Moonshadow

He also said "please spell my name correctly!"

That turns me on! Yeah, baby!!!

Fair enough pit. Personally I'd like a MFC bar for supporters at our HQ, but if it does not make a decent profit year round it simply cannot be done. Same reason why we declined the Edwin's cafe site. Making a profit will be so critical in the next 5-10 years. I wouldn't be opposed to a foyer museum in our new HQ. Glass cabinets with cups, jumpers, medals, Alan Jokovich's tight shorts, etc. But I cannot see us spending much on these types of things. Seinfeld also said "sometimes the road less travelled is less travelled for a reason!"

Are you my father?

It's Bè-ne-ëll.

Affairs 101: If you are going to answer a booty call, make sure your iPhone isn't connected to the family iPad. ?

Yes, that right. You got it in one.

Yeah, nah. Edwins makes sfa $ and has poor foot traffic. Go there most days and you'll see it is a marginal business at the best of times, despite what some club fan boys might say. Now and for the foreseeable future it is absolutely useless as a business. Social clubs, museums, footy cafes are a great way to waste precious club money. Emotion does not equal profit.

Not the case. Domestic incident. To sum it up: when your [censored] stands up, your brain sits down.

Social mixing can't come soon enough for you, by the looks of it picket.

Yeah, nah. 2 rucks are sooooooo 2019

No reason (except money, of course) why we can't have facilities at both Casey and Goschs. Three story admin, gym and 2/3 lane pool at car park F next to AAMI. Resize and resurface Goschs oval to MCG size. Use grass area between for additional training, such as warm ups, rehab, sprints. Where would the money come from? Does community engagement need to be a factor in funding? How can this be addressed? Casey already has ovals, pool, running track. Does it need better gym and indoor hanger? I'm not sure as I haven't been there. Would be keen to hear from posters that know the facilities. But should that area be earmarked for sports and development, it's possible that a post COVID state govt would look at community projects that promote health and engagement for locals. No reason why it can't be available for the public when not used by MFC A compact Gosches facility for in-season. Spacious Casey for preseason, bye weeks and when needed during the season.

So Barrett believes in assumed guilt as a first resort? Lucky he's not on our High Court!

Given it would only get decent foot traffic a couple of times per week (and almost zero over summer) there is no sense in having a bar/cafe/social club attached to any development. It's sounds nice and cosy, but imo would be a waste of money. Might be better to relocate the merch shop away from Brunton Ave, but even then it would be smarter to do 100% online, except for mobile shop or two outside the ground on match day and at club events, which we kind of do now, but poorly.

BBO has had no troubles social distancing at the G. Even when it's a full house he gets a seat on his own.

Sorry, what's that?

The city link off-ramp won't be changed. We'd need to work around that.

Remember this beauty?!!!

I like it. A play on our 80s jumper but with the more traditional style logo on the front. Simple and a point of difference over our other tops. After a dozen years of very average graphics, the club has got it's act together in about the last 5 years

Really, was anyone surprised?

Tonight I toast a single malt to old dee's health. You were much missed on here and I hope you're back to your insightful best, mate. Cheers Mr Old!

I actually think the logistics of it aren't too hard. Enlarge Goschs oval to be similar to MCG and build gym, admin, etc on carpark F, which is between AAMI and Goschs Paddock grassland. Three story building should be sufficient on such a large space. Four story if underground car parking is included. Numbers of staff/players/FD at AFL clubs will be shrunk dramatically soon. We already use the grassland around the oval for rehab group, it's possible some Aussie rules posts could be put up at one end, even if it's not a defined oval. It's a big space which is not protected parkland and IMO underused. Take down a few trees trees to enlarge the current oval, shift the internal footpath, put in some decent landscaping to appease Council and resurface the oval up to AFL standard. The hard part of all this is finding the money, which will be near impossible for the next 10 years. It's also no certainty that the other sporting clubs will survive and/or stay at AAMI

Read on the paper that WCE have a war chest of $20mill in cash, Rich nearly $30mill and Hawthorn about $40mill. The Bulldogs see no need to accept AFL COVID handouts either due to cash reserves. FMD, how can we possibly catch up?

We keep tripping and falling back down at base camp