old dee

Not as bad but a similar problem I think exists with the latest plan for the Goschs area. The big problem as I see it is loss of public open space. Clubs like Footscray and Geelong with grounds that already exist are no brainers for any government. But because we are wedded to the G area we add 2-3 extra layers of problems to get the plan through. Can you imagine the Melbourne council worrying about the MFC and loss of park space in the current environment. It would be close to last on a list of 1000 things to get fired up after the end of the lock down etc. Sadly I think we have quite some time to wait. Then the building has to start. 2023 looks about right to me.

If this happens it is be because we are wedded to G precinict.

I have little care for NRL DC. They have always had low attendance numbers unlike AFL.

Not sure the problem is huge LDC just because you and I have lost it recently doesn’t mean everyone has, more likely our warped view of the world. Jokes aside mental health is a big problem but I doubt we will get our wishes as part of some mental health operation.

Perhaps it is Zero ! The big hold up has to be the use of public open space. If we were looking at any other location not weld to the G then construction would have started by now in fact probably finished and in use.

No just incompetent !

I am not Bda. This year I did not get to go to a single game. I watched the Dees matches on FTA and little else. and I did not ask for my membership back. However this year I thought about it before renewing. If they continue to treat people who attend matches with contempt then the Dees better have a good 2021 or by this time next year I could easily slip to attending Amos matches live and AFL will be an occasional tv watch . The sad part is the AFL probably don’t care what I do, I am expendable

Thanks for that Gil. Seriously there is a difference between giving up some things and being their slave. If they continue to ignore fans who prefer going to games the base will quickly erode. Why buy a membership if it gets harder and harder to go to games.

Because they are completly control by the broadcasters. I think that Gil is now Broadcast media CEO. It is getting to the stage that going to a game is not important to the AFL. Why bother with a membership just sign up to Kayo and get all the other sports as a bonus. I am sure he would be happy with that. Oh and get a hair cut Gil you look ridiculous !

Could not have said it so well.

With every passing day the second tier competition looks more ridiculous.

Spot on dc.

It is just to hard to work out. I am taking the “ let me know the result when the merry go round stops” and I will look at 2021 from there. It seems like the draw for next year will be a moving fiasco. It seems like the broadcast media now run the competition. Who actually employs Gill? And by the way Gill get a haircut and shave. On days like today it reminds me why my interest in AFL is sliding.

We need to get public park land. No show in the short term.

The MFC has decreed that it has to be in the G vacinity . Forget Port Melb it will never get looked at.

It is really simple there are no votes in the MFC.

But that would have been admitting fault!

Groan!

I would settle for that same results at the Dees for the last 22 years LDC.

It would not surprise me LDC.

For some time I have thought Trump the biggest [censored] going round. But No. It seems the Pies management now have that honour. How could they possibly ask for salary cap relief? This is of their own making pure and simple. At the time of the Grundy contract I was wondering how they could afford that in their salary cap. Even from the outside it looked strange.

AF time to take a deep breath and go for a walk.

Let's not forget that Collingwood, Dogs and St Kilda all only made it because we dropped games to easy beats in the final 3 rounds. I have doubts about WCE they bowed out of finals fairly easily.

D17 I don't think it has anything do with all that. IMO they needed to shed $2+ million and looked at where best that could be achieved. Treloar was the big one and when his wife moved north that thought great he will follow her, here is our big chance and it blew up in their faces when he said no quite happy here. The others were just easy pickings. It was only after the event that they started making up excuses.

Groan!!!!