Looks like state champ pools will be as follows if no country teams enter.
Pool a
Norwood
Woodville
Mavs
Centrals
West
Pool b
Tigers
Sturt
Panthers
North
Forrestville
Very interesting

There are no 'state players' in u14s. Sydney Cup isn't a national tournament, and 20 kids get taken.

I think your pool are wrong. I think they are taken from rd 9 ladders, 1, 3, 6, 8 & 2, 4, 5, 7.

pool selection etc and when it is taken is all on sportingpulse - sa state champs website

I thought Sturt was the club pinching all the 'talent'? Ha ha

forestville to win state girls and reserves - hands down

Unless they choke. Which they always do after woofing it up.

not this year - country mile between forestville and sturt.

only g state sturt may win is u18g and reserves u18g

u12 state - forestville
u14 state - forestville
u16 state - north
u18 state - sturt or forestville

u12 reserves - forestville
u14 reserves - forestville
u16 reserves - forestville
u18 reserves - sturt

looks like it's going to rose terrace

there has been a clear difference between these teams and the pack so far - not even a hint of improving results from the pack.

Hey Anonymous norwood only had 3 gaurds and two of them left. There were other players who played a gaurd spot from time to time, but the same 3 did it for 99.9% of the time so it doesn't seem like they were back up gaurds? Also how does that leave them with the two best gaurds?? And if that was the case why did they have to bring up a div 2 gaurd to fill the spot. Doesn't seem to make alot of sence now does it. So many questions.

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Wow... This seems to be a lot of movement and shuffling between clubs! Or maybe I have just been out if the action too long. Does anyone know some of the reasons for movement?

The problem with all of this recruiting at this time of the year is that there are only about 4 games before State Championships which leaves very little time for a team to gel.

Unless they also play Easter Carnival which would give them another 5+ games in a tournament environment to get adjusted. Still not ideal but 10 games is much better than 4.

one reason for so many kids is because there is only 1 team for each club in div 2, so some kids are missing out on a div 2 spot and some are being droped from div 1 to div 3.(as some clubs keep div 2 for their first year players to develop for next years div 1.) Most of the good kids in this age group play other sports on a Saturday morning so if they want to play district basketball they need to shift clubs, so they can still play on a friday night,or shift the div 3 games to a diferent timeslot (but I believe there is a big diference in the standard of the bball from div 2 to div 3) or the clubs that need kids should be promoting themselves and letting others know about their coaching and development plans. They may pick up some good players needing to move.

Doesn't sound like the above applies for these kids. They're not div 3's moving to play div 2. They're long-time div 1's moving from a strong club to a weaker club. Interesting!

and Anonymous #353980 wins the chocs....Trinity is the WHOLE reason the norwood boys are off to centrals

Hmmm... That's interesting...

Ano What do you mean best senario?

Wouldn't think trinity would be the reason. Aren't these 2 players being spoken about leaving a team whose coach works at trinity.

this makes no sense at all - maybe the boys concern live closer to Centrals area or have moved?

end of day nobody business but the parents.

under 14 seriously get a grip

How good ARE all these supposed Norwood state guards anyway??? Norwood didn't even make it to the grand final so what happened CHAMPS??? Sounds like movement is what may have been needed.

BBallfan it seems like a win win. Norwood gets a better balanced 5 and more team harmony. Central gets a couple of reasonable guards. The only loser is the 3 players that get cut from Centrals due to the players coming in. Centrals and Norwood will be both pushing for Top 4 in winter. Good luck.

.... and Centrals did just that !

Teams need to play well in the finals to be considered a good team. Being top at the end of a minor round does not get you the trophy. From what i've seen when we've played Norwood, the best point guard is still there - but it was obvious the 'team harmony' was not there during the game. Woodville were clearly better and played more as a team.

bballfan - OK, we get the message. You don't like Norwood and you take some enjoyment out of taking potshots at 12 year old boys from your keyboard. Give it a rest, it's getting old.

all parents that have time to get on this web site and bagged teams are not good parents in my eyes so all grown up and let the kids play basketball let them enjoy the sport for those parents bagging indiviuals look at yourself and S____ up.