Sturt in Financial Trouble?

[FlyingHigh]

Thanks Cutterman.
Unfortunate for Fittock, always rated him as a player.
Agree about McDonald, always waiting for him to become a consistent A-grader, but never really happened.
Sharples, well seems to be wasted talent.

[Dutchy]

Which players, jumbo?

Most notable would be Patrick Fittock but he has been very injury prone the past couple of seasons. The others were just reserves players I think?

That sort of cleanout happens often at this time of the year with many clubs. Go through any teams list of prospective recruits from the start of the year and often barely half of them are still at the club at this time of the year. It actually gives blokes who are clearly not going to make the seniors the chance to return to their local or country clubs and actually earn more coin than they get from playing Reserves.

Which has to be done by 30th June so will hear a bit of this in the next few weeks.

[Barto]

Thanks Cutterman.
Unfortunate for Fittock, always rated him as a player.
Agree about McDonald, always waiting for him to become a consistent A-grader, but never really happened.
Sharples, well seems to be wasted talent.

Unfortunately for McDonald he hasn't played to the level that he rated himself.

[CUTTERMAN]

Thanks Cutterman.
Unfortunate for Fittock, always rated him as a player.
Agree about McDonald, always waiting for him to become a consistent A-grader, but never really happened.
Sharples, well seems to be wasted talent.

Unfortunately for McDonald he hasn't played to the level that he rated himself.

ouch

[Big Phil]

Talk again of the Double Blues moving away from Unley...

From AdelaideNow...

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sturt-foo ... 6384697005

[jumbo20]

not looking good........

[The Sleeping Giant]

Cue centurion

[Dutchy]

Talk again of the Double Blues moving away from Unley...

From AdelaideNow...

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sturt-foo ... 6384697005

First rule in negotiations is to have alternatives. They wont move, to move to the hills would need government funds and guess how they are going at the moment?

[on the rails]

I agree with Dutchy ( - joking of course!) Sturt have done the right thing and come out on the front foot and hopefully force the Council into giving them a better deal at Unley Oval. I know they get a shocking deal from the Unley Council (and Residents) compared to most other Clubs and whilst some residents might want Unley Oval returned fully to a park the Council would then have to fully fund that and the up keep etc. where as they have a rent paying club as the tenant presently. Not sure the Unley Council can afford to just let them walk?

The other issue re any proposed move by any club (whether it is realistic or not?) to fully relocate would be very expensive and quite messy and would they actually be any better off then they are at present?

[mighty_tiger_79]

merge with glenelg

eastern tigers

glenelg blues

you have enough of our players

[Psyber]

merge with glenelg
eastern tigers
glenelg blues
you have enough of our players

Isn't that part of their problem?!

The local attitude has changed and Sturt offer Unley residents little, so they won't want the council to make concessions that increase rates.
The situation is not going to work - at best it will be a shaky truce for a while.

So options?
1. How can relocation be funded - does another area want an SANFL club enough to help fund the move?
2. Merger - an adjacent team such as South perhaps - but do Sturt have assets to interest South?
3. Is there an "Angel" who would like to own an SANFL team these days?
(4. Would transferring the 2nd AFL licence rekindle the Sturt-Norwood merger idea? )

[Bluedemon]

the move to mt barker was an idea that was thrown around where in conjunction with the sanfl, a ground was going to be made suitable for sanfl football and would also be used by the mt barker football club. this was an idea before the move to adelaide oval for afl/sanfl football. no it might be too late to do that unless the afl wants to dig into its coffers and help. the area they were looking at was the mt barker showgrounds.

[Dutchy]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

[Mr66]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

Should be used as another negotiation tool with the Ugley City Council.

[heater31]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

Even the Adelaide Bite are thinking of moving from Norwood Oval........


In all seriousness where can the Sturt FC go? Wayville needs alot of work to it to bring it up to standard, Mt Barker need to build a ground from scratch. Who is going to pay for these upgrades/construction? Certainly not the Sturt Football Club

[Jim05]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

We dont want them there
Seriously it would be a nightmare, the oval is used almost every day for training so Sturt would have to train somewhere else and everyone bitches about how much of a boghole it is with one team there, the oval wouldnt be able to cope.
Thebarton isnt used much, send them down there

[heater31]

Thebarton isnt used much, send them down there

SAAFL are the head tenants there these days and they program a minimum of 1 fixture a week sometimes 2.


Why Doesn't the City council build an Oval on Victoria Park (Where the new Football Park should have been built )

[Dutchy]

Sturt got no money
SANFL got no money
Government got no money

Tough times.

[dedja]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

no clubrooms for a start ...

[Go Legs]

In all seriousness, why not share Norwood Oval? Great set up, lights, no summer sport (get rid of baseball easily enough).

no clubrooms for a start ...

EXACTLY

Cheers,