Lance
Years ago
Who is in the worst state across both boys and girls currently? I have seen so many cricket score wins this weekend it is really concerning!
Are the club's doing enough, or should BSA be doing more? Or is it more easy to just recruit country kids from all over the state - Mavs, or simply poach - (Sturt) ?
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Years ago
pro / rel across the board required keep the right level together.
some teams want the experience and accept the results.
Jack Toft
Years ago
Lance, what exactly is your question? Are you looking at it from a team perspective, or a club perspective, or a gender perspective?
I would say the boys competition is relatively balanced. Teams and club come and go while Sturt have consistently retained the #1 position over the last ten years, the rankings and strength of the other 9 clubs have waxed and waned according to coach and player strength at the time. Getting FIFO players boosts a team in the short term, but is not an effective long term strategy for a club.
I would say the girls competition really needs a re-jig to sort it out. Girls sport is more fickle and participation is dependent on more factors than the boys. Over the last ten years the girls competition has declined in numbers and the power has been distilled, rather than been spread between clubs. The power of the boy's teams have ebbed and flowed amongst nine clubs like an ocean pounding on Sturt's lighthouse. In the girls, the competition has eroded like a iceberg with the occasional ice slip breaking away from the iceberg and slipping into the ocean never to be seen again.
Jack it starts off in U10s/U12s. However, it takes many years to build a program where those kids come through the age groups. Where a club is behind the 8-ball with kids in U16s/U18s FIFO might work to change the inbuilt loosing culture, sustained over years.
There's one that I know of that had 5 players FIFO over the past 4-5 yrs. 2 of the 5 relocated in the are of the club and are on the cusp of Australian selection for World CHampionships, and the kids and their parents have helped build the program in question, parents on committees etc and lifting the standard and work ethic of their teams. 1 other other of the 5 FIFO kids ended up boarding in the city playing for a city club and just represented SA Country and U18 nationals. Also the age groups they have played in have grown in numbers, talent and depth substantially since U12s because these kids helped make the teams more competitive.
They, and their families are have had a major impact on the club, community and state basketball scene.
They would have been playing local football or netball back home had they not been given the opportunity to start off as FIFO.
Mavs girls program has new faces every week!! They have at least 60% of their div 1 14 and 16 girls living 2-3 hours away from Adelaide and never training with Mavs.
Woodville girls program is non existent, partly because they have no girls, partly because they have no plan but mostly because of the personnel.
Southern should be the strongest but is driven by agendas that have nothing to do with the advancement of junior basketball.
South is on the mend, West is dormant but has numbers,Norwood suffered from a country pox but is healing but that pox has infested Mavericks while sturt have lost their gloss they remain the top all rounder with forestville dipping slightly. Centrals remain centrals, so by default woodville win the title because for a district club to have had so few girl's teams for three years means the wrong people are in charge.
Southern agenda selling uniforms so the president can make money for himself
Dont know where you got your 60% not training in 14s and 16s. There's a couple girls longer distance but the majority are within an hour or so. Other clubs have new faces to!! Your point being??.. but wait Mavs seem to be going from strength to strength at the moment..A proud club working hard at doing their best, guess some like to bitch about that.
#582 good thing there is a new board that has only been in for around 6 months and are working to fix the woodville girls problem. can't blame it on the current people there as they haven't had enough time to make a change
Mostly the Same people, different titles #474, going from bad to worse and the only people who don't know it are the board.
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