CS, surely you're not seriously suggesting that Melbourne moving part of their training to Casey Firelds would have allowed the Saints to continue their alliance with the Casey Scorpions?casey scorp wrote:You can try and re-write history, and I'm sure there'll be many who believe you.zebraman wrote: Melbourne decided that Casey fields was where their future lies and subsequently wouldn't extend their afiiliation with Sandy...
But you know quite well that Sandy initiated the severing of the St KFC/Scorpions alignment by approaching St Kilda with a proposal for a St KFC/Sandy alignment.
You also know that Sandy did that because CC was hot-gospelling a move to Casey Fields long before it was ever a reality and would have also put the wind up the Zebs by talking up an alignment with the Scorpions (and long before the Scorpions were prepared to discuss an alignment with MFC) and Sandy panicked.
As reported in June last year ( http://blogs.abc.net.au/grandstand/2008 ... m-spl.html ):
The response of the Scorpions to the announcement was shock ( http://cranbourne.yourguide.com.au/news ... 90011.aspx ):ABC Grandstand wrote:
Sandringham and Melbourne have ended their 8-year alignment with the two clubs due to part ways at the end of the 2008 season.
The split comes as the Zebras and St Kilda announced a new five-year alignment, Sandringham general manager John Mennie telling Leader Newspapers the club was concerned it would be left without an AFL affiliate once Melbourne’s impending move to Casey Fields takes place.
"We were worried we were going to miss the boat," Mennie said.
"We couldn’t sit and wait around. We had to be proactive."
You have both clubs making it clear what happened - why do you try to spin it differently?Cranbourne Journal wrote:
CASEY Scorpions president John Sharkie says St Kilda's decision to end their alignment was done "behind our backs.''
Sharkie revealed he was told about 45 minutes before news had appeared on St Kilda and Sandringham websites that St Kilda had ended its relationship with Casey and had realigned with rival VFL club Sandringham, formerly aligned with Melbourne.
The Scorpions' president said it a "major shock'' and he was disappointed in the way it was handled.
"I was disappointed in not knowing all this was going behind our backs.''
HOw could that have possibly worked for StKilda, Melbourne, Casey or Sandringham?
The instant MFC started making serious noises about moving out to Casey there was always going to be a changing of the alliance.
MFC knew it
Casey Scorpions knew it
StKilda knew it
Sandringham knew it.
Your post seems to say that Sandy and the Saints did something 'underhanded' to somehow disadvantage Casey Scorps in all of this.
Do you really believe that MFC started investigating the move out to Casey without having, at least, informal discussions with Casey Scorps?
That would seem highly improbable.
As much as you would seem to not want it so, all of this occured because of MFC deciding it wanted/needed to move out to Casey. The other Clubs were just dominos in this process that fell into place afterwards.
I'll wager that Casey Scorps knew about the MFC move (openly or secretly) before either StKilda or Sandringham