Think u missed one Jack... North v Norwood
I only point it out coz I enjoy ur commentary!

Kinross should expect a welcome home party at morphet vale like Kurt Tippet will get against the crows!!

Kinross originally from South, then went to Southern, now back to South.

If Southern fans are that infantile, they should also bag Nagy girls amongst others, or just enjoy watching the game?

Southern by plenty, FWIW.

are south that bad

No they are not. Yes they will struggle again this season, as other teams added quality players to their roster. I saw their game against Forestville and the were fantastic. I think thats the smallest margin they have lost by in 6 years to Forestville.
I wish people would just stop with the negative untruths and comments.

Tigers cage house of pain for the Panthers?

Same sh*t, different year for the lady Warriors by the looks of things.... Lucky Centrals are back to their old ways, otherwise Woodville wouldnt win a game!!

And they have an import!! Waste of time move that is, teach your kids how to play

Woodville probably needed an impact import and a tall at that . They have taken other clubs benches and lost too many of their juniors under the previous régime which means they will have to beg, borrow and steal from other clubs for years to run their seniors because despite good intentions the damage to the junior girls has been done. They will win two or three maybe more but they have the cart before the horse mentality still. They need to pay a Name to run their junior development program with the basketball skills and kudos to attract players not pay their ordinary aba team and coaches/import etc.
If they have enough home grown juniors left to fill the aba do that, and spend what they spend on aba on juniors. Think future, think development and think numbers.

Are you serious? You are going to wipe your hands of the current situation and blame it on the past 2 CABL coaches that the club have had???

It is the same muppet running the girls program as it was back then, and until he is removed from the club there is not going to be a successful girls program.
He has shown his lack of leadership not only in developing the girls team, but also in how he plays on the court himself.

Now they are paying somebody else to help him.... are they trying to make this club go under??


Players from last year have not improved - Ashleigh White has gone from scoring 15 points a game and getting 10 rebounds to hardly troubling the scorers, Katherine Perkas looks like she is struggling to bounce the ball, Emily Sims... does she even remember what the court looks like?

Lucky they have such an awesome import that can shoot 4 from 14 last night and averages 29% from the field for the season so far - good buy that one!!

Give it a break people. Like many clubs, they do not have the luxury of having a GREAT player in their program like many clubs that are successful. It only takes a couple of great players and the rest role players to make a really good team. There ain't a lot of these players going around!!

But if you develop them then you have them in the future, I have heard every wood like player gets paid, bloody ridiculous if true

And since when has a ref been able to coach basketball

College is over rates, how many Australian players went through the college system

414, I think you'll find Ashley scored 8 points a game in aba last year. Remember also,the previous coach was responsible for losing six or seven junior players from U23 who were playing seniors which hastened the rot because families moved to other clubs with siblings etc.

The boys and girl's JDO positions are now separate and the person you were referring too is the boy's JDO only, or on paper anyway.
Woodville aba did not improve over the last two years and it is certainly not on the mend now and has paid a vast financial sum to alter little.

Lynne holland's correct tenet of playing the juniors was destroyed along with the junior development program when internal conflict and presidency aspirations took root with the Torrens Valley influx and she left exasperated. Unfortunately her successor was inexperienced and not the right fit for the club at the time.

No one could argue that Al Green has been anything but good for Woodville boys but the same people behind that move, had vetoed the magic merger and condemned the girls program to oblivion.

It's a do or die situation for Woodville right now because they have not corrected the junior slide as a priority. Countless posters have nailed the 'fix the junior program first' line but steadfastly woodville cling to an ABA revival for the club being the policy of choice.

If woodville purchased the best junior development coach in SA and put him/her on a retainer equal to the cost of the ABA program then juniors and their families might believe the club is on the right track. By my reckoning the women could win 5 games tops and I have to question how the money spent on the ABA program is balanced or how it is justified when they have bugger all junior girls teams and no feeder for seniors?

Pathers women I think do quite well tonight I would not write off the panthers just yet. They played 3 top clubs and keep with them for 3 Qs it's been only 1 Q laps that's had blown it out. Tipping Pathers by 15 points.

Mate didn't south girls played well. Bahahahahaha super coach choked.

Out played, out muscled, out coached!

Damn for her to be out coached by the nuff nuff of southern. Bahahahaha

That's not fair, Vicki Kelson is the best coach in the league

I'm sure the players and coaches do, and obviously everyone else who makes comment

I am pretty Sure Simon Pritchard would disagree with being told vicki is a better coach than him!!

Pritchard is definitely the best recruiter in the league. Nobody disputes that.

That's part of coaching, South's import is terrible she is proof that playing div 2 college is not what it's all cracked up to be

Hopefully the other girls can help lift it for south when they get home

Bet Ciabottini doesn't play, she is not the sort of girl that will be up for a rescue mission!

She will and so will the others

Southern Men and Women mauled the Panthers comfortable winners..

Nasty loss by eagles women

Those girls for South were out played!! A little heart wouldnt go astray Wasn't the coaches fault at all. How frustrating for her.

