One competition doesnt make a championship - full congratulations to STURT ON JOB WELL DONE.
but BASKETBALL NEEDS A COMPLETE REVIEW - HAVING ONE CLUB SO DOMINATE IS NOT HEALTHY FOR THE SPORT

some clubs didnt even field teams in some grades other clubs cant win a game in any divisions
in local competition
Clubs need to look at a moratorium with BSA leading the way to get a better more even stronger competition - maybe good placer to start would be for clubs to model themselves on Sturt

If only Sturt would lose a few games.

Hang on we do.

its not all one way traffic

If only sturt didn't identify weakness's in their teams then actively persue players from other clubs to strengthen them

If only Sturt in the SANFL was as strong as the basketball club :(

If only the other clubs worked harder they wouldn't leave to go to other clubs... Stirer are you talking to yourself?

Sturt DO have refs on their side for most of the game - how do you justify 8 fouls to sturt vs 26 for another team - this happens all the time and has even been commented on by sturt parents. We should ALL go over to sturt - get a grip refs and start making fairer calls. Very frustrating watching this time after time. All one way!!!

Obviously not! you answered :)

Sturt to run basketball in SA!! lol

No ref bashing please - told they get intimidated easily and dont like to be critised.Fouls counts arent good indicators - and ref call as best they see it. Cant play without them and no good comes of bagging.If you can do better then get a whistle otherwise get off their case as too many are giving up.

Well done to Sturt for their results on the weekend. From the u14/u16 boys games I saw there was integrity, honesty, skill and respect to burn from these kids and their coaches.

But sadly a few Sturt parents let their club down badly. The harassment of a female scorer from an opposing club by (who I assume) was a Sturt parent during an 16B (reserve) game on a Sunday morning final at Pasadena was outrageous. Thankfully an official from Sturt stepped in to calm the situation. Well done to you, Sir.

Anyone able to give us a run down of some or all of the GFs? Any stand out team performances?

Some teams went completely missing in ation. What happened to Sturts' U16 Sturt State girls? Did not even make play offs.
And U18 Mavs girls finished 6th overall. Too bad to be true. What's the story?

BSA need to change the rules about team nominations.

Why should Woodville have a Div 2 any time they want team just because they have a CABL team.

The Forestville Div 3-4 team beat the Woodville 2s 68-17.

717873 ans to Mavs U18G Injury to key player

Surely one girl is not the team?

Here are the points for the weekend. Reserves may be a little off as we are not aware which teams clubs nominated for points.

State Boys

Sturt 17
Norwood 8
West 5
Forestville 5
Woodville 3
Southern 3
Eastern 3

State Girls

Sturt 11
Eastern 10
Forestville 9
Norwood 7
West 4
South 1
Centrals 1

Overall State Champion Club

Sturt 28
Norwood 15
Forestville 14
Eastern 13
West 9
Southern 5
Centrals 1

As most people were saying the girls trophy was very close. Overall Sturt still very dominant. The main concern would be for North Adelaide, not a single team in finals or goingto the classics. WOW. Considering they were the last club to beat Sturt for the overall trophy in 2004, thats a huge drop.

Reserve Boys

Sturt 15
Norwood 13
Forestville 8
West 3
Limestone Coast 3
South 2

Reserves Girls

Sturt 12
Forestville 10
North 6
Southern 5
Norwood 4
West 3
Esatern 2
Magic 1

Reserves seems to have been dominated by the bigger clubs. Seems to say that size only really matters in reserves, but help a ltille in State.

For the weekend;

Sturt - as dominant as usual. Maybe there best in a while.
Norwood - the big improvers, back to a top 3.
Foretville - couple of disapointed teams, but overall still very strong, especially in the girls.
Eastern - great result, didnt quite get the girls trophy they so coverted.
West - look to be doing better in lower grades, will we see a resurgance?
Southern - Not too Bad, 14 Boys look very good, need more consistancy over the board.
Centrals - Would be happy to score a point.
South - Not doing so well in either State or Reserves.
North - couple of reserves finals, but nothing in State. Very poor, something needs to change.

How come no points for Southern in Girls state?

In the girls I think it should be Southern 2 instead of South 1.

Sorry, my mistake.

Yes, Southern 2.

South 0

Southern also should be 4 points in the Boys States.

Under 14 were 2nd and Under 18 were 4th.

Sorry, same again.

Didn't do a really good job this time.

We forgive you...start again x

Woodville so irrelevant they don't even get a write up From the Stats Room? The Sturt v Woodville div 1 night should be interesting this week...

Woodville under 12 boys div 1 runners up to Sturt. The Sturt boys won by 26 a class above, well done Sturt.

Wow 26 in a GF? Was that the biggest blow out of the finals day? I hear the 16 boys were close, were there any other tight ones? Or any big blowouts?

Think the U18 Girls final was won by more.

Oh and the 14 Boys.

this was the closest it has been for years -

sturt did not win all the boys grades (norwood not far off and west up there) and the girls could have easily gone to one of three clubs.

Boys Wasn't really close,

And in past years Sturt didn't win the girls, so they improved, with 3 teams in grand finals.

Sturt has not been this dominant for 5 or 6 years.

