So our Anna Bligh in Brisbane will financially support the Taipans but a year ago when the Bullets were the only Brisbane based sporting team to NOT get funding (unlike the Broncos, Reds, Lions and Roar) and needed Government assistance, she said no to a sporting icon in her own backyard?

I thought we were in a recession and times were tough- at least tougher than what they were 12 months ago.
That's one of the excuses she gave anyway, and since then the Qld Government's budget has widely been reported to be in worse shape than previously thought with the collapse of mining etc.

It's only $350k, but still...

Please let there be video of Nanna Bligh hitting a jumper, Obama style, on youtube soon!

Worth mentioning that it seems Bligh and I wear the same threads to pick up games.

kad there WAS a video- but she had her people confiscate and burn it.

HAHA, perhaps this was an attempt to pull votes from the Regional FNQ community?

I am not familiar with the political situation in QLD, but I would imagine that the Regional areas have a much different voting preference to the metro areas?

Call me cynical, but every decision made by Governments tend to have more than 1 motive.

Absolutely agree with you on that one!

Well, unlike previous posters I was actually touched by the gesture of helping the club in this way. The financial support from how I read the story came about as an acknowledgement of the community involvement in getting the team back on court. Not only that the club is giving something back to the government by way of the players becoming ambassadors for the Healthy Living programs to help promote healthy life choices for children. Its a great idea. Its a shame that financial assistance wasn't given to Brisbane when they needed it to stay afloat but that doesn't mean that if its no for one its no for all. The government has proved this time and time again in the unbalanced way they support different sports.

that's great, its almost 80% of what the ACT govt gave the Canberra capitals during the jackson years

Was there strong community support for the Bullets?

it has been seen as a really positive thing in fnq.
for one thing,it means that the players will be going back to grass roots(kids etc) with the healthy living message.

i am not sure how ANYONE can see that as a negative thing.

it may also be a message to other clubs that this is the kind of sports model that the government will support.

it will take a while to build(getting wins on court) on the foundation that is being laid but when you look at townsville you see it is very possible for a community based/owned to have off/on court success.

Perhaps what's been said has been taken out of context.
I didn't say it's a terrible horrible no good very bad thing for a team to be supported- just that a team in Anna's own city was told they couldn't be helped as they didn't have the money.... might need to read the previous posts again?

But did the Bullets have any sort of community ownership model, already implemented like the Taipans? I think that's a clear difference.

HAHA,

Whats the story with the funding of the other teams? Are the bronco's etc getting direct funding or 'sponsorship" funding through a statutory authority as such.

If Bligh would not give the bullets a hand-out when they were trying to get on their feet then fair enough, but many many professional teams in australian sport get government 'sponsorship" funding.

The Lightning were the "Quit" Lightning for many years, Geelong in the AFL are supported by TAC as have been collingwood, richmond and essendon.

there is a huge difference between "survival" funding and 'sponsorship" funding.

The Bullets weren't offered either.
They met with Judy Spence the Minister for Sport at the time and they got nothing but excuses.
After some backlash from the public when the news broke of another disinterested party, it was taken to Anna Bligh who also said no to any sort of funding and sponsorship.
I don't know if they and other such parties were 'uninterested' due to Eddy's continued involvement at the time- I remember the state Gov't was facing a lot of backlash from parents at the time re the collapse of ABC and what the Gov't was going to do about the child care facilities in Qld and how many families couldn't afford to not have their kids in day care if they worked fulltime etc- I don't know if that had something to do with their reluctance.
But it has been widely reported in the past that out of all Brisbane sporting codes, the Bullets never ever got any type of Gov't assistance, and at a time where the public needed to keep their team, the Gov't stance of 'it's not financially viable for us to get invovled' was too cryptic, unhelpful and inconsistent when it flew in the face of their funding for other sporting codes.

ok, so how is the funding distributed to the other sporting codes. Do the Bronco's get a direct cash distribution, or is it paid to Queensland Rugby league?

In other words, is the sport getting the cash (all state governments support sport) or is the pro team getting cash, and if they do how do they get it?

i figure the govt wouldnt give the bullets any money because it would have gone straight into paying eddies debts.
they would have had no way of knowing where the money went once it was handed over.

with the community owned taipans,the money will be going around in a circle from state govt sponsor to local govt guarantee to state govt landlord.

a very safe,transparent and traceble gamble by govt.

Possibly true, but imagine if that was your team and the entire team dissolved as a result.
I guess all we can do is hope the next assclown that gets on his soapbox claiming he wants to resurrect the team can actually pull it off, and in a way that is fitting of what the fans deserve.
A two year habit of no basketball has been created and fans have reluctantly found other things to get involved in.

HAHA - the taipans were 99 percent down the gurgler, until a few die hard people and a community pulled it out of the 's bends',so we have got a fair idea what it felt like to lose your team.

i have been flying the flag of reformm for years,as a business owner, i knew the league was doomed the way it was going.
its problems (rogue owners) were spiralling out of control and further into debt.

HAHA the on court product is solid in australia and everybody should feel a bit more confident as clubs start to find (hopefully) the right business models.

i hope the people of brisbane get behind the bullets revival.

As for reform etc, gosh I think we've all been singing that song for some time now!
Have a look at some of the older posts regarding what was going on in Brisbane and the issues all clubs have been facing since- it's easy for us in business to pinpoint areas of concern and provide solutions but until the vote went through not enough people in significant areas of the game were listening.

Unlike Cairns and Wollongong, I hope Brisbane are actually given the opportunity to get involved, because we weren't- it's a lot harder to resurrect a club after folding as opposed to striking while the iron is hot when emotions are high and so is interest.

You south Qlders are just whingers who copped out on basketball(mens and womens) and now want back in..

Pull your fingers out and make your own luck.

You get every cent out of 90% of junior basketball carnivals that are scheduled in south Qld.When not one complex south of Cairns has 4 individual sectioned off A/C courts in the state!

"Copped out" on basketball?
Thanks for your in depth analysis and glad you could bring some intelligent facts to the discussion!