Mercantile Cricket Association Alec Kahn, Match Secretary Edmund - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Mercantile Cricket Association Alec Kahn, Match Secretary

• Edmund Herring Oval to be lost for 5 years as project worksite • Home to 2 MCA clubs for over a decade

• Quality turf pitch & oval in beautiful setting • Showpiece ground, play OS teams there • Can’t replace by astroturf • Can’t switch to Sundays (= loss of players, social/financial) • EES p.10-39 .... Melb Metro to devise relocation strategy

• MCA has identified Ross Straw Field as relocation site

P C A B • Two astroturf pitches (A, B) unused Saturday afternoons last summer • One club (RMIT) will use one astroturf pitch this summer • Turf pitch can be installed at C after minor shift of A, B • Under-used pavilion P = interim home for the 2 MCA clubs

• Move 2 astroturf pitches from blue to orange positions • Turf pitch and field can be installed in yellow position • Under-used Pavilion at arrow for the 2 displaced clubs

Summary • MCA & its clubs suffer a loss of Herring Oval to the project • Remedy of interim relocation to Straw Field is simple & reasonable • Submit that Melb Metro should pursue this solution with urgency