No doubt? Do have a concrete basis for your confidence?

The former CEO of Maribyrnong council (who was there when they rejected the Victory COE) is now CEO of Wyndham council. This shouldn’t be a problem. Kate Roffey is in charge of getting this project delivered. But it just adds another layer to people’s concerns at a time when there is no communication at all to stakeholders. There is no doubt in my mind the stadium will be built, but the lack of news is so fucking frustrating.

They are not my team, i'm with Syd Oly but if they start digging in a couple of months will all this get retracted becsuse of non patience? What about buying a 1 year membership as a truce? Wait, I'll remind everyone then.

Jimbo won't come back here  .  His ego won't allow for it and he'll claim he never was on here 

We need these sorts of characters back on this forum, if nothing else, for the entertainment value!

He's a nutter.  Claimed to speak to Desmond tutu and said we were a shoe in for the 2022 World cup.  Claim his we are Football stickers would help and on here cost us the world cup due to certain poster attacking him.  And when u confront him about it, he claims it wasn't him

Hahahah superfan eh? 

Ah you mean jimbo? Guy has been disowned by the wu active support . And he tried to weasel himself back to mv but active don't want nothing to do with him. He was front and centre when mv tried to get our academy at footscray Park but he was also disowned by the people as well. 

Given the training venue was announced last year and stated to start in early 2021, it’s getting beyond a joke. 

What ever happened to that Yosemite  Sam guy with the handlebar moustache and the no swearing policy on their launch video, the guy with the "save Hakeem" banners?  ... 
Feel sorry for the few supporters these guys managed to gather around their realestate scam. I hope at least when the house and land packages have been sold and the mini shopping centre/ training ground they build on land GIFTED to them by the council is complete, they don't just pull stumps on the club and leave all the fans in the lurch.... Im sure they'll  build the shops, and corporate office space but the "stadium" will be be a little underwhelming by then.... Oh well sleep with dogs you wake up with fleas I suppose.

And those real estate moguls have quietly backed out . The Chinese investors pulled the plug due to the falling market.  

They weren't "gifted" any land, they own it by purchasing it. I don't think that the stadium is a real estate scam per se, more that a group of rich guys thought they could use real estate development to fund their dream of owning their very own football team. But the costs are mounting up, and the longer the stadium takes to materialise the more difficult it will become to actually build interest in the team after years of a nomadic existence with hardly any fans. 

They should forget about Geelong and Ballarat and focus purely on being a team for the western suburbs of Melbourne. Play all home games at Whitten Oval until the stadium is built. And hope to god that train station materialises, because without the stadium will be a bitch to get to. Even if all their ducks fall into place it will still be a good decade or two until that area is fully built out with a residential population.

Macarthur has an existing stadium (perfect size for A-League), existing transport links and an existing catchment population to serve, so even though they've had a rocky start I have a lot more confidence they will flourish in the long-term. 

Even so, the best either of these teams can hope for is something like the Mariners. The idea that they would be massive clubs like the existing Sydney/Melbourne teams was fanciful. All future expansion should be regional areas without existing A-League teams (with perhaps an exception for an Ipswich team in the west of Brisbane).

It only makes some sense if they are able to develop the land they were gifted without ever actually building a stadium.
Even then the finances don't really add up.

This is WU thread and yet there are no club supporters on here, ever. 

The award of this licence was so on the nose that you have to wonder who was paid off to get it done.
But also why the backers bothered, because this is costing them literally millions upon millions of dollars, and to what end? 

They are shovel ready now. Dig a hole and bury them.

Sounds like federal liberal speak. No wonder it was BS.

We were promised the stadium would be "shovel ready" the moment the bid got the green light.

I don't think wyndham city council will allow a club to be name that.  

The stadium location is actually just as close to Wyndham Vale station as it is Tarneit station, if not closer. It is next to a yet to be built station that remains unnamed.

Wyndham City would be okay but I imagine CFG would have conniptions about another A-League club in Melbourne taking the "City" moniker.

Name them after the council that covers those suburbs, 'Wyndham City'

Done

Yeah I love the a league but I can’t defend them.

we really need to get rid of them before next season 

What a debacle. Degraded the whole A League. 

When a new bunnings is nearly finished in tarneit and the stadium hasn't started something is up

Thats what an empty paddock, miles from civilization, with only a 2 lane back road road going past it looks like. hahahahahahahahah

That's what land looks like before it is cultivated or used to build a Stadium. Look at all that room for more fields, pretty impressive.. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Aleague/comments/nt6cgc/drone_footage_of_the_wyndham_city_stadium_site/
31 months since Western Melbourne Group were given a license to participate in the Aleague .........

Their offices are for lease and there merch store has been leased out to a Indian dress maker. I work near it and it's worrying.  The only thing to tie to wu is their signage on the building

Why name themselves that ? Wyndham vale is actually a suburb and nowhere near tarneit 

Ben Jorgensen is an 18-year-old from Albury and he has followed Western United everywhere since the club’s inception.

Following United's match against Wellington Phoenix in New Zealand in May, Ben has completed every single away trip in the A-League across the last two seasons.

Ben had been eyeing off the Phoenix fixture all season in the hope that the opportunity to go to Wellington would open up, with COVID restrictions up until now seeing the New Zealand club set up camp in Wollongong.

“Away days are always an experience, you see new things, experience new places, you take that plunge and away you go, you get hooked on it,” Ben said.

“I knew we had to play Wellington away one more time, whenever I looked at the fixtures, and I’d hoped our game would be in New Zealand."

In what has been a gruelling season for players and staff alike at the club, the importance of fan support has not gone unnoticed.

And this is something that rings true to Ben, who always tries to ensure that he is behind the team.

“There’s that social side, and going and making sure that the team knows – even if it’s just me or just a handful of as at an away game – that we’re right behind them."

Ben even jumped at the opportunity to follow the team to Tasmania in April, completing a visit to every Australian state in which the club has played this season.

In total, Ben has travelled approximately 26,729km to support the team throughout the 2020/21 A-League season.

This is the equivalent of 67% of the earth’s circumference, the length of 255 football pitches, or the distance between the club’s training ground at City Vista Sports Complex and the club's head office in Truganina, multiplied by 1,965.

But most importantly out of all of this, Ben has found a community of people in Western United, a valued member of the Western Service Crew, and the club has been part of his life during all the ups and downs.

“It’s very important to me. This club, it’s got me through some hard times personally,” he said.

“I’ve been in some dark places, and just to know that I’ve got the club itself, and everyone attached to it from the staff at the club to the Western Service Crew.

“To know that I’ve got all those people there who are there for me, it means a lot.”

Ben brings his friends along whenever he can and encourages new members to join the community, and he says they almost always enjoy the experience and the active support.

Unfortunately for the club, Ben will have less opportunity to support the team from next season as he embarks on a fantastic opportunity in the army as an aircraft handler.

While his presence in the stadiums will be sorely missed, Ben will most definitely continue to support the club from home and will remain an important part of the Western United family.

https://www.wufc.com.au/news/western-united-super-fan-joys-following-club

This is an unbelievable effort, fair play to the lad.