Didn't know there was any rule?

Just a fine if a player from SASI moves to the club of a the State coach without them being on the senior required players list.

This is no rule but which coach is it? Post their name for all to see.

Yes by all means post a name, and have proof and be prepared to back it up in court when you are sued for defamation. Chuck, get a life and go back to reading New Idea with quotes from "Insiders".

I would consider anyone that gets on the phone directly to kids to get them to play at their club is the one who needs a life and anyone who supports them needs a brain.

Post the names of these morons but make sure you have proof.

That is, ChuckPerson, if it actually happens of whether somebody is just defaming somebody else without proof.

who moved this time?

Dont let the sasi or state coaches, coach at that age group or be envolved in recruitment

What happens when a SASI players wants to move clubs and they legitimately want to move to a club with a SASI coach?

how many kids total are involved in sasi program's right now?

Scrambled or Fried.

Poaching is for girls and Jamie Oliver wannabes.

west player to sturt u\18s

Including bottom age U16 players, about 80.

Interesting how they all seem to end up at one club?

hmmm, sturt! they dont normally poach do they?

Oh wow, 80 kids, that is heaps! i had no idea the program was that big...

Can't believe that kids with elite goals would choose to go and play at the club that has continually developed more high level players!

Surely they should go and play at Centrals or Woodville for all the great coaching and development that goes on there! (insert sarcasm here)

last time i checked the Centrals under 18 boys beat sturt.

pipe and smoke it Dirty Sturty

One saucer of milk for Dirty Sturty please

With claws that sharp, you must have come from the Tigers before you were poached yourself?

And there best 2 players were away on SASI tour. Congrats, see how you do when it matters.

Why aren't there any F/ville players at SASI?

Chose not to be involved.

I find it hilarious that someone from Centrals believes their 18 boys would even get close to Sturt when their SASI players are not in the USA. I'm guessing Centrals didn't even know and thought they were pretty fantastic beating Sturt! Sturt at full strength will belt Centrals. And no, I'm not from Sturt.

Good one 'lions', you Centrals people are always good for a laugh.

And anon reprepresents all those people who are unwilling to follow the philosophy of development through effort. But are happy to winge and complain when things don't go their way.

ppl knock centrals because they think we're crap and they cant handle being beaten by us, dirty sturty and frog 22 just need to go and lick their wounds and nurse their obviously overrated egos. you lost deal with it,saying what may have happened is an empty and egotistical threat, what did happen is fact, simply you lost.
Go lions and well done to the 18 boys

sorry, frog22 you didnt lose in that particular game but possibly in another and you fell the need to bag the team that beat you, aka centrals, to make yourself feel better about it? just a theory

Consistantly producing AIS level players is development.

Having players ask to come to your club isn't poaching. They chose to come to get developed because they are unhappy where they are.

anon,

If by scouting you mean, coaches knowing which players to defend, which kids are good players and what hand they prefer to dribble with, absolutely. If you are saying that U10 and U12 players are being approached, you probably believe in Santa as well.

Twigs - not that it matters, or anyone else cares, but your theory is wrong. As far as I can recall, I have never been part of a team that has been beaten by Centrals! In fact, this year like most years, I don't even get to have a crack at them, because they choose to play their Div 1 team in Div 2.

Good luck to the U18 boys. They have done well for a Centrals team and finished 6th.

Winning games in SA doesn't count at AIS camps.

And I dont see ALOT of "established players" coming into the club.

I've see a couple, a majority of Sturt players that go onto bigger and better things, have played with Sturt for a number of(more than 2) years. And those that have been at Sturt for a short period of time, have generally gone from being good, to very good.

Not all players can go onto higher levels, but some clubs, (not just sturt) have an extremely higher number than other clubs.

Why?

sturt will bend over backwards to get a good div one player from another club who must of gained some skills from there last club, but would they do the same for a div 2,3,or 4 player

what is bigger and better?

State
NBL
Div 1,2,3 college
ABL
SEABL
WNBL
European contract

decide on bigger and better then measure each club

until then its all talk and no walk.

Lions, what is bigger/better doesn't have any influence on this discussion. The most important thing a club can do is enable an athlete to achieve their maximum potential.

These egotistical clubs and coaches dont realise its the kids that do the work, its the kids parents that bring them up, its the kids that set the goals and perhaps most importantly its the parents that give them their genes! The Coaches are just a very, very small piece. If an athlete is good enough they will make it.

If you want to measure a club and its coaches look at an U12 team and track it through to ABL. Has that age group improved during their time at the club? Your discussion re: the Lions U18 group is very relevant to that perspective. The same clubs seem to have teams and athletes improve yr after yr whilst the same clubs see their groups go backwards by the time they get to 20s. I actually think Sturt does a very good job too. Some clubs not so good.