Incorrect:

West 22, Forestville 53 (unless Sportingpulse is wrong)

Sturt, 35, Southern 36

No other results up yet.

i mean under 18 girls div 1

southern played zone all game, poor way to play

Well u better learn to play it cos your under 18s at Sturt played it all game against Southern on Friday!

and lost!!!

Soft draw at classics

Well by the looks of the ladder at the moment they did, only played top 4 teams in the finals, southern had the tougher draw having to play west, Norwood and forestville, plus had to travel all over the state!

Don't kid yourself about winning a 3 day tournament

Talking about Forestville, what's going on in the under 18s? Summer season finalist and now out of the four with three straight losses?

Aaaah Southern, good to hear from you. Obviously it's not finals time yet?

You Southern clowns never learn. You are so desperate for success you grab at anything and then put down everyone else who acheives it through hard work. Seriously your club is going no-where and with what is coming through in your 10s and 12s, seems at the moment will be a good as it ever will get.

Sturt had a soft draw? They beat the 5th team (by 24), the 6th team (by double figures), and the bronze medalists in a semi by 22.

Nothing like the West draw, featuring the worst 2 top 8 teams and 13th placed finisher.

I wouldn't say a pool with 2nd, 5th, 12th, 14th is particularly soft.

Doesn't seem like a coincidence Sturt win state champs & come 2nd at nationals, all due to soft draws. Maybe they're just better than you?

Fact: Sturt had a kid who was a shoe in to make an australian team. Now can't even make a squad.

Southern have have the only sa kid in the Australian squad.

Where has the player development occured????

The amount of amazing sturt players have that are guns at 16s then fall off the charts is signficiant.

Sturt don't develop players, it's a total myth, they whittle them away and hopefully if there is something by the time the finish juniors they can actually salvage themselves.

they werent better friday night!!

sturt won 3 div 1 games and southern won 3 div 1 games friday night, would seem to me like there isnt a huge gap between the two clubs

Red Herring are you one of those people that think they know lots about basketball because they are involved at Sturt?? 

i am guessing you are one of the many assistant coaches?

2 assistant coaches and still cant win, maybe roll up with a few more next time

Mark bradtke, schenscher, ingles, brogan, that = 4 players

Sturt players/parents/supporters are very defensive today! Anyone would think they had a bad weekend...oh wait...THEY DID!!!

They were probably weighed down by their medals from state champs and classics.
Sturt and Forestville = the only teams to win something this year.

Herring you claiming Mavs and Woodville players and Daly doesn't count either

So, with your Australian player, you have lost 2 GF's already this year. The first one to a depleted Forestville team and the second at State Champs.

Interested in excuses, I mean reasons for these losses? Surely must be someone else's' fault.

Don't think any excuses made just making sure they improve

Can someone post Southern fantastic results in the last 6-7 years and also STurt shit results... I am sure Southern's will be so much better.

Lol......someone get me a kleenex. Like giving it out but cant take it when the worm turns.
If the arrogance didnt come through from all and sundry week in,week out the lost would go un-noticed, but oh no.....only sturt know how to develop players, only sturt can get you into sasi and state teams, only sturt can get you considered for australian teams and colleges.....at some stage people are going to stop feeding on that crap

I thought North also medalled at the classics in girls. Not just Sturt and Foretville. Did Forestville medal something?

I would love to mention the names of the countless players that were gun u16s playing for sturt, with teh genetics to succeed, identified as been australian prospects, that drop out by the age of 20 bitter and twisted about the game they once loved.

The ones that make, make it despite their club but there's countless that are ruined.

If they're over 18 now they can be named right? Go ahead...

I love it when people try to justify how successful clubs do a poor job.

Seriously, do you actually understand that basketball is a tournament sport? U14 Nationals, State Champs, U16 Nationals, U18 Nationals, U20 Nationals, U17 Worlds, U19 Worlds, World Uni Games, Commonwealth Games, Olympics.

So what we se here is the pathway for junior basketballer's is in tournament play and a failure for people to understand that kids need to learn to perform when it matters. Friday night games are for development, tournaments are there to tech kids how to win.

