Hey Yob, does West Adelaide FC have something like this? :p

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10268989^661,00.html

Welcome to Pies' $17m nest
Shaun Phillips and John Ferguson
28jul04

COLLINGWOOD will unveil its league-leading $17 million home by the Yarra at an exclusive black-tie dinner tonight.

Magpie president Eddie McGuire has issued "passports" to 250 movers and shakers, including Premier Steve Bracks and AFL boss Andrew Demetriou.
McGuire declared the reborn 1956 Olympic aquatics complex the best training centre in the country. He said that the club's supporters had already embraced the club's move, after 112 years, from Victoria Park.

The opening comes just a day after a compromise was announced over naming rights.

The Lexus Centre gym will be the centrepiece of the training centre, but the nearby oval will be known as the Edwin Flack Field, after Australia's first gold-medal winner at the 1896 Athens Olympic Games.

In April, Collingwood said the oval would be named the Lexus Bob Rose Oval, but was accused by the Olympic Park Trust of playing fast and loose with public land by announcing the name without permission.

Under yesterday's deal, both Flack and Rose will be immortalised at Olympic Park.

The oval's pavilion and change room will be known as the Bob Rose Training Centre.

There will also be a Bob Rose rose garden and a bronze sculpture of the Collingwood legend.

McGuire said it was a positive outcome that enabled Collingwood to celebrate Rose.

Pies chief executive Greg Swann revealed the club had spent

$4 million on the gleaming Lexus Centre fit-out. "Apart from old photographs and trophies, everything here is brand new," he said.

The State Government spent $12.7 million on structural repairs and extensions to the pool-turned-Glasshouse basketball stadium.

Naming rights for the Lexus Centre were sold for a reported $16 million for eight years. Collingwood believes the centre will ensure the viability of the club.

"We're going to turn this into a place where all kids in Victoria will be able to come on the weekends and enjoy themselves," McGuire said.

"This is not just going to be about Collingwood and the VIS (Victorian Institute of Sport).

"This is going to be a centre for the youth of the future."

Hawthorn will when it moves to Waverly in a year or two.

Yeah we do Amaruu, it's called Richmond Oval. Are you telling me it took you this long to have a training facility and clubrooms? Wow, definitely behind at Collingwood. BTW, does Collingwood have a members bar with scooners for $1.30 and $6.50 for a fucken massive shnitzel?

Oh and at least we have pride in our history, instead of selling it out to car companies. How is Lexus Bob's family going anyway?

Go Pies

Yob, Victoria Oval mate, the mecca.

But now we're just moving with the times.

Well at least you didnt mention that bloody goal post, lol.

It sure as hell isn't a social club if it doesn't have a cut down, grand final losing behind post on the front bar.

That is passion, Amaruu. Passion. Something lacking in the 2003 Grand Final :)

Hey Yob, you wanna see passion? See Euro2004 :)