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A number of years back, there was a whole kerfuffle with the other sporting clubs who use the Windy Hill precinct (mostly the Bowls club) being unwilling to leave to open up space to redevelop the space to include additional training facilities (for example, where the Bowls club is).

The facility out at Tullamarine is significantly larger than a redeveloped Windy Hill precinct would ever have been, with two training ovals and a rather large hanger equipped for professional sport.

Windy Hill has a bit more of a community feel, and in a way it's sad that they don't train there, but as a professional athlete the Tullamarine facility is far better. It's not hard to get to (by car anyway) since most of our players live on this side of the city, it's got good proximity to the airport, plenty of space.

The clubs issues aren't where it trains, that's probably one of the few truly professional things EFC have done in the past decade or so.

And yes, as above Windy Hill was also actually very windy.

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EFC doesn't own the land at Windy Hill, they lease it from the council (from memory it's a 99 year lease for $1 a year type thing) on the basis that those community clubs can use the space, EFC has no ability to force those clubs to move.

Last I heard, the bowls club was considering a merger to move elsewhere, they'd potentially found a new location for the cricket club, and they had renovation plans that just left the croquet club where it is.