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Ti Em wrote:

DD wrote:

Sounds like you had a big say at local council meetings about the design and access to EF Oval Not Gary. Hope you don't mind I park my bus in your verge when the Demons play at Moss St, or is it Allen St?

Or can I just drive onto the unfenced ground and park my bus on the outer and honk my horn every time the Redlegs score a major?

Hopefully the kids don't make too much noise and upset you precious locals at the new skateboard park at the Marmion St end of the revamped ground Gazza.

Well you won't be honking your horn very much DD if you are waiting for the Redlegs to score a major before you honk it.

We'll see Tim Tam. Don't get too cocky . Hopefully when we meet both sides will be at full strength. Can't wait.

No one had blamed the EFFC board. Everyone is just stating a fact that the new venue is dreadful with absolutely no atmosphere and definitely not fit to be a WAFL venue. The old venue may have been run down but it had so much more atmosphere than the new one and felt like you are at a WAFL game.

Who's been steering the ship down there with this redevelopment? According to JT and Micale a lot of basic things have been overlooked such as facilities for the media to film and broadcast the games which means a chunk of the 470 odd seats will be taken up by media.

And apparently the dugouts haven't been installed yet and will block the views of the lower rows which are apparently close to ground level. No application has been made for a liquor licence and Townsend reckons you won't play a game there in 2024.

And the WACA is not an option for you in 2024. And your finances are rooted. Where does all this leave you? Sounds like bad planning.

All this on top of the fiasco about fences/no fences.

Listen from about the 1hr 20 min mark. JT suggests you might be entering into an "arrangement" with the Eagles. 

www.sportfm.com.au/beforethefooty/episod...e-the-footy-09032024

No issues aligning with West Coast- none of them would get a game with us

KCEF wrote:

No issues aligning with West Coast- none of them would get a game with us

You know that's not how it works. Eagles call the shots. Your club is homeless and no money in the bank or not far off it. I think we've got some cap space available if you want us to relieve the pressure. 😉

Went past again on weekend, the entire outter is a sandpit, no way wil it be ready in two weeks.

DD wrote:

Who's been steering the ship down there with this redevelopment? According to JT and Micale a lot of basic things have been overlooked such as facilities for the media to film and broadcast the games which means a chunk of the 470 odd seats will be taken up by media.

And apparently the dugouts haven't been installed yet and will block the views of the lower rows which are apparently close to ground level. No application has been made for a liquor licence and Townsend reckons you won't play a game there in 2024.

And the WACA is not an option for you in 2024. And your finances are rooted. Where does all this leave you? Sounds like bad planning.

All this on top of the fiasco about fences/no fences.

Listen from about the 1hr 20 min mark. JT suggests you might be entering into an "arrangement" with the Eagles. 

www.sportfm.com.au/beforethefooty/episod...e-the-footy-09032024

 Apparently the Liquor License is yet to be granted and is up for public discussion, quite bizzare, one would of thought the existing EFFC Club licence would have been transferred. Sounds like a shambles.

Bazza wrote:

DD wrote:

Who's been steering the ship down there with this redevelopment? According to JT and Micale a lot of basic things have been overlooked such as facilities for the media to film and broadcast the games which means a chunk of the 470 odd seats will be taken up by media.

And apparently the dugouts haven't been installed yet and will block the views of the lower rows which are apparently close to ground level. No application has been made for a liquor licence and Townsend reckons you won't play a game there in 2024.

And the WACA is not an option for you in 2024. And your finances are rooted. Where does all this leave you? Sounds like bad planning.

All this on top of the fiasco about fences/no fences.

Listen from about the 1hr 20 min mark. JT suggests you might be entering into an "arrangement" with the Eagles. 

www.sportfm.com.au/beforethefooty/episod...e-the-footy-09032024

 Apparently the Liquor License is yet to be granted and is up for public discussion, quite bizzare, one would of thought the existing EFFC Club licence would have been transferred. Sounds like a shambles.

Perhaps because EFFC won't be the license holder nor in control of the venue, ie like Venues West controlled the upper function room at Joondalup which kicked members out after 8 o'clock. Micale mentioned something about Belgravia, sounds like they will be the venue manager. Whoever they are? 

Yep found it.  Belgravia Leisure - About Us

EFFC no longer in control. Peel I believe have full control of their government grant funded facilities and WP I think are now in control of theirs. Hopefully my club will be too. 

I hope Swan Districts are taking note of this shambles. You would hate to see Basso Oval lose its atmosphere in a redevelopment. I thought East Freo Oval had almost as much atmosphere as Basso pre redevelopment. Now it has zero atmosphere.
Massive mistakes made there and I can’t see  Sharks staying there long term .

A Dog Park , Skate Park , Car Park and a basketball court and a Lawn Bowls club right next to the Oval is just sheer stupidity and no fence and little to no grassed banks completely wrecks the venue . 

The WAFL will have to step in as they can’t play WAFL football there. 

i went for a tour last week and i am not really impressed. The players gym is tiny and the players changerooms are small. There is no where to put our club history and our premiership flags. We are not allowed to put any memorabilia in the man hall as its a shared facility. its really upsetting that we had a facility that was ours and yes it was falling apart to having a a facility we have no say in. Public gym which is run by Belgravia group ism the biggest part of the whole site. 


There is a dog park, skate park and a basketball court but there is heaps of grass banks and outer parts for fans to sit on