Woodville women struggling ATM. Thought they would be a little better this season.

Pritchard has a great team due to his position at Lightning on top of yes, his experience. Easy to recruit her you have the means to do so.

Woodville women are terrible and Jessica Koch no better than an average state league player waste of money and time she is

Some teams don't have the real quality to choose from, that is the difference between the top teams and the bottom dwellers.

Well wam bam that's a new approach , a two year plan and if they had a cast of thousands they are picking the wrong twelve out of them

She is being paid!!

Wow you cant bag west without someone bagging Woodville and vice versa!!

Jessica Koch was supposwf to be a superstar according to scouting reoorts and tape but is instead a dud ha ha ha

The league is a joke. The best players go to the best teams. Doesn't seem fair.

Easy to make a highlights tape of yourself and make yourself look good!

I did research on Souths import, 112 div 2 college games for 2 victories, says it all really!!

Christian Bell the saviour ha ha ha

I'd say it's pretty common knowledge that Wam's figures are around the mark.

As someone said, maybe these lowervendcteams are doing the bestbtheybcan, recruitment wise, with the tools they have. As for the 6 k a year to spend on recruiting... What a joke.

I think a lot of people are forgetting that this is a state league competition.

How many other state level sports have any sort of exposure. Only ones I can think of are AFL and Soccer.

Also it is not that the best players go to the best teams. Think about Norwood, they are arguably the best team in the comp at the moment and they have only 1 new player, the rest have either come through the juniors or have atleast been there for several years.

but have been recruited over the past few years.

Amy Lewis was hand picked by Simon, due to his involvement with Lightning. Tough for other clubs to recruit when he has first picking.

Lewis has not played a game yet this season

As was Marissa Stabile.

Apart from Lightning players which clubs have recruited the best

Forestville...

Daylight...

Jack,don't be ridiculous.

Forestville were 30 up after three quarters. The only reason Sturt came back is because Forestville were so far up that they had the luxury of clearing their bench.

So Forestville played their Forestville players then...

Why would you say Firestville women are weaker, they are predominantly the same team with addition of Bello and Newley, looks strong on paper

Has Boti taken over at south yet?

Love seeing Sturt lose looks like the rumors about Sturt are true, I'd suggest to stop the Rot get the broom out! but then I'd like to see the Rot take hold and spread like cancer aha...

4 rounds in and people are making the same old predictions based, I think as the season goes on there will be some strong competition at the top, yes West look the goods with the DJ and Cadee onboard but they are beatable and come end of season I think the shiny glitter will fall off and they will be well beatable.

eagle that's the most disjointed reply ever seen on this forum and your point is?
They have gone from one disaster to another and every move is reactive not proactive. They've gone to an import and to other club's players because they have decimated their junior ranks and it wasn't possible to fill their ABL team with home grown stock. They have damn all junior girls and no chance of changing that because of their destructive practices.

I'll have what he's having ^^^

You would be better having the tag, eagle ice

I'm no grammar nazi but sheesh - instead of full stops or comma's?

Anyway there was more smoke in that post than Snoop Doggs smokehouse.

I read, doesn't matter how the board reacts to things or if we lose players we have the best coaches and training regime and that makes us great.

They're apprentices Filthy and may get a gig on their own in 2025.

How is adding coaches from other clubs development?

Lazy.

Lol luring coaches from other clubs =success?

Luring of coaches after publicly ridiculing them?

It's all a myth.

It's pure laziness, using the vicious circle of poaching, recruiting, talking down other programs to constantly build your own.

Lazy.

Work within your area, develop your own, encourage healthy competition, stay out of the business of other clubs, stop abusing your position of power of access to the best venues, best revenue streams, weak SASI Head Coach, weak BSA administration.

Or enjoy your 70 point wins where neither team, no player learns anything, and State and Club failures at at National level as a result of a dying girls competition and grossly uneven boys.

Ask yourself why does every descent junior coach in SA want to coach at sturt, everyone that's played/coached within the district comp wants to take their kids.

It's a place where coaches and athletes can get on and coach/play free of negative, parental interference. Where the kids want to bust their guts each and every session to get better. Where coaches work together in a great social environment, which stimulates learning and accountability.

Even those that hate sturt, have competed against them as players and coaches are thinking about moving there. I'd suggest club committees and leadership sitdown with sturt and ask them what they do differently. It's not rocket science, just some basic values. I couldn't bring myself to join sturt but certainly have thought about it a few times recently.

My Coaching Director is lazy. We never see or hear from them, when we do it's simply incoherent, negative, bullsh*t and whenever there are problem parents they devolve himself of responsibility leaving his coaches out to dry. He is brand new to the role, lets see how long until our club is back to parents coaching teams in div 3.

i will never ever coach at sturt

Nice one Hanging Round :)

Everyone wants to go to Sturt? BS your losing people. Sturt's gloss, glitter and shine is coming off and you know it.. People be starting to talk about the false promises, your "come across and play a higher level only to be dropped down shortly after poaching tactic. Your we can get you to a US college drivel. Pay money to get selected to go to the states for what it never to come to fruition?