I doubt the refund anything I could be wrong but money grab leagues normally don't give money back to the associations.

Clubs have paid entry fees for an entire season up front which covers refs and officials, they have a right to play out the season even if it's been disrupted, they have already smashed on several
Missed weeks of play not having to pay refs and officials
Same goes for NBL1

are regional games being played in the meantime?

The season has come this far, over 75% done.

Big V simply has to find a way to see it out. Get it finished! Pulling the pin now is the worst thing they could do. Would have been better to not have the season at all.

NBL1 regional games this weekend. So they do have the intention of restarting but I suspect that revolves around the lockdown stopping next Thursday, whether or not that continues to be the case.

"Communication from Big has been disgraceful."
Um they posted a return to sport update a couple hours ago. What do you expect? We must have alot of BV club administrators on this forum, by the sounds of the complaining that is happening, asking for money to be refunded etc. Do you think the clubs asking for money to be returned going to pass that money back to sponsors?

No idea what everyone is on about here lol with not knowing whats going on with big v season. lol

Big V season plan was out long time ago in mid-late July and communicated to all clubs and on their websites/social media lol

All on website peoples - where have you all been?
https://gameday.bigv.com.au/news/big-v-update-or-july-28

Its pretty clear whats going on I would think
In case you missed it in short-

- Top 4 finals series only and no best of 3 grand final series this year

- Any other rounds that cant be played cause of covid will be cancelled as they already extended season by around 3-4 weeks. So this weekends round is obviously cancelled again and I would dare say next weekend also will be unfortunately from what government are saying and doing currently.

- Finals will be happening regardless and Semis planned for first week of september and granny second week of sept for most divisions


I reckon its great how they are doing everything to complete a season and my team cant even make top 4!!!!!,

why would you even want them to cancel it or suggest they do it - crazy - clearly people on here saying that are on the bottom and dont care much for playing the sport we all love to play and be involved in win or lose!

Personally me and my team cant wait to get back out there after not playing at all last year! and this season being so on and off.

Waste of time? Playing the sport we all love to play? After not being able to play at all in 2020.

Please..... clearly some people need to look at why they play then, its not all about winning sport- its playing sport and especially jumping at the chance to play a game in this current environment of lockdowns. Just be grateful and take in the experience and fun of playing the sport we love and being with team mates one last time for the year.

(IF lockdowns do end cause who knows in this day and age in this wonderful state of victoria we live in lol)

"Either play it out or crown the top teams as champions, there are only 2 ways around it... this is not rocket science"

You cant crown a team champions when the season is not completed! if it is not played out you have to call it a no result for the year. Big V records can not have a team listed a Champions after playing a handful of games.

What if 2 teams are tied on top?

you have to have a finals series surely or at a minimum a grand final 1v2 to determine best team.

Yes ladder positions are potentially unbalanced due to cancelled rounds and some teams might have a better win/loss percentage thanks to striking it lucky on the fixture with easy teams lol

But what is a season without a Grand Final considering as the person above said there was still about 80 per cent of games played this year. Surely a team needs to be crowned winner despite their being an asterix obviously against it lol

All games off this weekend now after news yesterday of further lockdown extension by uncle dan another week

why do we need to crown a winner? No promotion??.. getting people to return immediately post-lockdown AGAIN is only increasing risk of injuries.
Keep teams hungry so they come back in 2022, dont force them into games with no value now.
Crown the teams at the top and call it a day. Clubs who want refunds are kidding themselves. You signed up for a season during Covid, you knew the potential for missed games.

Why crown a winner? in the scheme of things it means jack.

our club did their survey on end of season dates etc in May/june i think on season extension when they were postponing rather than cancelling all those earlier rounds lost in the earlier lockdowns.

They arrived at mid-late September as the consensus from most assoc on when to finish or cut off the season. Which is around 3-4 weeks from previous years.

The question is will we even get back on court in september for finals under this state government LOL

2021 has fast become a pain like 2020

Which regional teams are having "scratch matches"?

nah someone from geelong told me all regional games this weekend were cancelled after uncle dan decided to keep us prisoners another week !. A sign next week i reckon will be a no go I would say even if government allow end of next week will be too short a notice and no one can train next week

looks like will be straight to finals if we even get that - cause uncle dan loves keeping us as prisoners

Straight from a club Big V season finals for top 4 teams will occur for everyone Yay!!!!!!!

Aiming for 11/12 sept all finals played on one weekend at big large metro venues selcted by league to give best shot to complete them and regional teams will travel down for weekend.

a reserve week will be used I think the next week 18/19 sept if not able to play 11/12 sept or clubs arent able to train during the week leading up to finals. which makes sense to ensuring they can at least train together once or twice before playing finals fgames.

Well done big v - aim for the stars !!!! we all need hope and what a brilliant plan and news for us all.

But bad news will be 18-19 Sep the cord will officially be CUT on the season . Fingers crossed !!!!!!

i cant believe the society we have become!

big v said to our club that if you dont want to pay finals then dont, they arent holding a gun to your head to play if you have issues with injuries

If a team doesnt want to play they will just push up 5th we were told. If 5th arent keen they will just have a top 3. Makes sense to mme and fines for forfeits and stuffwont happen.

If you dont want to play dont its that simple rather than moaning about it being unfair they are choosing to try and close off a season which everyone has competed so hard in playing in and try for a positive in something actualy being completed and not cancelled for once in life!!

In shock by societys attitudes currently towards everything.
If you dont want to play dont ! But dont moan at people like me being given the hope and opportunity to hopefully get back on court with my mates and playing finals! Last time i checked thats why i play - not sure what u play for?

Agree ^

Why would you risk unless you were pretty confident you could win the championship.

Might need to wrap those teams in cotton wool next year too.

Might need to wrap those teams in cotton wool next year too.

Clearly Anon has no idea.

Not training for months and going straight into finals is asking for injuries.

Weigh up Risk vs Reward.

There weren't any injuries, or there weren't any injuries AT YOUR CLUB?

Disagree

You need a finals series for a legit champion team and season I would have thought. I reckon they have made right call here for sure. Even teams currently top would agree with it they need to earn it through finals to prove they are the bestand deserved winers
Especially considering ladders had to be win/loss% to determine top 4 finals teams after all the cancelled rounds as well with this new lockdown

I reckon on a par RMIT and Keysborough

I reckon the league should both straight into Champ ! Add some depth of teams in Champ to 12 rather than 10

Might be no finals the way this is looking now.

Who is this Excited clown?


"I reckon on a par RMIT and Keysborough"
Yeah cos a team undefeated in D1 is the same as a D2 team.

“I reckon the league should both straight into Champ ! Add some depth of teams in Champ to 12 rather than 10”

Ummmm yeah I'll have what you are smoking.. look at the teams that have been promoted recently. Why do you not realise there is actually a difference between divisions.

mmm i actually believe it - with the resources RMIT have, why can't they? Don't make the mistake of thinking it's the exact same roster going up.

NOT LOOKING GOOD everyone another 80 odd cases.

Cant see us getting out of lockdown by 13th september when call will be made on big v year i think

Cant see us getting back on court even for pre season training in Nov/Dec at this rate !!!!!

Shattered I think we will all be put out of our misery next Tuesday -wed when they extend lockdown a couple more weeks which will mean season cancelled
14th august cut off date on website to be training else gonski and finals won't happen on the 18th

Was nice to dream a little of being allowed by our wonderful government to dribble a basketball again indoors