Pictures of works at TBO 19th October.
The Schedule calls for completion in April 2014.
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Pictures of works at TBO 19th October.
The Schedule calls for completion in April 2014.
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In reply to I believe the Canhill goal by zebra
Lets hope its a bit higher and steeper than at Werribee!
Up until the 1970s the hills both end of the then Beach Road Oval were quite steep in fact they were higher than the old concrete outer fence then the stupid idiots at the Sandringham Counci had them flattened out.
It was a great view from behind the goals there was another hill where the Social Club now stands and that was where the old bigger score board was.
I drove into Willys ground and just like North Port it is now nothing like it was in the past and both those great old grounds would be struggling to hold a real 5000 crowd and about half what used to be large standing areas at both grounds just dont exist anymore.
The Point Gellbrand ground has little no atmosphere and has a very barren a desolate look to it now
Years ago it had quite a few trees but no doubt the upper middle class yuppies now living opposite the ground would squeal like cut cats if any new trees were planted that may block out their million dollar views
It saddens me to read people are critical of the modern Burbank Oval. When I think of the "old days" and the sub standard conditions we all - players, coaches, supporters - put up with I rejoice in the new comforts. It would be fantastic to have more undercover areas; more toilet facilities etc.... but the current facilities are excellent compared with the past. The reality is finance......and what has been achieved with the money spent is a credit to everyone involved. I for one am proud of the results at Williamstown and I can only hope that TBO and North Port will be as good when completed.
In reply to It saddens me to read people by Seagull90
As I said I was there yesterday and apart from the refurbished Grandstand I will stick by my opinion that the whole atmosphere is dead and a few new toilets donsen't fix that.Take the Grandstand away and most suburban and country grounds have a better facilities
I can imagine that on a day like today no one apart from a few hundred in the grandstand area would enjoy standing out in the open with no shelter.
Out of all the current and ex VFA grounds only Toorak Park ,Frankston Preston and Coburg to a lesser extent seem to have survived intact but many of the others have been modified to "community areas" with the embankments flattened and outer fences pulled down.
Preston has been narrowed to one-person-at-a-time along the eastern side of the oval. It has not survived intact.
Coburg has only part of its grandstand, with viewing limited in it by the boarded up burnt section. It has only the one toilet block available. Not really survived "intact".
Williamstown's shelter is solely its grandstand.
As I put in post #8, a canopy/awning should not be too much to have installed.
In reply to It saddens me to read people by Seagull90
In my opinion this first time I went to willy growing up. I wondered why the ground was not as advanced in terms of devolpment as Grounds like Coburg & north port. I feel because the club was in 2nd division in the vfa helcion days. That it hampered its devolpment. Playing teams like sunshine & mordi there was never any demand to devolp the ground further.
In my opinion the grandstand should have been left as is (removing asbestos) & building a newer stand with that money.
In reply to The Can Hill end was around by zebraman
what are you going to do then......
looks like I'll have a front row seat now :)
Now theyre going stand alone I think enlarging the oval is a mistake. A smaller, tighter ground would give them a better chance to be competitive.
In reply to Now theyre going stand alone by paul
A double edged sword because it also gets the players used to playing on the bigger grounds and if the GF stays at Docklands that would be good.
For decades Sandy were very good at home almost unbeatable but when they played in the finals at the bigger Junction Oval they struggled.
The Zebras have a very poor record ay other big grounds like Coburg,Preston,Dandenong,Nt Ballarat and Toorak Park
In reply to zebraman wrote:The Can Hill by Saintgail
Think it's a long way off Gail...oing to very little room to walk in front of the scoreboard with a small amount of widening happening over there...
In reply to Now theyre going stand alone by paul
I can see your point, but Sandy are trying to get the Dragons playing at TBBO and the simple fact is, they won't play games there under the former dimensions...maybe that will change now..however, we've won premierships at bigger grounds in the last 30 years...Princes Park..Victoria Park...TEAC Oval..Waverley..(don't come much bigger than that) then the hat-trick back at Princes Park (Optus Oval)...they adapted pretty well..