old dee

I actually think there are ones that are far worse than the Grey version. Not a Jumper but those bloody awful Blazers we got from Cameron Schwab is the worst thing we have forced our players to wear by the length of the Flemington straight.

34 minutes ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

$15m for local sports fields isn’t swinging any election, so it’s irrelevant and won’t impact on this. Both a Labor or Lib government would be funding improvements to local facilities.

They spend billions on infrastructure projects, $15m is a drop in the ocean.

15 million you have to be joking. It is long way above that figure.

18 minutes ago, Redleg said:

The school is not wanting control over the ovals. Fact.

The ovals are an MFC project, not a school project, that they know will be built near the MFC facilities, not the school. Fact.

That under the banner of community use, they may get some limited use, when not needed by the primary user the MFC. Fact.

Over and out.

Sadly I don't think it is. With a state election due in 2026 it will not look good giving us money. I can easily see this slipping out till after the election. A libs win will see them attempting to reduce expenditure and reduce the states borrowings. I cannot see this going ahead this decade.

On 14/12/2025 at 13:44, Blind_turn said:

I recently ventured out to the Kennedy Community Centre to check out Hawthorn’s new training base.

I then did some work to see if I could roughly answer three questions:

1.       Would a Hawthorn (or Essendon) sized training facility fit on the south-east corner of the Caulfield site?

Yes. The footprint of Hawthorn's main training and administration building is about 9,300 sqm, adding car parking etc, it fits on our site.

We, of course will have our ovals inside the racetrack, so there is the added cost of a tunnel. But the walk from the buildings to the ovals would "only" be about 200 metres.

2.       How much would it cost, how would it be funded?

Hawthorn states on their website that their facility cost $113mil. Below is a table of what I think our new development would cost and assuming we could garner the same level of government funding, what the club need to come up with.  

There are two things worth noting in the above comparison:

a.       We will not own the land, so unlike Hawthorn, the club will have an ongoing lease cost that we will have to fund each year.

b.       The reason the above numbers are less than Hawthorn’s is that they had to build an additional grandstand on their second oval for their women’s program. We will continue to use Casey as our second campus.

 

3.       When could we realistically expect to be in the new home base?

Optimistically, late 2028, more likely late 2029.

On 16/12/2025 at 22:54, Redleg said:

Well the President did say "we are really close and we will share more as soon as we are able to."

I guess that means that we are not allowed to announce anything yet and I assume that is because one of the stakeholders has told us not to.

Caulfield will happen and it will just need a bit more patience before it is officially announced.

It is disappointing though that the President couldn't elaborate a bit more, without making an official announcement.

I am as frustrated at that as everyone else on here.

I suggest Mr. Leg that the Vic government is the hold up. No idea where they are going to get multiple $millions for a silver tails club, the same applies to the racing club. The whole thing involves hundreds of millions. It is not a good look to be giving that figure to a horse racing club and Football club both of which are seen the top end of town when our hospitals are falling apart.

51 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

“We are close”……………we’ve been told that we’re close going on 4 years now.

Not good enough.

I think you are wrong it's closer to 6 years.

49 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

Just listened to Steven Smith, Paul Guera, Sally Freeman and Steven King and Mr Chippendall, very well spoken group of individuals and feel that we are in very good hands. Would have loved a bit more on Caulfield but that can wait we are financially sound and reenergised, King really handled himself well and Instills confidence.

Thanks Dezone.

I have attended the AGM for most of the last 25 years but tonight will be the second in a row that I have not attended sadly the mind is willing but the body is telling me different. I look forward to hearing from people who attend tonight. Go Dees.

On 13/12/2025 at 13:05, Go Ds said:

I wouldnt be surprised if a big rift derails some clubs' seasons. Out on the field it has to us versus them, not us vs them AND them. If that was our team last year then there may be a lot of improvement next year.

He's hopping!

22 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Further on the subject of Vines seemingly having a weight lifted from his shoulders, despite being injured, he definitely is different now. And he’s not the only one. I see a similar thing with Melky, Max and Tmac. They seem to be less burdened, if you will. I spoke with one of the medics and he said it’s probably because of all the changes and that Kingy has a reassuring way about him. This makes sense.

I was introduced to our new “psych” as he calls himself. His name is David. He’s about 6ft5 and very softly spoken and gentle-natured. I felt like I’d had a professional session with him, minus the $600 fee 😁

David only started two days ago which means we’ve been psych-less since Stephen Rendall left months ago. Maybe we haven’t had a desperate need for one, therefore not in a hurry to fill the position 🤷‍♀️

Hmm anyone is mind Gw? I have a couple.

On 02/12/2025 at 08:28, Demonsone said:

I can just see it … tigers will go to Waverley & Caulfield will just drag on & on to fall over due to zip funding from a broke state gvt

Sadly I think you are right. Even if they had the money as you say it is unlikely in a election year would a labour government come up with 10's of millions for a silver tails club. No votes there but a substantial loss of support from the cross party voters is likely It is said as little as 5% of voters change governments, their votes are what a labour government needs to keep or as many as possible.

38 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Actually... nor am I.

Thinking it's stalled...not stopped... but stalled.

Stalled! What's the time frame on stalled? When does stalled become stopped? I have no idea but imo my gut tells me it is closer to stopped than stalled. I cannot get passed the problem " where is the money coming from".

