I agree TW. 2 years in a row Eltham have put on a good show with great crowds. Let's hope we can do the same this week.

I was surprised with the move to recruit Cunningham in the first place. She has been a disappointment at every team she's played for. I was on the other side of the court so didn't hear that comment but I'm shocked that she even hit the court at all after making it.

Saw the D1W (Craigieburn Vs Warnambool) and the D2M (Craigieburn Vs Keysborough) games Saturday night. I must say plenty of intensity in both games and a decent level of basketball. Atmosphere was awesome. Well done to the Craigieburn Association on getting both teams in the the GF series! On top of this, one must say Craigieburn had a very well presented game night.

Big V has really improved the quality of their package over the last few years and one feels it will only continue to improve.

The media, livestats and game presentation has taken huge leaps forward in a short time.

Great to see 2 country teams fighting out the D1M GF series.

Can someone confirm if the BIG V is what was once known as (many many many years ago) the CVIBL (Country Victorian Invitiational Basketball League)??

If so how many country teams are in the competitin at the moment? I agree the Big V has come a long way, but I think there are probably alot of small country associations that could play in the lower Division of the Big V. What about Echuca, Colac, Bellarine Peninsula, Sheparton and Swan Hill???

Would be awesome for the sport ot see some of those associations enter / return.

As I said good job to the Big V, but would be better if we could get some more country clubs in hey?

Horsham, geelong, warrnambool and mildura are country clubs we must keep..
Would be good to see Warragul and shepparton come back in before others.
Echuca would be good long term

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Well done Eltham woman, back to back champions!!

Well done to all the Championship teams across all the divisions.

To the best of my knowledge- Echuca pulled out of the league as they were at what is now known as Div1 but we sick of playing against the big SEABL clubs 'second sides' where clubs like Frankston and Nunawading would play players down for some practice and the Pirates would not be able to match them as they were only a small club. Is eventually became a huge problem and then the league brought int the 'Youth League' concept. Unfortuantly this came in too late to save Echuca.

With that being said, I feel if the Big V adminsitration worked with The Echuca Basketball Association they could get them back up and running.

I was speaking to my clubs delgate and he said that some clubs had suggested among themselves that more needed to be done to get the country clubs back involved. Things like reducing (or even removing) their entry fee to allow them to spend money on travel.

I feel there is plenty of support from the basketball community out there to help our country clubs get back on their feet.

Aparently Echuca is looking in to it they just missed the boat for 2013