With its hopes of a return to the Junction Oval fading, Australian Football League side St. Kilda has thrown its "hat into the ring" to move its training and administration base to Elsternwick Park in Brighton, according to Daniel Cherny of the BRISBANE TIMES.
However, the Saints "will need to fight off the Melbourne Football Club, and work with golf, amateur football and a local cricket club, for the right to use the oval."
The Bayside City Council "is understood to be considering expressions of interest from both AFL clubs to share the venue with the Victorian Amateur Football Association, as well as existing local football and cricket clubs and a new junior football club." As council land, any project "would need to be ticked off by Bayside, which must also consider community interests." VAFA CEO Michael Sholly confirmed that two Melbourne-based AFL clubs "were investigating the possibility of a move to the precinct." Sholly: "Two clubs have shown interest, that's a fact, and one of them is Melbourne" (BRISBANE TIMES, 1/1).
