Say good bye to Windy Hill
Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:40 am
The EFC will today announce they're looking for somewhere else to expand.
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Not to mention the current members will all be dead in 5 years.danstar84 wrote:All thanks to the f****** bowls club. Which by the way, will probably die if Essendon leave the ground and take any funcding with them.
Yeah but this is the stumbling block for most red and black diehards Windy... No-one likes moving house...Windy_Hill wrote:Honestly, apart from the Hall of Fame and the great memories/tradition, Windy Hill does not really offer a quality membership experience. The club now has a chance to not only build the state of the art players training facilities, including an MCG size playing oval, but also provide members with some first class amenities, restaurants and bars. Frankly, this was always the problem with playing home games at the MCG and Colonial/Telstra/Etihaad - there was no real place for members to gather before and after, that was truly and Essendon amenity.
We will never have that experience but a members venue closer to the city, in between the two stadiums would be excellent. a place that everyone going in to see the games could easily access before or after. (the players traning centre doesnt have to be in the same place - that can be wherever the football oval is.)
Doctor Fish wrote:Yeah but this is the stumbling block for most red and black diehards Windy... No-one likes moving house...Windy_Hill wrote:Honestly, apart from the Hall of Fame and the great memories/tradition, Windy Hill does not really offer a quality membership experience. The club now has a chance to not only build the state of the art players training facilities, including an MCG size playing oval, but also provide members with some first class amenities, restaurants and bars. Frankly, this was always the problem with playing home games at the MCG and Colonial/Telstra/Etihaad - there was no real place for members to gather before and after, that was truly and Essendon amenity.
We will never have that experience but a members venue closer to the city, in between the two stadiums would be excellent. a place that everyone going in to see the games could easily access before or after. (the players traning centre doesnt have to be in the same place - that can be wherever the football oval is.)
Wonder where all those quality acts such as Russ "The Real Thing" Morris, Kamahl and the Cliff Richard Impersonator will play now that the Social Club is on the move... Bowls Club?
Windy_Hill wrote:Doctor Fish wrote:Yeah but this is the stumbling block for most red and black diehards Windy... No-one likes moving house...Windy_Hill wrote:Honestly, apart from the Hall of Fame and the great memories/tradition, Windy Hill does not really offer a quality membership experience. The club now has a chance to not only build the state of the art players training facilities, including an MCG size playing oval, but also provide members with some first class amenities, restaurants and bars. Frankly, this was always the problem with playing home games at the MCG and Colonial/Telstra/Etihaad - there was no real place for members to gather before and after, that was truly and Essendon amenity.
We will never have that experience but a members venue closer to the city, in between the two stadiums would be excellent. a place that everyone going in to see the games could easily access before or after. (the players traning centre doesnt have to be in the same place - that can be wherever the football oval is.)
Wonder where all those quality acts such as Russ "The Real Thing" Morris, Kamahl and the Cliff Richard Impersonator will play now that the Social Club is on the move... Bowls Club?
Doc, there is a whole new breed of shit entertainers just waiting to fill the void in our dazzling new Club - That guy from Pseudo Echo springs to mind, he's looking for work covering electro-synth hits of the eighties
Has anyone actually taken advantage of this?Gimps wrote:Now, come on Windy... What about the MELTON COUNTRY CLUB?!! It's an A-GRADE facility in a PRIME location
Essendon chairman David Evans revealed today that the Bombers had held discussions with the airport and showgrounds as a fall-back if they were unable to convince the bowls club to move.
That's how the nickname came about - from Essendon Airport during the war years.robrulz5 wrote:Would kinda be fitting, the Bombers based at an airport.
Indeed it is. Just beat me to it, BDBenDoolan wrote:That's how the nickname came about - from Essendon Airport during the war years.robrulz5 wrote:Would kinda be fitting, the Bombers based at an airport.
Dunno about clandestine and sneaky but the Bowling buddies are stretching things a tweensy bit with their 100 year claim.grassy1 wrote:Why should the BOWLS and CROQUET Club be BULLIED into moving/They've been here for over 100 years.
Sounds like we want to Have our Cake and Eat it too and to me,it's a case of the FOOTBALL CLUB SPITTING THE DUMMY and SNATCHING OUR RENT.
The 2 Head figures at the Bowling Club are LIFE EMBERS of the Football Club r at least RON HARE is.I thik they've been above board in this and with their members,whilst we've looked CLANDESTINE and SNEAKY.
I dont remember the club choosing Knights over Thompson, nor do I recall Thompson ever wanting to leave Geelong while they were the best team in the competition.By choosing Matthew Knights as coach and not Mark Thompson, the Bombers attempted to put a line between the factionalism which had haunted Essendon and begun to erode it in Sheedy's final years.