Best facilities in the VFL?

:D I'll put SANDRINGHAM having equal to any other VFL facilities, gym,coaches room ,Social club with fantastic view across the bay and oval and administration 2nd to none. Of course the Sandy club cannot be compared to the AFL facilities but it does have the main ingredients necessary to promote a successful football team. Casey is brand new and very nice but has a couple of minor gliches and will develope to be amongst the best. Port has a great grandstand and if certain things happen will be the good for the VFL . Coburg and Williamstown also have very good stands and playing areas. Werribee is improving each year with the oval terrific and good Social club and well painted change rooms . Geelong of course being AFL has all facilities but lacks warmth and appreaciation of VFL teams and officials when visiting them. Frankston really has improved all round with visiting rooms much larger than they ever were and of course now have new players room and gym and their oval is as good as any in the VFL. Box Hill Hawks are still improving on their opposition rooms but have new home team rooms and gym,oval area is much better and viewing areas are very good. But that's only my humble opinion. go zebs zebra :wink:

I reckon North Ballarat's are the best....most probably better than most AFL teams....the Kangaroos must look at them in envy

Tasmania by far.. Both Bellereive Oval (spelling) and Aurora Stadium would have to be the best available. The change rooms at Hobart are massive, while there are big areas for Social Club functions etc. A video scoreboard that would rival Telstra Domes in size isn't a bad little bonus either.

zebraman wrote:I reckon North Ballarat's are the best....most probably better than most AFL teams....the Kangaroos must look at them in envy

You must be kidding. I went there on the weekend, and the facilities simply do not meet AFL Vic requirments. I can't believe the pathetic excuse for a scoreboard (with the main one not working), and no player and umpire races. The players have go up and down steps to get to the field. The social facilities are awesome, but is that really the measure? Apparently they've just spent a couple of million improving the social facilities, which I thought were already pretty good. They need to spend some of their undoubted almost unlimited funds fixing up some of the basics.

Depends on the criteria - what does 'best facilities' mean? I agree with CaseyScorp about Nth Ballarat - a proper scoreboard is a must! And yes the player races and umpire race seem miles off the AFL Vic requirements. QEO and Preston are two places I like watching the footy. Casey Fields is a dump. Whoever the brainiac is that designed that pathetic excuse for a grandstand, with what four or five rows and a roof not big enough to shelter most of it did a piss poor job. Footy is a [b]winter sport.[/b] Suitable spectator facilities should've been built taking that into account.

caseyscorp wrote:[quote:539bb49834="zebraman"]I reckon North Ballarat's are the best....most probably better than most AFL teams....the Kangaroos must look at them in envy

You must be kidding. I went there on the weekend, and the facilities simply do not meet AFL Vic requirments. I can't believe the pathetic excuse for a scoreboard (with the main one not working), and no player and umpire races. The players have go up and down steps to get to the field. The social facilities are awesome, but is that really the measure? Apparently they've just spent a couple of million improving the social facilities, which I thought were already pretty good. They need to spend some of their undoubted almost unlimited funds fixing up some of the basics.[/quote] Well...the original post asked about social facilities,changerooms so that's why I nominated North Ballarat...... Did you go into the visitor's changerooms there?...they are massive...fantastic for a pre match warm up...better thany other team that I've seen....mosy visiting teams rooms are tiny...Sandy's included...you could have fitted 4 of Coburg's room into North Ballart's visitors rooms Yes...the scoreboard isn't working...apparently they are waiting for a part from overseas to get it fixed... So what if there isn't a race for players and umpires to go out on...I wouldn't call a race a "facility"... I'll stand by my comments re North Ballarat...and we can agree to disagree

[b]ZEBRA wrote[/b]

Quote:Coburg and Williamstown also have very good stands and playing areas.

How is the Coburg stand "very good" when the only section for spectators is the centre section between the burnt bit and the social club?

The away rooms at Nth Ballarat are extremly good, not sure about the home ones, but would expect they would even better. Re. Footyman, Casey fields has still got a long long way to go in terms of seating/undercover etc. By the way caseyscorp i see you no longer have your avater, sorry to take it off you i will get a new one so that you can have it back!

I'm not too IT savvy - I found that one on here one day and stuck it on, and then I think I took it off somehow. I see that some people are very clever, and can attach their own. I wouldn't even be able to follow the instructions.