Where was that announced?

VJBL site today - http://www.vjbl.com.au/index.php?id=10&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=429&tx_ttnews[backPid]=1&cHash=a0ec04a7ac

Sandringham is a four court stadium whilst Dandenong is 10 or 15?

I think it costs a lot to use it but don't quote me on that as the Knox people may get even more upset.

Seems a very unusual move to take the classic away from a venue that has run it successfully over many years and split it to create three venues. There will be a lot of travelling for some families.

True two venues but now three. Families will be travelling more. Dandy a very good venue all round. Nothing wrong with the others but just feel it is strange to take it away from Dandenong who have run the older age groups for many years.

madness for interstate teams.

if we assume Classics qualification and book near Sandringham and DON"T make it you can farewell teams then competing at Nunawadding.
It's too late to find accomodation close by and too far for teams to travel back and forth from Sandringham digs.
Very poorly thought out situation.
It has now become Classics or bust..the Spectres tourney will suffer greatly through no fault of their own.

So does this mean that the other venues including msac don't charge court hire for the Classic. Would be a huge burden carrying all the energy cost for all the courts.

What other costs would the host venue have to charge for? Court hire costs are often reduced for BV events.

Obviously the new management at Dandy decided to make some money on the event and ended up making nothing!

Heard they pay for MSAC but it might not be that much. They did move it away from MSAC one year and played at Frankston & Dandy. Went back the next year, I think MSAC realised their mistake.Maybe Dandy will next year.

At least the DBA did not incur the costs of energy Would seem a good business decision to not give courts away for nil. It would seem they will also not have to pay wages, cleaning costs etc.
Great tournament so let's all get down to new venues to support it.

At least both the Sandringham and Frankston courts have a fair lot of noise reducing grandstands between courts. MSAC and parts of Dandenong continue to be a nightmare for coaches and parents at Classic and VJBL finals (I got to coach at both last season and the noise didn't contribute to the quality of games)
I also doubt that the venues will affect patronage- these are national invitational tournaments.

I coached at Dandendong for ten years and never found the noise to be that bad really but each to their own. MSAC is horrible for noise and the 2 courts by themselves at Frankston are the worst going around IMO. The other Frankston courts are petty good though. I've seen so many VJBL games on the 2 isolated courts at all grades where the kids have stopped thinking the siren or whistle on the next court was on their court. Not to mention the very weird shape of the backboards.

I agree that the noise at MSAC is horrible, but i have never had the same problem at Dandenong sorry. Surely to christ they will not use both of those back courts @ Frankston? Cant see everyone fitting in to watch, so i think they only really could use one of those back courts.

How many courts would you think they would need to use? 4? If thats the case, i think they will be fine.

As for the "lock up your cars" comment.....What, as apposed to Dandenong???

Yeah i agree with anon regarding the 16's and 18 boys being at one stadium, and then the girls being at another stadium. Makes sense to me!

Who doesn't ordinarily lock up their car, regardless of the location?

Dandenong could possibly be lost to the classic As it manages the Stadium now they will look at filling the Queens Birthday long weekend with another event.