pretty sad to see the state of many of the suburban club grounds and their facilities, let alone further out.

1 hour ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Incidentally, this was just posted by the wees and poos.

Only $30m from the taxpayer to fund it. Unlike $300m+ from the taxpayer for Kardinia.

The majority ($73m) paid for thanks to the largest pub/pokies sale in Victoria (at the time).

How are we going to fund Caulfield?

15 minutes ago, dice said:

Only $30m from the taxpayer to fund it. Unlike $300m+ from the taxpayer for Kardinia.

The majority ($73m) paid for thanks to the largest pub/pokies sale in Victoria (at the time).

How are we going to fund Caulfield?

$30M from the taxpayer is still a [censored] load of money to be gifted to one of the biggest / most financial sporting teams in Australia. Why should Hawthorn have got any? Don't start me on Geelong.

Pokies money is blood money - who picks up the pieces from all the broken gambling addicts that contributed to that wealth? The comunity and the taxpayer.

The good news is that we we will get an update from the Club this coming Tuesday night.😁👍

29 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

The good news is that we we will get an update from the Club this coming Tuesday night.😁👍

2 questions need to be answered at the AGM.

Home base situation & MC Services as sponsor

It’s all stale news, I can guarantee that.

Edited Sunday at 12:392 days by bluey
Re think

Bluey are you CF brother, 12 months ago we were despondent that we couldn’t find a site and the club were being pilloried for lack of effort (sack the CEO, Sack the President). So after finding a very suitable location, close to CBD direct rail connection, sufficient space, now they are copping it because it is taking to long to announce the location and development plans. I understand that some feel they won’t live to see it and I fit into this category But I am thinking more of our children and grandchildren who will see it rolled out and enjoyed by all and sundry. The club need to be Applauded for their efforts, time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor including Messrs, Rolfe and Pert.

we are as close to a home base as we have ever been

i still don't think there's going to be a 'major announcement' at the agm; it will be more a case of 'we continue to work towards it'

and honestly? i'm okay with that - the important is that we are not told that the 'dream' of caulfield, but continues to have active progress towards an announcement

the agitating for it to happen doesn't make it happen any faster

On 14/12/2025 at 16:25, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

$30M from the taxpayer is still a [censored] load of money to be gifted to one of the biggest / most financial sporting teams in Australia.

I would be surprised if the MFC got any government money. Rather the govt money will go to the CRCT/ Glen Eira to provide the sporting facilities etc within the interior of the racecourse. Even the tunnel could be funded this way as it is supposed to be public access.

MFC will have to raise funds to build a new Admin block and indoor training facilities outside of the track, currntly proposed for the SE corner.

Tonight’s the AGM so I’m hoping we get something more definite tonight. That being said, the lack of any leaks about it suggests we have either a very very tight ship or there might not be a lot to say.

No announcement available as per the new President, Steven Smith. Disappointing but no real surprise.

Just now, BC_1718_DC said:

No announcement available as per the new President, Steven Smith. Disappointing but no real surprise.

the important announcement is that the possibility of caulfield is yet to be snuffed out

13 minutes ago, BC_1718_DC said:

No announcement available as per the new President, Steven Smith. Disappointing but no real surprise.

I’m sorry but that’s disgraceful if true.

So bloody Melbourne...

No excuse eh @Redleg ?

20 minutes ago, BC_1718_DC said:

No announcement available as per the new President, Steven Smith. Disappointing but no real surprise.

I got on to the live stream during the financial report and missed the earlier bit.

Are you saying that all he said was that no announcement was available?

Surely he elaborated a bit.

4 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

So bloody Melbourne...

No excuse eh @Redleg ?

I heard the questions and there wasn't one about the Training ground.

If all that was said was there was no announcement, that is extremely poor.

Surely you can elaborate a bit without breaching any confidential information.

Nothing again.

Same as when Pert got up in 2022 as promised something to announce by year end.

Why does this club feel it can continually treat its members like mugs?

Reckon we’ll be lucky to sign up over 50k members next year.

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7:50 into the video is where Steven Smith addresses the training facilities.

No different to the same stuff we’ve heard for the last *insert whichever number you see fit here * years.

Edited 10 hours ago10 hr by BC_1718_DC

This is from a Paul Guerra article in the HS in October..

Melbourne’s move to finally confirm a headquarters at the Caulfield racecourse continues apace with more positive meetings in the last fortnight.

“All I would say is by the time the AGM comes around we will be in a position to give a really positive alignment.”

So.. what happend??

5 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

This is from a Paul Guerra article in the HS in October..

Melbourne’s move to finally confirm a headquarters at the Caulfield racecourse continues apace with more positive meetings in the last fortnight.

“All I would say is by the time the AGM comes around we will be in a position to give a really positive alignment.”

So.. what happend??

He was simply bs-ing us

25 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

He was simply bs-ing us

Honestly, I havent watched the videos yet so I'll get around to it, but if there has been a speed bump along the way then just tell us...

My opinion is, let's just get to Waverley for now until we can actually get a home. At least we will be all under the same roof for once.

Caufield is just a pipe dream it seems.

Our wonderful board, hand picked by their mates, everyone else is excluded, couldn’t arrange a plate of sandwiches.

Edited 8 hours ago8 hr by bluey
Bad grammar

6 minutes ago, bluey said:

Our wonderful board, hand picked by their mates, everyone else is excluded, couldn’t arrange a plate of sand witches.

Organising sand witches is famously difficult for anyone

We’ll continue to remain uncompetitive until we find a suitable home base like Caulfield. It’s not lost on me that we won a premiership during covid when all advantages were removed on the road. As soon as normal programming resumed, we bundled out in straight sets and [censored] the bed into free fall.