The Lexu$ Centre, has it enriched the club?

[Piepark]

What premiership success are we talking about at Collingwood? Once again our facilities do not guarantee premierships. From all reports they give our players advantages that some of the other poorer clubs may not get, but still no guarantees.

The supporters pour millions of dollars into this club in membership, merchandising sales, sponsorship revenue, advertising exposure and we have sub standard facilities compared to some of our other stronger counterparts. That is fact.

I hope our club starts to address this issue seriously in the future, otherwise a kid growing up watching our club train will remember a crappy cafe and a football oval on the corner of Swan St as his or her history.

We can do better than that.

[cobood]

[Piethagoras' Theorem]

Not so much that they're happy about it Tess, more like their not really too concerned.

[eddiesmith]

Can someone tell me how the club with no money was supposed to move into the 21st century at Victoria Park?

[Magpie Jack]

The Lexus Centre is not the home of Collingwood Football Club and never will be. It's just a retail outlet. Victoria Park is our home and always will be.

[die4pies]

[Johnson#26]

You may be right, D4P, but in terms of growing up and watching Collingwood train, both live and on the news, press conferences, purchasing merchandice, well, it's Lexus or the MCG...

...not saying VP will be forgotten, it's just that, those born now, what else will they know (unless they're good kids and study the history books)?

[Culprit]

The way we are going we will soon own that many hotels I am sure the nearest pub to you will be a Collingwood FC Pub.

[joffa corfe]

I reckon there is nothing wrong remembering and appreciating the chapter in our lives that was once known as Victoria Park, A decision was made by our club sometime ago to move on some of us have accepted that whilst others havn't.
Its great to remember the past greats that trained and went on to play for our club at Victoria Park.
Many of us older Collingwood people grew up at Victoria Park we love and cherish the place, Victoria Park will be around forever the great stadium will always in some way be a grand reminder of our rich history.

But lets be honest for a few seconds here, lets wipe away the tears and appreciate what we have and i say that respectfully, Im loving it at the MCG especially the Ponsford Stand.
I have grown to love everything about modern day Collingwood it has ensured that my kids and Grand Kids will be given the oppertunity to follow the greatest football club in the whole wide world...i feel indebted to our club for making that happen.

We now live in the football age of financial stability....there will be no talk of an unsupported Collingwood Football Club moving to the Gold Coast to attract more members to stay afloat.

I also believe that those who say its time to move on have a pretty good argument, Our club aint ever returning to Victoria Park, but i also appreciate the power to remember come together and celebrate our very rich and important history...Victoria Park will always have the ability to do that, But we must do that without the want to start some type of civil war, to argue and bitch fight about the ole girl does not do it any justice, she simply deserves better.
Many young Collingwood supporters deserve the right to find there own place and make there own history at our new home Ground the MCG and the Lexus centre, just as us elders once did at Victoria Park.

The lexus Centre aint the axis of evil that some people say it is, i have grown to really appreciate the Lexus Centre, to me it represents security, it represents our club going boldly into the future.
The Lexus Centre along with our new home ground the MCG have greatly enriched our club as i stated above, it gives us sound financial stability, we're gonna be around forever...but you know what... it has enriched me greatly because my grand kids will carry on the family history of supporting our great club into the future and hopefully many premierships, when they chuck this old collingwood bugger six foot down i will be comforted with that knowledge.
Lets respect those who have shown the courage and wisdom to move this club into the future.
We're all comrades representing the greatest army..the army will rise together...good times are ahead lets embrace them together..the very ethos of this great club.







floreat pica

[Magpie Jack]

I don't think anyone is suggesting we should still be playing AFL games at Victoria Park. The suggestion was more that we should have kept it and re-developed it as our training and social club home. I've taken the kids to see the team train at the Lexus Centre and it was pretty sad compared to what we left behind at Victoria Park. What happens when the car company clears off?....our home might become the Fruit n Veg Centre. Sold a bit of our soul I reckon.

[Piepark]

I think some people are assuming everyone wants to move back to VP as well. That is not the point. The point is, VP had some facilities for supporters that are simply better than Lexus Centre. There was a ground where you could sit and watch the boys train for starters. On top of that you could get a meal and watch the boys train. We had a social club that existed for Collingwood people only. Opposition supporters dared not enter 'our' social club or reserved seating area.

These may all be small things but they made up the enjoyment that was Collingwood. I pay a few thousands bucks for my Legends membership in the Ponsford which is home to opposition supporters sitting around us as common place. Lexus centre is not a social club. It is a cafe with, as some people say a retail store.

As I've said my previous posts, I am not wanting to turn back time for the sake of it, but lets be honest in comparing what we CAN have for supporters compared to other clubs, that we used to have at VP.

Go Pies!

[Clement]

[joffa corfe]

Couldn't see anything personal in my posting towards you my good friend i just like you and everyone else around here has a right to an opinion, So i have to ask is it propaganda because my opinion differs to yours, or is it propaganda because im now a paid employee of the footy club and let me add as a paid employee of this football club i have not been censored in any shape or form.
Sorry that i couldnt carry the topic on as you would of liked, but like so many other collingwood supporters in town the general opinion is the club is striving forward like never before, so much to be happy about, so much to be grateful for, what i have said came from the heart, and those very same sentiments i will stick by.
If you chose to fall back on the ole propaganda line thats your right i guess, but dont expect me to entertain you everytime with a reply as i have done here, too many good things happening here on Nicks board its a great fansite the days of heated clashes have gone...big four weeks comming up....if it all goes our way im convinced of a huge September.

floreat pica 07

[HAL]

Only temporarily.

[die4pies]

Those against Victoria Park = 'Move On Brigade'
Those for Victoria Park = 'Propaganda Brigade'

10 1/4 acres of land has polarised so many over the last century.

When will there be peace?
When will the parties agree?