vvvvA LONG-running leasehold saga between the City of Ballarat and North Ballarat Football Club has reached a compromise.
Both parties announced on Friday they had settled a long-term lease agreement on commercial terms after more than 18 months’ negotiations since the City compulsory acquired Mars Stadium land from the club. The lease is $440,000 per year and includes the North Ballarat Sports Club and change rooms. The length of the lease was not made clear.
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Hi Billy,
The real story is that our great club is now being run by a bunch rednecks that have no respect for the history & tradition & all their aim was to get rid of the Roosters and to get their hands on the MONEY.
Those two objectives have now been achieved & all we have now is great heap of money & nothing else but a heap of poker machines. The people that have worked their arses off over the past 50 to 60 years would be rolling in their graves.
The Ballarat City Council & rate payers now control all the facilities have issued a 25 year lease on the lot to the football club & how that will affect any future VFL team is still to be discussed.
There will be a VFL team that represents the region but how long that will take to establish will hinge on the people who are prepared to take it on board.
The current chairman has stated thet it will not be the North Ballarat Football Club & that is one thing for certain is that this mob are on the nose with everybody in this region & all people involved with footy across the country. They would be lucky to run a chook raffle.
"The fish rots at the head."
Who has the money Nth Ballarat FC and who owns the social club and the pokies?I cant believe that a powerful club like thr Roosters can just go under like this.
Another thing I note it looks like the Footscray AFL experiment is a complete failure when a paltry crowd of 6000 turns up for an AFL premiership match in a city of over 100,000 and only a litte more than an hour from the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Footscray members refuse to go as they have to pay to get in after already paying for a seasons ticket, plus a 6pm finish means people from Melbourne get home late on a Sunday night, especially if they have school-age kids.
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Easy fixed start the matches earlier But it is the lack of support from the Ballarat people that is the problem I reckon if the crowds dont improve the AFL will eventually pull the pin.Those matches would pull 20- 25,000 at Docklands.
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Easy fixed start the matches
Nt Ballarat were not a very big crowd puller even when they were wining premierships so maybe it just a Ballarat thing.
In reply to Who has the money Nth by billythekid
Billy,
The North Ballarat Football Club now have 5.5 Million dollars from the compulsary acquistion by the City Council.
The 80 odd poker machines are still owned by the football club & nothing else. The facilities , land, gymnasium, oval, parking areas etc belong to the council.The sports club & football operations area are still to be tendered out.
And what a fiasco that would be after spending all that money on the ground to bring it up to AFL standard and then have it sitting empty ....
Wal,
For these games to be successful they must be played early in the season when the weather is much better. The last game up here was played when the temperature was bloody near zero & late on a Sunday afternoon. The AFL people who do the scheduling need to get off their arses & discuss these decisions with the footy going public.
The standard was excellent & the atmosphere first class with many people commenting on how close you are to the action.
Digs, it depends on what Channel 7 request, if they want a game to run into the 6pm Sunday night news then that is what they get. I can understand why Footscray members refuse to go, but you would think locals would be interested enough to rock up, but as you say matches early in the season would be a better idea. But other games the Bulldogs have played there didn't attract much of a crowd either, from memory.