The problem at the moment is travelling by push bike its only possible to reach the toll gate and return to the dome in an 8 hour work day. So I suspect the associations at Mile End, Unley, Urbrae and Richmond are all getting a lot of attention.

And will continue too for at least the next 3 years

As many as the last bloke made ZERO in (2 plus) years

The clubs have no control, Wayne Jackson took control off them.

It's up to the commission which are even worse than hubbard

The clubs do have control. All they would need to do is pull all their teams out of the bsa competition.

All they would need to do .... yeah it's that easy

It has been considered in the past - issue is finding enough courts to have a competition when many are controlled by BSA and not the clubs!!

And having the ability of players to represent State or be a member of NITP, both of which is run by BasketballSA.

The above discussion demonstrates why running district basketball should NOT be governed by the clubs. That is what caused the BASA disaster!

Rogers had big problems at Norwood! Made a mess of the domestic jun league,had basketball camps in the holidays that werent basketball, focusing on how to run, and school visits were non existent to introduce new players to the club. He could not make a decision, and was basically clueless when it came to developing a club. The committee was sick and tried of the bleak future of the club, and if he didn't leave would have been told to clean out his locker. I can't believe BSA would employ a guy with this track record. He is a clown, but whoever employed him is a bigger clown!!!

Most of the above post is untrue, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good whinge.

I dont know Michael well but have coached against him and believe he has a pretty decent understanding if and passion for the game. A lot of negativity here. .. as usual.

I know MIchael pretty well. Seems to be very experienced, knowledgeable, a good communicator, well educated in this area and hard working.

The problem is that Norwood wanted someone to run community type programs and elite programs. The skillsets required for both these jobs are different. Also to run a district club as large as Norwood AND to setup a local domestic competition is more than a mammoth task. Mike would have been stretched pillar to post.

I bet Norwood make the same mistake with his replacement. They need to stop spending their money on ABL and go out and get some proper resources. .

Norwood looking after juniors first? Never going to happen, sadly.

Sounds like they don't get out and about at all and are bludging and getting away with doing no work but collecting pay cheques. The senior people supervising are also doing the same. What do they do all day, surf the web?

^ your joking right? Vicki and David have completely re-structured the NITP program and they are at all the trainings for the 4 groups. I know for a fact that David has also been visiting players with elite potential as far away as port pirie to discuss development pathways for players. They were both at the country champs and they are over-seeing the DNSP program for all the developing country players. Just because you haven't seen them, doesn't mean they're not hard at work. Don't be such a synic, and don't comment on things (or more importantly people) that your are clueless on.

Its hardly a restructuring. Its actually a decreasing the number of sessions and number of kids a complete restructure. Plus one pwrosn was able to do all that with more sessions and more kids. Why does it take 2 people to do that?

Hey anonymous 787, less kids for squads means a more elite nature for each squad and more coaches for each session means more input and hands on approach for the players. More coaches improves the players and will improve the local competition because of coaches being exposed to NITP methodologies.

Hey anonymous 787, less kids for squads means a more elite nature for each squad and more coaches for each session means more input and hands on approach for the players. More coaches improves the players and will improve the local competition because of coaches being exposed to NITP methodologies.

Real good in theory until you realise that half the coaches there don't actually coach junior teams. So that there can't actually be a transfer into the junior competition.

Or that none of the people planning the session have any history in dealing with volunteer coaches nor actually ever coaching junior players, and there development.

Poster 826 you have made the statement that half the coaches at NITP don't coach junior teams. Obviously you must have attended boys and girls trainings to see who the coaches are.

Who exactly are the coaches, who are they coaching now or what experience do they have with juniors as far as you know?