I don't think this will be the last we here about Tim Johnston web of woes.

Welcome back Isaac and thanks for raising one of the biggest issue in NBL history the future of Sydney and Brisbane teams . they need to be rescued asap to ensure the NBL has a bright future. we will not get the TV coverage required to grow sport or sponsors and owners to put money into teams and league if we havent got major cities involved.
However by next season we need a total revamp of management and competition .
The interest in netball with new competition and more importantly virtually every match covered by Foxtel has been huge and it is not seen as a huge viewing sport . Lot of games are scheduled on Mon. night etc to meet with Foxtel quiete times.
PLEASE HELP me understand how what has happened in over the salary cap teams SYdney and Brisbane how they are letting it happen again with the Dragons .
They already must be over the cap and how they are going to fudge the points to be legal

Might as well not bother handing back the license.

Its not worth the paper its written on.

Just one thing on the whole netball being popular a friend of mine works at Holden's they are a sponsor she was given ten tickets and knows quite a few others that were given tickets for that particular game and subsequent games. She struggled to give the tickets away to others now she just refuses to take the tickets when offered. She expected with all they "hype" of a new league there would be lots of people interested, but she really struggled.

Now I reckon she would be the demographic of people that they would want and so are her friends, but no one wanted tickets. I thought I couldn't careless about netball, until they went and became the Port Power Netball Club and alienated alot of people. Of course I am only talking about SA here - not sure how it is going interstate, I have fox and avoid it like the plague.

bluey good points though they are getting well above what they used to. Many stadiums around 2.5 to 3000 are selling out more so in NZ.
But main point is getting Fox on board by playing games in times that suits Fox has got them on TV and creating more interest . Yes NBL is a better TV viewing sport so to get things going again poss. way to go especially as even less on Mon nights etc in summer on TV. Mon. nights is big in NFL.
But please someone do something and dont let NBL shrink into non existence

I've struggled to give away tickets in the past to basketball and even opening nights for movies - not sure that it's unique to netball.

The list of teams facing financial issues aren't limited to those killing the cap - Wollongong and West Sydney are examples - both teams partly suffering as a result of other teams busting the cap, IMO.

What's Fox worth to the league? Not sure of the impact on sponsorship, but I'd argue (well, at least a little bit) that it's not worth that much to teams like those in Adelaide, Perth and FNQ who can draw a crowd whatever happens (Adelaide can get 3,500+ with a crap roster on a crap day against crap opposition). And when it comes to Sydney, are the Wednesday games worth it? If they get 2,500-3,000 on a Wednesday but 4,500-5,000 on a Saturday, the cost of pandering to Fox is significant - I think they have 9 games on Wednesday or Sunday: 9 games x 2,000 fans x ticket cost. That adds up.

The Dragons are being given free reign because the league has no proof they are over the cap, don't want to piss off an owner, don't want to disrupt what could be league-saving derbies in Melbourne, etc.