damodees

Although I see all your points regarding Fishermans Bend, it will not happen.

The Demons/AFL/State Gov have invested $3 million into redeveloping Goschs Paddock oval.

They cannot simply move somewhere else after investing that money.

The facilities will be built within walking distance of the new oval. How/When however is anybodys guess...

I disagree. As the club grows we will need more room and new facilities.

The other issue which will be raised in the next few years is that when the Shane Warne Stand (Great Southern Stand) is knocked down and re-built, our whole admin area will need to move out. 

As the government are the ones financing the knock down of the Shane Warne stand, surely they should be assisting with a new facility to move us too? 

My quick glance at this years state budget shows nothing about new training facilities for Melbourne  :(

On 10/14/2021 at 2:32 PM, Supreme_Demon said:

Now that we have won the 2021 AFL Premiership (and hopefully win more!), I believe that this needs to be the next primary focus for the Melbourne Football Club.

Time to get this Home Base built at car park F and not the ridiculously stupid idea of car park E! I would also like to see a statue of David Neitz and/or Nathan Jones placed at the Home Base. I think it would be quite fitting. Especially as Collingwood have a statue of Lou Richards at the Holden Centre.

Hopefully, this very important matter of the Home Base being built at car park F will be raised at the next Melbourne Football Club AGM, when ever that will be?

I personally think the "empty land" is the best location for the home base.

It is the closest spot to the soon to be redeveloped Gosch's oval and it faces a main road which is excellent for marketing. All we need is a small footbridge over the exit ramp to connect the oval from the empty land.

The issue with Car Park F is that it doesn't face a road and is still a couple hundred metres from the oval. In saying that however, Car Park F still much better than Car Park E

4 minutes ago, longsuffering said:

Tom has just emailed back to say the following:

"Both are options but Carpark E is favoured at this stage. Which is closer to Collingwood F.C."

So there we are confirmed from the horses mouth so to speak.,

I’m generally shocked that Car Park E is favoured over the other 2 locations. I honestly can not see any benefits in Car Park E.

2 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

I think this conjecture is simply a journalists stuff up confusing one car park with another. 

The logical solution is carpark F.  It is bigger, on the right side and is easy to access for redevelopment.

The redevelopment will be a consequence of the 2023 Womens soccer world cup.  I suspect they will need indoor warm up facilities, press rooms, team meeting rooms etc.  At the end of the competition, we will take up residence..  Only my conjecture, but.... .....

Your idea does make sense regarding 2023 World Cup. Might be the only time government would be willing to provide us with some decent $$

I hope the article has it wrong. 

Melbourne can do better than Car Park E.

As much as all this chat about other possible sites is interesting, I think the fact that government has provided us with $$$ to upgrade Gosch’s and that the the board has confirmed they want to stay within the shadow of the MCG means we are not moving anywhere else.

My only concern is from the fox sports article a few weeks ago is that Car Park E has been chosen as the site to construct the home base. This is the worst option and located away from the roads and wedged between AAMI Park and Collingwoods training centre.  Not to mention our oval is also on the other side of the park

There are soo many better sites in the area that can be chosen other than Car Park E. We need to make sure Car Park E plan never amounts. 

3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

This is very helpful. I understand that the Holden Centre is the old Olympic Pool site which is in the top left-hand corner of the picture. Attached to the original pool building are two smaller buildings. One is in the triangle where Swan St meets Batman Avenue; the other is semi-triangular and adjacent to the Oval and presmuably includes a grandstand. Are they also both part of Collingwood's facilities?

Correct. Technically Melbourne & Olympic Parks own the whole site, however Collingwood are the only tenant of the two buildings connected to the main Collingwood facility. Paralympic committee used to share these facilities but they have since moved out and now Collingwood run the whole area

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-news-2021-melbourne-demons-new-training-base-facilities-goschs-paddock-casey-fields-tom-morris/news-story/cdafa95cfe3fa4d6c4e204be43d56942

As much as I understand we are less likely to receive government handouts due to reasons previously mentioned I would be incredibly disappointed if our home base ends up being in Car Park E. The three options were are Car Park E (In Between Holden Centre and AAMI Park) Car Park F (In between our training oval and AAMI Park) and the empty land across the road from our oval.

Clearly from just looking at my image below, Car Park E is the worst outcome of the three. Although I would be happy if we eventually got our home base we need one that can capitalize from both a marketing and long term point of view. 

I hope the recent article released is wrong, the empty land would be my first preference and if not that Car Park F. 

Even from an advertisement perspective it would be difficult to get sponsorship for the base as the building will be basically hidden from sight. 

Melbourne can do better than Car Park E.