Curious ^^^ - Not enough respect from you in relation to Eastern Mavericks Coach (Nathon Jones). Nathon is actually a former WNBL Coach (Bulleen)a number of years ago. Whilst Tess is a fantastic player, Nathon has put in place a platform for the entire Mavericks team to play a good brand basketball.

U seem to have another agenda outside of your question to post this here?

Ask him/the club.

Also, everyone has to start somewhere in 5 yrs time his claim to fame might be that he built the tigers to an ABL powerhouse.

These roles are advertised. Why didn't you apply CURIOUS???

I have nothing to do with coach in question (dont even know his name), or the southern tigers. Just over ppl using this forumfor gripes and jealous attacks.

curious

is your club looking for a new coach?

why dont you give him a ring

phone number is available on tigers website i believe

"who cares?
the southern tigers womens team have already out done the expectations that were laid on them: "they wont win a game" and they have, so in my eyes looks like he must be doing something right?"


A number of people down tiger land had them a lock for finals. And not just randoms, but actual club people.

Im not sure if anybody actually said they wouldnt win a game, because you forget they play South twice :)

If he got rubbed out for two weeks... seems pretty guilty to me even with BSA's leniency towards minimum penalties.

And of course he didnt threaten anybody... let me guess it was just misunderstood? and everyone and anyone who heard were Southern parents?

The mighty Southern tigers................

He was a nobody but now will be somebody as the first ABA coach I know of the be rubbed out.

What an embarrassment!

Not only is the team awful now they have to contend with this.

Lol Comedy Gold right here.

confused has obviously lost it

i have a suspicion the original poster (curious) was fishing for something!

hope he is satisfied

West, Southern, Woodville, Central and South are all in the same boat. The quality of all these bottom 5 teams is poor and well below the top 5. If these clubs don't recruit well next season, we will be saying the same stuff and sitting in the same position. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of talent to go round. Women's basketball isn't what it use to be. Tough for the lower end teams to get anywhere fast. I dare say all of them will take a number of years to climb that ladder.

A number of teams are doing just that but you cannot tell me that you do not need a certain amount of quality to be successfully. Have you seen the level of of these juniors in clubs you believe can be developed. Obviously not! I don't disagree with you but reality is teams, if they are to be successful, need a little bit more than developing their juniors. If clubs that just persisted with that, then I think we would have an even worse comp. Some coaches can't win either way, as there are always judgement going off wins alone and there always will be.

I must have missed something. I thought this might have been the penalty for some alleged unsavoury comments about some girls playing U23's earlier this season!

the top 5 womens teams are all majority home grown athletes.

so it can take time to build that but is much more rewarding when they get there.

The Coach in question certainly hasa long way to go to improve his image, the question is 1. Can he change, does he want to. 2. Will the club take action impose performance development requirements or just sit by and allow him to be the face of women's basketball at tigers?

As three of the Executives daughters are in his sqaud I doubt any action will be taken.

Tall poppy syndrome anyone!!

Boti of south Adelaide

How is your club travelling at the moment??

When did coaching become a popularity contest??

Hey Boti long time fan, who is BD - Brenton Davies?

Surely this is not the real boti

^ Why not? He coaches South U23 girls I'm sure he was there the night Mr Scott dropped the ball

confused? - there has been a strong push to regulate the behaviour of players and coaches in both ABL and Youth League this year, including the sending of video clips to clubs of what constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Approaching the referee after the game and making comments on the performance of the referee is not deemed to be acceptable as found by the tribunal.

Above poster you either work for BSA or you were on the tribunal or you were the ref involved also not appropriate!!

there were 2 people that applied for the job last year, the best coach got the job!! Pretty sure he is going to continue in the job for a while yet, so all you sooks whingeing about him better get used to it

#151 - to answer your post:

Above poster you either work for BSA - wrong!

or you were on the tribunal - wrong!

or you were the ref involved - also wrong!


Just stating fact of what has been happening to try and clean up behavioral issues - and was certainly not involved in any of the ways you suggested above.

So your a ref then

#160

So your LS then?

161

No I am not but I know what happened on the night in question

Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story

He actually got 20 weeks reduced to 2!

@ #42153
"there were 2 people that applied for the job last year, the best coach got the job!! Pretty sure he is going to continue in the job for a while yet, so all you sooks whingeing about him better get used to it:"

When you say he's gonna be around for a while surely a club wouldn't sign a coach to more than 1 yr before actually reviewing the first season? Then again maybe they are paying peanuts.

I was made aware of comments on this site, so in order to enlighten a few people I will give you an insight into my background!

I played junior basketball at southern districts until under 16's I then switched to South Adelaide in under 18's and played with them until I was 23 reaching reserve men level! I had a 2 year break to play football and played a season of Div 3 men but never really captured the love of playing the game I had as a kid!

I started coaching as a 17 year old at south winning an under 14 div 6 premiership I was then promoted to under 12 div 2 then as a 19 year old coached under 14 division 1 for 3 years, in each year my teams made the finals, then as I was reasonably young I got over dealing with parents and people similar to those on this site so I left basketball all together to play football.

After a 5 years out of the game I wanted to be involved again, I contacted south to offer to coach however no one called me back, so I contacted southern and thankfully was given a chance to coach, I coached under 20 div 2 men then took over as div 1 coach for 2 years again having some success in making finals in all but one year!

