And the players not selected

Benson is playing for Sturt
Campbell is going to Cairns
Marcus Ng is very injured
Blight is also injured

I think thats everyone

Here's Boti's article about it all.

The Academy needs a nickname for their team.

"We're certainly open to suggestions and would love the public to get involved in the nickname process," Ninnis said. "It probably needs to stay with the historic Adelaide theme."

Game starts at 5:15 Saturday (before the Sixers game); doors open at 5:30.

Academy team: Michael Zorich, Eric Burdon, Bronson Kies, Nick Hambour (North), Brad Gerlach (Southern), Matt Sutton (Forestville), Andrew Puddifoot (Woodville), Chris Clausen (Central), Thomas McKenzie (South), Brad Bungey (Eastern), Ben Evans (West), Andrew Webber (Norwood).

Any thoughts on nicknames?

The Adelaide Plains? :P

What about MT Lofty Summits? Indicates where they are from and where they want to go!

The Stanford Grand Animals

Stamford Knights?

(Hotel logo)

stamford sleazes!!

Every team is represented?

Except Sturt, who they're playing on the night.

Sullivan from Forestville is missing however I believe he has been on the sick list for just over a week

re: Academy team to precede Sixers game (#10941)
Except Sturt, who they're playing on the night.

Isaac, 22/10/04

Stamford Chargers Maybe

I'd say Sturt know already, and that the Sixers have guaranteed the winning team a future with the 36ers. Oh hang on, we already know that Sturt players are safe for that .....

Strewth, it appears that some people are leaving their sense of humour at the front door. It was a joke - you know, something not serious - a light-hearted attempt at humour. Ah well, back to the drawing board.

Signed Justin Wilkey.

PS. Yes, this was a joke too!

why delete the last post.....so biased!!

It was a troll so I deleted it. Gower went through trials and pre-season opportunities like everyone else. He was picked for a reason and I don't think the Sturt connection was it. Ask Smyth why and stop forcing digressions.

Let's talk about the Academy vs Sturt game if that's OK with you?

I managed to catch the last quarter and found it entertaining. Not a big crowd there early but certainly not a handful either. Looking forward to future games.

Hopefully the Sixers actually publicise it on their site and more people find out about up and coming players in our local competition.

moses what is the big joke with signing it justin?? what has he done?

To speakup,

Firstly, I think Justin's a great kid. The joke was he went to Sturt and it didn't work out - obviously it went over like a lead balloon.

On that note, it's good to see he's returned to Centrals. Why leave something that's working for ya?

86-84 according to the paper. Gerlach and Sutton in double figures for the Academy, Phillips with 17 for West.

As someone who is starting to gain an interest in local basketball through reading this forum, it would have been nice to have the players names up on the board for the game instead of the advertising so I could tell who was who.

Is this posssible, or isnt there anyone there anyone there to run the board at the time, or is it already programmed for the main game or something?

Alternatively, names on the singlets would be appreciated.

avanti, they had names on the board for Academy vs Sturt. No luck in the game against West?

Nope, I was there from about half time, and all that was up from then was advertising....

Bit of a bummer when you are trying to get to know who these young guys are....

can we get an academy schedule up on the site please, like when do they play which abl clubs....or visiting teams??