bobmurray wrote:I'm disappointed the offer Casey eventually made to Melbourne couldn't have been made to StKilda,it just took them too long to realise an asset has to be part of any substantial offer to an AFL club and now StKilda is
getting off on having an alliance with Sandy,a training base at Frankston,a social club at Moorabbin and playing home games at the Dome.....
You cant get a bigger spread than that....No one else would do it....
The Frankston offer was about a block of land on which the admin offices would be built ($1 million block of land + $3-4 million building funded from AFL/State Government). That block of land is still there, but the admin offices no longer seem to be going to be built on it.
The Casey offer would have been a greater spend on player facilities.
At the end of the day the decision probably revolved around two things:
* the lure of getting an asset worth $4-5 million (which now probably won't happen)
* the fact that there were no cafes within cooee of Casey Fields (which will change over the next 10 years).
Had the club pushed for an asset at Casey Fields instead of being easily lured by the prospect of the apparently simple $4-5 million asset, then things may have worked out quite differently.
But the club didn't push because there were no cafes (cafes come with vibrancy, atmosphere etc, and that is in short supply in what is a rural area at the moment).