I spent the last 2 years coaching under 18 div 1 boys again making finals and playing off in 3 grand finals in a season! I have coached numerous players that have gone on to play ABA including Sam johns, Sam McDaniel, Andrew Webber, Matthew Davies just to name a few!

I was assistant coach to Willie last year and coached the 23 div 1 girls again making finals!

There you go, I haven't coached WNBL or played in the NBA but I fail to see how that matters! I can coach and I am good at developing players which is what I intend to do with the current girls we have at the moment, and with our juniors at our club! People have said we won't be able to recruit players, well 1 I don't care, I would like tigers girls playing for us and then going onto higher leagues, not importing rebels that cause more trouble than what they are worth just ask Centrals, however some players from other clubs have already spoken to me about next season and I will sit down with them at the appropriate time and if they can fit into the culture we are trying to create at our clubs then they will be welcomed!

Those warriors on here that want to attack our club and the girls whose parents are on the committee you seriously need a life, remember you are having a go at 17 year old girls in most cases, they try their best like everyone else in the team and I can assure you there is no gold passes! And someone has to be on the committee, no committee no club!

I got reported 2 weeks ago and suspended for 2 weeks Wednesday night, I take full responsibility for my actions, I will learn from them and it won't happen again!

There have been players that left our club, I won't go into details why they left, however I am a tough coach with high expectations and rules, those that don't like my rules don't play, they left we moved on!

I coach to develop players and win games! Most of my team although we are not getting the wins are improving, I don't do this job to make friends with people at other clubs, I have enough people at my club I class as friends, I would also class some people at other clubs as friends to, but they wouldn't get on here and slander my team, my club or me!

There is obviously an agenda by disgruntled people that I may have upset to try and get rid of me, guess what I have suspicion who you people are and I am not going anywhere, I will continue to do this job for as long as I possibly can and when it's over and one day it will be I will go back to coaching juniors at the southern tigers, I don't care if I have upset you or your adult kid, get over yourselves!

To Blackbird, you are either a disgruntled former player/parent or maybe a current one, seriously get a life, my conversations with my players are friendly banter, as this group of girls and myself and coaching staff get on really well we are a unit with one goal in mind to continue to get better and play in finals and it will happen one day! Good luck reading my twitter as I blocked it so that peanuts like the majority that have posted on this site can't read it, and me and my team can have our conversations without people reading them, if you are a former parent/player good luck with your basketball career hope you the best but you won't be playing for us again! If you are a current player/parent not happy you need to speak to me about or else you know where the door is!

Anyway I had my say, enjoy the read if anyone ever wants to talk to me I am approachable (even the refs :-) ) but if you don't want to I am not fussed

Night night

#tigernation!

Well that escalated quickly!

As the saying goes....HATERS ARE GONNA HATE!

Just because you have played at a high level or that you are a known person within the Basketball society of little old Adelaide, doesn't mean that you are automatically going to be a 'GREAT' coach.

Coaching at senior level is far more than just knowing the game. It's managing everyone of the players that you have in a team! Ever wondered why they're called Managers in the English Premier League?

Sometimes the biggest haters in basketball are the biggest victims in life!

In my experience this is soooooo true:

"Sometimes the biggest haters in basketball are the biggest victims in life! "

Wow, is this guy for real?? Seems he doesn't mind pumping his own tyres up. Looks to me like this coach is very unprofessional, and you would have to question whether or not he is best for the future of this club.

Pretty sure his wife is a lawyer

I'm not the guy above and don't even know him.

Isn't funny though that anonymous haters can come here and bag people in teh sport under the guise of good discussion and debate and as soon as the people they are attacking contribute to that debate it becomes a case of them pumping their tyre up or being unprofessional.

Um it is not because he has joined the debate mate, its because of the content within and the obvious lack of professionalism through the evidence he has shown!
This person should not be coaching! And yes, that is only my opinion.

You people all sound scared of this guy

Or jealous not sure which one

Southern have a very strict social media policy so I am sure they would be across any discretions.

Look at R4 ABL write up lots of sniping between south and tigers so maybe it's south people trying to destabilise southern in order to get a win

Well I am not with South or Southern and think Southerns coach is also very unprofessional.
And how would this banter get South a win?? Are all you people as dumb as you sound??
I'm guessing yes?!

Maybe we should call a waaaaaaambulance for all you sooks

almost want to join his facebook seems more exciting than mine

^^^^

Post of the year

Been a comical read regardless

Dirty Sanchez

I think you would have to be dilussional to think that the real Boti would waste his time on here and also that you would have any idea what South are doing within their program to build up success.

Maybe get your facts right as South only have one of their college girls playing and that is Corrigan. She is not a superstar, but obviously Vicki sees something in her that Sharon did not as she was never given a go at Forestville. As for the other 2, 1 is out for the season injured and the other has only played a game and missed the last. South are in the same predicament as all the other bottom 5 teams, and maybe Eastern, without Tess.
I agree with the above though. There doesn't seem to be a lot of young quality girls coming through, which makes it hard for those clubs who don't have the likes of Foley, Newly, Thompson, Lewis, Hill.

I think people underestimate how tough it is to be a womens coach these days in this comp. There are very few players going around as it is, let alone ones that make a huge difference to teams. I do not envy any of these coaches, except maybe Norwoods, as he tends to get first pick at whats going around the place, but good on him I guess?

boti from south adelaide has been very quiet since being called out

I think he may have better things to do than go backward and forward with this rubbish.

trying to get an aba gig, recruiting college players for his team next year