Sturt Tosser - You can't be serious

You did not win Under 12 Girls, Under 14 Girls, Under 16 Girls or Under 16 Boys.

Only 4 out of 8.

Not so dominant!!

when i am talking about being close - it is not just sabre results -

talking about a variety of teams making semis or grand finals and some bombing out - no t particularly just the GF winner

We won as many GF's as everyone else put together.

Nearly scored more points than the 2 best next clubs.

Won all overall trophies (Sabre Slam)

Rreserves was close.

"Sabre Slam"

Boys State
Girls State
Overall State

Boys Reserves
Girls Reserves
Overall Reserves

What happened to North??? Were once feared, now no points in the state champs?

Are the same old chestnuts still running the place or something?

Not suprised that Boti didnt write anything in the paper anything about Sturt's success.

Long time to hold a grudge.

The other reason is he kids aren't involved anymore. The sooner the advertiser gets some interested in basketball as a whole the better it will be in reporting for the sport in this state.

He actually coached a team in the tournament.

And usualy puts something in the tiser. I would suggest that he didnt want to put something positive about Sturt in. Thats all.

funniest thing a Ref teched under 14 player for making a face - blantant disrespect - tough lesson to learn

I guess that wasn't the Under 14 boys GF as the Southgern boy slammed the ball on the floor and didn't get a tech.

So Boti needs a press release to know about a tournament he is coaching in?

Will any of the teams who won on the weekend (or those that didn't I guess!) have a chance of getting close to a medal at classics?

haven't seen much of u12/14s but mavs in u16g look to be strong enough

Re that incident in the Sturt Southern U1G8 semi, What Botti got teched for when 20 points down late in the game is a Southern girl hit her head badly on the ground, a sturt player immediately went to her attention during the game, the sturt player dribbling the ball unguarded was also concerned and just let the ball go out of court as she went to assist, the umpire then stopped the game, Botti went off his nut as he wanted pocession, a truely low act, not even concerned for his player, he is a discrace to the game, the umpire was absolutely correct.

So Boti has too busy having a go at umpires about losing to Sturt, when the Sturt players were showing some consideration for his players, to write anything in the tiser about it?

No one is saying Boti was wrong. More that he behaved like a Jack$#%

That he was more concerned with 1 posession in a 20 point game, from a well meaning ref and opposition player, rather than the welfare of his own injured player.

King Botti

The only disgraceful act was from the Sturt girl who deliberately grabbed the Tigers girl arm and dragged her down causing the incident and concussion that kept her out of the next game.

Also is it a new Sturt tactic to have everyone talk and point across the keyway when the opposition are shooting foul shots? Just wondering as it happened constantly in this game.

Tiger,

Are your grapes a bit sour?

Hardly a deliberate act.

And Tiger,

Hardly anything wrong with communicating matchups during free throws.

Maybe you need to go play golf and get the gallary to quieten down.

Suck it up princes.

Not suprised

I saw the incident and it was deliberate.

Once again Sturt strecth the rules playing defense to the limit and get away with it yet any other side that did that gets crucified.

Everyone bitches and moans about Sturt doing this and doing that blah blah blah - no wonder everyone has an inferiority complex!

Stop whinging about the special treatment and worry about improving your kids and club!

And no I'm not from Sturt I'm just one of the coaches who respects thier success but doesn't fear them or think my team gets tortured by refs, administration or Osama bin Laden if my team looses to them!

No wonder you loose to them because in yours heads your inferior you weak minded people! Guess it's easier blaming the world rather than saying maybe I don't work my kids hard enough or teach my kids the right style of basketball!

Tiger,

Let me goet this straight. The refs dont call it a foul. Yet it was deliberate?

If those instructions are to play hard, to get up and in better players to stop them from catching the ball, and again the refs dont think it is a foul. Then surely that isnt unfair play.

And from what Ive seen, refs actually hate Sturt coaches. Not the other way around.

Whether the severe hit/foul against the Tiger girl was deliberate or accidential ( or a bit of both) she was hit hard and hit the ground hard ruling her out of the semis. BUT, Boti was rightfully angry that the referee did not stop the game while the girl was still laying on the court. The reason the Sturt girl threw the ball out of court WAS to stop the game...so a little kudos to her.
Boti got the tech foul and Surt got the throw in. Not a Sturt fan but to their credit all the Sturt girls made a point of going up upto the injured player after the game and shook her hand.
The referees really should have stopped the game before all this unfolded.
Not a great game, Sturt won by 15 (approx) in the end. Best way to deal with Sturt...beat them, not continually criticise them!!!!!

Boti was not angry at the ref for not stopping the game. The game only stops if the player is in danger of the play.

He was purely having a go because the ref did the right thing and gave the ball back to Sturt.

People wouildn't hate Sturt if they were useless, you can pick and choose dubious incidents from any game, any team. Maybe we should be happy to have any South Aussies (no matter what club) who can match it with the Vics instead of bagging anyone who is successful.

Comm'n Fan. That would mean accepting that someone else is doing a good job and that you yourself are not. And that therefore clubs would need to self examine and make changes which are too scary in little old adelaide. Much easier to bash a tall poppy than make improvments in oneself.