Should Carlton be allowed to play home games at Princes Park?

[WilloTree]

That would be great for the North Carlton Roos.

Roos Blues?

 

[deck]

The future is a stadium at Gosch’s Paddock integrated into a major Richmond Station rebuild with underground, ground level, and overpass accesses and links to that new stadium, the MCG, tennis centre, and AAMI along with Swan Street. It’s been heavily insinuated by just about everyone. 60,000, ‘open roof,’ built into the landscape.

Worst idea around. Why would you wanna jam another 60,000 seat stadium right next to the MCG. Imagine having 60,000 flooding while 80,000 are flooding out to get on and off trains. Docklands fits perfectly being the opposite side of the CBD.

 

[Freomaniac]

Question… why the heck would they want to play there??? It’s a dump

Only logical reason is you can build it to a small 25 to 30,000 seat capacity.

No disrespect to North Melbourne or saints. Them hosting vs a non Vic side and pulling 15 to 20,000 in Docklands stadium that holds 50,000 seats is ugly on tv.

You being a Geelong fan. 35,000 seats at Kardinia park and constantly sell out is good. Plus dirt cheap rent

 

[geelong_crazy26]

Only logical reason is you can build it to a small 25 to 30,000 seat capacity.

No disrespect to North Melbourne or saints. Them hosting vs a non Vic side and pulling 15 to 20,000 in Docklands stadium that holds 50,000 seats is ugly on tv.

You being a Geelong fan. 35,000 seats at Kardinia park and constantly sell out is good. Plus dirt cheap rent

Just feels pointless in melb when you have the MCG and telstra dome.

Unless clubs want to move regional (geelong ballarat bendigo etc) its pretty much pointless.

 

[Freomaniac]

Just feels pointless in melb when you have the MCG and telstra dome.

Unless clubs want to move regional (geelong ballarat bendigo etc) its pretty much pointless.

Go ask saints fans.

Ask them if they want some random rich person to put in millions of dollars to turn Moorabbin oval to a 25,000 or 30,000 seat arena.

Most of them will say yes

 

[Andrewgtv05]

As much as I like Princes Park to play AFL games again, I have sadly accepted the fact that it is just a training base now

 

[Andrewgtv05]

I do think Carlton should be allowed a legacy match or two each year - perhaps if we go into a bit of a spiral we can ask for an annual game there. In the short term, that would be for 'tradition' but something that could at least test the waters for a longer term redevelopment.

You might as well do the same with Collingwood at Victoria Park, Essendon at Windy Hill and the Western Bulldogs at Whitten Oval

 

[timokane]

Nice idea and could be the token suburban game of the round
Love it

 

[HairyO]

You might as well do the same with Collingwood at Victoria Park, Essendon at Windy Hill and the Western Bulldogs at Whitten Oval

Do the AFLW teams use all these grounds ?

 

[boncer34]

Do the AFLW teams use all these grounds ?

Yes

 

[Andrewgtv05]

Do the AFLW teams use all these grounds ?

Well Yes, but that's only because they usually have small numbers

 

[Senor M]

Parkville station is still what I would consider walking distance. How many times have we done the walk from the G to Flinders?

1.9 km from Parkville Station to Ikon Park; that's barely an "easy walk"

 

[btdg]

You might as well do the same with Collingwood at Victoria Park, Essendon at Windy Hill and the Western Bulldogs at Whitten Oval

Possibly, but Princes Park capacity is double those and this thread is about Carlton/PP

20k attendance for 1-2 matches a year (IE Vs minnow clubs like Gold Coast or Tassie) is entirely feasible.

 

[Whats a Battle]

1.9 km from Parkville Station to Ikon Park; that's barely an "easy walk"

Gotta agree to disagree on that one. Depending on which gate you get out of, it's about the same as the walk from the MCG to Flinders St Station via Wellington Parade. I know the William Barak Bridge route is slightly shorter in my experience but it takes longer because of the volume of people.

 

[dogs105]

Have they done any work on it lately? Went to a preseason game in 2010, and it was a shithole then.

 

[Kappa]

Carlton do play home games at princess park in the AFLW.

 

[Seattle Mariners]

Yeah I’d be happy for the odd game or two at Princes Park.

Miss the old days (1990’s) of suburban footy.

 

[Senor M]

Gotta agree to disagree on that one. Depending on which gate you get out of, it's about the same as the walk from the MCG to Flinders St Station via Wellington Parade. I know the William Barak Bridge route is slightly shorter in my experience but it takes longer because of the volume of people.

Flinders Street isn't the closest, nor main train station for the MCG though.

Many people use Richmond & Jolimont stations.

Suggesting a new train station that is 1.9km away from the ground is cause to upgrade Ikon Park is absurd

 

[Piggy Smalls]

As a kid I thought it was called Princess Park and was always a bit confused why they would call it that

 

[rapidfire7]

Them leaving almost directly coincides with their downfall . Oh yeah, and the whole tanking thing.

Nevertheless, leaving Optus Oval really killed a strong competitive advantage for the club. Sad really.

 

[radiojake]

The PT options there wouldn't currently support it

I drive the route 19 and aflw games currently smash the tram services when they are on - an AFL men's match would be a nightmare

 

[Atomboy]

Not even that. 40,000 seats would be good. Even 30,000 to 35,000 seat capacity would be adequate.

I was thinking North Melbourne should play one or 2 home games up there per year considering it's in the northern suburbs.

Saints fans are wanting to have Moorabbin oval to be an AFL standard ground that holds 30,000 seats with cheap rent

Yeah but then the revenue would go to the club as opposed to paying for an asset owned by AFL HQ.

 

[Atomboy]

Go ask saints fans.

Ask them if they want some random rich person to put in millions of dollars to turn Moorabbin oval to a 25,000 or 30,000 seat arena.

Most of them will say yes

Absolutely we do.

We’d get 25-30k against some of the interstate sides and it would be an amazing atmosphere. We don’t get the same crowd numbers at Telstra Dome.

Traffic would be a slight problem so we’d also probably need to buy all the surrounding houses to limit opposition.

 

[Red_man2008]

Just getting all Carlton related pages on the front page.