Both clubs have announced 40 & 36 mill upgrade of their training base whilst the Mfc will continue to train in a paddock & Casey. Pert declared by 2024 we will have a home base but we just continue to be left behind and we have the worst training facilities in the league now!

14 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

Both clubs have announced 40 & 36 mill upgrade of their training base whilst the Mfc will continue to train in a paddock & Casey. Pert declared by 2024 we will have a home base but we just continue to be left behind and we have the worst training facilities in the league now!

It has previously been announced that our working group for our home base involves funding and involvement from State and Local Government. I'd expect once there is something to announce, which you would think would be in the next 6 months, it will include appropriate State Government funding.

As I understand it both of those grounds are owned by the local authorities. Kardinia Park is a big money spinner for the area and Whitten Oval is a green space that the local community has access to 7 days a week and is attached to a community sports hall managed by Victoria University. I cycle past the ground a lot and it looks like the money spent there has had a really positive effect. I'm sure that once our club has concrete plans signed off and can prove that the space will also be an asset to the local rate payers we'll also be due a government hand out. Unfortunately we're starting from scratch and much of the work done to date has been behind the scenes. 

Given that construction can be 1-2 years, the first thing that has to be established is the site, if you expect to have it done by the next few years.

To date we haven't even established that.

2024 is four years away

it won't happen overnight but it will happen

 

By the end of 2021, I reckon we'll have the site locked in. Lots of work to be down between now and then.

So its obvious its going to be gosch's paddock. Is the hold which area can we build on?

19 hours ago, Hogan2014 said:

Both clubs have announced 40 & 36 mill upgrade of their training base whilst the Mfc will continue to train in a paddock & Casey. Pert declared by 2024 we will have a home base but we just continue to be left behind and we have the worst training facilities in the league now!

 

After all these years we still don't have a home base....   the only team without one.

The #1 reason we are still searching for a flag.   

1 hour ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

 

After all these years we still don't have a home base....   the only team without one.

The #1 reason we are still searching for a flag.   

Agreed. I think if / when we ever were  to announce a definite home base it would actually almost like winning a flag.