this thread may as well be empty at this point

Brine to Forestville confirmed
Thomas to Woodville confirmed (?)

Thomas to woodville is not true
Dave humphries to tigers
Mcgee to woodville
Brine to eagles
Pioneers to nbl1
Kubank looking
Starling looking
Johns to footy (Sanfl)

Brine to eagles
L Hunter to eagles
P Thomas to woodville

Only confirmed moves please , Thomas to woodville is not true as stated above

What teams don't have coaches yet?

Is Humphries playing by himself or bringing friends? Is anyone staying at Southern? I can only imagine the appeal for him was big $$.

Bringing a PG from SBL. I would say that the league is moving on from Starling soon.

Will some of the local lads be looking to the NBL1 with the Pioneers?

Not that many that'll cut the fat in NBL1 from PL. very small candidate pool imo.

Coaching spots free I believe are both Norwood, Woodville women and Centrals women, could be mistaken though. Remember above rules re Norwood positions.

Forestville already started early with their working of the By-Laws. Rios to not be considered a restricted player. Maybe Deng too!

Both must be close to the 100 game rule , clearly that bylaw was designed for Aussies although it reads poorly and simo will bring the full force of the eagles bylaw brigade .

Time for other clubs to step up to the plate and stop this ridiculousness

Turnage to norwood

brandon morris and allmon? that could be either elite or garbage

Need to get a real good local guard to get it to them, but interesting going with seemingly identical players.

Isn't Sam John’s playing there?

Dean bringing back Turnage after he left them out in the cold?

South certainly have thrown $$ at Johns. Don't know whether he accepted though

sam johns playing football

Is Dean definitely at Norwood or just a rumour?

He isn't getting an sanfl spot, not even playing for an sanfl club

If Sam went to south he would be doing a Andrew Webber and player coach

I think he has signed with Norwood FC!

No bashing

871 you actually took the time to post that?

Mount G to announce their arrival to NBL1 soon and they're taking two big names with them.

And their names are ???

Bryan McGriff to Forestville

Legan and CJ to norwood

Norwood have signed Smith

Smith?

John Smith?

Norwood working hard on how to fit juniors into their team and get meaningful time

haha^

Change all their surnames to Webber

Prider on the move South

who from norwood is moving? sounds like a mini exodus

"mini exodus" - what a shitpost

No bashing!

thats a bombshell!

100% not true about starling , nice try DH

Hearing west might not even have a team for PL.

West are a very proud club, they will have no issues keeping there players

They're set to lose 5-7 players from their squad from last year, per woj.

If Staling is going to Centrals what happens to Willie J

Who are these 5-7?! Someone keeps posting this stuff about West but it's always vague and just junk if you ask me

Thomas (woodville)
Kubank (looking but will probably return as others clubs dont think he is as good as he thinks he is)
Truslove (retired)
Valk (Norwood)
Johnson (clubs vying for services)
Fauser (club is looking at other big men from other clubs to start over him and play minutes)

Which reserves teams want Johnson?

Patty to the US
Kubank to pioneers
Vaulk to flames
Imports gone x 2
Blake retired
Johnson to footy or another club

947 what kind of uneducated stab in the dark was that

Civil conversation only.

hoops police out in force

Thomas back to US is true.
Kubank fo pioneers also true.
Truslove retired, true.
Vaulk, fauser exploring different teams..
Rennie playing football.

Whitmore must've offered Thomas big $$ to move if true

Corey Mclean to quit West. Can't deal with the mass exodus.

Even though they just announced his return 2 weeks ago, and no doubt knew about any potential changes?

Kubank to the Pioneers a positive for player and team.

Is there another player also going?

Johnson not looking to leave west. Will remain for 2020 season

Has Atkins brought any Warriors to Centrals?

If West coach quits because he doesn't have the horses, that's piss poor. Good coaches take on all challenges.

The previous message about McLean said "to quit west", not that he already has. Knowing his mindset it wouldn't matter to him if players have left, and if they were he would have known full well before he signed on again.

Kubank family returning to south?

West is sunk

No Bitching on this thread please!

Patrik Thomas to USA? Why? G-League?

Coaching opportunity with a college program, last I heard.

'G-League' did he even get an NBL look? Not saying Gleague is any better but damn

I believe he had a crack, but didn't want to sit behind duds like Larkin and hoffman, possibly a reason too many good SA kids haven’t been at Adelaide

So who coached the Norwood Men PL Reserves last night

I heard Helder coached Norwood.

