by Trader » Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:11 pm
MERGER CONFIRMED!!!!
From 2021/22 The new team will be know as the Adelaide Stingrays, following the merger of Adelaide and Southerns.
The club will be based out of Glandore, Bice Oval will no longer feature A/B grade district Cricket.
The new club will enter 8 junior teams, two per grade, filling what would otherwise be the Adelaide Uni juniors spot, meaning we have aligned junior and senior fixtures.
SACA will provide the new club with funding for 2 cricket development officers, one of which must be juniors, for the next three years, estimated to be valued at a little over $300,000.
With respect to seniors, the club is expected to enter 4 SACA teams, with a 5ths and 6ths to be played in the ATCA competition, although ATCA are yet to confirm they will accept these sides.
The club will search for a new base over the coming seasons, with SACA having made a 'handshake commitment' to fund the new facility which will be constructed on a greenfields site, North of Darlington.
This merger will be confirmed at 4pm this afternoon, but you can say you heard it here first!!!
Danny Southern telling Plugga he's fat, I'd like to see that!