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AFTER years dodging from venue to venue, the Wollongong Wolves look to have finally found a long term training base at Dalton Park. The completion of a lighting upgrade by Wollongong Council at the venue will allow the club’s juniors and seniors to train at the facility from 2016. While matches won’t be played there, it does provide the club with the vital training base they’ve lacked for close to 15 years. The Wolves have been forced to use several different pitches around the Illawarra over the past decade. Last season they juggled sessions between the University and Ian McLennan Park. From 2016 that will no longer be the case. “It is a huge relief to be able to have a home base that all of us can train out of,” Wolves chairman Andrew Byron said. “Even just being able to leave all our equipment in one location is a God send for us.” Byron was thankful for the help the Wolves received in their pursuit of the new home facility. “We would like to acknowledge the great work Football South Coast have done in helping ensure this training base was made possible for us,” he said. “A huge thank you to Ann-Marie Balliana and also John Whiddett for your work in making this possible.” It is hoped the venue will serve as the club’s long term training base until the much-needed ‘home of football’ facility is built on the South Coast.

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