Eagles eye new nest for training base MOVING ON?: The Eagles are eyeing a training base away from their Patersons Stadium home. WEST Coast is considering leaving its Patersons Stadium training base and developing a new home similar to Fremantle's bold $107 million planned facility for Cockburn. The Eagles have started looking at several potential sites, including one understood to be 30km from the city. The club could still opt to remain at Subiaco and redevelop its existing training facilities should the ground be retained following the shift of AFL matches to the new stadium in Burswood in 2018. West Coast had been planning a lavish upgrade of their current facilities and had hoped to remain at Patersons. But the Eagles are becoming increasingly concerned about space limitations at Subiaco, which would deny them a second training oval and other features enjoyed by rival clubs who are building from scratch. A delegation from West Coast visited Essendon's new training facility near Melbourne Airport several weeks ago. The Bombers have one MCG-sized oval and one Etihad Stadium-sized oval at their new base. Like the Dockers' model, the Eagles are keen for their new home to be open for community use, which would assist attracting government funding. It would also likely include the David Wirrpanda Foundation. Eagles chairman Alan Cransberg said the club faced a difficult decision. "Subi has lots of advantages in terms of commercially and historically, and just from a heart-of-football point of view," he said. It's got some disadvantages too. It's probably tight for space in terms of expansion. And certainly it can only have one oval. If we're going to be there for 50 years, can we continue to grow this club to the extent that we'd like to? Subiaco was state-of-the-art when upgraded in 1999, but has subsequently fallen well off the pace. The Eagles are unlikely to make a decision on the location of their new training base for at least another 12 months. "There are three or four decent sites that we're looking at," Cransberg said. While I'm impatient to get on with that, we'll make a decision on behalf of the club and the members and supporters for the next 50 years. There's compromises in every decision you make and we've got to make sure we make the right decision that's not only good for the Eagles, but good for the state as well. Fremantle's plans at Cockburn Central West include two football ovals, a 50m outdoor pool, a 25m indoor pool, an indoor training and sports centre, multimedia facility and team store.