Seaford New Pics - and the suspect grass??

plugger66 · Post: # 1025270Post **plugger66** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 6:51am

Bernard Shakey wrote:
saintbrat wrote:Jack
have a look at this one too
http://www.nearmap.com/
put seaford in the find box or "east road Seaford Vic"

and you will see the Saints new home
Just zoom in and you can see trucks at work from Mid Oct.
Well if the mossies from the swamp don't give them dengue fever, the emissions from the freeway will give them emphysema. Great place for an elite training facility.

Didnt you say a school was there. I reckon if they can have a school with kids in it then we can take a punt that the place is safe. BS can I ask why it worries you so much. It seems you are one of few on here that do go to training but I gather this year with so many closed sessions you only went a few times at the most this year. Surely 3 to 4 trips that are only 25 minutes longer will not hurt you afterall it seems that you have been there when there wasnt even training on.

bergholt · Post: # 1025278Post **bergholt** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 8:18am

Bernard Shakey wrote:No, it's surrounded by a swamp, two freeways...

peninsula link isn't built yet, is it? presumably that will be under construction when the boys are training! bj could get run over by a cement mixer!!! what about the construction noises while the boys are trying to meditate!!!!!

Moccha · Post: # 1025287Post **Moccha** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 9:45am

Here's an aerial shot taken from my helicopter last month

ChicagoSaint · Tue 23 Nov 2010 10:15am

Great shot Moccha!!

The turf at Seaford is Kikuyu I believe rather than the Bent of Moorabbin.

SainterK · Post: # 1025302Post **SainterK** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 11:13am

Great pic Moccha, ta!

ChicagoSaint · Tue 23 Nov 2010 12:01pm

as i write this post they are top dressing the oval.

Con Gorozidis · Tue 23 Nov 2010 12:55pm

Its carrum downs not seaford.

starting to look pretty good though. need some lights and some trees and it will be cool.

as long as the pool and gym are ready for summer.
i don have a simple question - aside running laps - where do the boys do their 3km time trials? along the freeway?

running around in circles on a baking oval all summer isnt the best training environment lets be honest.

saintlee · Post: # 1025331Post **saintlee** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 12:59pm

Con Gorozidis wrote:Its carrum downs not seaford.

No its not. Belvedere park is in Seaford.

Bernard Shakey · Tue 23 Nov 2010 1:11pm

Con Gorozidis wrote:Its carrum downs not seaford.

starting to look pretty good though. need some lights and some trees and it will be cool.

as long as the pool and gym are ready for summer.
i don have a simple question - aside running laps - where do the boys do their 3km time trials? along the freeway?

running around in circles on a baking oval all summer isnt the best training environment lets be honest.

No, it's Seaford 3198. Carrum Downs 3201 is the other side of the freeway and Boggy Creek right beside the oval.

zebraman · Post: # 1025345Post **zebraman** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 1:47pm

Collingwood train next to the M1 tollway...and on the other side Swan Street isn't exactly devoid of cars...

Once built the Peninsula Link will be next to the training complex, but the Frankston freeway is hardly NEXT to the Belvedere Park complex

Take a drive there...it's actually a pleasant area....all those suburban things...houses...schools...bowling clubs...and some factories on one side...shock horror

Seems like some people were expecting views of the Sydney Opera House or watching herds of Wildebeest running majestically across the plains

Quixote · Post: # 1025367Post **Quixote** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 2:56pm

Moccha wrote:Here's an aerial shot taken from my helicopter last month

Hey Moccha can I borrow your helicopter this weekend?

saintbrat · Post: # 1025371Post **saintbrat** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 3:22pm

Quixote wrote:
Moccha wrote:Here's an aerial shot taken from my helicopter last month
Hey Moccha can I borrow your helicopter this weekend?

take off point

http://www.nearmap.com/

chook23 · Post: # 1025376Post **chook23** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 3:56pm

Has someone drawn the goal/point posts in...........pic

shadows of posts look odd.....is it just me

Moccha · Post: # 1025377Post **Moccha** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 3:56pm

Quixote wrote:
Moccha wrote:Here's an aerial shot taken from my helicopter last month
Hey Moccha can I borrow your helicopter this weekend?

Sure as long as you bring it back in one piece

sunsaint · Post: # 1025379Post **sunsaint** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 4:24pm

chook23 wrote:Has someone drawn the goal/point posts in...........pic

shadows of posts look odd.....is it just me

yeah the first thing I noticed too.
the bottom ones are not right
Where is the pool located?

Go Sainters Go · Tue 23 Nov 2010 4:24pm

ChicagoSaint wrote:Great shot Moccha!!

