Strapping Young Lad
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The stadium would probably only have hosted preseason games. It would also have been used by public for various things. Maybe one or two regular season games only. The big thing they wanted, as does hawthorn, is to position themselves in the heart of the population growth centre.Slight Segway here, but do you really think Springfield lakes would have worked for Brisbane? It's kind of like the reverse of what Adelaide did by moving from somewhere 15km away to the CBD. I go to a few Lions games a year as its a central location for all involved. If the games were moved it would take 45mins for me to get there.
I get that Brisbane would become more financially viable to own their own ground and could make money based on lower crowds, but I worry how low those crowds would be if it ever got put back on the table.
I see The Age Scribes have been ripping our boards off again for ideas.
2017-2022 $2.508 billionBoutique Stadium?
The AFL is set to take full ownership of Docklands in 2025. That is now down to only 10 years away.
Correct me if I'm wrong but are they also considering the option of bringing that date forward with an early payout?
The AFL could conceivably own a clean boutique stadium before we even get Dingly up and running....
Obviously this would be funded through media rights:
2012-2016 $1.25b
2017-2021 $1.6b??
2022 onwards.... $2+billion??
Hopefully, just a couple extensions to the trophy cabinet at Waverley!So what do we do in this next year and a half?
Location is a pretty important factor in whether a boutique stadium would ever work
Pity that we didn't get the Hawthorn Council to buy us the Hawthorn Brickworks in 1972
The Fritsch Holzer park has been a tip itself and would be the sort of location that would work for a boutique stadium -on 3 tram routes and the train line that best services Hawthorn supporters & most importantly in the right suburb...
Won't happen though
Sorry to butt in but you could still do that, if the plans were drawn up to allow the locals to still be able to walk their dogs and some of the greenly was protected, the center area in winter is often a bog and there is an oval at the Camberwell end of it, although I could never see a small stadium being developed on the site.
looking at t he map... no train?
but how do people get there? not everyone has a car..will there be parking and so onIt's dingley, there's nothing
It'd breath some life into it
just do a Bronwyn Bishop an get a Helicopter therebut how do people get there? not everyone has a car..will there be parking and so on
Not too far from Morrabin Airport. Could be good for overseas supporters. Fly to Melbourne Airport, then take a small plane to Morrabin, dollowed be a short taxi or bus.
Wimp! Just parachute out of the plane as it flies over. There's a whole oval or two (or maybe three?) to aim for.
I think this move could be the first truly bad one the club has made for a while. I used to work out in Dingley, and I don't think the environment is conducive to health - lots of traffic, including trucks. It's an industrial area, and I heard that the new ground is being built on the site of a previous garbage dump.
I remember them suggesting somewhere around Vermont, at first (Dandenong Valley Parklands?). I think this would have been a much better option.
Health requirments haved to be meet before anything happens and waverley park was built on grazing lands what's your point?It's an industrial area, and I heard that the new ground is being built on the site of a previous garbage dump.
I remember them suggesting somewhere around Vermont, at first (Dandenong Valley Parklands?). I think this would have been a much better option.
Health requirments haved to be meet before anything happens and waverley park was built on grazing lands what's your point?