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That is not my memory Bono.Bono wrote:Moorabbin were in the Federal League back then and playing at Moorabbin. They used what become the visitors rooms so when St Kilda built the grand stand, they biult it over the top of the existing rooms and took the middle partition out.
Thanks Bob, good to know the old memory is still functioning ok.bobmurray wrote:The Moorabbin News of March 26, 1964, announced to its readers that their Council had offered the St Kilda Football Club the Moorabbin Oval in Linton Street as its home ground. While final agreement had not been reached at that time, progress must have pleased many of the councillors for they had been trying to entice a League team to Moorabbin for more than a year. The Fitzroy club had inspected the Linton Street ground as had the Richmond club but they failed to take up the Council’s offer. [1]
The expectation was that the Moorabbin Football Club, the occupier of the Linton Street oval and the winner of a Victorian Football Association premiership flag the previous year, would amalgamate with the Saints. The new team would be known as the St Kilda – Moorabbin Football Club for ten years, after which time the St Kilda part of the title would be dropped. Cr Don Bricker, the president of the Moorabbin club was cautiously optimistic about the new developments but many Moorabbin members feared that their club would lose its identity. In fact, the naming provision was later dropped as the St Kilda constitution expressly prohibited a club name change without gaining the agreement of three quarters of its membership, an impossible target.
The reaction to the announcement by the Victorian Football Association was to suspend the Moorabbin Club on charges of disloyalty and as a result the Moorabbin Club gave restricted clearances to its players to join a variety of other clubs, including VFA teams, for 1965. Nevertheless, the 1964 season was a triumph for Moorabbin as it won the premiership flag for the first division.
The St Kilda Football Club had played for years at the Junction Oval managed by the St Kilda Cricket Club but had become dissatisfied with the financial arrangements and the inadequate facilities available to them. The Moorabbin Council proposal gave them a long term lease on the Linton Street ground, a new grandstand, two sewered toilet blocks, a graded car park, earth embankments and retaining walls, and concrete edges to terracing.
The areas underneath the parts of the stand still undemolished include dressing rooms and groundkeeping storage areas..the demolished parts had nothing of use underneath themcasey scorp wrote:Went past Linton Street this afternoon expecting to see the grandstand gone.
It was still as demolished (pretty much as I recall it) as at the intra-club.
Is there a hold-up?