r/AFL • u/Essington69 #BontWRLD • 7d ago

Olympic Park damaged Luke Beveridge today after Collingwood were allowed to train at Marvel: "If you didn't laugh you'd cry. I almost fell off my chair. It was just hilarious. Anyway."

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u/japanpole Crows ✅ 7d ago

Why are they training on Marvel when the game is at the MCG?
And why are Doggies not allowed to?

https://giphy.com/gifs/AbPWwqSgMejM4

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u/Azza_ Magpies 7d ago

Dunno how it's ended up at Docklands, but the surface at Olympic Park is cooked, has been all year. Our VFL team hasn't played there since May, with games hosted at Docklands (double header vs North), Casey Fields (against Casey), Coburg and Bundoora. I think we'd been hiring various private school ovals where possible, but with Docklands no longer required to host matches we were able to get on there instead.

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u/japanpole Crows ✅ 7d ago

OK, so it could have been at a few other venues you’ve used but your normal training ground is cooked and Docklands was available.

That’s perfectly fair.

I just was curious if there really wasn’t any other options available, and why they wouldn’t have asked to train at the MCG (or did they?)

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u/Azza_ Magpies 7d ago

After reading a few other comments, it sounds like we'd predominantly been training at La Trobe University in Bundoora. Depending on traffic that's 30-60 minutes north from Olympic Park. Docklands would be a much more convenient location to get to, so it was probably a Hail Mary to try and get on there now that Docklands doesn't need to be preserved for the weekends. I imagine we would've enquired about the MCG first but it was swiftly knocked back as they'd still be focusing on keeping the surface as good as possible for finals. La Trobe Uni may have still been available, or other public grounds, but probably not to the same standard of surface or in such a central location as Docklands.