yeah they were selected yesterday

yep

it's basically just south adelaide, plus the two twins from woodpile

and by woodpile, i mean woodville

can someone post the team list

Madit Daniel
Ngor Daniel
Will Gleeson
Akol Deng
Nik Fassos (C)
Cale Matthews (VC)
Brad Ficken (VC)
Jacob Rigoni
Luke Surman
Brent Hank

a reasonable team, let's see if they can all play for a week without gastro or some faked injury.
no pressure boys but were all watching!!!!

most will be alright, i reckon there will be some people in this team that won't last the week

reasonable team but can't see them troubling the bigger teams. 5th-6th is a possibility

I reckon this will end in tears, for one player anyway. It always does

Would one day be nice to pick another side from outside the 15 and see how the head to head comes out in a best of 5.
Oh for the good ol' days when games got scrutinized every week and finals even more to see who can play under pressure and deserves a chance at selection.
But that was then....

Austin Clarke no longer in the country. Dad is Marty, so the family's all in California now.

What a stupid conversation...Half of those kids didn't even try out. How is that a selection fault? O'Gorman and Pontifex both withdrew due to substantial injuries.

Cant blame selection process for some kids not being selected if they never tried out in the first place.

Pearce is in too.

agree with the above - basketball should be wanting to know why kids don't want to play at the higher level - very concerning for the sport I would have thought. Apparently one player from the second list above did attend the first trial only to be told he had a "supposed" clash of sporting priorities. Maybe the sport needs to stop and think about how it manages the people involved.

knees

The key is finding talented kids that will play as a team. I fear too many selected only want to advance their own reputation and to hell with the State and by not having neutral coaches I'm sure it feeds the problem.

Not sure how you can blame coaches for footy kids who don't trial..thats just stupid. I agree they are good athletes etc but in the end aren't we trying to build elite basketballers?

Even if this is not a strong group of boys and girls, let them go and represent SA to the best of their ability.

I guess perception can be reality...except in this case.I suggest you talk to the club coach where the kid is from, as he one of the state assistants and was there when it was discussed.

Not very classy annonomously bagging under 18 players. Sounds like jealous sour grapes to me.

I just think its great that individuals cook bbqs and chaperone players ,less fortunate, to help pursue their dreams.Volunteers are heroes .And to help assist some players pay their way to past ,and the next championship, is to be commended.Some less fortunate would be lost and obviously the not, are bagging as they haven't made it.

at the end of the day this is all elementary, it's about the kids that made the team and their ability to do the state proud. I, for one, think that each and every kid in the team will put in the hard yards when they go away and each one are deserved of their spot in that team.

A few posts have been deleted. Future transgressions (passing opinion on U18 players, etc) will also result in deletion and bans from the site.

Naming these players (by surname only) in referencing an injury or listing inclusion in the team is OK. Commenting on their performance (positively or negatively) as players is not OK.