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I am sure most on here and the Club agree with you. That is not why we are looking at Caulfield.

I do. I assume he is Peter Maynard’s oldest son, the brother of Brayden.

Congratulations Kate and Corey on your engagement, Kate will be Brayden’s Sister in Law.

And of course we would become the best wet weather team in the AFL. Wettest area in Melbourne and one of the coldest. Players would absolutely love it.

What has MA Services Group got to do with Guerra? I would imagine Grill’d decided to bail before Guerra came on board.

In a facility that another club couldn’t wait to be rid of.

You can poach other train on players if they are happy to join your club.

That’s why we shouldn’t move there. Why move to facilities that weren’t good enough for another club, even temporarily? With Gosch's now in demand from Tennis and the Pies, we should keep the pressure on for Caulfield, by staying until it is ready to move to. What is the relevance of being closer to Casey, when players don’t go from Waverley to Casey, but rather from their homes to Casey? Don’t like the sounds of this. Am I missing something?

Happy to blame Uncle.

No, can’t blame coaching for these injuries.

I think King is going to be a good coach for us, but he has a ready made excuse for this year if we have a bad season, with so many injuries in the pre season.

Agree, Viney won’t retire. He will strive to play as long as possible and will believe if he misses this year, he will come back next year fresh and ready to go for a couple more seasons. If May retires and McAdam doesn’t get fit, we could have 3 spots and then again TC has a neck injury and at 34 may not want to risk further injury, who knows.

I don’t know, but I don’t think they are in full training now.

With 13 or more players not in full training atm, we are really behind the 8 ball and it is becoming hard to keep positive.

Tom Campbell Shane McAdam Salem AMW Tom Matthews CJ I believe the above also could be added to the list and there are probably more. That is horrendous in a Pre Season and now May not fully fit and with some issues could be another not available.

And of course the long term, high money contract, that would be needed to get him. Not disagreeing, just putting the cost out there.

Would everyone prefer Humphrey, or keeping the picks and maybe drafting another Langford and Lindsay?

That would be great. I could live with no announcement, if they quietly started construction.

Was a very strong Dogs fan and many think he is headed to them.

Yes my mistake, as Mickey has pointed out, it is Finn Callaghan who is Howes’ mate.

I note his close mate Blake Howes signed a contract extension with us last year, just saying.

Don’t we have funds from sale of gambling facilities? We may have to use that while we chase other sources.

No, made late last year.

Last week I spoke to some people at Glen Eira who should know, but didn't really. They said the City of Glen Eira is in favour of us at the racecourse and expected community benefit. They didn't know what the hold up is, but they thought it could be State Government finance as a guess. That suggests that Glen Eira is not involved in ongoing discussions. The school is 100% in favour of the MFC and they are aligned. I haven't heard what the Trust is saying, but it would have been a yes, or no, a long time ago. The people at a committee lunch on a race day at the MRC, were told by the MRC Chairman in his welcome speech that the MFC would be their neighbour soon. Therefore it does seem there is something else stopping progress info and an announcement and perhaps it is in fact the State Government. Obviously there is ongoing discussion about specifics of the project, but I would imagine the reason we are not getting any info, is because of an embargo on it and the likely responsible party for that, does seem to be the State Government. It could well be a condition of their financial contribution, that they control the narrative. That does seem the most likely reason we are getting crickets. If this was not happening, we would have been told by now. A failure of this project after so many attempts, would have to in some way affect the Board's ability to continue, imo. It is probably our most important issue, other than on field success, which is probably affected by this issue as well. I remain in Group 1.