nominations have only just gone in.
some western teams have had strong results - but I, like you thought that if they were div 1 or 2 standard moved to a bearcats team and the magic teams played div 3,4,5 etc.
Your comment that the association thingy not working is the first I had heard of it not working but i am not associated with either club.
can anyone comment...

when i say nominations have only just gone in - i understand clubs have only recently had to put their wish list in for nominations.

any changes would have to be supported by evidence to the competitions committee.

clearly if a team is undefeated with % greater than 175 they would be looking to go up and if a team was losing with % less than 33% they should be moving down a level.

I believe that the Magic Committee are well on top of things, so why don't you ask them?
Some very good players have been provided and accepted the opportunity to play in higher divisions.
I hear that all discussions are going well, but BSA seemed to have come back to 'Reality'
I would rather be involved in Magic/Bearcat discussions than T/Valley/Woodville so called merger

regardless of what club - the competitions committe has to be logical and consistent in it's pro/rel process.

BSA is committed to it's by-law regulations.

if a team is winning with a % more than 175 - they need to go up - usually they only get better as the season goes on.

if a team is losing with low % ie 33% - chances are they will crumble as the year goes on in that grade.

all i seek is common sense from the clubs when nominating - so what if the kids are div 3 or 4 rather than div 2 or 3. They will be happier in a group where they have a chance rather than being flogged.

For the winning teams - I really don't think the kids worry too much about going up - kids seem to be happy winning by 20+ ppg.

Clubs need to say "ok our team is at this level" and start from there - if they want them into a higher grade - get good results and push for it as a goal.

we will soon find out by the end of march what will be happening.

Western Magic are certainly an enigma for some people.

In Div 3 U14 Girls they do appear strong. They have 3 teams of the 14 teams in that group and have rankings 1, 4, and 11. The #1 ranked team does stand out from the crowd, but without the Stage 1 and Stage 2 tables, it's hard to confirm how the rest of the season has gone.

However, if you follow their "business plan", then these players would feed into the Div 1 and 2 West teams who are in position 6 and 5 when playing positions become available.

no brainer in u14 div 2 - only 11 teams

southern, north and centrals results look like they should consider div 3 - woodville team must have withdrawn.

i would be very surprised if western dont make div 2 over winter season.

Western have agreed to not play div 2.

Any player good enough should go to West as agreed to in the merger.

yes my bad - i should have said the div 3 team should go up as a second west div 2 team

My understanding is that for Winter, West can have the Magic players that are good enough transfer up to Div2 or 1 without a clearance and then return if form drops away.This would mean that Magic 1 would remain in Div 3 ?

TVC will merge with Woodville or at least that is the big word going around the basketball traps

that would seem to be the sensible - because it is not really a transfer for west/western or torrens v/ woodville players.

western 1 will stay in div 3 with different players as their players move to west - western 2 would become western 1 and western 3 western 2 etc

ask western / west management.

we have all been made aware of div 1-2 west, div 3,4,5 western.

u18 girls may only stay a 2 div comp - but youth will be more than div 2 over winter.

310247: Not all players will get the chance to play div 1 or 2 so if Magic wants to run club for div 3 players I think well done to them it sounds like they might actually care about these players.
Help develop the div 3 players so they can move into the association sides.
Isnt that why we are involved in clubs for the developement of junior players.

No Idea is spot on here.Western are doing a good thing by developing lower division players into good players for higher divisions,without the burden to the players hip pocket.It would be a good idea to have more clubs like them doing their sort of development ,meaning good coaching is hard to find at lower divs.Some clubs struggle to find good div 2 coaches-mostly volunteer parents who only promote friends kids and so on.