Yeah I like it. From Round 18 Ladder 2010. Who would you select in order if the following guys were available. You would imaging the imports would not be in it. My Selections are above.

Ballinger, Holmes, Ng, Creek, Johnson, Bruce, Carter, Daly, Harris, Dowdell

1 Centrals - Ballinger
2 Southern - Carter
3 South - Johnson
4 Woodville - Holmes
5 Eastern - Creek
6 North - Bruce
7 Forestville - Dowdell
8 Norwwod - Ng
9 Sturt - Daly
10 West - Harris

There is a huge difference between football and basketball in this area and yes, the devil is in the detail. The Sixers don't need to get involved in the admin, it just needs to be administered by BSA. Spreading out talent will only be challenged by those who feel they will be disadvantaged by the change.

Personally, I like things to be balanced and I feel that spreading out the talent actually provides a better competition than having all talent in a few teams. When I watch sport, I want to see teams with at least half a chance of success, not Buckley's.

I say bring it on, but also maybe the Sixers could further consider nominally allocating a player to be a "Club Ambassador" to each of the ABA Clubs (sorry Western Magic and Cougars, but there's only 10) to both promote the Sixers at a Club level and also work with the ABA.


However, people are threatened by change and no doubt a thread like this will attract a number of anonymous posts against such a move like a seagull to a chip.

Anon, I think it's half-hypothetical. And also, Clarke might have some sway with where a few younger players play.

People don't like change but this could be done. However there would need to be incentives for the players to play. If centrals drafted player A than yes - What incentive does he have to play for them. How much money is BSA making.

What if BSA paid for a franchise player for each team. Say $15K each and said if you are currently a NBL player in a team than you have to be a franchise player for a club.

to say you cant have players play for another club if they are alligned with someone else is silly. Holmes and Hill have aligned themselves with Sturt and Eastern It could be done.

Thats one of the reason that the points system would work
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ABL points cap proposal
This is somthing that some fotty codes are doing so maybe the ABL could have a look at it, the idea is to encourage clubs to develope thier own juniors.

1. Each club has a total of 15pts
2. A junior player from your club = 0 points
3. A junior player recutied from another club to play ABL = 3 points
4. A NBL player (not from your club as a junior)= 5 points
5. An ABL player from another club = 4 points
6. players that come from interstate = 3 points
7. An over seas player = 5 points

This is only an example and would have to be looked into in more and more clubs would have to look in thier own back yards first (as we all know a salary dose not work anywhere)

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I agree with Mmmm it seems it has started to work in Country footy quite a bit but only allowing a number of points to recruit. In this case most top teams wouldn't have enough points to recruit 2 sixers whereas the bottom 5 teams could. It also promotes spending time on and promoting juniors. I still believes there needs to be a salary cap though because as I have seen in Country football instead of being able to try and recruit 10 players at $150/game they can only recruit 3 players at $500 a game, but because there is more competition out there for the top end players the prices have gone up to about $1000 a game for your top 1 or 2 players, sometimes even up to $1500 a game. This kind of thing would again favour the clubs who have a strong junior base and a strong income from sponsors and or bar facilities.
I still think that as a coach $7500 is a pathetic amount to try and recruit players. A starting five player in the SEABL would easily bring in $300 a game which equals $5400 a season, that's more than 70% of your budget gone. I understand that clubs are struggling to survive but there is a fine line there where some of these players, like the sixers players if they played in the SBL could easily generate more income for some of these clubs. I think $10,000 would be more suitable and achievable for most clubs.
Again the "wealthier" clubs can afford to employ these players as Junior Development Officers of the club and pay them outside the club salary cap but not every club can afford a full time JDO or 2 part time JDO's.
I would really hope that if the majority of the Sixers do play locally that both BSA an the clubs really get out and promote the league.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents worth.

Until a club can house a player - forget about a draft. What benefit drafted to centrals if you live at sellicks. Existing rules are fine.

until clubs have Pokies inside their stadiums, players shouldnt expect to get paid a cent, if they are good enough to be getting paid, then they will be playing NBL or have SEABL clubs knocking on their doors.

If you havent got either of those options, then you should be playing for the fun of it, trying to improve yourself and then maybe there might be a knock at the door.

If your playing for the cash move over and let a junior play.

abl still amateur athletes- no draft.
players here to play for 36ers - CABL is a sideline.

bah ha ha ha! you think a mens franchise player gets $15K in the SEABL?? That's a women's franchise players salary. Men's, try quadrupling that in the least! Unless CABL clubs can compete with the $$$ of leagues the SEABL it will never be able to keep the talent here, apart from where there are significant family and friend ties that mitigate the salary.