Bulldogs Training

[Guest]

Heading down tomorrow first the first time in many a years. Yet to be down to Whitten oval with the new developments...

If I recall correctly then West Footscray is the station to get off? Anything else I really need to know?

Ill be the teenager with a couple of mates donning the Huddo scarf

[LostDoggy]

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Wear something warm - Whitten Oval can be a cold windy place!

[LostDoggy]

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Yes, West Footscray is the correct station. Enjoy!!

[mighty_west]

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Wear something warm - Whitten Oval can be a cold windy place!

There was only one colder & more windy than Whitten Oval, and that was VFL Park...but as cold & windy Whitten Oval did get, bloody loved it.

[BulldogBelle]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

[LostDoggy]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

You should try playing there in Mid August....now that's cold!!

[Greystache]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

Not a problem from my corporate box overlooking the ground (my loungeroom)

[LostDoggy]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

Half an hour beforehand, that's where the breeze was.

[FlightoftheCallanWards]

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Cheers Magic Griffen and Suz32. Already had the warm clothes ready to go
Yeah I have heard that Burbank is a mightily cold place. Still need to get down there to watch Willy also...

Oh and with training is there anywhere to have a bit of a kick? Im assuming you can't but can you go on the ground after they go inside?

Cheers

[LostDoggy]

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Oh and with training is there anywhere to have a bit of a kick? Im assuming you can't but can you go on the ground after they go inside?

Cheers

The oval itself is open for unorganised sports/training (kick to kick etc) outside of any training by the Bulldogs. Unless the ground is booked for something else, kick away to your heart's content!!

[LostDoggy]

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There was only one colder & more windy than Whitten Oval, and that was VFL Park...but as cold & windy Whitten Oval did get, bloody loved it.

Oh yes, VFL park was freezing too, probably wetter in my memory as well. Seemed there was always a rain cloud over there! Don't get me wrong, I have wonderful memories of Whitten Oval - I think I was tougher then - didn't mind sitting in the cold and wet so much. I recall two games in particular, EJ's last against Hawthorn - and the last game held at WO against West Coast - both extremely wet (probably West Coast was more rain) but I shall never forget watching and listening to EJ standing in the mud, in the pouring rain, and me bawling because he was not going to play anymore. I feel privileged to have that memory actually, and proud!

[Twodogs]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

You should try playing there in Mid August....now that's cold!!

Half an hour beforehand, that's where the breeze was.

Meh!


Willy Tech in the '70s. Sports oval. 8am on a July or August morning.

That was bloody cold!

[Greystache]

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Meh!


Willy Tech in the '70s. Sports oval. 8am on a July or August morning.

That was bloody cold!

My Dad went to Willi Tech about the same time, he reckons the recently arrived imigrants at the school had been sold the dream "move to sunny Australia", some them wanted to look into their legal options!!

[Twodogs]

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My Dad went to Willi Tech about the same time, he reckons the recently arrived imigrants at the school had been sold the dream "move to sunny Australia", some them wanted to look into their legal options!!

Heh! "Sunny" Australia...


My best mate at school was born in a little village in Macedonia and he moved here with the rest of his family because the Balkans is such a politically unstable place. They arrived in Australia on November 11th 1975, just in time to find out the PM had been sacked and the prevailing view was that Australia was going to heel in a handbasket. They nearly turned the taxi around and went straight back.

[mjp]

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Although not an AFL venue, Burbank Oval (Willi's home ground) is the coldest place I have ever watched footy at. When the breeze picks up it feels like Antarctica!

North Ballarat isn't much better.