Sadly , BASA gave the green light to this club to compete in the district comp and BSA has continued to compound the situation by concurring with that previous decision.
Everyone has the right to play ball. However to put a club in district, in direct competition to an existing district club, with an identical catchment area and geograhical location has to be the most short sighted , money grabbing, self defeating and blinkered decision made by basketball's overseers of wisdom.
Eventually woodville or maic will fold and neither will have won and certainly not basketball. In an environment in which Div 1 teams have very little competition, this decision to allow magic a place has further weakened a weak competition by fostering a place for losers to chill.
By this I mean that fringe players gravitate to magic, those with poor work ethics and those disgruntled with real district demands. Now they have a home and they drag with them the occassional player who otherwise may have made higher grades.
They pay peanuts for subs.
How many teams are in the Norwood classic? How many go to the Melbourne tournaments, Classics? How many try out for state? How many in SASI? How many coaches are accredited?
They have the kudos of district but put nothing into it save money to BSA. They are psyeudo district club but one that has the capacity to great harm to other district teams , namely Wests and Woodville.
Magic have the right to exist but not in the district comp.
3 or 4 of our established district clubs are struggling, Centrals is on its knees, Mavericks are in diabolical trouble and our comp is so one sided it hardly resmbles a competition and BSA seem hell bent on continuing this trend.