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Re: Adelaide

Postby Booney » Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:38 am

The Bedge wrote:
Wedgie wrote:Geez, you'd suck at my job with those investigation skills!

Don't you just pour beers for pensioners?


Work is for suckers. :D
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Wedgie » Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:40 am

The Bedge wrote:
Wedgie wrote:Geez, you'd suck at my job with those investigation skills!

Don't you just pour beers for pensioners?

Nah mate, got bored of that a while back and moved back into office work almost 3 months ago.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Jim05 » Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:46 am

A piece of me is sad that the old Thebby grandstands will make way.
I just hope some of the West Torrens history and great names can somehow be incorporated into the new precinct
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Wedgie » Wed Aug 24, 2022 10:49 am

Jim05 wrote:A piece of me is sad that the old Thebby grandstands will make way.
I just hope some of the West Torrens history and great names can somehow be incorporated into the new precinct

Are the club rooms still similar to what they used to be?
Spent many nights down there in the 80s as a kid as my step dad was a mad Eagles supporter.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby cracka » Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:01 am

Jim05 wrote:A piece of me is sad that the old Thebby grandstands will make way.
I just hope some of the West Torrens history and great names can somehow be incorporated into the new precinct

Wouldn't the West Torrens history & honour boards be at Woodville
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Re: Adelaide

Postby cracka » Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:02 am

What happens to the AdFL
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:04 am

cracka wrote:What happens to the AdFL

They're not there anymore.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Vamos » Wed Aug 24, 2022 11:41 am

cracka wrote:
Jim05 wrote:A piece of me is sad that the old Thebby grandstands will make way.
I just hope some of the West Torrens history and great names can somehow be incorporated into the new precinct

Wouldn't the West Torrens history & honour boards be at Woodville


Maybe talking about the Grandstand names, The Hank Brothers for example.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Armchair expert » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:04 pm

Good luck with transit around the Thebarton area
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Wedgie » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:24 pm

Armchair expert wrote:Good luck with transit around the Thebarton area

No luck needed, 5 minute walk! :D
But yeah South Rd around there is awful.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Lightning McQueen » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:27 pm

Armchair expert wrote:Good luck with transit around the Thebarton area


Need to be able to travel south from from the roundabout, run along behind the houses and come out near the swim centre. Skate park would need relocating if they want sufficient parking for AFLW home games.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Jimmy_041 » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:43 pm

Wedgie wrote:
Booney wrote:Hey, get excited mate, after 30 years you get a cafe!

Surely they'll get a bar of some sort too (or as I alluded to before get the West Thebby involved)

PS Just discovered West The by wasnt a typo, it's the bloody phones spell check! :evil:


I remember about 3 elections ago Sam Dastyari was in town to announce, with Wong & Georganas, the $6m Thebarton development
What a NSW Senator was doing here is anyone's guess (probably got lost)

Anyway, he was on 5AA in the morning and was talking about it. I called in and told him "Mate - you better get the name right or everyone will know you're not a local. Its The Barton" He spent the rest of the interview calling it The Barton. I cant remember who was running the 5AA show but they didn't let him know. Mind you - his 1st question was "What are you doing here in SA" so they probably enjoyed it
Georganas told him he'd been set up at the onsite announcement.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby DOC » Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:59 pm

Many a man and boy have blocked Leon from their memory.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Jimmy_041 » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:26 pm

DOC wrote:Many a man and boy have blocked Leon from their memory.


I think it was him. Not sure because I've blocked that part of the memory
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Ronnie » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:32 pm

speaking of 5AA, David Penberthy very negative this morning about the Thebarton news, bad location, 'second rate option'. Bemoaned the treatment of the club in relation to the Adelaide Council, Parklands Preservation society, previous Marshall government. Sounded a little entitled it must be said, as if the normal planning rules don't apply to the biggest sporting group in the state.
he and KG will represent a portion of the supported base in near despair at the landing place for the Crows. But in the fullness of time, Thebarton may well be more than adequate for what they need, and all the alternate sites will be forgotton. Probably not a fantastic location in terms of traffic and transport, but it is mainly a training facility and it appears to be a large enough parcel of land.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Booney » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:36 pm

Ronnie wrote:speaking of 5AA, David Penberthy very negative this morning about the Thebarton news, bad location, 'second rate option'. Bemoaned the treatment of the club in relation to the Adelaide Council, Parklands Preservation society, previous Marshall government. Sounded a little entitled it must be said, as if the normal planning rules don't apply to the biggest sporting group in the state.
he and KG will represent a portion of the supported base in near despair at the landing place for the Crows. But in the fullness of time, Thebarton may well be more than adequate for what they need, and all the alternate sites will be forgotton. Probably not a fantastic location in terms of traffic and transport, but it is mainly a training facility and it appears to be a large enough parcel of land.


I've just had a bit of a look at the proposed facility, does indeed look world class.

Thing is, has it been designed for the football program or the football program and the customers? Methinks those who are upset about it know the customers are being left out. No surprise, they've been ignored for 30 years.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby RB » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:38 pm

Are we sure they're knocking the stands down? I would've thought they could be incorporated into the new set up somehow.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby MW » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:38 pm

Booney wrote:
Ronnie wrote:speaking of 5AA, David Penberthy very negative this morning about the Thebarton news, bad location, 'second rate option'. Bemoaned the treatment of the club in relation to the Adelaide Council, Parklands Preservation society, previous Marshall government. Sounded a little entitled it must be said, as if the normal planning rules don't apply to the biggest sporting group in the state.
he and KG will represent a portion of the supported base in near despair at the landing place for the Crows. But in the fullness of time, Thebarton may well be more than adequate for what they need, and all the alternate sites will be forgotton. Probably not a fantastic location in terms of traffic and transport, but it is mainly a training facility and it appears to be a large enough parcel of land.


I've just had a bit of a look at the proposed facility, does indeed look world class.

Thing is, has it been designed for the football program or the football program and the customers? Methinks those who are upset about it know the customers are being left out. No surprise, they've been ignored for 30 years.


How have they been left out? Because they can't drink alcohol?
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Re: Adelaide

Postby RB » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:40 pm

Wedgie wrote:
Jim05 wrote:A piece of me is sad that the old Thebby grandstands will make way.
I just hope some of the West Torrens history and great names can somehow be incorporated into the new precinct

Are the club rooms still similar to what they used to be?


From memory, having checked it out about 15 years ago, no it's all different to pre-1990.
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Re: Adelaide

Postby Booney » Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:46 pm

MW wrote:
Booney wrote:
Ronnie wrote:speaking of 5AA, David Penberthy very negative this morning about the Thebarton news, bad location, 'second rate option'. Bemoaned the treatment of the club in relation to the Adelaide Council, Parklands Preservation society, previous Marshall government. Sounded a little entitled it must be said, as if the normal planning rules don't apply to the biggest sporting group in the state.
he and KG will represent a portion of the supported base in near despair at the landing place for the Crows. But in the fullness of time, Thebarton may well be more than adequate for what they need, and all the alternate sites will be forgotton. Probably not a fantastic location in terms of traffic and transport, but it is mainly a training facility and it appears to be a large enough parcel of land.


I've just had a bit of a look at the proposed facility, does indeed look world class.

Thing is, has it been designed for the football program or the football program and the customers? Methinks those who are upset about it know the customers are being left out. No surprise, they've been ignored for 30 years.


How have they been left out? Because they can't drink alcohol?


You have no club. No home. No base. West Lakes is and has always been for the players and admin, what have the fans ever had as their own? As somewhere to celebrate, commiserate?

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