What Untapped Markets Could St Kilda Sell a Game Too?

[IanRush]

Thinking left field, where could the Saints sell a future game too? Port crap on about Shanghai, so let's think left field here. In particular, I am looking at where Aussie Rules footy was played during the 2 World Wars for guidance in finding locations to expand.

- Port Moresby (Rugby League mad, but Aussie Rules played there during WW2)
- Suva,
- Noumea, New Caledonia,
- Nauru (pre season game only) - Aussie Rules Footy is strong in Nauru
- Singapore
- Kuala Lumpar
- Tokyo/Osaka
- Vanvcouver
- Seattle
- Townsville/Mackay


World War 1 Match Below.

On Saturday 28 October 1916, the former Olympic champion swimmer and the later Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Lieutenant Frank Beaurepaire, organised an Australian Rules football match between two teams of Australian servicemen in aid of the British and French Red Cross.

The match was promoted as the "Pioneer Exhibition Game of Australian Football in London". It was held at Queen's Club, West Kensington before an estimated crowd of 3,000, which included the (then) Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII), and King Manuel II of Portugal.

An Australian football match (an Australian Division v. Training Groups) will be played at Queen's Club, West Kensington, tomorrow, at 3 p.m., in aid of the British and French Red Cross Funds. The game, played by 18 players a side, will show how Australians have combined "Soccer" and Rugby. (The Times, Friday, 27 October 1916.)

The members of the competing teams, Australian Training Units and The Third Australian Divisional Team, were all highly skilled footballers, the majority of whom had already played senior football in their respective states.

In order to celebrate the match Beaurepaire commissioned a set of team photographs that were inserted into a mounting board decorated with a British Union Jack and an Australian Red Ensign, that had "Australian Football in London. Pioneer Exhibition Game. At Queen's Club, West Kensington. Saturday 28 Oct. 1916" at its head, and "Organizer of Match & Donor of Photos to Club Lieut. Frank Beaurepaire" at its foot.

World War 2 Concept Below

Australian rules football was also played by Prisoners of War throughout World War II, with competitions held in Singapore and Germany. The Changi Football League, played at Changi Prison was held in 1942/43 and contested by teams called "Melbourne", "Richmond", "Essendon" and "Carlton", while a League was also set up at Stalag 383, near Nuremberg, contested by the "Kangaroos", "Emus", Kookaburras" and Wallabies".

The Changi Football League, run by Brownlow Medalist Wilfred Smallhorn, awarded its only Changi Brownlow for Best and Fairest to Peter Chitty, a former St Kilda footballer.

The MCG During World War 2 (note Geelong Travel Difficulties)

Disputes over whether football should be played in wartime came up again in World War II. The VFL continued operation, but Geelong withdrew from the 1942 and 1943 VFL seasons when rail and road transport restrictions made it too difficult for supporters to attend games in Melbourne. Because the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Lake Oval were taken over by the United States Air Force as bases, Melbourne and South Melbourne had to play their home games elsewhere, whilst the Junction Oval for two seasons and the Western Oval for 1942 were also commandeered. The Western Australian National Football League restricted the competition to players under the age of 18 in 1942, and under 19 in 1943 and 1944.[44] The eight SANFL clubs temporary merged into four combined clubs for a reduced competition between 1942 and 1944.

[parkeysainter]

NZ.

Seriously though...South Africa would be a good choice.

[Sainternist]

Definitely North Korea. It takes a touch of fatalism to get behind the Saints!

[IanRush]

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/fo ... -world-war

http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/acti ... ePid2=true

[thejiggingsaint]

Definitely North Korea. It takes a touch of fatalism to get behind the Saints!

[Sainter_Dad]

Moorabbin - Junction Oval

[Joe Bloggs]

Moorabbin - Junction Oval

A pride game in San Francisco....that would work.

[Saint 58]

There is only one plan that would work
Junction Oval must be transformed into a stadium like the Hill Billies have in Geelong
That's the only thing that will ensure our long term survival, success, etc.
Linton St. would be a secondary home & even that should be improved
Move the Bowls Club & build a "face" for the football club on South Rd to be seen by all rather than be up the back street

[GregPackhamsHeadband]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

[diddley]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

love it.

[Sainternist]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

You're stealing Kosi's thunder on the dad jokes front!

Was your ban repealed?

[MickThomas]

Auckland NZ.
Mr Martin and his mates gathering around the prison TV

[Sainternist]

Auckland NZ.
Mr Martin and his mates gathering around the prison TV

Right after CityWest made the mistake of picking up the soap!

[desertsaint]

Definitely North Korea. It takes a touch of fatalism to get behind the Saints!

biggest sporting stadium in the world - imagine if we packed it! i mean, what else is there to do on a saturday arvo?

[GregPackhamsHeadband]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

You're stealing Kosi's thunder on the dad jokes front!

Was your ban repealed?

There have been some admin difficulties. I shouldn't post anymore until the new Nic is sorted. Apologies.

[GregPackhamsHeadband]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

You're stealing Kosi's thunder on the dad jokes front!

Was your ban repealed?

There have been some admin difficulties. I shouldn't post anymore until the new Nic is sorted. Apologies.

[MickThomas]

I was going to suggest the moon, but it would never work. There just wouldn't be any atmosphere.

You're stealing Kosi's thunder on the dad jokes front!

Was your ban repealed?

There have been some admin difficulties. I shouldn't post anymore until the new Nic is sorted. Apologies.

The forum needs your presence badly, to provide much needed balance
to the large number of numpties posting in a manner bereft of logic and common sense.

[howlinwolf]

Sign Kim Jong Un as No.1 ticket holder.

18 holes in one in a single round has got to get people's attention

[Enrico_Misso]

Could we sell it to the Eskimos?

[sunsaint]

Tahiti looks nice

[kosifantutti]

Tahiti looks nice

Simon, Tahiti

[sunsaint]

Settled then
Just need the club to charter a 747

[evertonfc]

Yawn. Can we at least get our links to our roots right first, please?

We should be aiming to play games versus interstate clubs at Moorabbin within 20 years.

[dals_da_bomb]

Ill take Singapore please.

Its my fave place in the world.

2nd to that. THe colosseum in Rome will work.

[MickThomas]

Ill take Singapore please.

Its my fave place in the world.

2nd to that. THe colosseum in Rome will work.

Singapore has my vote.
Spent an amazing 5 days there a few years ago, during their anniversary public holiday, it was early August.
If I won Lotto, I would definitely fly over there and buy a nice house and settle there.
Unbelievably nice place.