Cricket Club Graffiti

[UltimateFreq]

Im not sure if anyone who went to the game on Saturday noticed, but on Friday night someone graffitied the City Oval spray painting around the ground. Signs around the ground where written like NO RFC, SHARE YOUR TOY, DONT BE GREEDY DEAN and a few others written in big block letters. There was also a huge NO RFC painted underneath the score board. All this graffiti was painted over in blue paint early saturday morning, but I can imagine that someone associated with the cricket club would of done this vandalism and the Coburg Football Club was not happy

 

[baktiger]

I wondered what all the painted over stuff was about. I thought perhaps
it was just painting over some old sponsors stuff.

This is getting a bit dirty. The Cricket mob have really mobilised some
big guns... but of course, NONE of them live in Coburg! (I do!).

 

[kb7882]

May I suggest that you be very careful with your accusations guys :-*

 

[UltimateFreq]

Im not making any accusations at all, just imagined that it may have involved someone from the cricket club or someone who disagrees with the Richmond and Coburg Football Clubs plans

 

[baktiger]

From the 'Moreland Leader'

Call for peace in oval battle.
by Kate Kyriacou

VANDALS have painted anti-football slogans across City
Oval as the battle between football and cricket
continues to rage in Coburg.

Moreland councillor Steve Roach again called for a
ceasefire in the fight for rights to the oval during
the summer months.

The Coburg Football Club has been promised funding
necessary to save it from financial ruin.

But this is conditional on City Oval being made
available for AFL clubs to train during summer months.

But the Coburg Cricket Club has refused to give up the
ground it has called home for the past 80 years.

"Someone broke into the ground and painted anti-football
graffiti on some of the signage around the oval,"
Cr Roach said.

"It raises more questions about the level of security on
the ground, with someone breaking in to start the fire
in the grandstand and now this.

"Council will need to visit the appropriateness of the
fencing around the ground."

Cr Roach said he did not believe either club was involved
in the vandalism attack.

"I think it's all fairly infantile and petulant and I don't
believe the cricket club would condone that behaviour,"
he said.

"I'm concerned about people on the periphery trying to
stir things up for their own agendas."

Cr Roach said that he had 542 e-mails - almost all about
the sporting stoush - on his computer after returning
from two week's leave.

Cricket Club scretary Bill Tucknott said the cricketers
were aooakked at the attack on their home ground.

"We have no knowledge of that and absolutely condem
this attack on the football club," he said.

"It's totally outrageous and a ridiculous thing to do."

Football club president Dean Mighell said he beleived
the vandals attacked on the night if August 6, before
their home game the following morning.

"They wrote things like 'no Richmond Football Club dollars',"
he said.

"They did five or six boundary line advertising areas which
we painted iver with blue paint before the game."

He said the club would be hiring security officers to
patrol the ground in the lead-up to the next home game.

Coburg police are investigating.