From Box scores Kubank and Johnson played for West!

Kubank will probably play summer up until he is required by Mt Gambier. Few other guys on boxscore that played that were rumoured to go elsewhere.

I would say that most of the West rumours are smoke and mirrors.

time will tell what is smoke and what is mirriors.

If so many players were leaving, you would believe McLean would be trying to poach players from other clubs to fill so many holes. Not hearing much poaching being done....

Lets not get into bashing or protecting West. Everyone has been playing by the rules so far!

307 you don't get to be the internet police just because you started the post.
It's getting a little weird how many times you're mentioning this.

Someone has to keep eye on it otherwise it'll get deleted when Muppets go on about usual targets. Can see the West topic going down that path. And I've mentioned it twice, others have done the rest.

What amazing news to wake up to for West fans! Signing Luke Cadzow and Sam Warren is huge... also rumoured to be working out a deal with Seb Vozzo once a money agreement can be sorted. Great day to be a bearcat.

West signed who?

Div 3 college players, Corey going big for the reserves championship.... and the premier league wooden spoon by the sounds of things.

Vozzo to West is untrue. There will be a big 3 at Mavs of Vozzo, Kane Della-Pia and the returning Rigby Alphabet.

Back to back reserves champions???

Vozzo is a proven reserves player and will bring west reserves back to the promise land

Will be needed to replace the huge void left by perennially dominant reserves star Lucas Vaulk.

Rumour is James adcock is moving into sams hackam mansion later this week.

And here we go back to being children.

basketball in this state is full of wankers

if half you trolls were any good you wouldn't be on here

Turnage to norwood, could be interesting

Eagles
Dewitt
Harris
Teys
Mays
DJ
And Rios pretty deadly

And missing brine

surely start brine over teys

Teys and dj will probs depends on minutes that teys plays this season.... could be restricted this year? If that happened would only be able to have 1

Standings this year:

Eagles
Norwood
South
Woodville
Rockets
Sturt
West
Centrals
Tigers
Mavs

Tigers will be better than west.

Everyone will be better than west

south third

get off the drugs

lost all credibility

south has morris and allmon, doesnt matter if the supporting cast is bad if they mesh somehow

That Eagles line up has one too many restricted players if Rios makes it. Teys getting more than 14 minutes? Not a problem he did last year but still snuck through though if he gets more than 14 minutes this year will be a very long season for 36ers

Where did DJ signing come from? Brine to replace Majok, heard maybe a couple players to come in for some bench strength. Has rumoured ongoing Starling free agency been sorted, and will McVeigh return? Else would expect North to slip. Centrals team from Tuesday is basically what they'll run with plus imports so expect them to struggle with rookie coach.

if thats the centrals PL they are SCREWED

McVeigh will be signed late as may be possible restricted after tonight's performance

South do not have allmon but another import big untried in our league

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Good chance Rios is a citizen this year so eagles can get Dj is teys isn't restricted....


Also have heard starling could go to centrals not sure why he hasn’t been signed straight away by north

West, tigers, mavs, centrals will just be battle of the imports like every other year for the bottom 4 teams

Good chance Rios goes elsewhere regardless.

If Rios is eligible to be a citizen why did Forestville seek approval from BSA to play Rios as a non restricted player for other reasons

Let me guess, because the Cheatgles are attempting to manipulate the by-laws around the 100 game/same club non-restrcted rule set to reward loyal NBL Australians and not imports?
Just a guess of course...

"A player who has played more than 100 games in the Premier League (Central ABL included) or a player who has played for strictly one Premier League club for a minimum of eight seasons will not be classified as a 'Restricted' player."

Yeah this screams Australians only to me.

Thanks simo

Anon 183 - read down a but further in the By-Laws - anyone requiring a foreign players license is restricted. Poorly worded By-Laws but the latter takes precedence.

Where is Deng going if not at forrestville?

Shit, does it. I stopped reading there. Then yeah a bit dodgy perhaps

Would another club be interested in Rios? This year was a role player with a stacked starting 5, year before put up a ton of points as 1st, 2nd and 3rd option at eastern. Previous years at forestville was a very steady contributor. Would have been a good partner with Allmon at South this year. Think he is a lot better than a bench player for eagles but not a "franchise" player he was at eastern, with a better rounded team would think he would be good pickup depending on price.

