Universal Love Princes Park Update

[Lace_Out]

On purpose, for a quick getaway straight after the final siren.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

hands up who can recall ever understanding a word from the pp pa system?

I'd probably be able to if I didn't have you in my ear saying "give it up mate, no one can understand a bloody word..." every time the announcer starts up

 

[agro]

Roy Hampson used to enunciate over the Princes Park PA system perfectly.

 

[thylacine60]

I remember roy...........just the voice, not the words...........

 

[agro]

He used to do the Morning Show on Channel 10 in the 70’s. He was a true blue Carlton Supporter.

A group of Melbourne University Students stole “Roy’s Wheel” from Channel 10 as a University Prank - Channel 10 had to keep it hush hush, when the Students discovered that the wheel was “weighted/biased”.

 

[thylacine60]

reminds me of a similar group of pesky uni students who stole the cockies dave & mabel from saaaaba furniture warehouse...........

 

[bigm386]

Just heard on 3AW rumours that Josh Frydenberg Is announcing a 20m grant for the redevelopment of Princes Park. Any idea if this is true or what it might be for?

Hoping games back at home

 

[Jabba73]

Just heard on 3AW rumours that Josh Frydenberg Is announcing a 20m grant for the redevelopment of Princes Park. Any idea if this is true or what it might be for?

Hoping games back at home

Could have said $200b, not likely to need to deliver on the promise. The only real hope will be if the other mob match the offer.

 

[Lace_Out]

We received the state grant for 20 mill, however the federal grant for another 20 mill is unlikely.

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[drunkill]

Just heard on 3AW rumours that Josh Frydenberg Is announcing a 20m grant for the redevelopment of Princes Park. Any idea if this is true or what it might be for?

Hoping games back at home

Nope. There will be a reduction in capacity with this redevelopment from all reports (less standing room)

We'll never play men's games there for premiership points, unless we got closer to 100m to upgrade an entire wing of the ground like Kardinia park and boost capacity, which won't happen.

The club should have a long term (15 year) vision to try to make it a 35k ground, become that boutique stadium the afl wants so they can host gold coast and gws games there for melbourne teams, but that can only happen if they do this redevelopment with a larger picture in mind, like getting new training spaced underneath this redeveloped stand so the admin building can be demolished in the future with no loss of useable space.

CEO has stated we want bigger crowds, large enough to get out of the docklands going forward.

 

[Jimmae]

Nope. There will be a reduction in capacity with this redevelopment from all reports (less standing room)

We'll never play men's games there for premiership points, unless we got closer to 100m to upgrade an entire wing of the ground like Kardinia park and boost capacity, which won't happen.

The club should have a long term (15 year) vision to try to make it a 35k ground, become that boutique stadium the afl wants so they can host gold coast and gws games there for melbourne teams, but that can only happen if they do this redevelopment with a larger picture in mind, like getting new training spaced underneath this redeveloped stand so the admin building can be demolished in the future with no loss of useable space.

CEO has stated we want bigger crowds, large enough to get out of the docklands going forward.

Nothing immediate will change that, but the numbers will be revisited every 5-10 years, and might see AFL games returning there in say... 2030.

 

[Jabba73]

Nothing immediate will change that, but the numbers will be revisited every 5-10 years, and might see AFL games returning there in say... 2030.

Hopefully Simmo gets to play his last game there.

 

[boltsbabyblues]

................and we spent it all on this.

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Photo by yours truly.

Surprised no one else noticed this at training the other day. You'd think they could've cleaned up the area behind it and painted over the "Yes Optus" sign. How many years ago did that sponsorship expire??? Still some improvement, no matter how small, is better than none...........I guess.

some will call me pedantic for this, but when you look at essendons facilities, west coasts new stadium, and geelongs home stadium, is it any wonder that Geelong finish in the finals almost every year, west coast have snatched another flag, and that little turncoat chose essendon over us? Its an absolute disgrace that an AFL club would have their facilities in this sort of condition.


i'll edit this and include a tangible example

little dylan gets off the plane, he has a big injury history and is concerned about his body. he rocks up to princes park and sees that, he then rocks up to windy hill or essendon airport or whatever it is now and sees their shiny new facilities. do you honestly think that has no bearing on where he chooses????

unbelievable to me. maybe i'm being petty. I just think it's embarrassing.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

some will call me pedantic for this, but when you look at essendons facilities, west coasts new stadium, and geelongs home stadium, is it any wonder that Geelong finish in the finals almost every year, west coast have snatched another flag, and that little turncoat chose essendon over us? Its an absolute disgrace that an AFL club would have their facilities in this sort of condition

It’s a Carlton thing, Amigo.

Most money headed our way doesn’t necessarily get there.

