Best facilities in the VFL?

Has anyone seen the facilities at Bendigo?? Apparently the changerooms are pretty swish.

expat wrote:Last time I checked clubs like Willy, Werribee, Bullants etc were lagging behind?

Is Williamstown the only club in the VFL not to have their offices at their home ground? Their grandstand is probably long overdue, portables aren't meant to last forever! Werribee seem to have had renovations going on for years, shame the council worried about minor stuff like putting new exterior fences and driveways in and neglected basic facilities for the fans like a few more seats around the ground and more even grassed areas! Can't fault Cramer St. Maybe the rooms and stuff aren't great but to watch footy its a terrific venue. Parking on Saturday can be a bitch but I love going to Preston's ground.

footyman wrote: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.

[quote:ee337f5bd5="iceman"]Footyman, Casey fields has still got a long long way to go in terms of seating/undercover etc.[/quote] The proposed AFL facility at Casey Fields (if it ever happens) includes 840 seats undercover at the northern end of the ground. That will then be over 1,000 undercover seats (notwithstanding footyman's view above that the roof doesn't provide enough protection, which I haven't heard before, but I think on any given extremely bad weather conditions the seats in a small stand will be affected by weather).

With the relatively new facilities built at Cramer St., in the "Golden Bullants" social and administrative room, and then the home team changerooms underneath, I'd have to nominate their set-up as being pretty good. Sandy's are also quite good, their social club (if we are including them) is excellent.

caseyscorp wrote:The proposed AFL facility at Casey Fields (if it ever happens) includes 840 seats undercover at the northern end of the ground. That will then be over 1,000 undercover seats (notwithstanding footyman's view above that the roof doesn't provide enough protection, which I haven't heard before, but I think on any given extremely bad weather conditions the seats in a small stand will be affected by weather).

Because there are coaches boxes and a social club behind the seating, the roof is exceptionally high in comparison to the rows of seating, while it also has very little overhang and slants upwards. Because Casey Fields also suffers a lot of wind it is more likely that rain blows in on the first two or three rows of seats. It's an architectural disaster.

Any ideas who was contracted to design it, Footyman?

bcarbonaro wrote:Any ideas who was contracted to design it, Footyman?

someone who had no idea about football

Legal action for poor design practices pending is there? :lol:

bcarbonaro wrote:Legal action for poor design practices pending is there? :lol:

Or defamation?

I'm not saying it's poor, from what I have seen of Casey Fields on the television and in the VFL Recprd it looks fine. I'm annoyed that we have played the Scopions at home (Bartercard Oval) x2 and Newcomen road x1 in my three years wih the club. Look forward to the day we play at Casey Fields.