West will be interested in any anybody period.

What has happened at West? A lot of bashing going on.

What's happening out west is a severe lack of education where they cannot read or understand the thread title.

Ok Captain Knowall, please enlighten us on the 'player movements' at West.

It has been said multiple times what the player movements are

So they're true?

Funny how McLean goes from top coach to a terrible one in just one year.

Ask him and he'll tell you it was his players.

After watching Mavs v Lions tonight I hope both have multiple players to bring it!

Is anyone disappointed in the Tuesday night reserves now that reserves are split to different venues. It use to be interesting to see all the teams in one venue and who is playing for whom. Now it just feels like a crappy let down. At least there is more parking available.

The refing was way beyond poor last night. Seems like some of them haven't worked out that you need to blow to make a noise when there is body contact or mentally are they still on holidays? Or could it be that some of these refs are getting burned out by how many games BSA are making them do each week.

So in real discussion, does anyone have a list for sure of what players are playing where next season? Who the imports are? I'm sure some teams are still looking?

Any news of movements?

Imports

Forestville: Mays and probably Rios
Woodville: McGriff and presumably a new guy
South: Morris and a new guy
Norwood: Turnage and Legan
Southern: The Guy they had in reserves and a new guy.
North: Starling and Dowdell return

Centrals, West, Eastern, Sturt who knows.

I'd say morris and starling are both incorrect

Centenara to Southern can be confirmed

Centrals going for bigs apparently, who plays guards though. Diing to play Nbl1, whole heap of secondary guys not playing so expect Sapwells to lead league in shot attempts.
But really doubtful with women, will struggle to field PL team, nearly impossible to have reserves team, does that mean they fold? Women will make South's team from a year ago look like America's national team. No money in kitty, all gone from KB and Willie. 18 team terrible, lost to Woodville div 2 team during bye week so nothing there. Management really screwed up that club.

Norwood already signed two Americans so you better check that source of yours

Norwood redlegs perhaps.

ANy word on who is coaching the flames this season?

Thank god the Pioneers are out the league! That's all I know...

Know CJ has definitely signed with a wedding clause in his contract but has Legan officially signed? Would make better sense to go with Starling.

What about on the women's side?

I heard Noodles Seecamp was going to suit for Sturt (thought she would be more on the WNBA radar or at least NBL1)

Jess Good and Taylor Ortlepp to North?

"Nyberg to Flames" nope

Not sure about those two to North but seems Danni Angley may be playing there

Wires crossed, meant Dani Angley. Taylor still in college lol

Jess good confirmed to north

Lauren Mansfield too?

(insert first name here) Webber will coach the Flames, regardless of who is actually named as coach.

Any update on PL imports?

Have heard from sources Centrals have been throwing money at a well travelled Sturt big (can't name his name)

Looks like Johns, Ellison and Omahmogo are all down at South per coaches instagram. Any info on exodus from Southern Appears they'll be running with their reserves budget import and YL 1's. Parents speaking of issues with the club president?

Here's to another 20 years of bottom dwelling in Noarlunga wonder what will happen to Thier "loud crowd".

At least John's got his house in hackham and got out in time!

Have heard the new pres has intentionally barred John's from working with kids down at morphettvale stadium if true very disapointing taking into account all he has done for this club. They sure didn't have any issues when he brought in creeky and made them relevant. Way to treat your 2x premiership captain. Bush League club, Bush League managment

Yes I guess they could have made a profit but was that before or after the special levy imposed on all players to reduce debt or any special bail-out money given by supporters of the club. One would hope that is not the norm and that they need to better manage their finances not to have to rely on those drastic measures in future.

Central's wouldn't have the money to throw around.

I agree Centrals can't have the cash to afford Starling. If rumours of Turnage costing Norwood 30+ then Starling must be around that level.

30K is nearly the total budget of both teams at Centrals. Can't even have Starling act as jdo and even running camps there, teams are plummeting especially on girls side. Their 14 1 girls lost 92 to 2, never seen a score like that in district, let alone div 1. Previous president plans of having "elite" club and only having div 1 and 2 teams was laughable, so players left, most ironically to north, so if imports have a camp for Centrals players I doubt they'd have enough to play 5 on 5, so Starling would struggle financially. Only way is if Starplex create a job for him.

