Fiction: players were not happy at their original clubs and decided to come to magic
Fact: players were 'seduced' to come to Magic to play
Fiction: parents coaching junior teams
Fact: Some teams do not even have coaches. If they do then sometimes they don't turn up.
Fiction: Nominating for lower divisions so we get more trophies
Fact: Magic has always nominated for lower grade tournaments so they could win more trophies.
Fiction: Magic is a "social club"
Fact: Magic is a very social club. They are very intimate.
Fiction: Magic fees are too low for it to be a district club.
Fact: Magic was formed to give kids with lower standard skills a chance to play. When magic tried to go one better fees were made lower than district so they had abetter chance of getting district players to come over.
Fiction:" Someone should stop protecting people and let the basketball community know what is really going on." Quote from a previous post.
Fact: If anything is said about what is going on then it gets deleted. This does not mean it is not the truth. It is very serious.

I thought Melbourne Magic folded?

"We are not here to rip off our parents like other clubs seem to do."

Fact: If you are not as big as some other clubs, there would be no need to charge what other bigger clubs do.

"while they are sitting here talking on the blogs"

Fact: Isnt that what you are doing Spadge?

"if people were to stop gossiping for one second and actually asked someone that knows what they are talking about you will find that its not actually Magic that people should be pointing fingers at"

Fact: So you get on a "blog" try and point out a few "facts" and think this course of action is going to nip the gossips in the bud?

Fact: If you have aspirations to be as good as some other clubs you may might need to take a different approach.

Don't believe the hype!!

Sorry spadege but you are unaware of the origins of your club, you are probably not privvy to what has happened.

Fact: One of, if not the main person responsible for getting the "Magic" into district competition now has serious issues with the law.

"Fact: One of, if not the main person responsible for getting the "Magic" into district competition now has serious issues with the law."

- Says who? - think people need to stop believing everything they hear.

"Says who? - think people need to stop believing everything they hear"

Says the police and parents involved.

Look up the word spadge in the Urban dictionary. I think it says a bit of the poster.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spadge

I come back to a key point for BSA and BA to address, that being , a social club being allowed to participate in the district comp and able to charge lower by far fees for its members. I don't believe its equitible to District clubs to have competition from social clubs who cam participate in their district competition, compete for players in their catchment areas and to do so at a reduced fee to their social players.
District for district players who are aligned with a district club only.

Under 14 Div 5 Boys never nominated to go into div 4. Sturt and Western Magic have a good rilvary in that division. The difference is that Sturt nominated for Div 4 as they were beating every other team in that grade by 40+. Western Magic were doing the same and I notice they did not nominate for a higher division. Explain this.........

(#120730) if it is a police matter, then it's in the hands of the police, therefore has nothing to do with basketball, so just leave it at that. No need to post remarks on hoops.

how many teams have players ONLY from their catchment areas?? If this was the case, then Centrals women wouldnt have this problem.

(#120730) It does if it relates to basketball players. So leave it at that.As to your other point there are ways of getting players without taking other clubs players.

As always, not very many intelligent posts when it comes to egos (from magic and non magic clubs)

Isaac, I also agree that post # 120791 should be deleted.

and I think everyone needs to read the rules again....
'You must read the Terms of Use. No spam, no offensive material, no sniping at other clubs, no 'who cares?'-type comments, no naming or bashing under 18 players.'