The turf at Seaford is Kikuyu I believe rather than the Bent of Moorabbin.

The grass/turf at Moorabbin and Seaford are hybrid couch, virtually the same - gives a magnificent surface. Used on the best golf courses.
Wouldn't want to use kikuyu as it's broad leafed and you couldn't bounce a ball on it. Bent grass is a fine leafed grass used on putting greens, bowling greens - would be no good on an oval.

ChicagoSaint · Tue 23 Nov 2010 4:44pm

Go Sainters Go wrote:
ChicagoSaint wrote:Great shot Moccha!!

The turf at Seaford is Kikuyu I believe rather than the Bent of Moorabbin.

The grass/turf at Moorabbin and Seaford are hybrid couch, virtually the same - gives a magnificent surface. Used on the best golf courses.
Wouldn't want to use kikuyu as it's broad leafed and you couldn't bounce a ball on it. Bent grass is a fine leafed grass used on putting greens, bowling greens - would be no good on an oval.

nice one GSG

I'm no greenskeeper but yeah the turf looks broader than moorabbin.
They were top dressing it today. the whole oval is now covered in sand.

saintbrat · Post: # 1025385Post **saintbrat** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 4:49pm

chook23 wrote:Has someone drawn the goal/point posts in...........pic

shadows of posts look odd.....is it just me

shadows not of goals posts
they are from the net behind the goal posts

if you check pwoits photos you see the netting behind...

chook23 · Post: # 1025390Post **chook23** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 5:00pm

saintbrat wrote:
chook23 wrote:Has someone drawn the goal/point posts in...........pic

shadows of posts look odd.....is it just me
shadows not of goals posts
they are from the net behind the goal posts

if you check pwoits photos you see the netting behind...

Have seen that now

Posts at building end?

appear staggered

(goal square marking??)

illusion....

just do not look right

saintbrat · Post: # 1025392Post **saintbrat** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 5:05pm

chook23 wrote:
Have seen that now

Posts at building end?

appear staggered

(goal square marking??)

illusion....

just do not look right

if you go to the nearmaps link
you can turn the original photo to right or left and you get an angled view. there are about 4 diffeant angles-
Multi view
http://www.nearmap.com/

Quixote · Post: # 1025393Post **Quixote** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 5:06pm

Moccha wrote:
Quixote wrote:
Moccha wrote:Here's an aerial shot taken from my helicopter last month
Hey Moccha can I borrow your helicopter this weekend?
Sure as long as you bring it back in one piece

Sweet. I've never flown one before, but I'm sure it's pretty much the same as those old simulator arcade games I used to play at Timezone.

Can you drop it off at my place tomorrow? I have a hot date and I'm positive she'll be impressed by this

Moccha · Post: # 1025406Post **Moccha** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 5:34pm

OK but it's only a one seater so your girlfriend will have to straddle the joystick

ChicagoSaint · Tue 23 Nov 2010 8:42pm

if this thread weren't hit on the head dead and dragged into the scrub after the joystick remark the last gasp of air is soon slowly being breathed.

time for another seaford thread......

GreatNo9s · Post: # 1025482Post **GreatNo9s** » Tue 23 Nov 2010 8:45pm

I had a tour inside late last week and it's simply amazing
Compared to Moorabbin its light years ahead

Oval has a few dips here & there that they're fixing now
Grass cover was pretty lush and they're cutting it down over the next week

Interesting that all councils are having trouble with grass on ovals - its growing too fast with the heat & rain. After years of drought that's hard to imagine

As for travel it took me 30 mins from Moorabbin
I live near Camberwell and it took me 30 mins to get home on Eastlink / Monash to Burke Rd

As for a swamp nearby, couldn't see one
Freeway works have started down there - early days yet
My guess is when it get full on in the construction phase the boys will revert back to Moorabbin

Anyway hope this adds something positive to the debate

ChicagoSaint · Tue 23 Nov 2010 8:47pm

GreatNo9s wrote:I had a tour inside late last week and it's simply amazing
Compared to Moorabbin its light years ahead

Oval has a few dips here & there that they're fixing now
Grass cover was pretty lush and they're cutting it down over the next week

Interesting that all councils are having trouble with grass on ovals - its growing too fast with the heat & rain. After years of drought that's hard to imagine

As for travel it took me 30 mins from Moorabbin
I live near Camberwell and it took me 30 mins to get home on Eastlink / Monash to Burke Rd

As for a swamp nearby, couldn't see one
Freeway works have started down there - early days yet
My guess is when it get full on in the construction phase the boys will revert back to Moorabbin

Anyway hope this adds something positive to the debate

great stuff! and hopefully we'll see gamble in the #9