whitepointers wrote:To SDCC
I wish to confirm SACA’s position in the event Southern District Cricket Club (SDCC) members vote no for the merger with the Adelaide Cricket Club (ACC).
The SACA is committed to reducing the number of clubs in the Premier Competition as recommended in the Hussey report.
The SACA Board will use all powers to achieve this, which may involve restricting a clubs participation in one or more levels of the Premier Competition or asking SACA members to approve an amendment to the constitution to give the board unilateral power to remove any club from the Premier competition.
Financial incentives will not accompany these actions (unlike voluntary mergers).
SDCC will be considered by the SACA Board as part of this process, along with all other Premier clubs. With the SACA Board committed to implementing the Hussey report recommendation of reducing Premier Clubs to 8-10, 40% of the teams in the competition could be affected.
SDCC could be one of the affected clubs. Unlike a voluntary merger situation, the affected clubs will not be controlling their own destiny if these scenarios play out.
If you have any queries regarding this please call me.
Andrew Sinclair
President
Yep, thats merge or well end you anyway. Taking away the Premier cricket side in one of the biggest growth areas in the state is just genuine stupidity but what more would you expect from SACA.
So we need ten sides?
1. Get rid of Uni. They dont develop Juniors and just steal them from other clubs. Send them to Adelaide Turf or better yet merge them with Prospect to create Adelaide City or something like that.
2. Merge TTG and Northern. Creates a super strong side in the North.
3. Merge 2 out of the 3 western sides in WT, Port or Woodville. Port arent filling all of their junior sides right now anyway.
That gets us down to 3. Moreover SDCC needs to make a move to Noarlunga and connect better with South Adelaide Panthers and rebrand themselves. South Adelaide or something like that. South have a really strong connection with the Fleurieu peninsula which is something that SDCC have been lacking. Put in a new turf deck there and make Bice the second turf oval.
Just a thought.