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Essendon are getting $6 million in the Vic budget next week for Hangar upgrade. Are we getting anything?

 
On 11/9/2020 at 7:44 PM, Pickett2Jackson said:

 

Meanwhile back in reality...

 

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Here are the ABS Labour Stats until the end of September, before Victorian lockdown ended.

Still way too high across the board, but the state by state unemployment rate is illuminating. ACT 3.8%, NT 4.8%, Victoria 6.7%, WA 6.7%, SA 7.1%, NSW 7.2%, TAS 7.6% and QLD 7.7%. 

Essendon has received $6.28m in funding from the Victorian state government to complete the second stage of the development of its training centre.

 
58 minutes ago, Redleg said:

EssenDAN has received $6.28m in funding from the Victorian state government to complete the second stage of the development of its training centre.

Fixed your typo Red.

4 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

Fixed your typo Red.

Thanks. Apparently Dan made the decision on his own and neither he nor anyone else in the Government can recall anything about it. Also Unified Security have been paid $1m to deliver the cheque and they are doing it through Uber.


Are you %#&*( kidding me??

How come every other club the the AFL are getting more and more money, to add to their already near new home grounds, and we get donuts????

Pert if you are reading this what about calling the state government to get us a home ground?!?!

I am livid, to say the least.?

43 minutes ago, deebug said:

Are you %#&*( kidding me??

How come every other club the the AFL are getting more and more money, to add to their already near new home grounds, and we get donuts????

Pert if you are reading this what about calling the state government to get us a home ground?!?!

I am livid, to say the least.?

It'd be for repairs, maintenance and finishing off.

We don't have anything to repair or maintain, and we need to start something before it needs finishing off.

The Tullamarine funding is to upgrade the AFLW facilities.No different to what we got at Casey.

The Essendon facility is also a high performance centre for Paralympics participants.

 
11 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

 The Essendon facility is also a high performance centre for Paralympics participants.

So we need an angle.

34 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

So we need an angle.

we have always needed to demonstrate community benefit.

Bulldogs did it years ago with a childcare facility. Got them big Federal grants.

One problem we will face is any form of permanent closure of Gosch's paddock to the public assuming we take that space.


2 hours ago, deebug said:

Are you %#&*( kidding me??

How come every other club the the AFL are getting more and more money, to add to their already near new home grounds, and we get donuts????

Pert if you are reading this what about calling the state government to get us a home ground?!?!

I am livid, to say the least.?

We don't have a proposal yet? How about holding your horses until we actually see what we get WHEN we figure out where we can even build our home base.

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