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Maybe they won't add it in ever.

If they didn't, i'd prefer they just dropped the "united" and were just "Western FC".

You know there is a football club in Brazil who are just Oeste. I think that works better. As a side note,  the Brazilian club shares the same colours as our WSW.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/western-united-and-wyndham-council-sign-off-on-training-venue-20200918-p55wyb.html

Here we go - news on training facility to be built in Tarneit. 3 pitches - one of which which having 5,000 seats for W-League and academy teams. 

Good news but slightly concerning that it will be open for other sports like rugby to use. Just wait until AFL X (If it still exists) get their hands on it too :(

Why wouldn't they just use the main stadium for W-League and Y-League teams? They are going to own the ground, there won't be any other prospective tenants, and it's going to be a boutique size. Doesn't seem to make much sense to have a 5000-seater venue as well.

Luckily nobody in Victoria plays either rugby code.

Hwat?? Lol a lot of people play both rugby codes here. Especially in wyndham .

https://www.wufc.com.au/news/western-uniteds-new-elite-training-facility-next-step-stadium-precinct-development

Image of the training precinct in that link. Looks great. It’s a very full on grandstand though, they may as well not bother with that and just focus on the actual stadium but overall it still will be a good thing. 

Just get 7500 seats and 3-5000 grass or terraces and that’s they’re solution for a home.
Doesnt need all the bells and whistles.

Tend to agree.

Have the main stand, a smaller seating area on the other opposite side of the field, with corporate facilities in that multi level building shown. Doesn’t even need seats or a hill behind the goals, as that can be just a wall if it needs to be.

A 10,000 seat stadium would suit them well, and if things really do well look to build the main stadium concept or expand the existing one. 

Yeah I've played rugby in Wyndham a lot of times. There and endeavor hills would be the closest area either game has to a heartland in Victoria due to the huge amount of pacific islanders who live in the area. You can bet that Storm or Rebels are going to investigate playing some games at this facility, especially pre season.

Better make sure they have a good ground maintenance team if rugby are going to use it. 

In wyndham vale they have a rugby pitch thats used for both and football.  Also the altona roosters is the draw for league. Iirc gaz widdop played there as a jnr 

I think the biggest news out of all of this is that planning permission has been applied for in regards to the stadium, after most getting to the point of losing any hope that it was even on the horizon (including myself).

Hopefully more details, in terms of the actual design and project staging of the overall masterplan will be available soon. The more I look at it, the more excited I am about the prospects of the precinct, but knowing that the initial plan is listed to cost $23 million, it doesn’t actually tend to buy as much as many think. 

Correct. There has been a few others from that club as well who have gone onto the NRL.

WU_fan?

Nah, still a City fan but given I grew up in the West and lived there until recently, even though I still believe Team 11 was a  stronger bid overall, 

Iirc there was another kid in gaz's year playing who played for the storm . Dunno what happened to the kid he was talented as hell. A kiwi but wanted to play for Australia.  Also went to school with gaz's wife . Man he is one lucky guy 😆😂

wyndham council have approved the stadium . They're waiting on wu .  This is a start . But there is already people complaing saying infrastructure is needed before any stadium is built as roads havent been put in place 

Wyndham council aren’t the only ones that have to approve this though, as there are state government approvals required also from what I understand. That process is underway and is awaiting an outcome soon.

There will be many NIMBY types everywhere that will be only too happy to cause a scene about anything, so I’m not surprised. It’s a valid point in many ways though that Transport infrastructure will have to be put in place, but as much of that is required to facilitate existing planned growth in the area, it’s a compelling case to be completed now anyway.

Surely you need backyards in the area before you can even get NIMBYS!

Thats were you're wrong.  The people complaining do live in tarneit,but in the othe side of tarneit where infrastructure has been already been done. Also a lot of wyndham residents can be a little dumb. Ie the proposed juvenile jail was protested by people who said its near schools and the housing.  Which I found strange since  the  majority protesting live in truganina have 2 prisons  near by and ignored it when they moved in 

PLenty on sokkahtwitter speculating that that may well be the end game.
Check this out from the council:


Appears to be suggesting that the whole development, which looks quite nice above, is taking up the whole of the site.
Seems to suggest that the ground with the 5k stadium is it.

Yeah just leave a little space for temporary seats on the other three sides of that pitch, would be more than sufficient for the short to medium term for WU, certainly miles better than their current collection of ovals, and it'd buy them up to a decade until they had to get the proper stadium finished.

I think post Covid it’s the best the club can do for the time being and is scalable with the clubs stature for the time being.
Expecting someone to part with over $100m right now is a bit of a dream but if they scale it back they can achieve a happy medium that gives the club a solid foundation moving forward.

Like you say, opposite to the main stand can be corporates, media, broadcasting and change rooms with club house and multi purpose function areas for flexible use and income streams.

If they can get 7,000 seats with min overall capacity of 10,000 it achieves everything they need in the next 3-5 years and gives the club a true home, something they can really build from.

Currently having a vague identity and multiple homes is really dragging the club down so I do hope they work with this facility and make do with it.

This type of facility is similar to what Team 11 was aiming for. I wonder if they’ll look for council funding to continue building the community facilities at Casey Fields.

Not knowing much about the area or even the state for that matter, could a potential name change to Wyndham United ever be on the cards? 

Even though at first it would at least appear to give them more of a specific identity, Wyndham is only one of quite a few council areas in the Western region. Naming it after that alone would be too limiting in terms of potential reach and appeal across the catchment area.that they are trying to tap into.

There's already  a club called wyndham United. Plus like heart fan stated they don't want to pigeon hole themselves as representing just wyndham