Labor promise Western Bulldogs will play two games in Ballarat every season

[GVGjr]

The only issue I have with it is the train service. It's a train and bus to get there if you don't want to drive.

The games need to be played early in the season not the middle of winter

[Bulldog4life]

The only issue I have with it is the train service. It's a train and bus to get there if you don't want to drive.

The games need to be played early in the season not the middle of winter

Thinking the same.

[G-Mo77]

The only issue I have with it is the train service. It's a train and bus to get there if you don't want to drive.

The games need to be played early in the season not the middle of winter

C'Mon. We're Bulldog fans, surely you spent time at WO in traditional football weather. Toughen up.

I do hope the same........

[GVGjr]

C'Mon. We're Bulldog fans, surely you spent time at WO in traditional football weather. Toughen up.

I do hope the same........

I went there for a VFL a couple of years ago. I've never been that cold. To make matters worse you couldn't get a hot pie after quarter time

[ratsmac]

I went there for a VFL a couple of years ago. I've never been that cold. To make matters worse you couldn't get a hot pie after quarter time

The players will have to train in meat freezers rocky style instead of the humidity chambers at Vic Uni before the Darwin /Cairns games.

[G-Mo77]

I went there for a VFL a couple of years ago. I've never been that cold. To make matters worse you couldn't get a hot pie after quarter time

Very rare to get a nice day in Ballarat during the footy season.

[Webby]

Very rare to get a nice day in Ballarat during the footy season.

The talk is for Adelaide or Port to be the opponents in Ballarat. With the freeze factor, I'd be inclined to go with Gold Coast or GWS. 20,000 would cover the turnout (Adelaide games pull more than 20k) and there's a chance to get a competitive advantage on the northern staters.

I'm looking forward to rugging up and getting to the 'rat! It could be a really atmospheric little ground. A nice variation on Etihad.

[LostDoggy]

I don't mind this one. What I don't want to see is the full Eureka flag, because although it has a deep history in Ballarat, it's associated everywhere else with the union movement, and I don't like me politics on me guernsey.

Turning a hoop into part of the flag, that's nice, I like it.

The only issue I have with it is the train service. It's a train and bus to get there if you don't want to drive.

The games need to be played early in the season not the middle of winter

Well, my partner and I have been discussing a move to Ballarat in the New Year, and subsequently umming and ahhing over home versus home and away memberships for the family. So we'll be rapt. I know another 15 Bulldogs supporters in Ballarat, and that's just the guys I know. This could be very promising for us, it could be our Tasmania, and without selling our soul — we are, after all, the Western Bulldogs now, not just the Footscray Bulldogs.

In regards to train services, well, if we move out there give us a bell and I'll come pick you up.