Tomcat
Years ago
Why don't BASA sell the sixers and concentrate on Grassroots basketball. The sixers must come close to breaking even, and there is room for improvement for a new owner to step in and make some changes and also money.
What would BASA take for the 36ers?
Degenerate
Years ago
Your comments are sure to cause anger, just warning ya...
cheezeburger
Years ago
the sixers look like turning out like the adelaide city(the soccer team)where they were very successfull and got crowds but had no money due to bad finacing.
Thomo
Years ago
this is what was proposed in the governments report on basa become two entities sixers more than break even but basa keep reducing there budget to prop up there own failings
yes sell the sixers
use the money to promote grass roots and ease the basa debt - let the sixers contribute towards the dome debt forsure but dont reduce the quality of the team to prop up the other
both can be sucsessfull as seperate bodies but as 1 they will bring each other down
email the minster for sport hes interested in our opinions as fans and ticket holders
his replys are well worth the effort
$?$?
Years ago
So how does this extinguish the $10M debt that the powerhouse/dome has over BASA. Unless somebody is willing to pay $10M+. I don't think so.
Then what happens when after 3 years if they lose money? Where does the cash come from to keep them afloat? Do they then sell the license to Canberra?
Isaac
Years ago
The debt doesn't belong to the Sixers, but to BASA. If BASA go bust and the Sixers are a separate entity, surely they start up again and the Sixers (worst case scenario) play out of the Entertainment Centre, or lease the Dome from the government.
Tomcat
Years ago
Thomo,
Have you written to him and did he reply?
Thanks
Thomo
Years ago
yes i wrote a letter to michael wright minister for sports
and yes i got a reply and from what he stated in the reply i was not the first indervidual to voice concerns to him and he was hoping to have more responce from both public and clubs involved with basa
im not at home at present but i will post his postage and email address for all those who wish to contact him and im even willing to post the letter i sent and the reply i got if it interest people
Cheers
Tomcat
Years ago
That be great thanks Thomo, I would love to see what he had to say.
Cheers
cavalo
Years ago
Yes Thomo - please post his reply as well as his contact info as I would love to share my views with him as well.
Maybe if everyone from this forum could share their feelings with him it would help to make some moves with BASA and the 36ers and hopefully have some good changes happen which are long overdue.
Isaac - The Sixers send BASA Broke and the Sixers are okay. - BASA is made up of District Clubs, are the District liable? What happens then? Where does Basketball go on a Junior and Senior Level.
would BASA built the dome if there was no sixers?
wouldn't local basketball been happy with apollo
Sixers = dome = debt
so in some obscure way you can say sixers helped with the debt.
plus no local team got $100,000 fines for salary cap breaches.
Kent Brockman
Years ago
Anon
The dome was bulit to cater for many other functions and facilities not just basketball.
Netball was played there before the government built them their own stadium.
Concerts are able to be held there but a deal with the givernement means that they are not so that the dome does not cut into the profitability of the entertainment centre.
The sixers make a profit almost every year. BASA and the lightning are the entities that cost money to run.
even so Kent and i do know the history i'm just playing devils advocate here.
would BASA have built the dome if it hadn't been for the sixers
if the result of the majority of the debt BASA is the dome
would BASA be in this position if it was still at apollo which it owned, Athol park which it owned and didn't have the zillion to pay for the dome.
surely it wouldn't have been so friendly to netball etc just to build a stadium for them.
FMJ
Years ago
would BASA be in this position if they didnt piss off fans, market the sport so poorly, cut the quality of their team, provide crap food, mistreat sponsors and so on?
Degenerate
Years ago
Who knows, but I never see ad's about 36'ers matches and rarely hear about them on Radio, it is like they don't exist
Tomcat
Years ago
What would BASA take for the sixers?
Looking at their figures, the team doesnt seem to make a profit.
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