Anonymous
Years ago

Are there any metro players in District?

Cant help but think that the number of country players taking up spots in district is setting metro back to the dark ages.
There is no doubt that the country coaches in district are laughing all the way to the nationals at metro's expense by playing the number of country kids they do in their district teams and BSA need to address the number of country kids they allow in each district team.
Metro kids are not getting the development opportunities because of this and clubs are chasing premierships rather than developing homegrown metro talent.
Zoning country areas needs to occur or forestville , sturt and mavericks will end up with district teams comprising all country kids.

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Anonymous
Years ago

sounds like someone lost their spot to a country player...get over it...if teams like forestville, sturt and eastern are smart enough to go out and recruit players from the country then they should benefit from their talent.

how can you say metro kids aren't getting the development opportunities?...country players travel to adelaide on the wkn for a game and maybe one training...metro players train with their squad multiple times during the week and some also go to sasi...most country players cannot make mid-week training sessions and only have country sasi programs. if a country player wants individuals they have to go to their home stadium and work on their game by themselves...metro players have many more opportunites.

restricting the number of country players in each team would weaken the overall district competition. country players are as good if not better than metro players. limiting the amount of country players would mean that the best players aren't playing, therefore SA basketball suffers...i dont think anyone wants that...

if a metro player has lost their spot to a country player then perhaps that metro player should make use of the numerous training opportunites available to them and work at their game instead of bagging country players...

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FM
Years ago

Clubs select the best players they have available? If country kids pay their club fees, they are equally entitled to play as the kid who lives next door to the stadium.

If we go back 20 years, every kid that played for Noarlunga was country, because most people living closer to the city believed anything over O'Halloran Hill was country.

As for what BSA should do? You can only get better by playing better competitions. The better the kids (country or Metro) the better the competition.

Remember before you cry in another hissy fit. District Basketball is suppose to be the best competition in the state, hence it plays the best kids.

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Anonymous
Years ago

It would strengthen it by getting more metro kids who are displaced by the country kids into competitive grades. Clubs just keep recruiting country kids over metro kids without considering until U20's, metro and country state are seperate entities.
Spread the country players around and not form little country nest eggs with country coaches developing their teams for SAC jaunts to the Nationals and sundry carnivals.
Already country send more kids to national events and tournys than metro and at the moment too many metro kids are on the outer losing developmental opportunities.
Many of the so called country kids live here or board at the schools so save us the hardship stories and get country to fund its own dsistrict teams as it has the numbers and the coaches already in place.
Not for the first time are stories of country players getting spots in district teams with district country coaches not because they are superior players to the clubs existing players but because they are earmarked for country state teams. BSA sits on its hands while country is having its cake and eating it too.
Country players travelling week in week out, yea from Gawler or Mt Barker in lots of cases. Also its a joke that country kids living here in Adelaide can play for either country or metro and milk the system. Country cockies getting sporting grants for their kids boarding here in town is a bloody disgrace.
As for clubs selecting their best players crap. Those clubs harp about development but year in year out promote ready made country players over developing their 1/2 squads. Wise up metro your being shafted.

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bebe
Years ago

hey send some of these country kids to Central, that would solve your problem.

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You Fair Dinkum Peanut
Years ago

Let me get this straight you want BSA (Basketball South Australia) to stop South Australian kids playing in its competition because they are taking spots that are reserved for South Australian kids...

When you put it like that it makes perfect sense...

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Sector 7G
Years ago

I've read some dumb shit on the forum and this is WAY up there.

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persuit of excellence
Years ago

obviously teh original poster was in in the girls programme at forrestville

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Hoops

Are there any metro players in District?

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