Gareth Pennington at Centrals.

Whoever the guy is leading Centrals u23 men to a two game win streak!

Miami's 27 & counting could be in danger the way these guys are going...

Paul Arnott

HaHa Paul Arnott.

Didn't his team just miss finals?

Seriously, how do you judge such a thing?

Is it wins and losses, development of players, ability to coach more than 1 age group???

Toby Lockwood and I doubt it's even close.

On what grounds?

Last year they started well out in front of everyone due to recruiting. Recruited well mid season, and by the end of the year needed overtime to win the GF, then didnt do very well at 14 Nationals.

Matty Hampton

Toby won the winter GF (it didn't go into overtime)and the side was the highest SA finisher at Nationals AND has coached a completely different under 14 team to an undefeated summer season. The current team have all been at Centrals for a long time with only a couple of new country kids.

sorry that we even considered anyone other than a Sturt Coach dirty..

so any/all Coaches from Sturt

they're just the best

especially at getting kids from other teams....

didn't the current centrals 14s make finals 2 yrs prior?

Guess that proves coaching must be better at Forestville and Norwood if they've attracted more players than sturt. lol

pick the best coach at each club!!

Ben Macdonald from Woodville Warriors

Scott Freer for me

What a stupid thread. All it proves is that most Hoops posters have no idea. Not one of the names mentioned would even be close. In fact they'd struggle to even get a Div 1 spot at stronger clubs.

Throwing up names like Lockwood and McDonald? I'm sure they are top blokes and are doing their best, but top district coach? You guys must be taking the piss.

Centrals didn't do well at nationals. Are you serious? 6 wins and 2 losses, including a win against Melbourne Tigers who finished second overall. Lost to team who finished 4th by 6 after beating Tigers a few hours earlier and the other team didn't play that morning so were fresher. Also had their captain out pretty much whole tourney so had 7 players and 4 were bottom age.

Want to rethink that ignorant comment you idiot. Get your facts right before you sell the boys at Centrals short. Moron!

Oh and in summer that season before recruiting they beat Sturt with one top age player.

Centrals didn't do well at nationals. Are you serious? 6 wins and 2 losses, including a win against Melbourne Tigers who finished second overall. Lost to team who finished 4th by 6 after beating Tigers a few hours earlier and the other team didn't play that morning so were fresher. Also had their captain out pretty much whole tourney so had 7 players and 4 were bottom age.

Want to rethink that ignorant comment you idiot. Get your facts right before you sell the boys at Centrals short. Moron!

Oh and in summer that season before recruiting they beat Sturt with one top age player.

Scott Freer is an absolute legend of SA Basketball!

anon,

Sooo, your saying that Centrals didnt perform as well as Forestville did in the Girls then?

Where did Centrals finish? In the top 10? If so, well done.

Scott Freer once saved my whole family from a burning building by carrying us out of the fire one by one in a defensive stance.

cares about them hey...

1. How do you assess a coach w/l ratio? give any muppet a top quality team they should do well.

2. Most people can assess talent sheesh not hard to be in a position to recruit and refer to 1.

3. What has the clubs overall w/l got to do with one coach?

There are plenty of the District comps best coaches developing kids with great skill out there in the MUCH lower divisions so some D1 coach always guaranteed to be able to pick the strongest team gets their best shot..

What about Peter Berry with his Etch-A-Sketch board? Haha

The messiah Corey MacLean?
Good old Toby Lockwood? Haha
Michael Rogers? John Della Pia?

ALL STURT COACHES!!!

John della pia Hahahahahahaha

A coach called john della pia
Had little to zero idea
he'd just scream adnd shout
with eyes popping out
and suffer from verbal diarrhoea

#791, if I was Corey Maclean I'd be pretty annoyed at being included in the same post as those other three names.

And your spelling is probably the worst I've come across!

Only when the coach who coached him, coaches him.

everyone hates john della-pia