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I've seen them at lawn bowls clubs as well. E.g. the lawnbowls club next to SMOSH West LakesSome have gone to SANFL clubs. Some to amateur clubs.
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I've seen them at lawn bowls clubs as well. E.g. the lawnbowls club next to SMOSH West LakesSome have gone to SANFL clubs. Some to amateur clubs.
This is a good indicator of this.Checkside Tavern have confirmed the whole stadium's getting demolished in a Facebook post.
It would explain why the CSG have moved their banner making nights to a nearby church.
Guess it’s no surprise that it’s all going eventually, be interesting to see when the seats in the members area get removedCheckside Tavern have confirmed the whole stadium's getting demolished in a Facebook post.
It would explain why the CSG have moved their banner making nights to a nearby church.
This is a good indicator of this.
"Adelaide will hold an intraclub hit-out at Football Park on Saturday March 3, with coach Don Pyke confirming the fixture following his side's 10-point win over Fremantle in the JLT Community Series on Sunday.
The intraclub game will be open to the public, with details to be confirmed during the week."
So much for the Family Day being the last public thing to be held at Footy Park before demolition!
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/messe...s/news-story/5e430eea2b846bfecc43c50f0554cb7d
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Main highlights from the article:Paywalled.
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Main highlights from the article:
WORK to demolish Football Park at West Lakes has begun, with a new $50 million five-storey aged care development announced for the site.
UnitingSA has announced plans to build a five-storey development designed to cater for up to 120 older residents on 6600 sqm of land fronting West Lakes Boulevard...
Commercial and General project director Chris Menz said demolition started last week — although initial work would mainly be internal so passers-by may not see the outside of the stadium coming down for a few weeks.
“After about three or four weeks you will begin to see much more significant work happening, which is work to pull the building down,” Mr Menz said.
“It will start with the single-storey section in front of the Crows headquarters because it’s straightforward and small, and then we’ll move around to the southwest.”
The Adelaide Crows headquarters, the Checkside Tavern and the playing surface will be stay at the oval.
“Apart from that everything is going, including the light towers,” Mr Menz said.
“About 35,000 seats have now been provided to local sporting clubs and community clubs, so that has been really great to see because some of them were in really great condition.
“A lot of the rubble from the stadium is going to be crushed and used in road bases and for other significant projects."
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That's interesting regarding the checkside tavern as I'd thought others had said it too, was being demolished?
They've said they're being demolished.
They've also said that they're about to undergo a refurb and stay.
Interestingly the Crows Supporter Group said the redevelopment and loss of the function centre space was the reason they've moved their banner making operations away from Football Park.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the supporter group do their banner-making in the large open area on the first level of the Westpac Centre where the post-match functions were always held?
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That's interesting regarding the checkside tavern as I'd thought others had said it too, was being demolished?
Not Likely if you listen to the current Crows Leadership:Going by this vid, wouldn’t surprise me if the Club moves out of West Lakes sooner rather than later.
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Totally understand that from the Clubs' perspective.Not Likely if you listen to the current Crows Leadership:
The Adelaide Football Club is standing firm at West Lakes
despite the Football Park sporting hub becoming an urban centre of high-rise buildings.
And Crows chairman Rob Chapman has two million reasons each year to ignore the repeated calls from Adelaide fans for his AFL club to move to the city centre, closer to its new Adelaide Oval match-day home.
Chapman told The Advertiser — after the Crows posted a record $3.43 million operating profit — the club had no compelling reason to walk away from its “rent-free” lease at Football Park that continues to 2038.
This puts an end to speculation of the Crows finding a new home in the city or taking over the aquatic centre at North Adelaide. And there is no prospect of the club — after losing its much-loved “Shed” complex for the members at Football Park — buying a hotel to create a new social base in the city.
Chapman says such an investment — “high cost, low return” — works against the strategy that has delivered the Crows their best-ever financial figures.
“We’ve made our decision to stay (at West Lakes),” Chapman told The Advertiser. “It is rent free to 2038. The SANFL and the developer (Commercial and General) maintain the oval to AFL standards for us.
“That would become a significant cost to us if we relinquish the lease at Football Park — $2 million (a year) if we wanted to replicate that somewhere else. And our challenge today is to keep costs under control.”
Chapman and club chief executive Andrew Fagan underlined the club’s ability to generate cash from “traditional”revenue streams — sponsorship, ticket and merchandise sales — was “maxxed out” after reaching a record $54.9 million last year. And the search for new revenue streams would force the Crows to look beyond traditional football money pits such as hotels.
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...t/news-story/2557ffcad3f95ac58bd4c946405cb4ea
That's fair enough. From a training perspective, there's no real need to move into the City or the parklands, especially when we have such a good deal at Football Park.
That being said, none of those teams are called "Melbourne". If Noarlunga was a team in the AFL and their training base was in Morphett Vale and not Goodwood that would make sense tooYeah, it seems Westlakes is only around 11.1 kms from the centre of Adelaide, which isn’t to far out anyway. As a comparison Essendon’s Tullamarine base is 19.4 kms away from Melbourne’s GPO, Waverley is around 27.7kms and Morabbin is 18.4kms.
That being said, none of those teams are called "Melbourne". If Noarlunga was a team in the AFL and their training base was in Morphett Vale and not Goodwood that would make sense too
Anyone else see the irony/amusement in having an Aged Care facility at the home of the Crows
Makes sense.looking for a new home