Being an outsider looking in obviously South are offering something which Sturt is not capable of giving which is leading to the Sturt players seeking out better opportunities.

Maybe it is loyalty. Maybe it is a willingness to work with their players to develop them rather than being continually recruited over.

Who knows!!!

So south aren't recruiting over their own kids

Haha, of course they are.

And isn't being loyal to your players about providing them with good coaches?

And just as many, if not more South kids get recruited by Forestville.

People leaving clubs for loyalty? Sounds a bit strange! If they valued loyalty they would stay wherever they are...
As for valuing "not recruiting over the top of our own" - that's exactly what you are doing by bringing in players from Sturt, or anywhere else. Wonder how the "loyal" existing South players feel about that!!!!

Seems like South are offering blatant hyposrisy, and not much else!

There is a difference between going out actively to recruit players (i.e. sturt with SASI athletes) and a club accepting people who approach them because they think they will get a fairer go.

Curly seems to me if you seriously wanted to know then maybe you would ask the parents of your child's friends why they are moving there, if you really are a parent at all.

Or maybe you should give the Club a call and find out why?

And no club owns or manages the stadium that they call home. Pasadena belongs to the school and Basketball SA not Sturt.

#656 - there is NO difference except in your own mind. HYPOCRITE!

Lol gold moments... Sook sook, this is what I see and hear - didn't make div 1 sook sook gonna go trial at South because I'll walk in start their so not full of talent - that's what I've heard and seen but it's not really the truth.

And the last good South junior was .........

It's pretty simple, if you don't want to play there then don't.

Coming on here and shooting a Club down smells very much like fear from one of the two big clubs which are used to bolstering their 'talent' by picking off the best from South.

I bet they don't use the same lame pitch Sturt use.

Probably not, Souths last state championship came when exactly? Not really much to brag abour really!

and they have boti coaching there, his motto is recruit everyone, so obviously its rubbing off

Maybe Brett Maher from south was a reasonable player!

So you're suggesting Maher was poached? You might want to be careful here..... Considering he discusses this move in his biography.

I doubt we would even be talking about him now if he hadn't made the move!

So no-one from South in the last 20 years then?

having 8 teams is one thing having 8 good teams is another and having enough good coaches to coach all them also

I don't think anyone said Brett was poached just the observation he came from South initially

"If kids/parents want to move let them"

Unless they leave my club and go to Sturt - in case I will whinge and sook endlessly about it.

Sturt.. lol, you made this mess you're in.

Blatantly poaching SASI players.

People are waking up and realising there's more to SA basketball than one club. Now their own players are walking out and going to South, Forestville, Norwood, Southern and elsewhere.

Ask Sturt's JDO how did a Forestville girl's name make it onto the Sturt squad list when she never tried out or signed an intent to play form - and it wasn't her parents that put her name on the list as Sturt couldn't even spell her name right in their squad announcement!

As you continue to poach your own players will continue to leave. Just like the Southern Expressway, it's been a one way street for too long, welcome to the real world.

Well said "about the kids". For every one kid who makes a living out if basketball there is a thousand who don't. If these thousand didnt play and help pay for the JDO's then there wouldn't even be the one in a thousand.

JDO are a waste of money, like the above post says!

Get good coaches you don't need JDO

If JDO's are waste of money what are senior championships. An investment in the future?

All clubs recruit players to fill gaps in their programs.

Not all clubs have attractive programs, consistantly good coaches and/or effective cultures.

So the success of recruiting is stronger and more effective for the better programs.

Don't complain about loosing players, look at culture and program improvements within your own club first.

hey panther hows your girls/womens program going

22 points in a reserves game last night

with new recruits playing!!!

The only thing South have been ruffling is the hypocrisy flag.

Haven't you people got anything better to do!!

Only if the Sturt person cares it happening. Which it has been for 30 years by all clubs.

Maybe they only care about South bleating in one hand, and ten doing the exact same thing in the other.

Exactly anon. South pan other clubs (currently Sturt, in the past Southern) for doing the EXACT same thing they are doing. The "holier than thou" spiel is extremely hypocritical and people can see straight through it.

And they are doing a crap job of it, girls program is an absolute joke

So that's alright than if they do a crap job at it

who are you referring to that's problematic