Analysis Should we be pursuing a secondary market post-Hobart? If yes, then where?

[Mr north man]

Keep selling games and people will wonder why our club died.

We go 4 weeks + without a Melbourne home games at times.
With ppl it’s about routine and if our home games are that far apart ppl lose interest and find other things to do.
We are dying a slow death of living on our knees.
We aren’t gaining fans by whoring ourselves all over the place - we’re losing fans.

Bring the games back to our heartland and get back to being innovators to make up the shortfall

Reason for this club dying is simple our supporters won’t attend games plain and simple

 

[domiroo]

Albury Wodonga. You would pack it out every time.

 

[MrSlippyFist]

People calling for a new stadium in Melbourne must be very young or new to the area and don't have any memory of the ugly years when Docklands Stadium was owned by the fund managers who paid to build it. A third stadium in Melbourne would have to be privately funded and it would cost clubs far more to play games there than Docklands or the MCG.

A third stadium won't be happening for at least 20 years, and by then attendances will naturally swell and there won't be an appetite for a third boutique stadium.

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

A third stadium won't be happening for at least 20 years, and by then attendances will naturally swell and there won't be an appetite for a third boutique stadium.

This. Also, most Melbourne clubs will have refurbished their home grounds to better accommodate AFLW and VFL games including limited undercover and spectator seating.

 

[shintemaster]

A smaller 3rd boutique stadium in Melbourne with a 20,000-30,000 capacity would be ideal for AFLW, smaller AFL games, and VFL games.

Unfortunately the cost/benefit numbers just don't add up, especially with construction and land costs bloody sky-rocketing in the last 5 years.

Yep. Ship has sailed - for now.

 

[tazaa]

Makes no sense.

Whilst having 11 home games in Melbourne is desirable for us, have you been to Princes Park lately? It would need to be completely bulldozed and rebuilt to get it fit for AFL matches. The AFL just aren't going to torch that sort of money for something that has no benefit for them, taking games away from the stadium they own and not growing the game at all.

I went to the AFLW grand final last year and regularly go for runs around Princes Park.
The Lygon Street side of the ground is in a world of hurt and even the grand stand is barely up to scratch.

The renovations have also recently been completed on the new admin and ground facilities.
All that money spent and jobs half done.

 

[tazaa]

Might be time revisit this...

Proposed E-Gate Stadium | Austadiums

Information about the proposed E-Gate Stadium on the Austadiums website.

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E-Gate Stadium​

Rejected Proposal

E-Gate Stadium was a proposed new Australian football ground located on rail yards next to North Melbourne station. The stadium was first mooted around 2009 as a solution for third 'boutique' AFL stadium in Melbourne capable of hosting lower-drawing matches. Its seating capacity was planned to be around 27,000. There was also talk it could be modified into a 44,000-capacity rectangular stadium for Australia's FIFA World Cup bid - freeing Docklands for the AFL. The concept designs showed the majority of seating on one side of the field with a three-tier grandstand and a single tier of seating on the other side of the ground. Talk of the new stadium went quiet and it never proceeded.

Location Melbourne, Victoria
Status Rejected
Capacity 27,000
Seats 27,000 (100% of capacity)
Proposed Sports Australian Football
Proposed Tennants

Too late

Part of the land has now been used for the new East-West link Tunnel