Article about venue for St Kilda's games in Herald sun of 29th Oct '15, p71 concludes with..
....The Saints have also requested for VFL affiliate Sandringham to play several curtain raisers ahead of [St K's] Etihad Stadium home games.
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practise game against footscray on 2/4/16 any more than that is pure speculation it would cost the saints a lot of money they havent got for the zebras to shift a home game
In reply to practise game against by canhillclarry
Story by Paul Amy in the local newsparer Bayside Leader.
Apologies for the size of the pic ( I don't know howe to get a better way of posting)
The highlighted parts quote the Sandy GM...,,
....the alignment has been working well under Paul Hudson and we are keen for it to continue.
...Of course, we'd be more than happy to go with St kilda
He went on to deny Sandy will play curtain raisers at Eti
Try this link .. go to Spors section on page 34
http://leader.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx
Doesn't make any sense.
Sandy need to be playing as much as possibly at TBBO.
Club would lose takings of gate for each game as well as lose food drink & luncheon profits.
Will the club be standing alone in 2017?
In my humble opinion:
1. St Kilda will run their own reserves team in 2017.
2. Hudson will be on the St Kilda coaching staff
3. Sandy will struggle to get up and running as a stand alone.
Quotes from the Sandringham GM are merely aspirational and show that they know getting $400k to run two teams will be very very difficult.
Not sure the bayside silver tails will be willing to rattle tins and turn Coles sausages to make this work, but it's the harsh reality of the new world order in the VFL.
In reply to In my humble opinion: by Ron Burger
Then again the general consensus was that Coburg would struggle being standalone.
But to the contrary have done very well. They have probably the most sponsors of any VFL club.
I think after 12 months of Sandy being standalone we will know how they are heading. As its all just speculation until firstly it happens and then evaluating how they go.
Robert Doyle has plans to BULLDOZE Etihad 'TURD DOME' Stadium in the near future.
There won't be too many that will lose sleep over it.
In reply to Robert Doyle has plans to by vfa
I didn't realize that he owned it VFA !!!
He really is a piece of fluff Robert.