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Lol.Disappointed that it’s sold as being a home for the women’s side and not for the men . The article talked about Lions AFLW deo but didn’t mention the years of work swan and others have put in . Anyway good to see this finally happen
You do realise we are actually only able to do this because of the AFLW side right? The whole Springfield project was dead in 2014 as no funding from state/fed govt was forthcoming, let alone the $30mil that was actually needed to fill the funding gap. Not only was it a no-go, but it was never even vaguely close to getting up - it was a battle to even get AFL House to contribute $5mil to the original plan.
Springfield only seriously came back on the agenda and became a vaguely viable plan for govts to look to support once we got the AFLW licence, AFLW & womens sport had a boom AND when we had the AFLW Grand Final venue drama that ending up costing the state a few million. So yeah, pretty fair they're crediting the women's side for this result for the club.