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Should the AFL have kept Waverley??
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Or the other option of Greensborough....... would've been great for me!!Maybe not for western suburbs people like us, but for everyone in the east (which on a map looks like 70% of the city). Even then it's a lot more convenient in my view to hop in the car and drive to Cranbourne than having to navigate the CBD. Not to mention we already have another CBD venue in the MCG.
Of course if we had a stadium in Laverton, as was KG Luke's original 1960s plan, it would be just great
Absolutely they should have. Fix the public transport issue it had otherwise it was an awesome ground IMO. I lived near it so I am pretty biased but it serviced a huge area then, which is even bigger now! You did not have to go into the city to see AFL. I attended the last game there when the hawks flogged us in 99 and it was very sad. Can't stand Hawthorn but have got to give praise to them, Ian Dicker tried and wanted to keep it going but that prick Wayne Jackson would not budge. From memory and I could be wrong but they needed St.Kilda to jump on board aswell and be a co-tenant to have any hope of rescuing it, but they wouldn't. A great shame.
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You are right, the Saints were needed to co-tenant with Hawks, but pulled out.....my Saints hubby was devastated.
It would've worked, the games played there had they kept it, would've attracted the same amount of people from the sth eastern side of melbourne, the same as MCG and Etihad would mostly draw from the west, north of melbourne.
Had the AFL followed though with the original plans it would have been a huge success. Not putting in the train line up the length of Wellington Rd was their major mistake.....but they wanted out, so they started sly whinging about how cold it was etc, little things like that.....everyone picked up on it and it grew and grew...until no-one seemed to want it anymore.
It was no colder at Waverley than the MCG is/was......don't forget I'm talking about before the MCG had full under cover you beaut stands.
Can't believe that people think that Waverley is more desirable to Docklands. It's akin to saying that Footy Park had plenty going for it over Adelaide Oval (spoiler alert - it doesn't). Highly inaccessible to millions of people, huge traffic jams due to lack of public transport, would take buckloads of money to bring up to modern standards.
I think it should've been kept though. Would have been good to redevelop into a modern 45,000-50,000 stadium for purely Hawthorn and St Kilda home games which would solve some of the parking issues, and at a minimum there'd need to be dedicated bus lanes running there. To justify it though you'd need at least ~9 home games from both teams at a minimum, which would mean neither team would've been able to move games interstate/overseas.
I think it should've been kept though. Would have been good to redevelop into a modern 45,000-50,000 stadium for purely Hawthorn and St Kilda home games which would solve some of the parking issues, and at a minimum there'd need to be dedicated bus lanes running there. To justify it though you'd need at least ~9 home games from both teams at a minimum, which would mean neither team would've been able to move games interstate/overseas.
To be fair the further east you go the more rain there is.
Scoresby (closest weather station to Waverley Park) averages 864mm per year, compared to the CBD at 650mm and Laverton at 540mm, with the month to month difference being highest in winter.
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If it had hung around for another 5-6 years, it would have become retro . That scoreboard was amazing. Seriously though, as an out-of-stater, it was a challenge. Not that my type was a priority.
. That scoreboard was amazing. Seriously though, as an out-of-stater, it was a challenge. Not that my type was a priority.
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Hell yes.
Better than fighting a battle with trains to get into the city.
Better than fighting a battle with trains to get into the city.
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Would have had to major major redevelopment to shape the stands so they went up instead of back. As it was you like Footy Park were too far away from the action
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The mcg hosts 50 games a year, cricket and other major events that can afford redevelopments. Waverly was the home ground for 2 teams in the end. Teams like the western Bulldogs, North Melbourne and Essendon weren't going to move their home games to the South East of Melbourne
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