If your issue is with timing and what was promised. I've already conceded that point (refer to post #6). I'm comfortable that there's enough skin in the game that it'll happen. In the meantime, the progression to now having a home base represents progress from a team that 12 months ago was...

It's already started: https://greenandgoldfc.com/threads/a-league-mens-24-25-round-2.61/

You're conflating the stadium itself with the broader precinct, which always included the training facilities and requires infrastructure to be brought into the stadium site via earlier stages. But having said that, I'm entirely sure you're well aware of this. Honestly, the constant stadium pot...

They definitely went about it the wrong way, by trying to oversell the "shovel-ready" stuff when it clearly wasn't. No argument there. But I don't know about no tangible progress. I tried to post some hi-res aerial imagery of the site of the site from last week (but it was too big to upload)...

Well, the ground is at least as much owned by Western United as Lakeside is owned by South Melbourne.

I'll start this thread as there's no real online forum for Western United that I can see. Even if it ends being me having a discussion with myself, I'll endeavour to get this thread up and running. After watching Dad's Army the last few years, I'm really looking forward to seeing the academy...

I am sure Saudi away would be an enlightening experience. In all seriousness, I couldn't imagine having the cash to do regular away trips.

A lot of the diversity came from growing all up and down the east coast. So I'd mostly just play what the other kids were playing. When all the other kids are Italian and Greek you play football, and when you move somewhere there's no local rugby club, you find an Aussie rules footy club...

I watched most of it. Like others have said, I was also pleasantly surprised by how sharp Sydney looked. I was expecting Sanfrecce to completely play them off the park, but if SFC had been sharper in the final third, they could well have had 3 points. The first goal of Sanfrecce's was top...

In my younger days I played just about everything that I could... rugby union and league, Aussie rules, football, cricket, basketball, swimming. These days, I still play cricket pretty competitively, but there's no way my body can no longer hold up to to any of the more vigorous sports. I'll...

I don't know, I get the financial perspective. But personally I struggle to grasp the mentality of staying in the OFC for an automatic WC qualifying spot for 2 games every 4 years. In between that, the only games that matter, you're playing Pacific minnows. I mean, NZ are never going to win the...

Hope they really go well. Here's hoping that having 2 successful professional football sides in the A-League would be the catalyst for NZ Football to move to the AFC.

To be honest, the time frames for Tarneit Stadium aren't really as bad as everyone makes out for a privately-funded football/sokkah development (even with Council backing). It's not like an AFL/NRL project that state governments will willingly re-write laws to expedite, in addition to actively...

Hi guys, I've been an on- and off-again lurker of the 442 forums, and figured I'd sign up to the new forum. By way of background, I'm from a QLD rugby league family who moved to Melbourne, I played a bit of junior football, as I was too skinny to play rugby. Then played rugby and Aussie rules...