Koop to play PL for Southern. That's how bottom of the barrel they are scraping. He's a reserve player at best but I guess cheap help is better than no help!

Surely there are new additions to Southern? If so who are they?

"never seen a score like that in district, let alone div 1"

then you haven't been around basketball for long. centrals were routinely losing by this margin only 10-15 years ago on the boys side, and they would rarely field girls teams

im told southern have found $$$ to splash around (where from - who knows) but they've alienated too many locals with how this offseason has been handled.

koop will be a below-average import at best and probably the best on the team. younger players will likely get rotation minutes

sturt will be well-coached again, mavs will at least have imports to rely on and south have snapped up some of southerns better players

southern will be in the running for the wooden spoon.

south still have the worst coach in the competition

Southerns men's coach unproven. How have they been doing so far?

5th in reserves, Adcock leading the charge with his numbers at the moment, should be getting big minutes come PL unless they sign import PGs

The standard of the PL is a sine wave. It's downward trending in to a trough right now. Teams who overspent in the past are having a correction applied. Once those people on committees who have called it in disappear, the big spending will re-occur and it will trend upwards. That is the nature of the Premier League in SA.

Would agree with above except Forestville are always there spending their cash.

Their sponsors cash*

In brown paper bags from the bar

Add Norwood to that list

695, there isn't a salary cap to circumvent you loon.

No, but all revenue still needs to be accounted for through the books. That way committees know how much is being spent on programs. It's called 'transparency'.

Any news on coaches at Norwood???? No Webber comments either please.

A Webber.

Was that a lesson in English or Accounting, 702? Either way, I'm sure that Southern's committee could have used those words of wisdom a few years ago.

You still haven't explained why any PL club wouldn't be transparent with their spending to their members. Everyone knows the likes of Forestville, Norwood, North and previously Southern spent a lot on their PL programs.

^^ I think it is obvious that some clubs in the past have had poor financial controls and this has manifested itself in clubs being unable to meet their financials obligations from time to time.

Though there is an argument that at times sponsorship dollars are directed away from the club generally to PL programs the way I look at it is the drain on parents to support the PL programs. By that I mean the total amount of fees per year per player and how much of those fees are directed to the PL programs.

On that basis I suspect Norwood and Forestville are the highest in charging fees to juniors, including domestic competition fees, and diverting to their PL team

Don't let the fact Southern hasn’t signed any big names fool you. Their budget is still among the biggest in the league just they’re spending it on lesser known Aussies (Humphries, another WA kid) and poor imports (that reserves guy)

It's quite simple. Committees earmark x amount of dollars to a PL program. But a breakaway element within the club then diverts funds (bar for example) to pay for players above and beyond what the committee agreed upon, and the committee has no idea that money even existed. Cash from bottle returns is another good little cash kicker.

Pretty sure I know who you are, 748. Keep knocking at that door if you think anyone will take you seriously - as an anonymous poster on a forum though, I doubt it.

So 775 why should I take seriously anything you say to discredit what someone else has said given you are an anonymous forum user too

Where is Allmon, Starling and Legan playing this year

Allmon - no where
Starling - I'm hearing either South, footy or both.
Legan - Norwood

Ok I'll take the bait , starling signed at south earlier in the week and is also playing footy in the Barossa

Aren't all his ex tigers playing footy too? Big risk taking on an import whose priority is another sport.

It's a soft football competition in Barossa, Light and Gawler. Won't be an issue

Thats wishful thinking. Reckon it might be a bit tougher week in week out than that.

Does Starling hate it that much at North.
Wonder if South will have a parent bailing them out in a couple of years, at least Petty learned he can only win by spending shit loads of money.

Petty is only going part way. He needs to drag out the lawyers learning from Forestville

I think it makes perfect sense to have your most important player, slug it out in the mud and rain in say Nuri for 3 hours and then make the 90km trip to Marion and have to perform at premier league standard , not to mention of being paid to play footy show your face in the bar after the game and be social
For a while before you leave , no time for real recovery or cool down

Go panthers

Didn't Jordan West do it a few years ago, seem to remember he didn't play all games though, not sure because of workload/clashes etc. Didn't play Starling minutes but were significant.

Are south signing Morris as well?

