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Waverley Park was awesome.

Except for the rain, the wind, the cold, the mud, the lack of public transport, the parking bottlnecks, the crappy screen, the Hawks, the Saints.....
The way the grandstand was built. You could barely see what was happening at the other end of the ground from where you were sitting.
 

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The way the grandstand was built. You could barely see what was happening at the other end of the ground from where you were sitting.
Must have been a huge ground. Always looked big on TV and iirc they brought the goalposts in about 10 or so metres in later years. Still looked bigger than the MCG.
 

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Must have been a huge ground. Always looked big on TV and iirc they brought the goalposts in about 10 or so metres in later years. Still looked bigger than the MCG.
The playing surface was 200 metres long and 160 metres wide. It was then configured to roughly around the size of the MCG. Urban myth is that it was built roughly in the middle of the Melbourne Metro area. More likely that it was built there because someone in the VFL owned the land!

It was never completed. The single stand that encircled the ground (except for the Members Stand) was planned to be two levels and hold 157,000 people. The MCC had some powerful friends in the Vic Government who had a vested interest in stymying the plan and keeping the GF at the MCG.

So when we get to September and supporters are crying over not getting a ticket to the GF we know it could have been different.

However it did have a happy ending for the AFL and its clubs when the land was sold and the money was divided. Pity about the supporters.
 

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The playing surface was 200 metres long and 160 metres wide. It was then configured to roughly around the size of the MCG. Urban myth is that it was built roughly in the middle of the Melbourne Metro area. More likely that it was built there because someone in the VFL owned the land!

It was never completed. The single stand that encircled the ground (except for the Members Stand) was planned to be two levels and hold 157,000 people. The MCC had some powerful friends in the Vic Government who had a vested interest in stymying the plan and keeping the GF at the MCG.

So when we get to September and supporters are crying over not getting a ticket to the GF we know it could have been different.

However it did have a happy ending for the AFL and its clubs when the land was sold and the money was divided. Pity about the supporters.
Thanks for the insight, very intersting.

I thing as it was the capacity was somewhere around 75000. I was told by the ground manager that they squeezed in over 90000 for the *essendon v richmond pre season grand final back in i think 1992.


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Thanks for the insight, very intersting.

I thing as it was the capacity was somewhere around 75000. I was told by the ground manager that they squeezed in over 90000 for the *essendon v richmond pre season grand final back in i think 1992.


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Record attendance was 92,935 for Hawthorn & Collingwood on June 6 1981 (probably the Queens Birthday long weekend ?). Must have packed them in at that day.
 

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The playing surface was 200 metres long and 160 metres wide. It was then configured to roughly around the size of the MCG. Urban myth is that it was built roughly in the middle of the Melbourne Metro area. More likely that it was built there because someone in the VFL owned the land!
Urban planners believed its location would be in the middle of Melbourne's urban spread. Problem is that when it opened in 1970 the urban spread hadn't made its way out there. Even by the time it was sold off, the predicted spread still hadn't quite happened as hoped. Nowadays it is in the middle of a substantial urban area, but the area is serviced by road infrastructure rather than rail infrastructure therefore it would still only have appealed to those in the outer eastern/south eastern suburbs of Melbourne as a go to venue.
 

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All VFL clubs invested in VFL Park earned a huge return.

As I recall, the closest rail line was Glen Waverley, and a light rail supposedly would run there, however the Cain government, under auspices of a bankrupt state, pulled the MCG card as the home of sport asset.
 

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Might be unpopular but I would support a last touch rule in the AFL, the AFL want it and it would help end the debacle that is the deliberate rule.

My last touch would be from a kick or hand pass only.
 

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Record attendance was 92,935 for Hawthorn & Collingwood on June 6 1981 (probably the Queens Birthday long weekend ?). Must have packed them in at that day.
Sounds like they could get away with it back then. They weren't supposed to have more than about 75000 (in accordance with health and safety regulations).

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