SA Footy

OSB might be on the hunt for a new coach soon. Hearing a few unhappy people around the club both on and off field.

6 weeks to late half the team has already quit on him. Some would say 2 years to late

Houghton getting new clubrooms, not that that clubrooms are needed, only parklands are needed #rightioMorgan



adelaidenow so no one can read it, might be on another website....
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Did you actually read the article? Its pretty much a carbon copy of what I've said

A 200-patron community centre in Houghton is expected to fill a “gaping hole” for facilities which unite local people.

Plans have been lodged for the hub at the Houghton, Inglewood and Hermitage Soldiers Memorial Park with the state government’s development assessment panel.

In a letter from the Houghton, Inglewood and Hermitage Soldiers Memorial Park Incorporated, president Matt Thomas said the development would be primarily used by the Houghton Districts Football Club with a “spectator plaza”.

However, it would also benefit the local cricket club, the CWA Houghton branch and Adelaide Hills Council and be used for weddings, birthdays and “community engagement”.

He said with a masterplan for the site created in 2003, it had been a near 20-year journey to this point.

“There’s a gaping hole for a facility like this for the community to come together,” Mr Thomas said.

“It’s not just for the footy club, the memorial park is a community space rather than just a sports facility.”

He said the two-storey hub with a function room would effectively replace “an old shed”.

He hoped works would begin immediately after stage one, which includes new unisex change rooms.

In his letter to the panel, Mr Thomas anticipated the hub would be managed by a paid centre manager and supported by a “significant number of volunteers”.

The Messenger revealed in October last year the Houghton, Inglewood and Hermitage Soldiers Memorial Park committee secured the final funds needed to construct the community space, following a $600,000 injection by the federal government.

The funds will cover about half of the $1.2m cost of the hub, which also received $400,000 from the state government and the Houghton CWA.

Meanwhile, Mr Thomas expected works would begin on stage one within six to four weeks and be ready for the start of next year’s football season.

Mr Thomas hoped the new unisex change rooms would usher in the next generation of female players with seven junior teams at present.

“The girls teams are going gangbusters … the girls are probably stronger than the boys at the moment,” Mr Thomas said.

He said works had already begun on a major lighting upgrade with the existing lights only illuminating about half of the oval.

The park area and facilities were purchased by the community in the 1950s – making it one of the Hills’ only non-council operated ovals.

morell wrote:Did you actually read the article? Its pretty much a carbon copy of what I've said

Except your point was missed as you waffled on about bars with old men sinking piss and raising money for a CHF.

The Bedge wrote:

guru36 wrote:Dont know how true it is i hear brahmas a grade coach has been given the sack

Edited that for you.

Might tidy up the resumé.

So I think Morrell's trying to tell us to describe your CHF obtaining bar as a "community centre" and all is sweet.

jo172 wrote:So I think Morrell's trying to tell us to describe your CHF obtaining bar as a "community centre" and all is sweet.

As long as you can still have old men like me sinking piss at the community centre, all is good.

Mr Beefy wrote:

morell wrote:Did you actually read the article? Its pretty much a carbon copy of what I've said

Except your point was missed as you waffled on about bars with old men sinking piss and raising money for a CHF.

Not waffle at all, absolutely goes into the strategic thinking of what to fund.

Councils, Office of Rec and Sport and other funding groups are not in the business of building bars. Lots of reasons for that, it creates competition for local businesses, which is often contradictory to economic development policies. But its also about health and aligning funding to where the broader community has said it wants their public money spent.

The local football paradigm of running bars at a profit to pay for players is a cancer on the sport, is one for the reasons for why other Sports have caught and perhaps overtaken footy and authorities have had enough.

Can you please put paradigm into a sentence next page too?

I think that the interpretation of bars being solely used for the purpose of profit and paying players is unduly cynical and narrow.

Putting to one side that many's predominant purpose it to pay overheads such as the oval, lights, utilities etc there is an obvious community and social benefit to providing like minded individuals a place to socialise and otherwise strengthen community ties.

The operation of bars by football clubs is of significant benefit to what would be the obvious alternative in a bunch of disparate groups setting up with their own eskis in what are public parks.

The hypothesis that football is falling behind also seems a bit flawed. Of the 70 odd clubs in the league an astounding proportion seem to have had substantial and impressive redevelopments over the last decade or at the least are presently contemplating them.

The Bedge wrote:

guru36 wrote:Dont know how true it is i hear brahmas a grade coach has been given the sack

Edited that for you.

I like Harvs a lot, played a lot of junior footy with and against. Funnily enough it appears what made him such a successful player, his passion, never say die attitude, backs against the wall looks to be his downfall as a coach.

Real hard for him to get another gig now, sadly.

jo172 wrote:I think that the interpretation of bars being solely used for the purpose of profit and paying players is unduly cynical and narrow.

Putting to one side that many's predominant purpose it to pay overheads such as the oval, lights, utilities etc there is an obvious community and social benefit to providing like minded individuals a place to socialise and otherwise strengthen community ties.

The operation of bars by football clubs is of significant benefit to what would be the obvious alternative in a bunch of disparate groups setting up with their own eskis in what are public parks.

The hypothesis that football is falling behind also seems a bit flawed. Of the 70 odd clubs in the league an astounding proportion seem to have had substantial and impressive redevelopments over the last decade or at the least are presently contemplating them.

PAOC don't have a bar but they do have a very good CHF

whufc wrote:Funnily enough it appears what made him such a successful player, his passion, never say die attitude, backs against the wall looks to be his downfall as a coach.

Hitting players and abusing umpires made him successful?

jo172 wrote:I think that the interpretation of bars being solely used for the purpose of profit and paying players is unduly cynical and narrow.

Putting to one side that many's predominant purpose it to pay overheads such as the oval, lights, utilities etc there is an obvious community and social benefit to providing like minded individuals a place to socialise and otherwise strengthen community ties.

The operation of bars by football clubs is of significant benefit to what would be the obvious alternative in a bunch of disparate groups setting up with their own eskis in what are public parks.

The hypothesis that football is falling behind also seems a bit flawed. Of the 70 odd clubs in the league an astounding proportion seem to have had substantial and impressive redevelopments over the last decade or at the least are presently contemplating them.

Perhaps all true, but when people are trying to spend public money, it is criteria that forms part of analysis.

Have to think about the broader landscape. Building a bar for $200k might mean not being able to build unisex changerooms somewhere else.

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Funnily enough it appears what made him such a successful player, his passion, never say die attitude, backs against the wall looks to be his downfall as a coach.

Hitting players and abusing umpires made him successful?

Back in the late 90's early 2000's it went a bloody long way to winning games unfortuantley

Jimmy_041 wrote:

jo172 wrote:I think that the interpretation of bars being solely used for the purpose of profit and paying players is unduly cynical and narrow.

Putting to one side that many's predominant purpose it to pay overheads such as the oval, lights, utilities etc there is an obvious community and social benefit to providing like minded individuals a place to socialise and otherwise strengthen community ties.

The operation of bars by football clubs is of significant benefit to what would be the obvious alternative in a bunch of disparate groups setting up with their own eskis in what are public parks.

The hypothesis that football is falling behind also seems a bit flawed. Of the 70 odd clubs in the league an astounding proportion seem to have had substantial and impressive redevelopments over the last decade or at the least are presently contemplating them.

PAOC don't have a bar but they do have a very good CHF

You're doing the $5 cans of coopers from the trestle tables an unfair disservice there.

Genuine question, unisex changerooms - do MP and Houghton have female teams? or even junior teams?