Jeff
Years ago

SEABL & BIGV

People are always quick to compare the two leagues against each other. I agree with most that SEABL have better quality players 1-10 but individually BigV is right up there with the talent that is displayed. Overall there are some pretty good players from both leagues.

Compare the players that played or that are playing NBL from these leagues. If there are more you can think of; please add to the discussion

SEABL
Shane McDonald
Simon Conn
Brent Hobba
CJ Massingale
Adam Gibson
Shawn Redhage
Ash Cannon
Brad Williamson
Daniel Joyce
Kevin White
Shaun Bruce
Tim Coenraad
Nathan Crosswell
David Gruber
Tyson Demos
Brad Hill
Tom Garlepp
Chris Goulding
Nathan Herbert
Anthony Petrie
Jared Scoines
Lucas Walker
Mick Hill
Gerard Leonard
Adam Quick
Patty Mills
Troy DeVries
Derrick McDonald
Anthony Stewart
Eric Burdon
Matt Sutton
Auyrn McMillan
Tim Lang
Greg Vanderjagt
Jeff Dowdell
Daniel Dillon
Drew Williamson
Mitchell Creek
Braith Cox
Cameron Rigby
Cortez Groves
Luke Kendall
Sam Harris
(a few from AIS)

BigV
Daniel Dillon
Simon Conn
Brent Hobba
Ash Cannon
Bennie Lewis
Cameron Tragardh
Tommy Greer
Matt Burston
Aaron Bruce
Shaun Bruce
Nathan Crosswell
Ian Crosswhite
Marcus Timmons
Axel Dench
Brett Wheeler
Darryl Corletto
Brad Hill
Rhys Carter
Daniel Johnson
Mick Hill
Luke Egan
Brett Rainbow
Chris Anstey
Ray Borner
Matthew Smith
David Donaldson
Gerard Leonard
David Stiff
Jason Everstyn
Damon Lowery
Adam Quick
David Barlow
Bo Westover
Kevin Ratzch
Derrick McDonald

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Anonymous
Years ago

From your BigV list these guys played SEABL too:

Daniel Dillon
Simon Conn
Brent Hobba
Ash Cannon
Tommy Greer
Nathan Crosswell
Marcus Timmons
Axel Dench
Brad Hill
Rhys Carter
Mick Hill
Luke Egan
Ray Borner
Matthew Smith
David Donaldson
Gerard Leonard
David Stiff
Jason Everstyn
Damon Lowery
Derrick McDonald

There are countless other NBL players who have played SEABL or vice versa.

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Anonymous
Years ago

owen odigie
wade helliwell
josh wilcher

from seabl

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Anonymous
Years ago

I think you should be more talking about players that STARTED in those leagues and then progressed to NBL. Eg players that played for Waverley and got picked up by an NBL club or players who played for Knox and got picked up.

For example players like Burston/Trigger etc had already been in the NBL for years before they played in either Big v / SEABL.

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HO
Years ago

And lots of the SEABL guys played BigV as well - albeit at lower levels. Shane Mac, Braith Cox etc.

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Tiger Watcher
Years ago

Speaking on SEABL strong word around is that Tommy Greer has just signed on at Nunawading for 2013

Good luck to Maalo Hicks getting any court time!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Based on Tommy's current form (or lack there of) then court time for Maalo shouldn't be too much of a concern.

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Sting what?
Years ago

Maalo should have a breakout year.

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Anonymous
Years ago

If Maalo gave a f##k for the last few years and actually got fit and worked hard he'd be in Greer's position at the Tigers or above.

Waste of an athletic talent that actually has the skills to go with it, just no application.

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Sixerfan
Years ago

Greer back to spooks after what happened last time??

Word is that Hicks is heading to Corio Bay Stingrays.

There is a significant gap between Big V Championship and SEABL, similar gap between SEABL and NBL.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Cameron to be told to shape up or ship out too, equally as lazy as hicks.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Big V Champ has 4-5 tough teams that could be compared to the top 12 SEABL teams, the rest in Big V would struggle but are simmilar to the bottom few in SEABL. So SEABL just has alot more depth.

But all Big V teams would beat the gunners, even Div 1 teams.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Sorry but none of the BigV teams could match it at SEABL level straight away, go watch a SEABL and BigV game back to back, the difference in size of the players and speed between the 2 leagues is quite pronounced. Most BigV 5's would struggle to play 4 in SEABL and so on. As an example Platenik dominates as a 4 in BigV but wouldn't make any SEABL roster as a 4, he has the body of a 3 but no outside shot, its one of the main reasons he hasnt gone any further than BigV. Big V is full of undersized players.

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Defence wins Games
Years ago

What a lot of rubbish about Maalo not getting any time at Spectres if Tommy is part of the team ......and calling Camron lazy you got to be joking .

Will be interesting to see the actual signings for next season and hopefully the clubs will continue to invest in the younger players and not just think short term.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Ringwood dominated the Big V with a 17-3 record
1 Snowball
1-2 Bowlin
2 Weimer
3 Egan
3-4 Belt
4 Clark
5 Whitehead
5 - Sturt

Dandenong had the best record in SEABL with 20-8 record
1 Campbell
1-2 Arnott
1-2 Barker
1-2 Harms
2-3 Louis
2-3 Enge
3-4 Lewis
4 Jois
4-5 Hobba
5 Montreal

Can't see Ringwood getting close to Dandenong, at all. It would be a 20 point game if Ringwood played well.

The other thing you must consider about the two leagues is that SEABL attract much stronger imports in general and the 28 game season is tougher than 20 spread over the same time span.

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Jeff
Years ago

SEABL is definitely a better league than the BigV top to bottom as I quoted but there is a lot of talent individually from both leagues is what I'm saying.

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HO
Years ago

But Jeff, the point has no relevance. What is the point of producing a list of players who have played in both leagues at some point and saying "both leagues have had good players"?

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Jeff
Years ago

HO; The point is there is talent in both leagues w/ those players somewhat contributing to NBL in some way...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Most were in NBL before they were in either league you idiot. They are contributing nothing except somewhere to play in the off season for some extra coin!!!

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Anonymous
Years ago

Does Adonis Jordan still play in the BigV?

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Anonymous
Years ago

There's far more examples of players flowing out of SEABL into the NBL than from BigV.
These days very few SEABL clubs use NBL talent due to the issues of availability.

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HO
Years ago

There used to be a silly argument, mainly propogated by the SEABL, they they "developed" talent for the NBL, then they used to put out press releases listing AIS scholarship holders basically!

It was pretty dumb, there are lots of contributors to a athletes preparation to play NBL, clubs, schools, coaches etc etc.

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Sting what?
Years ago

Maalo Hicks signs with Stingrays for 2013 season.
http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-7333-0-0-0&sID=143617&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=21225754

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Hoops

SEABL & BIGV

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