 

[DangerousD]

some will call me pedantic for this, but when you look at essendons facilities, west coasts new stadium, and geelongs home stadium, is it any wonder that Geelong finish in the finals almost every year, west coast have snatched another flag, and that little turncoat chose essendon over us? Its an absolute disgrace that an AFL club would have their facilities in this sort of condition.


i'll edit this and include a tangible example

little dylan gets off the plane, he has a big injury history and is concerned about his body. he rocks up to princes park and sees that, he then rocks up to windy hill or essendon airport or whatever it is now and sees their shiny new facilities. do you honestly think that has no bearing on where he chooses????

unbelievable to me. maybe i'm being petty. I just think it's embarrassing.

You're basing a comparison of facilities between us and others based on our scoreboard?

Drawing a pretty long bow there.

The money is coming, be patient.

 

[DangerousD]

Just heard on 3AW rumours that Josh Frydenberg Is announcing a 20m grant for the redevelopment of Princes Park. Any idea if this is true or what it might be for?

Hoping games back at home

$20M has been promised by state Labor, there are plans online. The club has been pushing for the federal government to match the offer. Its believed that Federal labor will match the bid. If not we have $20M.

The money is for upgrades to train facilities, viewing facilities and is largely down to Ikon Park being the AFLs preferred venue for AFLW. No plans for it to be used for premiership points again.

Unless we get some crazy rich person to fund a redevelopment privately.

Its great for the club even though i think they are knocking down the wrong grandstand to do it.

 

[agro]

some will call me pedantic for this, but when you look at essendons facilities, west coasts new stadium, and geelongs home stadium, is it any wonder that Geelong finish in the finals almost every year, west coast have snatched another flag, and that little turncoat chose essendon over us? Its an absolute disgrace that an AFL club would have their facilities in this sort of condition.


i'll edit this and include a tangible example

little dylan gets off the plane, he has a big injury history and is concerned about his body. he rocks up to princes park and sees that, he then rocks up to windy hill or essendon airport or whatever it is now and sees their shiny new facilities. do you honestly think that has no bearing on where he chooses????

unbelievable to me. maybe i'm being petty. I just think it's embarrassing.

They still don’t have training lights at Melrose Drive, they used that money to pay out James Hird’s contract.


They still have to go off-site to Windy Hill if they need to train on an oval with lights.

 

[thylacine60]

some will call me pedantic for this, but when you look at essendons facilities, west coasts new stadium, and geelongs home stadium, is it any wonder that Geelong finish in the finals almost every year, west coast have snatched another flag, and that little turncoat chose essendon over us? Its an absolute disgrace that an AFL club would have their facilities in this sort of condition.


i'll edit this and include a tangible example

little dylan gets off the plane, he has a big injury history and is concerned about his body. he rocks up to princes park and sees that, he then rocks up to windy hill or essendon airport or whatever it is now and sees their shiny new facilities. do you honestly think that has no bearing on where he chooses????

unbelievable to me. maybe i'm being petty. I just think it's embarrassing.

genuine question, what's wrong with our facilities? aren't they less than a decade old? do we have to have a multi-million dollar upgrade every 3 years?

 

[Robbo's my hero]

genuine question, what's wrong with our facilities? aren't they less than a decade old? do we have to have a multi-million dollar upgrade every 3 years?

Building similar facilities for the women as well as other improvements.

 

[thylacine60]

got me ****ed - wadda they want? lift bricks, chin-ups on doorways, run round the block = premierships..........

 

[Robbo's my hero]

Our version of the Great Southern Stand will make way for a training facility for the women. Proper lighting as well.

 

[Jabba73]

got me ****** - wadda they want? lift bricks, chin-ups on doorways, run round the block = premierships..........

No wonder it’s referred to as “Princess” Park, ffs

 

[The_Wookie]

Scoreboard dunnies.

Built a 50 million buck grandstand to fix it.

Didn’t fool me.

Cant afford. Spent all our money propping up Greg Williams cleaning company in the 90s

 

[Aphrodite]

Ikon Park set for $15m upgrade boost from Canberra


http://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-02-05/ikon-park-set-for-15m-upgrade-boost-from-canberra

CARLTON'S Ikon Park upgrade is set to be supercharged thanks to $15 million about to be pledged by the Federal Government.
The announcement from Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is expected to coincide with Carlton's first AFLW home game for the season against Adelaide on Sunday.

The $15 million is on top of $20 million pledged by the Victorian Government in the lead up to last year's state election.
Those funds were contingent on the federal government also coming to the party.

 

[cookie monster]

Big news, though I believe they were chasing $20m from the feds.

Wonder if they will just downscale plans. Nothing's been submitted to town planning yet so plenty of flexibility in that regard