Thats alot coin if thats true for a D2 club.Money could be better spent in other areas.

Wow...wonder how they spending that with no sponsors?

All their players have to get player sponsors looking at their website.

The PDBA Committee totally refute any suggestions regarding player payments of 32K.

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lol 32k for 4 players??? big deal thats fuk all

The one thing I hate in basketball is the objection or resentment towards players being paid.

In football at all senior levels players are being paid - depending on how financial the Club is and how good the players are the amount varies.

I'm hearing of Football Clubs in Metro Area & Country Area having total player expenses between $100k - $300k per season.

Whether these figures are true or not I'm not sure but when ex-AFL players drop back to Metro & Country Leagues they sure don't come cheap.

So Football Clubs probably spend 70% - 90% of their Income on the Players & Coach.

You wouldn't find any Baskteball Associations paying that percentage of their Income for players but thats because of Stadium Costs & Domestic Competition Expenses & League Expenses & Admin expenses & Referee payments soak up a lot of the Basketball Associations funds.

If you are going to make your Senior basketball teams elite then players should be paid - you should not have the players go out and do the fundraising for the Committee or be paying $500-$600 to the Club to play in a Big V or SEABL team.

It should be seen as a reward for making the senior team.

If some players at Pakenham are being paid then thats the Clubs choice and good for the players in my opinion - maybe Pakenham are looking at moving up a Division sooner rather than sit at the bottom for twenty years like some others.

Who cares if they spend 32k........Money makes the world go round and it is no big deal if clubs want to pay players!

I don't know why everyone carries on about it....they are men & women in a free market were if they are good enough and wish to can pursue the dollar as we all have bills and expenses to meet!

most coaches at Big V level get betwen $3 to $10k

Nothing wrong with spending a bit of cash on players. However money should be spent on junior program's first as that will limit the need to go and recruit players who only come to the club for cash. I assure you Reid, Topp, and Ferrier will not be there in 5 years time. If they spent that money on their juniors they may have been able to develop some of their own players to be that good and perhaps got 5 or 6 guys who may have played 10+ years for the club at Big V level.

I hope Pakenham realise that this is not going to be a great idea long term. With that being said however, they are a lock in for the D2 premiership this year. If they were going to do this they should have gone into D1. Most clubs in D2 do not spend coin on players.

If you look across the Big V very few players stay at one club.

So this whole bring the juniors thru is a bit of a myth....use the kids to fill the bench and hopefully 1 or 2 can develop into starters (At which time you'll still have to pay them) and then you need to fill needs of the roster to compete.

Well my nephew currently plays VJBL for Pakenham and after talking to my brother I doubt that he will be next year. Very little gets spent on Juniors granted the Big V players have had a little bit more of a presence around the place but alot of junior parents feel this has all been kept hush hush. I feel that had the parents of juniors been informed that the club was planning on doing this they probably would have been ok with it. If other clubs do it I dont know why the club has kept it all seceret.

It's interesting that we have not heard from PDBA COMMITTEE in response to the question being asked. The members have a right to know who is getting paid and what they are getting and WHY.

I would suggest blowing that much money to win D2M is not a good reason.

The Pakenham Warriors are now call Payingthem Warriors in my mind