Dingley Hawks - Olympic Park outdated?

[Harry O]

Will we need to relocate to a bigger facility to keep pace with the power clubs? Not much for supporters at Westpac Centre

 

[CasuallyDressed]

Dingley is one of the more boring suburbs in Melb.

 

[Ketchup]

Not much for our supporters but our facilities inside the centre are top notch. Top top notch. We recently spent millions on a redevelopment of the facilities. We're not moving any time soon, nor do we need too.

 

[Helfarch]

hahaha they're doing what now. Sweet Lord Dingley is awful.

 

[Wooljay]

Haha just had to Google 'Dingley'.
Happy with Swan St thanks.

 

[Lord Wilberforce]

Find it quite strange. Very far away from their traditional home. Waverley made sense, but Dingley not so much.

 

[Vinnie Vegas]

What exactly are they doing there that's better than what we can do being on the beautiful banks of the Yarra, in the shadow of our home ground, near public transport and entertainment venues, with world class training facilities, the height of technology, on the doorstep of Julian Feller's consulting suites, which are at one of the best sports medicine centres in the country?

Our players could walk to do their rehab at the Westpac Centre after a game - Hawthorn would be driving for an hour to get to Dingley.

Just because other clubs are building giant complexes in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean that it's better, it means that the sweet spot on Swan St is already taken.

Oh, BTW, the proposed site is next to a tip.

 

[Vicky Park]

Location, location, location. We have it in spades. Absolute prime (football) real estate. Plus the new Community Centre hasn't opened yet, and judging by the plans, it's pretty impressive. Will deliver some extra spaces for us fans.

Saying that, I wouldn't be surprised if we explore options for an additional (bigger? different shaped?) training oval at some stage (one never seems enough these days), although I'm not sure why.

 

[Stifler's mom]

Oh, BTW, the proposed site is next to a tip.

Princess Park??

 

[Mkcaptain]

As a fan I think our location is great. Of course I can't speak on the behalf of the players but I'm pretty sure they'd prefer where we are than some outer suburb.

Edit- And I'm pretty sure the millions we've poured into upgrades in the last few years isn't already outdated. There is no reason the club can't continue to improve the Wespac Centre, there is no need to move.

 

[Seedsfan]

We are about to finish our community centre, if in the future we need more space we will redevelop where we are. Apart from Punt rd you can't get a better location for our training base

 

[BEEG]

Westpac centre is brilliant great location and amazing facilities

 

[THATSGOLD]

Train station out there?

 

[McOrist]

I wouldn't like to be doing pre-season training in the height of summer when a strong northerly wind is blowing from the Tootal Rd Tip end of the stadium!!
Their facilities will soon be covered by a mountain of seagull s**t!

 

[TradeDraft]

Have we just updated Westpac Center in the last 2 years?

 

[Big Bryza]

Our location is the envy of every other Melbourne based club.

 

[mattys123]

The olympic park centre is perfect really, for both location and the ability to upgrade as we go.

Already since taking the place over it's had 2 major refurbishments and there's no reason why when needed we can't upgrade the facilities again.

I'd rather be 100m from the MCG then 100m from Moorabin Airport.

 

[Matt_352]

Location, location, location. We have it in spades. Absolute prime (football) real estate. Plus the new Community Centre hasn't opened yet, and judging by the plans, it's pretty impressive. Will deliver some extra spaces for us fans.

Saying that, I wouldn't be surprised if we explore options for an additional (bigger? different shaped?) training oval at some stage (one never seems enough these days), although I'm not sure why.

Could kick Melbourne out of Gosch's Paddock and upgrade it and make it a second oval ???

 

[shizzle]

Train station out there?

Nope, it would be a bus from somewhere on the Frankston line like Cheltenham, Mentone or Mordialloc.
Possibly even a bus from a station on the Dandy line, the place will stink in the hot summer pre seasons being so close to the tip.

It could be worse, they could have built it in Bangholme next to the Eastern Treatment Plant, it would have been quite fitting though, considering their colors are poo and wee.

 

[Katherine Amateurs]

Oh, BTW, the proposed site is next to a tip.

You'd be surprised, but most of Melbourne's landmass probably was a landfill of some sort. Would put my house on that the swan street region where we are is all former landfill.

 

[PieNSauce]

You'd be surprised, but most of Melbourne's landmass probably was a landfill of some sort. Would put my house on that the swan street region where we are is all former landfill.

Not sure that land that was filled a hundred years ago bears much relationship to an active tip!

 

[Baltimore Jack]

Will we need to relocate to a bigger facility to keep pace with the power clubs? Not much for supporters at Westpac Centre

I think you have it the wrong way round.
They are trying to keep up with us

 

[Vinnie Vegas]

You'd be surprised, but most of Melbourne's landmass probably was a landfill of some sort. Would put my house on that the swan street region where we are is all former landfill.

This site isn't next to a former tip, it's next to a current day, operational landfill.

 

[jmac70]

Dingley Hawks has a certain ring to it. Maybe they could also get a decent jumper while their at it.

 

[Lord of the Pies]

Old dandy road stinks of the tip and feartiliser Hawks will fit right in.