By JARROD POTTER
ELITE changerooms befitting two of Greater Dandenong’s elite sporting clubs officially opened on the weekend.
Noble Park’s premiership-winning football and cricket clubs have benefitted from upgraded changerooms and pavilion at Pat Wright Senior Oval, Moodemere Street – with grants from Club Noble ($650,000), City of Greater Dandenong ($240,000) and Bendigo Bank Dingley Village Community Bank ($11,000) helping complete the works.
With capital improvements on the change rooms and pavilion completed, the City of Greater Dandenong opened the changerooms on Saturday afternoon before an Eastern Football League clash between Noble Park and Norwood.
City of Greater Dandenong councillor Roz Blades thought the new rooms were a welcome addition to the Noble Park sporting landscape.
“We’re absolutely thrilled as it adds to the other stuff that’s here,” Cr Blades said. “So there’s things the council has done and contributed to, and also sizeable contributions from the local community and that’s what a council is all about – a club like this.”
Noble Park Football Club president David Allan believed the pavilion and changerooms put the Bulls to the top of the table when it came to amazing amenities in the local sporting world.
“It is fantastic – the facilities – I was going to say were world class – but certainly metropolitan suburban world class,” Mr Allan said.
“The facility has taken a long time to sort out and pull together – understandably so – but it’s a showcase now so when we’re looking at recruiting players or introducing people to the club, the facilities are the facilities and that’s fantastic for us.”
The changerooms and pavilion weren’t the only sporting facility opened in the area with a big turnout skating the recently completed Noble Park Skate Park at Ross Reserve.
