Any details of the game? wat was the final score?

Woodies made academy look real good

You have to be joking or watching the game with green and gold clouding your vision.
Woodville had nobody and mainly under 20 players or players just out of under 20 by 1 year who couldnt shoot foul shots.
Academy although have played better certainly were doing ok considering they lose Hambour and Gerlach at half time and Kies didnt arrive from work till late.
Academy won each quarter and won the game outright.

Crows98 isnt it worth it though? I have nothing to do with it other than someone that is an interested observer.

To say to a kid, ok u didnt make it to the AIS but this is still could be your next best shot. Brad Hill will be a top 8 player in an nbl program very quickly but you still need training bait and you would think this will come from the kids in the Acadamy. In addition its only going to strength the ABL which inturn will better prepare the odd player that makes and NBL team from the ABL. Plus it certainly seems to attract alot of interest from the ppl in this forum.

Scored a couple of points but had no real impact, hardly noticed he was on the court.

Crows 98,

Originally those were my thoughts. What's the point of the Academy when AIS players are just going to leapfrog it into the 36'ers squad.

But that doesn't mean it is never going to work.

If one player makes the NBL that previously wouldn't have then the Academy will have been succesful.

There are however two issues I think need to be looked at.

Firstly my opinion of the team is.

And I mean no disrespect, there are plenty of good perimiter players on the team. But they dont have size.

I would love for these players to prove me wrong but I don't see any of them being able to cut it in the NBL. (height not game)
Are any of them taller than Jason Williams because he plays a guard spot in the NBL. How many guards do the 36'ers need. Especially if we keep Ng, Hill ang jag Ingles in a year or two.

There may be no big men suitable for the Academy in which case my criticism is unfair and I apologise.

The second issue I have is funding.
Correct me If I'm wrong but,
most of he money comes from sponsors
10k comes from each club
Is that per year?

Ten grand is a lot to invest on one individual that may or may not make it to the NBL.

Would some clubs be better off investing 10k into their JDO with the aim to get more kids to the AIS?

Lastly and please correct me if its not true. One club out of ten hasn't put any money forward. But has a player in the squad.

If this is the case, purely from a financial poin of view is it that smart to spent 10k on a program that developing one of your opponents for free?


Having said all that I do believe we need the Academy because not everyone that makes the NBL is going to make the AIS.

I think you will find that each club are putting in $2000
and other than Hambour there is no big guys currently fitting into the age brackett ie under 23

Thanks

Hambour is the biggest in SA u23 thats a worry!

Is he taller than Dodman

Dont know, but Dodman is still doing sasi and the other criteria was to be out of sasi ie at the end of 2nd year under 18.
Isnt Dodman going to ais anyway

He is,
I wasn't suggesting him for Academy
just using him as he was the first big junior I could think of.

oop's forgot about Bungy(But i could be forgiven because he has not trained or played for months due to injury)

Gerlach, Sutton , Benson, Campbell (& ?) trained with the 36ers before the acadamy was born , Hambour has been training for a couple of years I think

Jay R,

It is fair to say they have no height
If they have no height!

You miss the point these guys don't need to be big enough for the SEABL they have to be able to phisically compete in the NBL. A league which is growing every year.