DDC City West
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- Mar 24, 2006
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- AFL Club
- St Kilda
Clubs based at the Dome are DOOMED.
Ever since we moved to Telstra Dome, our club has been savaged by injuries. It is so heartbreaking knowing that we would have won the flag last year if it wasn’t for the continual injuries to our playing list. What is even more upsetting is the fact we played Sydney in the Prelim who had made only 1 forced change in 10 weeks, and then went on to win the flag.
I applaud Grant Thomas for making changes to the fitness staff and upgrading the playing surface at Moorabbin. Unfortunately, this is not the problem. Just have a look at Essendon and the Western Bulldogs over the last few years. They are in the same boat.
If St.kilda are ever going to fulfil their potential and win a flag, we need to leave the Dome and base OUR CLUB at the MCG right NOW!!!!!. We can not afford to wait until the end of the current agreement, (end of 2007), by then it will be too late.
The Telstra Dome is a fantastic venue for spectators, however everything else about the stadium is crap. My reasons are below.
That stupid roof should never be closed during day matches, only at night and that’s a maybe. Finals matches do not have a roof on them.
The finals are played at the MCG, including the Grand Final.
The capacity in theory is 53,000, but we never get that many. When we have a potentially big game coming up, the AFL make it a fully ticketed game because they know that if they don’t there will be mayhem at the gate with people not being able to get in before half time. This in turn causes some people to not bother coming and when it is fully ticketed, you rarely get over 50,000. Not to mention the spectators are slugged a booking fee.
Then there is the straight out lie that we will switch big games to the MCG, (refer to article in THE AGE last week titled “AFL's 'best-fit' sham”. There is so much involved in achieving that, the Saints have never attempted to do so. It’s too hard.
Our agreement with Telstra Dome is not as lucrative as what Essendon’s is. Why should we have to put up with this scenario?
When Telstra Dome was trying to lure us there they said the break even crowd figure was about 25,000. It’s more like 35,000…….hello.
Injuries, which I have spoken about above.
We are not cursed by injury, and we do not have injury prone players, (Kosi excepted). Unfortunately, the powers that be back in the late 1990’s chose Telstra Dome and not the MCG.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming anyone. I just want to see a mistake made close to a decade ago rectified/corrected. I fear that if it is not corrected NOW, later will be too late.
Ever since we moved to Telstra Dome, our club has been savaged by injuries. It is so heartbreaking knowing that we would have won the flag last year if it wasn’t for the continual injuries to our playing list. What is even more upsetting is the fact we played Sydney in the Prelim who had made only 1 forced change in 10 weeks, and then went on to win the flag.
I applaud Grant Thomas for making changes to the fitness staff and upgrading the playing surface at Moorabbin. Unfortunately, this is not the problem. Just have a look at Essendon and the Western Bulldogs over the last few years. They are in the same boat.
If St.kilda are ever going to fulfil their potential and win a flag, we need to leave the Dome and base OUR CLUB at the MCG right NOW!!!!!. We can not afford to wait until the end of the current agreement, (end of 2007), by then it will be too late.
The Telstra Dome is a fantastic venue for spectators, however everything else about the stadium is crap. My reasons are below.
That stupid roof should never be closed during day matches, only at night and that’s a maybe. Finals matches do not have a roof on them.
The finals are played at the MCG, including the Grand Final.
The capacity in theory is 53,000, but we never get that many. When we have a potentially big game coming up, the AFL make it a fully ticketed game because they know that if they don’t there will be mayhem at the gate with people not being able to get in before half time. This in turn causes some people to not bother coming and when it is fully ticketed, you rarely get over 50,000. Not to mention the spectators are slugged a booking fee.
Then there is the straight out lie that we will switch big games to the MCG, (refer to article in THE AGE last week titled “AFL's 'best-fit' sham”. There is so much involved in achieving that, the Saints have never attempted to do so. It’s too hard.
Our agreement with Telstra Dome is not as lucrative as what Essendon’s is. Why should we have to put up with this scenario?
When Telstra Dome was trying to lure us there they said the break even crowd figure was about 25,000. It’s more like 35,000…….hello.
Injuries, which I have spoken about above.
We are not cursed by injury, and we do not have injury prone players, (Kosi excepted). Unfortunately, the powers that be back in the late 1990’s chose Telstra Dome and not the MCG.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not blaming anyone. I just want to see a mistake made close to a decade ago rectified/corrected. I fear that if it is not corrected NOW, later will be too late.
