WAVERLEY SAVED!!!!

[CQ]

yeah well anyway i noticed everyone saying dont start talking about how far it is then adding their own little story in about how far THEY have to travel.....
there is no way known the GF would be played at coloniHOLE someone would get out a shotty and shoot wayne jackson b4 they play a GF there. as if!! say they get $1 per person to go to the GF they would get $98,000 from the mcg or $50,000 from the HOLE, i think they will keep it at the G, even if it is only for the fact that they get more money.

[nikki]

I agree with Broadie 100%, this isnt a good decision if it means clubs are going to have to pay and it is going to cost us more to... Tickets r going to go up by about $2...
I know everyone hates the AFL but if this decision is going to hurt Collingwood is that a good thing.. I seriously doubt it.
Anyway what is the use having football oval that isnt even use i mean is it really necessary. I think it is the worst decison ever.. Well maybe not ever but it is pretty bad....

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GO THE MIGHTY PIES
SAV & ANTHONY LEGENDS FOREVER!!!
GO ROGAN, JOSH YOUR MY HERO..

[MAGPIE MANIAC]

I live in the Western Suburbs and and even though it used to take me well over an hour to get to Waverley I used to enjoy the footy and used to make a real day of it- such was the relaxing atmosphere of it. When it was built it was in the days of the VFL and I thought that if it was sold - why should the Interstate teams cash in on it! Could you imagine Adelaide selling Footy Park and sharing the money with every other team? Why were Clubs relying on getting their share of the money when no decision had been made on Waverley? They only had Wayne Jackson's word on it. The Clubs should be getting stuck into the AFL for promising money they didn't have -they counted their chickens before they were hatched!!! Another Stuff-up by the Afl ! and I agree Magpiera - the prices would have gone up anyway!

[London Dave]

On reflection, I suppose the death knell for Waverley was 15-20 odd years ago, when the govt (Cain's lot, I think) made some deal with the AFL/VFL about keeping the grand final at the MCG. Waverley was built to host the grand final originally, so the 25,000 MCC members wouldn't take up seats that should be for the football followers. After that, the AFL/VFL didn't spend any wonga on the facilities I reckon, sort of letting the stadium wither on the vine, especially after the mooting of Colonial. Being a Mully boy of years gone by, it was handy to be able to walk to the ground, but I sure did pity those poor bastards queueing for buses and stuck in the traffic jams for ever. Alf's point about lack of trains is well made. It was essentially the killer of the stadium.

[AlfAndrews]

London Dave is a Mully boy?

Does that mean Mulgrave ... or Mullumbimby?

There goes that international cosmopolitan persona right out the window. How thoroughly disillusioned I am.




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**floreat pica**

[London Dave]

Alf, even "international cosmopolitan personas" need "humble" beginings so as not to end up disappearing up ones rectum whilst swanning around with the jetsetters!!! Also keeps you in with Tony Blair and the "new Labour" crew!!!! One's not from Sarf Yarrah dahlink!

[Greg J]

Yep, no train line always meant that Waverly was doomed. No club will want to use it as a home base until then.

How much does laying rail track cost in the suburbs? Does not really matter, in the end, as it is the land that would be the killer. Imagine all the uproar and protests against the compulsory acquisitions, that assumably would be needed.

We have had some monumental idiots running our game, but the ones responsible for building a "modern" stadium away from a major mass transit facility take the cake.

Um, John Cain went on to be a member of the MCC Trust (the governing body of the MCG) after stitching the Grand Final up for them.