South signed Morris and possibly with one restricted spot still available

Starling is about 30

so all the kids at south that have played for years, stuff them hey, nothing like developing kids from within, petty is so full of shit, he talked about building a culture, he wouldn't know what success is, can't develop players because he can't even shoot himself, burn through money, and end up like southern, the woman's coach is just as bad

Speak to Andy. If he and his lawyers have their way with Rios it will also apply to Starling! One more spot for a gun player at South!

#316. He had stolen Forestville junior development pathway book

its a joke and the committee should be held accountable, however seeing as the number of southern rejects at that club now, no wonder its happening

I think you are wrong.

As previously posted, the by-law clearly states that this does not apply to foreign players.
Pretty sure you are both wrong and if the Cheatgles get this changed to suit them, then BSA may as well just admit they are ran by the Cheatgles.
Surely that club has ran out of opportunities to exploit or have rulings changed to suit them.

"3.4 Restricted Players
a) A player who has played more than 100 games in the Premier League (Central ABL included) or a player who has played for strictly one Premier League club for a minimum of eight seasons will not be classified as a 'Restricted' player."

Where does it clearly state this doesn't apply to foreign players?

Let the lawyers line up to order there new BMW!!!

Strictly one premier league club, what about eastern stint?

385, read down a bit further in the By-Laws - anyone requiring a foreign players license is restricted. Poorly worded By-Laws but the latter takes precedence.

I've read further down: they contradict each other and it is not stated which takes precedence over the other.

I imagine the intent was to disqualify foreign players from 3.4a's exemption, but then why not simply state "A non-foreign player who has played more than 100 games..."

I agree it's very poorly worded. My point is that the by-laws are far from "clearly stated", as was 376's assertion.

Yet another BSA cock-up.

Starling to South confirmed

I thought he was playing football at Gawler Central not Gawler South. So it is South

south played a stacked reserves team with half their recruits tuesday night and still couldn't win or score 70 points, no point bringing in players if they are only playing for money and have no respect for the coach

Wonder what direction North will go now. Will depend if BJ and/or McVeigh suit up again if they go for 2 import bigs again.

No problem with South. Only probably one of our starters played and Alex will probably help with coaching

North need another scoring 1-3 player

South need to play with 1-3 extra players on the court.

So south can win a reserves game next Tuesday!

Alex will be coaching because the one they got is hopeless

Honestly South could go to Marion shopping centre and randomly pick anyone who is more qualified than their current mens coach. Starling, Morris and company will soon work this out and take over.

Obviously the rift between Starling and Hawkes became insurmountable. Assuming Petty was there when Alex was at Southern so connection there but if Dean is coaching Norwood as is widely rumoured, would have thought that would have been more attractive apart from fracture in that club. He's only 1 year removed from winning Woolacott in dominating fashion, but McVeigh would have taken a lot of status from him.

So what is this rift you are talking about? I think you are clutching at straws!

Petty was not at southern in 2016 I don't believe. I think the connection to Starling is South were the only ones willing to take him.

Deano coaching sturt youth league team last time I saw him.

Ignorance is bliss, 669.

Dean is 100% not coaching at Norwood next year. Whether he's coaching at Sturt or elsewhere, I don't know.

I'm not sure anyone will put up their hand to coach Norwood with their reputation unless their surname is Webber.

Norwood have signed an American coach from Texas

...because nobody in this country is willing to put up with their rubbish.

Don't like it go to the AGM and raise your concerns.

Posting negatives on here just hurt all at the club, including those giving all they can to help kids play.

a coaching manual was hot property and found its way to marion stadium

Well known Starling didn't see eye to eye with Hawkes, wake up dopey. Even said it in Woollacott acceptance speech.

Maybe it wasn't starlings choice to make , maybe north made it for him

Starling said he and Hawkes had bumped heads at the Woolacott but seemed to respect him. You are taking that out of context to suit your lame agenda. They clearly got along as they worked well together for 3 years.
It would seem Starling fell out of flavour with the club, not Hawkes personally.

All of a sudden North don't want someone they've been marketing as a champion of the club for several years, who is also a top-5 player in the league?

That's a very convenient excuse, especially given the confrontations Starling and Hawkes had last season.

Mays was entirely a different situation as to why he was let go and only Forestville would touch him. Not sure if there were any off court incidents with him though this past season.

Only Forestville would touch him... besides North. The irony is real.

