Everything posted by CBDees
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Simple answer is âVote Laborâ if they back us! (I will be happy to get rid of Ellen Sandell and Adam Brandt in Melbourne electorate: Liberal has never been a contender!)
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
It was never planned as a âhome groundâ (as that is always going to be the âGâ) but as our training ground, with our administration, gym, training facilities, âDemon Shopâ (presumably) and, most important, our âSocial Clubâ right next to the âGâ where we can congregate post match and even use during the week (like a âGold Classâ Bentleigh Club)! A place where we can feature our memorabilia and walk past our trophy cabinets stacked with Premiership Cups!
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
We can forget Richmond station and focus on travelling direct to Flinders Street Station. From there the #75 tram and the Epping and Hurstbridge Lines take you directly to our HQ!
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Agreed and certainly a lot closer to the âGâ for supporters after we win a Final (or home-and-away) than the Southside of Goschâs Paddock that the others want. It also has the advantage that it doesnât involve supporters have to travel the extra distance post-game past Richmond station.
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Not decrying Goschâs Paddock but it is a fair step out from Swan Street and there is a soccer training oval in between. Any building would have to be at the Southern end which is a fair hike from Richmond Station and (as l suggested in post #140) equidistant or further than the Yarra Park option! It is not a suggestion of grassroots supporters vs well-heeled nor Labor/Green vs Liberal! It is simply the location with the least downside for all supporters (albeit the fact that it entails a very slight grade when approaching from a Southern direction)!
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Your argument in favour of locating adjacent a Richmond station is a very good one as it is without argument a location which is the most easily accessed by the majority of Melbourneâs rail network. It brings with it however other problems such as trying to design around the constraints of an elevated rail line and (equally importantly) where do we locate the oval? Perhaps the answer is building South of Goshâs Paddock (adjacent the freeway off-ramp) however that is probably equidistant from Richmond Station to where we are talking about, swinging the argument back in favour of the Wellington Parade location which is immediately abutting train and tram.
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
DC that is exactly as it is depicted in the artistâs impression on the front page of the Hun. Completely independent of the station and any associated problems. ?
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Speaking as an architect and land economist, the site mooted does not necessarily necessitate incorporating the Jolimont Station which (although not officially heritage listed) has many charming characteristics. I am sure that the Club has factored in the fact that it could easily be added to the heritage list (by opponents to the scheme) so has purposely precluded that option.
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Great city views from our Memberâs Bar/Restaurant (that can never be built out)! ?
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
The site mooted is the most feasible as it overlooks the only large area of (under-utilised) open space in Yarra Park plus offers street frontage and is not compromised by the mega tram stop in the next block (which would create logistic problems during construction)! It is offers direct access to train and trams and is only a block from the Punt Road/Hoddle Street bus. ?
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
????? This is the area talked about. Cut off from the majority of East Melbourne residents by rail tracks and popular primarily with dog-walkers! ?????
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
The current President of the âEast Melbourne Groupâ is possibly the inner suburbâs biggest NIMBY!
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Demons Grand Plan for Yarra Park Training HQ
Like Copuchas, l also live in East Melbourne, one block away (and have done so for 38 years)! Yarra Park is administered by the MCC who have spent a lot of money improving its amenity (such as a large underground water storage area)! I, frankly, canât see that a training oval would compromise local residents use of the park (for exercising their dogs) as the area wouldnât be permanently alienated (any more than Goschâs Paddock currently is)! I am not sure about DSâs claim that âEast Melbourne residents are certain typesâ other than the fact that we have a higher proportion of Demon supporters than any other suburb. The land over the rail is owned/controlled by VicTrack however I am sure that the MFC could secure a 99 year lease should the proposal gain State Government support and a six storey structure should not genuinely impact when one considers that most similar height building opposite in Wellington Parade (built in the seventies) are progressively being converted from office to residential use! In my view the project has massive merit, with rail and tram right on the doorstop and the âGâ 100 metres away.
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2018 Membership Thread
Had we of won yesterday and gone to second on the AFL ladder, we wouldâve closed in on 45,000 this week! Now even that has suddenly become a pipe dream, let alone 50K by end of July!
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2018 Membership Thread
There is no such thing as a ânon member but a supporterâ as you have to join the Club to support it. Maybe you are confusing them with barrackers who donât support the Club! Starting with your âfamily membersâ, perhaps if all Demonlanders enlisted 2-3 new members tomorrow (after our decisive win against Collingwood) then we will coast past 50,000 members for the first me! ?
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2018 Membership Thread
It is not just 92 since the previous tally, but 1200 in the last week. If we win on Monday, I expect that we will soar past 45,000 in the coming week and close in on 50,000 for the first time. It is up to the MFC (and all Demonlanders) to capitalise on our current momentum and ensure that we reach this milestone!
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2018 Membership Thread
Weâll pass the Doggies soon and if the Club gives a massive push, maybe we can all help recruiting members to get to 45,000 by the end of the Queenâs Birthday weekend? Beating Collingwood (and looking like certainties to finish Top Four) should build a nice momentum (to regain what we lost in the early matches)! 50,000 by end July cut-off should be our new realistic target! ??
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When will Melbourne break these embarrassing records?
You need to add: âWin four in a rowâ ( broken 20\05\2018) and âWin five in a rowâ (next weekend?)
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Brendan McCartney - Moved to the bench
He developed a group of Premiership players that Beveridge was the beneficiary of!
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Family Day 2018 Returns to the 'G (Sunday 4/3/18)
I am not there [and frankly didn't know about it] however as an East Melbourne resident I was cursing about all the loud speaker announcements blaring out for the last few hours. Suddenly I heard "A Grand Old Flag" [1st verse only] sung with gusto. Now they can make as much noise as they like!
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Ollie Wines
If Port had of had the selection before us they would also have selected (South Australian) Toumpas (leaving us with Wines) as that was clearly the ranking at that stage. Whilst we knew the type of player Wines was, I suspect we envisaged that Toumpas was destined to be Robbie Flower reincarnated and that we had pulled off a coup. Things donât always turn out as scripted! ?
- The Jack Watts in 2018 Thread
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2018 Membership Thread
My brotherâs first wife was a Collingwood supporter and his daughter followed Collingwood and his son the Demons. Then Dermott Brererton joined Collingwood (who she hated) and she has been a Melbourne supporter ever since.
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2018 Membership Thread
My 92yo father came to the football with me, my daughter and my brother and saw a win just before he passed away. He had not renewed his membership because of his mobility problems however the Club still sent him a scarf. He died thinking we might be Premiering contenders this year.