Nah, no issue
four teams back to Big V means room for another Qld Team, a WA team, a SA team and a team from NSW

Then SEABL becomes the NBL development league

Eazy

man with the answers you say, well honestly I don't know but it would seem like a good plan for a national comp similar to the NBA development league don't you think?

where did this "word" come from??

He made it up!

You can forget any of those clubs going to BIG V. What a load of hogwash!!!! Will not happen.

How does that work for teams from interstate?

If you put together the D-League teams together with the top 6/8 Youth League team that would be a cracking comp!!

Big V Youth League Teams: DV, Eltham, Ringwood, Hume, Melbourne, Waverley, Geelong, Sherbrooke

D-League Teams: Knox, Bendigo, Nuna, Kilsyth, Sandy, Dandy, Ballarat, Frana

You could have 2 conferences.

Split the conferences on regions i.e

Sth East & Nth West

Sth East: Ringwood, Knox, Sandy, Dandy, Sherbrooke, Kilsyth, Frana, Waverley

Nth West: DV, Eltham, Hume, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Melbourne, Nuna (got the short straw in the Nth West pool to even up split between comps)


Finals would be top 4 from each confernece & to spice it up your could run a relegation play-off with the bottom team from each division playing to stay up in the premier comp

The premier Youth league 2 pushed up into the premier Youth division.

But been told by a number of people that Nunawading are keen to come back to Big V (Due to Financial issues) and the other forementoined clubs have expressed an interest to the Big V in coming back into the league.

I guess the SEABL would suffer as a result but in the current turbulent economic times the clubs have to look at the viability of playing SEABL compared with Big V. From a pure competition stand point if a number of clubs defect the level of competition between the two comps won't be huge, the big difference being the crack imports & extra professionalism of the SEABL comp.


Possible Big V Line-up

Nuna, Eltham, Waverley, Sandy, Ringwood, Hume, Dandy, Melbourne, DV & Frana + maybe Sherbrooke** (doubtful if those clubs drop back)

Bulleen are closed for business in 2012 already so they won't make the cut.

That line-up of clubs looks like a really solid list of clubs and would certainly increase the level of play in the Big V.

those four teams would not go back to the Big V even if they paid them to !!!!

Tiger Watcher, what do you mean about Bulleen 'closing up shop' in 2012?

so which one of these leagues will the sixers end up putting a development team into?

They nearly put one in this year!

These rumors are obviously started by the Big V. Its all about quantity with them, not quality like in SEABL!

SEABL is the best run comp in the country, why would you want to go to a comp that only has 2 or 3 competitive teams at Championship level??

The BigV was firing in the mid 2000's, lost their GM and then lost their way. Back then, teams were leaving the SEABL and joining BigV (broncos, rangers), becuase the league was considered to be better run, more professional from a media point of view and more innovative (remmeber the BigV team going to the Blitz and taking on the Dragons? - ideas the SEABL later deployed).

My read is that administratively and promotion wise the BigV has got its act together again but I would be really surprised if this happened.

The SEABL have absolutely re-established their tier 2 status to the NBL, which was in doubt when they were being run close by BigV teams at ABA finals and losing to Qld teams in the finals of those events.

I think you'll find it isn't about playing in the best comp for a few of the teams mentioned but more to do with the associated costs of playing SEABL.

Extra SEABL Costs
I.e Two Imports, Travel, Player costs, Coaching just to name a few areas.


Despite what people might think if your club can save $50K a year in the above areas it really can help balance the books of a club and put money into other areas of junior development.

I'd be very surprised if a team from WA can play in the SEABL or a D-League any time soon. Too many $$$ getting everyone across to the east coast every other weekend.

WA won't have a team or SA just can't justify the costs.

Mt Gamiber is as far west as the comp will go.

Even the team in Brisvegas is churning thru the $$.

Funny that no Syd teams are in the competition when they are the largest population base in the SEABL catchment area!

BA planning second tier under NBL

(Be interested in seeing who gets the triple double
in BigV grand final on sunday.
Adrien Sturt or Cameron Tragardh.
probably Sturt.)