North touched him and actually held him for a second before things were revealed and they dropped him like it was hot.

Oh, so North didn't do their homework? Gotcha. Funny how everyone knew of Mays's issues except for North.

Good call to drop him though. It's not like he was any good last season.

Not many knew of his issues specifically, North then did their homework and cut him, other clubs wondered why and found out for themselves. Anything for that championship though, hey Cheatgles.

Starling probably should of spent more time doing JDO type things instead of making money on top of money doing indies...

a JDO doing indies and making money instead of doing their jobs, outrages
imagine that happened at other clubs

I think one must ask why Starling has moved to so many clubs; this being his fourth. And of those clubs where did he stay longest? North! Hardly seems to be as bad a situation as people with an agenda suggest especially given Starling's history and propensity to move.

As for Mays I would argue that any Club who got a dud import didn’t do enough homework. Whether North did or didn’t do enough their decision to tear up the contract shows they are not about winning at all costs if they had concerns.

Weren't Mays issues that he smokes weed? Or is there something else we should actually care about?

"And of those clubs where did he stay longest? North!"

Because North outbid every other club...

It certainly suits your agenda to throw Starling under he bus now that (it seems) he has left.

Starling threw himself under the bus.

Unrelated, but Ben Cousins was a hell of a football player till his problems surfaced.

If rumours about Mays were certainly more than smoking weed

I doubt North paid more for Starling to play PL

"I doubt North paid more for Starling to play PL"

Maybe not. But as a PL + JDO + ability to run individuals = much more

So we've gone from Starling being awesome and the rumours being untrue to "Starling threw himself under the bus". Interesting perspective at North.

I thought Barry Mansfield was Norths JDO,

You make out that it is always one way!

I think clubs protect their own image most of the time.

The whole Norwood shemozzle is cringe worthy.

Did some research on the Norwood coaches' numbers at college:

https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Mike-Malat/Summary/41963
https://msumavericks.com/sports/mens-basketball/roster/derrick-washington/3021

Someone should have told Norwood that there are 10s of 1000s "NBA Skills Trainers" in the US. Anyone that wants to get into coaching that has been near an NBA player calls themselves an NBA Skills Trainer LOL

A Web will actually be a good coach one day I got no idea why they don't just give it to him officially. Both men's and women's teams infact.

Let's hope they coach better than they ball. I think the players that are not lining their pockets, or a Webber, will see right through this whole caper and move on pretty quickly.

https://www.examiner.com.au/story/6270241/late-march-of-washington-tornadoes-coach-calls-it-quits/

Looks like he couldn't be bothered coaching out the season (and/or the club wanted him out) given the losing record.

Left to pursue opportunities back [in the US], and ended up in Adelaide...

"They don't want this to happen. Nobody wants their head coach to leave, but they know my goals. I'm all about my players," he said.
Riiiiight.....

If you talk to people from the club you will find that they made it known to him that they wouldn't be getting any imports, paying any players and wanted a local coaching staff the following season, thus focussing on local development. So both parties agreed that parting ways early was best fit.

Get the popcorn ready and enjoy the Flames/Pres show this season.

I suspect neither party has the ability to recognise they have no idea what they have gotten into. Washington and Milat no idea what they are getting involved with and the Pres at Norwood no idea either.

Hopefully all parties involved use this year as a growing and learning experience. Pity about the innocent bystanders that will be impacted.

That sounds entirely reasonable, 430. I don't understand why they didn't just say that, if true.

Watching Norwood lurch from one disaster to the next is so much fun.

Over/under 3 games before a Webber is benched and shit hits fan. They get anyone other than Turnage? So by default it's Webbers, Lycett, Turnage and Legan starting. Absolute no bench, so in reality can't bench anyone. Great plan by management to appease certain players. Jordy for 6th man of year.

I noticed the results for two favourites in PL tonight between South and Eagles. Eagles with 3 starters just get over South with maybe one starter. I still think Eagles favourites when their 3 restricted players are in line up

Thanks Jamie. Glad you're chuffed with a 17 point loss.

souths problem in a nutshell, if anyone thinks any of those players are worthy of a starter position at any club they have no clue about basketball

adam brown the only player that should be getting minutes in PL from that south team last night

And none of them will start for South

The bashing of Norwood is great, couldn't happen to a better bunch of towel wavers. Love the downhill slide.

the two AUS squad junior kid from eastern doesn't want play seniors, seems like he wants to play footy instead, seems like a common trend with these country kids

^Wrong thread?