It’s this type of ignorance that's put your players behind the 8 ball when state champs and classics come around.

Are you saying Sturt have had a soft draw the last 7 years at State Champs in U18's? Cos they have Yeah, must be dumb luck that.

So to elaborate, Sturt had a soft draw this year. They played 1 extra game, does that count? And what happened in the GF, was that part of the soft draw? Oh that's right, Southern lost another important game. So the count is 2 form 2 lost GF's, both with your AUS kid.

all this means so much to so few, so change your nappies and dream about what's it like to be a grown up

Don't see the NBA playing in a tournament!!

Don't watch the Olympics of World Champs then.

Lots of NBA players there.

Yeah you are right. The finals series with best of's aren't really a mini tournament are they? Its not soccer, at all levels of basketball they play a 'best of' Finals series.

What about Euro League or the Euro Cup?

Are you close to getting the point yet?

Are these 'tournament' people serious??? Get a life! It's a season!

I heard the premiership in AFL doesn't count cos it's not played over a tournament!

Go back to your Jeep club!

Pre season tournament counts, so that makes the crows this years premiers

dont worry about the rest of the season

this taken from BSA website:

KEY OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

COMPETITION AND TOURNAMENT MANAGEMENT

District Basketball
Central ABL
State Junior Championships

Note where the State Championships rank for them!!

wow, are you serious? We are talking about pathways for junior baskeballers and you bring up AFL?

You make me laugh, thanks.

You can't really blame Southern for being jealous of Sturt and Forestville, after all, they've actually won something this year.

"Note where the State Championships rank for them!!"

Sorry, have you missed the last 2000 posts about how inept BSA have been over the years?

By all means, take your advice from them.

BSA inept

because they let your club POACH players

Who won Friday night?

they came to their senses!!

playing Southern girls is like a UFC basketball game, at least Vic refs worked them out..
and we were glad to see the back of them.. on there way back south

How did your Sturt Under 18 girls go at classics.

oooops I forgot they did not make it.

Last comment = WINNER

Gets a new 4WD

Just as good as both Southerns U16 teams.

Which beat Sturt on Friday night!!!!!

very very old, it's an interesting observation but should go further, the whole junior program is tired with the same heads promoting more often than not the wrong cattle.
You need to weed the garden that BSA has grown and put in new growth because our delivery of the elite programs is dysfunctional and so narrowly led further slides in performance are guaranteed.
The district scene is worse with it being a good social level at best, supported by self concerned clubs whose care factor for basketball success nationally is minimal.
Of the clubs that make up BSA many don't have nor look likely to have a full compliment of teams across the ages and from Youth League programming to Friday night games the future is dour for women's continuation in the sport.

Soccer???? Not sure there mate...

As for costs...so true! How much are the average fees per season? Where does that money go?

093 anon.. I am with you there..I have 2 children and have a lot of traveling. With country and city commitments, if they weren't both showing great potential in their particular areas, both div 1. I would be doing other things with my money like eating paying of the house...lol well not quite that bad but its getting there. I rob Peter to pay Paul many weeks. Maybe I should leave the country and come back on a boat I may get assistance.

Fees go to court hire. I know our club spends $100k on stadiums each year.

2 clubs in the a league have already gone broke! Adelaide united have needed to be bailed out! The socceroos are full of European players aged well into their 30s! Game attendances are at an all time low in a league! Player development is not as good as you think.....go figure!

Compare soccer figures to AFL and they do not even rate, If it wasn't for a couple of billionaires soccer would be dead in this country.

Basketball does not have the following to ever cut costs and will always drain wallets. Basketball runs dead last in value for money and career opportunities

Juno you need to do some research

Jack did u just throw some numbers out for fun or we you being serious? If you were being serious you're absolutely kidding yourself! How does 21/35 = 40%?

Easier to win in an Under 16 competition when two players are almost certainly over 18.

Yet still can't win a GF

Hit up the stats for 18s jack!

24/60 = 48%???? U must be on crack jack!!!

What's southern in 18s? Anon above, if u want u16 scores start your own thread!!! ;)