Heaps of people moving away from Bulleen. Way to many parent coaches and friends that don't have an objective unbiased view. Parent feedback generally just gets shut down by their convenor. No problem is ever solved there - just shut down.
People won’t move if the Club is supportive.

So if a parent or player makes the decision to go to a coach they like that has coached them at SCC or another development tournament, with no knowledge from the coach, then we are saying that is forbidden because the kid wants to play for a coach they like? Come on now people, of this happens at your club then i would be asking more questions about the player coach relationships in that age group of your current coach and why players want to leave.

If you look at the clearance forms on VJBL, you won't find too many significant trends. There are quite a few people leaving a few clubs - and sometimes it is just a function of the size of the club. Eg, 18 leaving Melb boys, but maybe that’s not huge because they have heaps of teams. Just think it’s normal.

Some coaches are not there for the kids, they are there for themselves. They want to win championships at any cost and the kids are just the set of tools to win the championship. Many a time you will see a player 'happen' to change clubs under these circumstances and then a year or two later quit playing. A number of the 1s coaches at my previous club were like that, glad I got out of there. Another thing - almost always it is the parents that are lured not the kids; the parents' egos require them to move their kid around.

There is a tendency to bag parents, saying that they are living their lives through their kids. But there are a lot of dysfunctional coaches out there who play the local politics game well and are not going anywhere. I have had one of my kids traumatized by a "coach with issues"; if i did not move her, she would be lost to the game. If your club is not responding to incident after incident, your kid looks to you for help, you have to be there to help them.

Red84 Exactly!

People also move jobs/schools etc which is often overlooked and people assume poaching of players.

Its a free world and kids/parents are free to move to another club that they feel has the potential to help there child.

Poaching or Recruiting??

If a kids is unhappy at a clubs grading, his opportunity to play the position he thinks he is preferred at for hi/development why not?

You change jobs if the boss and work is not what you want, no problem changing clubs either.

Too much of a big deal is put on ''poaching'' coaches should and do recruit because they sell a great program or opportunity.

As a coach I am always mindful of players who have moved twice, but if you do your homework I have recruited kids because they were undervalued at the previous club, and the classic is the tall kid being asked to play as the 5 man when he knows he isn't going to grow anymore.

Agree with Personal foul.

See the Tall kid at U14 who everyone knows won't be playing the 5 spot in U18 but the coach demands he plays the 5 cause he is 6"3 and the biggest kid.

Observed experience as a coach and administrator is that selection is very subjective, based on very limited information or data, without regard to any actual game experience or statistics, without much organisation and without much discipline. So, there will be outcomes that are just incorrect. This leads to people looking for other options, and sadly other sports. The club that gets this right, focusses on selection as much as they expect the kids to focus on their effort, uses some level of objectivity including having regard to past actual performance and data, is the club that will win in the longer run. The holy grail of junior basketball.

30 clearances from Melb Tigers ... so far.

Melbourne Tigers take a lot of kids into the program - they have more than 5 teams in Under 14s some of that has to wash out at some point as it heads elsewhere.

Why do you NEED more than 5 teams in U14s if its an elite rep program - NO you're running a domestic pay to play program and using the cream to fund seniors.

THATS why there is 30 transfers

VJBL will start to lose its value if big clubs keep doing this

Melbourne Tigers run 10+ teams in in the U12/14/16 to be able to pay for their NBL1 program. As they do not have a domestic program, it is the only income stream for them apart from any sponsors they have.

Outside of the top 5 teams, they pick players names out of a hat for the remaining teams. Seriously.