Bluedemon wrote:Down the Hill wrote:Nichdanmatt wrote:very similar to the unley/Mercedes merger 5 years ago,look how that has worked out,div4 to div 1.
It needs 2 separate clubs to come together before it can be called a merger. My understanding is that Unley had plenty of Mercedes lads in their juniors and wanted to establish even stronger ties with the school and old scholars network. I'm pretty sure there wasn't a Mercedes OS football club.
I think this has also assisted Unley with player points and the quirky old scholar rules that also apply to PAOC, SPOC etc. Mercedes College may not be a high profile football school but I have seen first hand some very good footballers in their school teams over the last 5 years. Last years SA U18 Captain and Vice-Captain (Snelling and Haysman) were both Mercedes lads.
Myponga FC did something similar by incorporating Sellicks into their name which was seen as a ploy to encourage potential players from the Sellicks area to play for Myponga rather than Aldinga.
Snelling is an old Goodwood Saints junior
Yes but he went to Mercedes College and my point was about the football talent that has attended MC in recent times. If he wasn't an AFL rookie or not quite good enough to play SANFL then Unley/Mercedes could now be his club of choice rather than Goowood no different to all the juniors Walkerville lose to PAOC and SPOC because of school ties.