What is the update from up in the hills? What are Mavs going to be like in 2020? Their Res team is not great so they must have players to come in?

Did it ever get discovered why west adelaide men's team aren’t returning a single starter? Joel Spear back in premier league with Sturt going by box scores from reserves and even he won’t play with west and if I remember correctly he’s a west lifer

Interesting take 570. Only the big Blake Trusllove has announced retirement meant though.

#567 apart from imports (most likely will be bigs), hard to see anyone wanting to go there

Rigby confirmed back to Eastern

Spear showed zero loyalty to West. Expected West to fill his bank account.

Rumor has it, that Riewer has reached out to a few clubs. Could be a good fit for anyone looking for another import.

Are you kidding that this should be pointed at McLean?

The problem at West is the junior program being run there. Watching teams play and how they are coached is like jumping into a time machine and heading back to the 80s, it's abysmal.

Thomas left to pursue work opportunities. Kubank NBL1. Truslove retired. Rennie smart decision. The others we will see how they go at Norwood. Jordy will have another towel waver.

This turnover in PL is just run of the mill.

Thought Thomas was off to Woodville whats the USA story? They are in big need of a guard to complement the new front court signings.

Playing devils advocate but you couldn't temp one of the guys listed above to stay? Looking at their reserves team and they have nothing. Thomas and Kubank I can understand, but why are Valk, Fauser and Rennie walking away for something else?

Agreed that the Spear situation is interesting. He’s good and will make Sturt better. West should of tried to grab him.

I think the Mudronja deal was all but stitched up last year. Well done to last years coach for leaving the program in a very strong position from a culture and depth of personnel standpoint. He has also helped bring through another great crop of Sturt juniors last year too. Yes Sturt will be very strong this season.

Leaving the program in a strong position? He inherited that group, minus Mudronja who left College early. What did he do other than coach out the (losing) season?

Neither could Bello but good players make a shit coach look good.

^Truth on both counts.

#654.....so they can play rather than sitting behind old guys.

That's short sightedness on the coaches part then.

eagleeye is spot on

if both south coaches hadn't been contracted neither would be at the club now

Dickel is a lot better than Petty but then again my mum is better than Petty.

Will it be a case of Gaze and the Kings with South? Getting some good signings in Starling and Johns but they aren't fully committed it sounds with footy on the agenda. But with their proven success at this level is it enough to overcome a terrible coach who has already gone back on his development strategy.

nah south will make the 5, resign the coach, money will run out and so will the players and they will end up in a hole again

look back a few years when they recruited a heap of players for their girls team, got a good import, finished 3rd, then all the players left and have been terrible since

Compare that to Forestville who spend all their money on the men's team and legal costs at the expense of developing their junior boys programme which is very ordinary for a club of their size

Any news or views what you s happening in the women's side. It looks like Forestville, Sturt and maybe South if news of Olivia Is correct

Thompson suited up for south in reserves, so I'd be thinking a certainty

North are looking good with a couple of additions in the women's team

#184 It shows you how much you know about how financing a team actually works, in this case Forestville. It's pretty common knowledge that the coach sources sponsorship to then spend on players and the club pay for the coach fee and other costs associated to manage a team. Probably other clubs would have the same model (maybe not Norwood who just paid for two American coaches).

Forestville look to have finally invested in their junior programs and hired a full time on court Junior Development Manager while having another look after the admin. Long process to turn their boys teams around, no action for way too long.

#212

So I can be clear on how a great club manages its finances is the following correct?

So Forestville having one of the highest junior subscriptions, both in cost per player and number of players, only contributes a pittance to the PL teams as the highest cost, player payments, is covered by the hard work of the coaches in getting sponsorship. What I don't understand is how are they wasting all the payments from parents as it can’t be on junior development of boys. Something is not clear to me. Is it legal costs? Is it excessive coach costs which is used to supplement player costs. Are they still paying of the cost of brown paper bags and envelopes used in the past in the bar?

Any insight in how Forestville works would be appreciated!

Or do a 2 hour clinic and get 10 grand

So basically Forestville fixing up the mess Dickel and Croxton left?

Basically.

Just drove around Mitchell park.. saw johns new mansion is coming along nicely