TWO sporting clubs dubbed “the tiprats” are demanding their clubroom gets stripped down and rebuilt after having to wade through faeces and other sewage on rainy days.
Kealba-Green Gully Cricket Club and Keilor Wolves Soccer Club, who share Green Gully Reserve grounds four and five for training and competition purposes, are sick of the three drains built into the clubroom floor overflowing during rainy periods.
The clubs also have to contend with rats, mice, and the lack of female change rooms.
“If you come in here on a bad day, you’d be walking through two inches of floating turds and water that has come up through the sewerage, and we have to take everything out and mop it up.
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“It stinks for days … we’re trying to serve food … it’s just disgusting,” Kealba-Green Gully Cricket Club secretary Brian McMahon said.
“Our nickname around other clubs is ‘the tiprats’.”
Mr McMahon said everything in the clubrooms – from the painted walls to the carpet – was self-funded. He said the clubs had also had to erect makeshift walls to create faux change rooms for their two girls teams.
Wolves secretary Peter Nastevski said the clubs would prefer the council to fix the clubrooms before the ground because the clubrooms were used more heavily. The two clubs use the rooms up to six times a week when the two sports conflict.
“The sewerage is no good. There are rats, there are mice, the toilets stink, they don’t flush, and when you get to the truth of it all, it should be pulled down,” he said.
“If we can get what other clubs have got, we’d be fantastic.”
The comments come the same week as the State Government named Green Gully Reserve as one of six Brimbank recipients of drought-resistant grass.
Kealba-Green Gully Cricket Club president Gordon Nedelkoski is particularly annoyed at the council’s inaction despite repeated calls for help.
Mr Nedelkoski said it was unfair for Brimbank mayor Sam David to ask for $1 million to be reallocated in the coming council budget to build a pavilion at Ralph St Reserve – where he is a life member – when there were more pressing issues around Brimbank.
“That club’s had more money than any other club in the western suburbs. He’s meant to give to everybody, not just for his own personal benefit. We really need it more than them.”
Wolves president Dobre Apostolovski agreed, and said it was hard to attract sponsorship and members when the clubrooms looked like “leftovers” from Green Gully Soccer Club’s main grounds and clubrooms.
“When you drive straight in (to Green Gully Reserve), you see a top club, a beautiful, brand-new building with all the facilities in there, including a nice restaurant. You come here and it’s like the leftovers.”