2 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

Yep I’m gonna be the negative Nellie by saying that contracts seemingly mean nothing anymore…….🤪

Only while the player wants DD. The system is weighted too much in the player favour. The AFL is scared someone will take to it court on restrictive trade so they leen in the players favour. It won't change.

56 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

Definitely for renewal. Bring on Rivers & Chandler

CF to be captain you have to be a first pick every game. Rivers is a chance but Chandler is average at best. I will be surprised if he plays more than 10 games in 2026.

After read the last 10 posts here it is obvious there is no action to think about.

On 07/12/2025 at 10:28, Ghostwriter said:

Spoiler warning: Santa’s NOT real

Saturday 13th December

8:30am - 11:30am

Gosch’s Paddock

This isn’t a training session. The players will be there for autographs and photos.

Once the players have left, folks can go on the oval and play kick-to-kick 🏉

There’ll be partner giveaways and other freebies.

Food and coffee vans will be there but you won’t need them because the…

DEMON ARMY SAUSAGE SIZZLE

… is where it’s at! Delicious snags in bread with or without onion and a can of soft drink… the breakfast of champions!(apologies to Mr. Vonnegut).

And it wouldn’t be a Christmas do without the portly guy in a Santa suit, now would it. You and yours can get photos taken with him.

See y’all there!

So that's why I never get the Porsche I order every year. Dawm!

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Well its been confirmed that he will be missing the first 12 games if the year.

They can easily place him on the inactive list from here on as it would be considered a long term injury especially if they want to be extra cautious and give him more time off or even the full 12 months.

It's hard to see him making much contribution in 2026. Fancy waking up after surgery to be told your season is over before even Christmas has arrived.

2 hours ago, Demonstone said:

I'm sure that @old dee would be happy to share his recollections of the day.

Sadly I could not get the day off work to attend!

3 hours ago, Willmoy1947 said:

I wish my Coach had have done that instead of taking me over the Middle Park Hotel and drinking six pots.

Hmm the later soundd ok!!!!!😁

11 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

No real help here, but I walked past him sitting outside his house, in Fitzroy, on the veranda with his partner and their dog this afternoon at about 4.00. He didn’t look hampered at all.

He was there running boundary stints. Did not look hampered in any way. I suspect it is a loading issue. Like big Max who was doing similar. We can be fairly certain they don't need to learn how to play. Probably a different system in December for the good older players.

19 minutes ago, BC_1718_DC said:

Interesting to see Tholstrup in many starting 23’s. Granted he missed the majority of preseason last year but would want to be showing a fair bit to make Round 1.

Would hope Sparrow is doing a whole lot more to be getting a guaranteed game each week as well.

On what I saw today Kolt would not be a walk up start, at one point and I am not certain it was him but he got rev up for not completing a task with required effort. Perhaps it is me but to me he doesn't seem to have part to his game that worries backmen. Play him fairly closely and his contribution is low.

40 minutes ago, hardtack said:

I hope you pulled up ok.

Doubt I will get a game

1 hour ago, BC_1718_DC said:

Jake Bowey to miss 6 months after having surgery on his lisfranc. One of the worst foot injuries you can get outside the navicular.

We can forget him for 2026.

Just on the way home after going to my first training run for the 2026 season. Among other things I took the binoculars so I could watch certain players of our tall forwards I thought Kentfield was the best. I watched Jefferson the most, believe me I am trying to be neutral in my opinion on today and it is still early December however I saw nothing to suggest he is about become a key forward at senior level. He looked casual today from what I saw. Turner is a lot bigger player up close than what you normally see from afar in a game at the G. There were a few I had to keep checking to find out who they were. The next best thing was the weather, a great day to watch a bit of training from under the trees. At one point I thought it was raining but know the sprinklers had come in field behind me.

19 minutes ago, picket fence said:

If you go over his games at Casey, quite a few were excellent! The problem last year was a bad hand injury and when fit was rushed straight back in without any form. RESULT got dropped and this was on Goodwin. Then when he did show some form Goodwin Refused to play him in meaningless games at the end of the season. I'm sure a new coach can bring tge best out of him!

I hope you are right.

2 minutes ago, Leopold Bloom said:

I tend to agree but there’s a subtle difference between a player having mongrel and having the body size, confidence and experience to bring out the mongrel in him. To some, that aggressive nature comes naturally while to others, it never happens. Most players are somewhere in the middle and it might take a little time to come out. We haven’t seen it in Jeffo yet but I hope that light globe goes on and he finds that bit of mongrel in himself.

I honestly think he lacks the talent for the top level. He has rarely if ever dominated a game at VFL level. He has some had some good games but nothing that screams I should be in the seniors. His few games at the top level have been a couple of marks and a goal or two but seems to go missing for parts of the game. A friend said to me last year he looks the figure in those blow up people you see at car yards that are all arms and body flying about. Sadly I was struggling up disagree.

2 hours ago, daisycutter said:

i think we are aware, od

sometimes i wonder why we bother having a standard set of home and away jumpers, when we have so many games played in one-off non-standard jumpers

Exactly, our std jumper is worn so little these days I often wonder if young generations would even know which one it is.

16 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Gosch’s: Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week.

10am - midday (11:30 on Weds)

Thank you.