Anonymous
Years ago
Running list of which clubs have announced teams thus far:
- Wyndham
- Western Port
- Bacchus Marsh
- Altona
- Melton
- Wangarrata
- Westgate
Who else has announced? Other than Wyndham they're all small clubs. Would it be fair to say the bigger clubs will struggle more this year, particularly if they cant get access to schools courts that they would usually use for training
I don't think so, most are still in the middle of try outs. Dandenong only started last night! I think a lot will be announcing teams next week.
Dandy tryouts started last night. Junior Domestic hasn't even started.
Geelong united done acceptance due back today. I understand a great turn out trialled ovet 3 or 4 weeks.
Do Geelong usually announce their team lists? Or do they do it all via email like Keilor have done in the past
Oldie
Years ago
Why do families focus on others rather then their own children. If you know where your kid playing that should be your focus.
Yes Geelong usually announce but if they have changed that hooray for them. I think they are waiting for acceptances if you check their social media.
Anonymous
Years ago
Waverley posted their teams.
Hawthorn finish tomorrow, and usually post teams.
Tigers finish tomorrow, so their teams should be set, although they don't seem to post much. Told that their try out numbers are smaller than usual, so interesting to see how many teams they register.
Tigers numbers down. They charged $60 for every kid that tried out. What a joke!
Anonymous
Years ago
Wow. If they have 300 kids try out, that's $18,000. Who gets that cash? MSAC courts can’t be that expensive.
Eltham done - few weeks ago, teams already training. Good number.
Frankston announced their teams; I wonder why some associations announce their teams while others opt not to? Like Keilor and Melbourne for instance
Anonymous
Years ago
#660 think that's right, and they like to pick up kids from other clubs that are not happy with try outs ... which always presents its own probs with the existing kids
Geelong United just announced 36 Teams u12 to u18
674 they say they are but where else would the money come from?
Anonymous
Years ago
696 not from the boys programme, is my understanding. Happy to be corrected.
#698 Geelong would be considered to be a medium sized club in the VJBL system. Anything above 40 teams is large, below 20 is small
Anonymous
Years ago
McKinnon finished last week, teams not announced as yet (maybe they don't). Have similar number of teams as last year, not bad effort in circumstances.
Anonymous
Years ago
Everyone have a fun try out? Always the tough time of the year, but great to see bball back.
I heard Dandenong only has 2 U12 girls teams and only 2 U14 girls teams for the upcoming season. That's pretty low numbers for a club with 16+ courts. Can anyone confirm this? I can’t find a link to their lists, does anyone have a link?
*
Years ago
coming from a person in another state - would geelong play frankston at Geelong or Frankston ? If so what would the commute time be ? Or would they play half way i.e. state basketball centre ? (not that is half way but not as far)
Proper season Frankston would travel to Geelong. As a previous VJBL coach I've done Ballarat, Shepparton, Sale, Geelong on a Friday night.
Grading you would have 1 away, 1 home 1 neutral venue. So depending on how it falls is how you travel.
There's been a lot of push back on travel in recent years. The VJBL can schedule a game up to 210kms away from your home stadium, which is ridiculous to expect of families on a Friday night (that’s 420kms round trip). The whole thing should be regionalised, or country teams need to play out of a metro stadium, like they used to
It's a Victorian championship. Therefore best in state so travel is required. You might get one or two long travel trips for the season. for the rest of it is reasonably local ie greater Melbourne. I’ve never seen a VC championship Pool which is got more than three long trips.
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Years ago
isn't there a ferry across the bay mouth ? would teams use that or is it a long trip ? From my experience families don't mind the travel (in fact some enjoy it and make an occasion of it) as long as there is time to make the travel. i.e. for a family to get across town for a 6pm game starts hours before.
I would suggest Ballarat versus Sale or Traralgon
Latrobe vs Wodonga would be up there. Both teams played U18 girls around 10-12 years ago. From memory the game was held at Wangaratta. On the return they played at Dandenong because Latrobe didn't have any panel refs and played most of the season at Pakenham
Geelong to Maffra the first season Maffra made u16 VC. Thank goodness common sense kicked in the years after and Maffra moved home games to Dandenong. Oh not that Maffra wanted too.. It was the refs in the end that prevailed. For the record had to pull players out of school at lunch time to make the 8.20 game.
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Years ago
they are all quite some distance let alone the traffic. Some of those years quoted would be before some of the link roads too.
Lol Warrnambool never played VJBL nore has Wodonga...
Warrnambool have had many kids play VJBL with different sides over the years,it's a shame it’s so far away as they have done consistently well at under 14 level with teams at Classic and Australian champs
LC
Years ago
Little known fact is that there is a 200km distance limit for VJBL games these days: i.e. a team is not expected to travel any more than 200km one-way for a fixtured game.
This means some club's home games will in fact be played at neutral venues and vice versa.
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