If they're considering playing here, then it is ludicrous they didn't consider playing at Somers st these past few years. 

This training base will be lucky to have 2000 seats. 

This looks like the Ballarat football venue. Morsehead?

Thats just an image. The trees won't be there. Heard Pehlivanis might add enough seating to get the capacity up to 8k. Even 5k will do WU for the moment.

Either way, this is council built. 
Adding seats to the capacity will be more expensive than just doing terracing or hills. 
No way council will increase budget to fund seating to expand capacity. 

Careful of the rhetoric. 
Seating and capacity are 2 very different things. 

My point still stands. 
They could've used Somers st stadium if this is what they will move to next year. 

Derbies will most like still be at AAMI Park. The training ground will just be used for non-Victorian opposition. It's still undetermined whether they will continue bothering to hsot games in Geelong, Ballarat, Tasmania and what have you.

WU are helping to prop up the Jets, you reckon they cant afford extra seating? C'mon.
Melbourne Croatia wanted WU to refurbish they're Stadium for them whilst WU were to be tenants there. p..off to them! WU want to build their own, not refurbish someone else's as well.

Council built or not. Their own training facility with a stadium being 5k or more is fantastic. MV still training on a public dog park. 

Not criticising the training venue being built. 
Great for the club 

All I am saying is the 5000 capacity built venue will not be 5000 seats. A council won't expand it to a 5000 seated venue.  That is my point. 

Epping is a 5000 capacity venue. Only 1000 seats. No one thinks that'll be a great A-league venue. 

We'll see what happens with the council built venue. 
No chance there'll be 5000 seats. 

WU are probably paying 100k to play at AAMI. Probably paid more at kardinia park. 
Putting that money towards Somers st improvements and playing there for a few years would've benefitted everyone. 

They have to pay someone. Wouldn't it have been better to put it towards a grassroots venue in the west?

A teams wins the title and doesn't have a home ground.  Only in the A League.

Why don’t western play at city vista where the women’s team are playing? 

This would only work when they play City because the ground would cope with a couple people and a few stray dogs

You're not going fit 15k if they play Victory 

So their stadium sorry training facility is supposed to be completed by may. Is there any update on how it's going?

May ?   That's quicker than I expected.   I'd like to see some progress pictures or articles if any exist.    

Like the 2nd Division actually happening I'll believe it when I see it.   

With temporary seating the whole way around they could probably get to about 5k, similar to what they achieved with Macedonia Park and Upper Hutt in Wellington. That will do fine as an A league venue until they (if) start building the real stadium. 

Pelivanis was saying in podcasts that with temporary seating they can get a capacity of up to around 8-10 thousand. Like to see that.

Don't know about that. 
Pipedream. 

That the same bloke who said they're playing home game at Lakeside Stadium??  

The training base will be a weird one as it is surrounded by…. Nothing. It will likely be very windy and exposed to the elements.

Temporary seating without any cover will be very interesting, but given that there has been no mention of the actual stadium going ahead, I tend to think it’s getting more and more likely that they will have to deal with this solution for a long time.

It will be a very long wait for the stadium, but the training facility won't be surrounded by nothing for long. Houses are shooting up in Tarneit quicker than anywhere. It was be surrounded by shops and houses inside 2 years. 

In terms of the Somers Street discussion, my understanding is that WU had offered Melbourne Knights 250k per season and other revenues per game, however this wasn't enough for the Knights, who didn't want them to use Somers Street. Understandable but frustrating for the general supporter.

What should have happened is that they should have used Melbourne Showgrounds and built temporary seating around the sidelines that don't have permanent seats. That would have allowed a permanent home to be created, and not have to deal with the politics of using another teams venue. 

Perth Glory have made the most of a horrible situation this season, and its a shame that WU couldnt have done this from the start. 

Especially now that the precinct won't get the $100m in gov funding that the libs promised. I reckon they may still end up getting gov funding at some point, it just won't be anytime soon.

Wyndham City has video updates on its youtube video. Last update I saw was October but it looked significantly progressed at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0YCDQM0QUo&ab_channel=WyndhamCity

That's been around for a long while. WU have put alot of energy into Tasmanua, is that a sign of an eventual shift further south?
If funds have been promised by lib government but withheld, there may not be a 15k capacity Stadium at all. The  training grounds at best.
Has construction of the training grounds commenced again in January? Who knows.

It was an election promise, however the Libs lost the election in November, so unlikely for any gov funding within the next 4 years. Labor may decide to approve the funding but I doubt it. It is possible for the Libs to propose the funding in parliament and it get bipartisan support, but I also doubt that will happen. It was just an attempt by the Libs to capture the westy vote.

Meanwhile in the real world :)
https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/news/north-east-link-program/first-look-at-new-soccer-facilities-for-bulleen

That looks impressive. It’s good to see our game get some investment, and benefiting from the North East Link works. 

Manningham Council will manage usage of the new facilities by local clubs and the broader community.

Didn't Bulleen have their own ground managed by their social arm, the Veneto club?

Looks like they've gone backwards.

Do you have a salient point? I'm struggling to figure out what relevance this has to a post where i link a construction video. I think you're trying to say something broadly negative. Cool. World needs more of you...

Don't know what has happened with WU's media officer, but there has been a paucity of media publicity for the WU double header in Hobart today.

I was going to ring her to ask if she has provided info and media outlets have ignored it. We have had articles in the local Murdoch tabloid in the last three days. Yesterday and the day before was about ALW - with Aimee Medwin returning to her home of Hobart to play for WU.

However, a football journo mate of mine provided info to the tabloid weeks ago and we should have had a lot more publicity over the last few weeks.

Today we've finally had 2 articles on ALM.

WU was conducing coaching sessions with local players and coaches in the  last few days - which is good to see.

My salient point is that it is old footage. They won't  have the training ground ready for start of 2023-24  season. They haven't started construction on it again this year, yet.
Lib gov lost an election and forget funding for the main stadium. All in all, things look pretty shit.

Not the dumbest idea in the world.  Just call them Southern United, that'll do. 

Had no idea they were playing at North Hobart Oval until I saw the AL posted this on facebook.

Anyway I'm intrigued on how it sets up as a venue.
From my understanding, it's one of the more narrower ovals so more suitable to host football than say Docklands or the ballarat venue WU use for example.
It also has an elevated terrace on the wing which would be cool to see on display hosting football.

When I was 'all in' with emotional investment for the A-League 10-15 years ago I was hoping Tasmania United got accepted and converted North Hobart Oval into a dedicated football facility. Obviously a personal pipedream at the time.

Ironically since then it seems like the NBL have actually made it a reality and the Jackjumpers have been very succesful with a parochial fanbase with an upgraded venue and high attendances.