'sets up clash NRL/AFL clash'
smh

Pretty hopefully re the crowds...seeing at Melb are a key market and the current premier is running a sh*tshow they can't start the league without crowds in Melbourne.

The season is finishing later so I'd doubt more mid week games and I’d be very surprised if there was a Christmas Day game

Maybe sport on Christmas Day would save us from people having lunch with 40 of their closest family members...

So you can sit in an indoor stadium with thousands of strangers

In respect of the Premier of Victoria, he isn't running a sh*tshow, people are selfish and not following the rules to social distance, stay at home, don't go to parties.

Good to See that Cal Bruton spewing hate on facebook.

He just called NBL foundation club the Nunawading Spectres racist on facebook for not having enough Black imports? (Seems like reverse racism from Cal)

The logo is the grim reaper and that racist too?

Can someone check on Cal make sure he is ok?

The logo is actually called Spook. Do some research on that word and you might find it also has some racial undertones. May also explain why black imports actually don't want to play at Nunawading.

Re the "colour" of imports many clubs in the 70/80's often only had 1 or 2 contacts in the US from which to get players so recruitment of imports is more related to the netwrok of trusted people in the US than any direct racism in recruiting

The old saying re "Pacific Shrink" was a real problem so you really needed to trust the scouts or the 6"6 centre was a 6'1 guard!

Its not like they had Youtube to scout so it was old VHS and trusted coaches/agents as opposed to now when its easier to scout and cast the new wider for the best talent (regardless of color!)

No hate, just asking the question. How has Cal Bruton positively contributed to the game in the last 20 years?

My last memory of him is running the Canberra Cannons like a circus.

I'd rather our finals compete with the start of the footy codes regular season than have our start compete with their finals. Smart move

Cal run the joint like a circus is the nicest thing you could say about his time running Canberra.

Was a great player but certain not a candidate for Mensa
*(Cal will be madly googling "Mensa"!)

The Bruton 3 import Canberra rule still didn't help them. Dave Thomas comes to mind a great player.

"My last memory of him is running the Canberra Cannons like a circus" Go and do some research, it's pretty easy nowadays. Try Bruton Basketball for starters.

Whats his coaching record?

So I googled Bruton Basketball. The only hit was a facebook page which lacks any meaningful content and is pretty much Bruton hype.

If I had to guess though, it would be some kind of coaching service/camp, which he likely gets grants from the government to conduct.

So....what has he done that's meaningful again?

Highly successful African American player makes observation about comparative lack of meaningful opportunities in basketball for African Americans.
Random poster completely unironically asks what the guy has done lately in basketball that is meaningful.
Self ownage doesn't get much faster and cleaner than that. What a moron.

Great player Cal was.

Like after basketball for him has been all piss and wind though. No substance.

Winning coach for Perth and then pfffft.... Gorn Still a chip on his shoulder since the, Allan Black similarly I recall?

Slap in the face for the Tassie franchise. It was always going to happen. 22/23 it seems now assuming Kestleman still exists then and the NBL.

Ask anyone who has done business with him or involved in any businesses w him and you will get your character reference.

So the nbl is starting in December is what I get from this thread.

Another crap thread.
Cal Bruton was relevant years ago bu tf is insignificant now.

You are so out of touch with the real world KR. Stick to your Covid crap and let the rest of the NBL world continue. Kestleman's the problem. However you nkow nothing.

#667 likes to speak in riddles that makes it sound like he's knows what he's talking about.

It really doesn't make him sound like that. maybe someone should tell him. it makes him sounds like the type of person who tries to burn down 5G towers.
December is a very annoying late start date but I guess with the covid containment fail they had no choice but to go the latest possible date. now we all need to hope everyone can follow basic rules because a season with no fans or very little fans would set the league back a lot of years.

Western Australians should have crowds.
We are a bit smarter than Victorians and won't spread the virus.

The biggest advantage WA had with this was that no one wants to visit WA so hardly any Covid ever got there. Sometimes it pays off to be boring and unpopular.

Worst attempt at a troll ever

Na he's right. The entire Sydney team refused to visit Perth for game four of the finals.

Sydney and Melbourne also have well over five million people cramped on top of one another, hard to control epidemic in those circumstances. Politicians telling everyone to get on with it was poor advice before it was controlled.

Cool let's wait till it’s 1000 % controlled and 5 million people are out of a job, no one can afford their mortgage and the economy dies. Brilliant. There has to be a tipping point. But the reality is the community need to do as they are told. Follow the rules, apply good hygiene, apply social distancing. If they don’t we will never kick it.

Should we all stay in lockdown until covid19 goes away.

It's impossible to control it 1000%, by definition 100% is the most you can do anything. Just saying.

Tassie in 21/22