Was it on TV or radio ?
I think 36ers have agreed to Hoops poster Jonno's idea and will play a fund raising game. To be announced just after Basketball Australia make their EOI statement, next week.

I heard on kg and the general, that BA are coming here to meet the consortium, he named the leader i think it was paul finlay or something like that cant remember it exactly, he is an accountant apparantly.
He said its all positive from what he hears and the sixers should b over the line and into the nbl.
Heres hoping smyth is correct!
Another idea for fundraising, but also something i think fans would enjoy, how bout selling, or taking orders for old game tapes especially like the 4 championship series, they could say charge $10 per disc + $5-10 postage, would people buy games?? i would and bought a few games from the club last season, so they already do it, maybe they should make it more widely available and promote it as a bit of a revenue raiser, even sell em for $20 and push the fundraising aspect more, id pay $20 for a copy of the games in the grandfinal series i dont have.

yeah i would as well, you would want to pick your games though. They could really make something of Brett's contribution with championship games and last game. Mention it in members packs etc. Need the team first though, and and anything positive is good news, even if its a rumor at this stage.

Ch9 - a current affair at 6.30pm on friday , will run the story of 36ers (Power and United).
Smyth is speaking about the 36ers.

Paul Finlay, Chris Fuss & Richard Hill are the ones trying to buy the team.

They are reaming thinking that after a year they will be making money.

for $200,000 you can buy 20%

Your and ideas man Jonno! I actually think the perfect way to round out the Maher era would be to do a boxed set-style package. 2 or 3 discs that do a retroperspective on every season from the year Maher started (1992 or so?) right through to his final game at the Dome. Kind of like the boxed Dynasty sets for NBA teams Boston, Lakers, Bulls and Sixers. The set would be about the Sixers, but it could be told with Maher as the central character.

That is the kind of thing that creates legends in the game and helps develop a rich history for the league. We need more of it to sustain our national competition through tough times. For an example, look no further than the tradition carefully nurtured by the NBA over the years.

I agree, i have the 98 series on dvd and a few other 36ers games, but i would definately be interested if the club made some vintage games available.

Yea, i thought people would be interested so just threw it out there, i love the idea of Beantown with the Maher era box set, you could also do a mark davis era covering the earlier years and the 86 title, between them you would have a rich history of the entire 36ers!

I also reckon smaller eras of some of the great imports like Rose, KB, Mee, Farley or even Coach smyth could be done, obviously covering less time, but could focus on them more as many fans have a favourite import or 2 of all time. Alot of this would be overlapping the footage in the maher era but would just have a different focus, for example showing KB's highlights more so and yea just another way of creating an extra packae/product to be sold and earn the club some money! The club has a great deal of success and many highlights and great and exciting past players and footage and i think the fans would lapp alot of this stuff up, if sold at a good price, say around $10 per disk, you could probably charge around $100 for a maher era box set i reckon with say 4 discs of footage, highlights, interviews. I'd pay that, would others?? (remembering its also fundraising to keep the club alive, and a AWESOME product)

I find it interesting that Richard Hill is involved in buying it, is he still the assistant coach?, would be interesting if you were ninnis having an owner as your assistant. I guess he would change his role to avoid this situation. Anyway just an observation, i think we should all be thanking these 3 guys and showing our full support to them for saving our beloved 36ers!! I know ill be doing my best to attend as many games as possible and supporting the club.

This is a great idea about 36ers DVD's. Especially at a time like this when we dont know how long the club will last. I reckon $20-25 per disk would be easy to sell to long time fans. And for the younger ones it would make a great gift for Christmas to show them where the dynasty began, and who crated it.
Where do we sign up? I'll take a Maher boxed set plus a 'best of 36ers imports' boxed set, plus a 'Champions Again and Again' boxed set......
At $50-$100 a set, if they sold 2 sets each to 1500 people that makes some good pocket money.
Of course someone would have to get paid to put it together, and royalties would prbably be due to tv and Foxtel, but I think its a great idea.

Awesome idea i would definately buy 2 dvd's every time i went to the powerhouse, love to get some old games like with brooks and mee and catt all together having fun and winning.

Just a query - if this $1 million bank guarentee requires so much effort to get 6ers over the line, will BA be asking for the same thing next season, and the one after that and so on?

I really don;t understand why BA didn't just require the $1M from teams which were in recent financial trouble - hawks, taipans etc. This buggering about has slowed the process of reform surely -mainly becuase no one knows yet if they are certain to be in the new league.

Selling DVDs will scrape up a small amount of cash but it's not going to go close to saving a team, IMO. Might get a few hundred sales.

The Hawks were not in trouble, they paid all debts and met there obligations.
Unlike Sydney Kings,Spirit and Cairns

The previous owners just said they could not meet the criteria set by BA and let everyone know early enough so the team could survive this comming season if a new consortium could be found.

All previous NBL owners all had to decide wether they could fund BA's grand plan and vision and submit an EOI for 2009/10 new league.

The production values would want to be much higher than the DVD the Sixers put out a few years ago.

That's more or less correct but if Mal wants to give it a crack, he could do so. I just don't think selling DVDs or running a charity game (the Wheeler game got Brett $5k, for example) is going to get even remotely close to having an impact. And I don't think the community support model used by Cairns or Wollongong will do much more than prop them up (hopefully until someone comes along to provide greater support).

Is that in response to a particular post or point?

Only 1000 went to SA v Vic game (for Brett Wheeler) on the clipsal race day.
I would expect a good turn out of support for a 36ers fund raising game.
If Finlay and Hill are buying the team, and Chris Fuss is also involved putting in funds.