Kyle miller got back during the week

you can stop calling them undermanned now

Central women the better team and unlucky to lose

Forestville lost according to the webcast

Very good game South v Sturt. Could have went either way.

616...what a rubbish comment! If they were the better team they would have won.

Ridiculous!

Woodville would have had to have sacked another coach had they lost that one

Meanwhile, back at the ranch. Popped down to Pasadena last night to watch the Panthers Sabres game and BSA ran a little half time kids race thing. Throwing balls to knock down boxes. Crawl through tubes, shoot little hoops and race a cardboard car. It was great to see some half time entertainment and kids having fun. Would like to see both clubs kids picked and some girls next time but overall it was fun and great to see BSA getting amongst it at clubs. Hope our club has this at the next game. Our kids would love it.

Centrals have been on the end of major beltings most of the year and KB out coached a one trick pony opposition to get the girls a shot away .

It helps that they were playing such a sub standard team so hold your horses everyone before we go too far. Needs to be put in perspective. Yes Jo is amazing but !!!! Those stats would be amazing against any other team but that one...

The comp is below par and the coaches well below par and hang their hats on imports to win games. There are precious few women's coaches who can develop, use benches or create players which leaves the comp the boring one it is.

Razor I don't like the status quo is why. The top six are always the same just in different order. Imports dictate how well the bottom four go every year and that simply means woodville or southern rise for a season and slump back as imports come and go. Where is the development of juniors to these ranks? My question is how does a bottom four club benefit from an ok season on the back of imports long term? From my perspective pouring money into imports when your junior development is chaotic and your numbers are non existent is a recipe for disaster.

Which clubs have imports in Men and Women's teams?

If you are paying imports on a work holiday visa, you are either nuts or have the wrong import,

no need to pay imports anymore

they are lining up to come and work here and play for free

Woodville,south, sturt, southern before the meltdown etc etc

Smokin Jo

Don't go to games then!!

Top 6 always the same? Pretty sure South 2 years ago were pretty much dead last? and Centrals made finals?

Why does Forestville need her? They have had for years a dominant junior girls program. Why is this not flowing through into ABA like some other teams?

because the coach has favourites and is as bad as her husband

Last season Sturt women had no imports but many home grown players that had a good season, some now retired. This year an import. As everyone mentions need imports to be competitive against the teams punching above what is ordinary affordable - aka Norwood and pseudo import Borego... It is now necessary ... Men lost multituse of players to SEABl or OS college which is a proud result for a club to develop and send their players on to the next level if that is that they desire. Injuries waiting to return home grown as well. Just a changing of the guard and full of youth players. Some from womens also gone or going to college. I would say the junior program is doing what it should, progressing beyond the club. The opportunity to learn and play with high calibre players which by the way we all get to enjoy via the signing to Lightning is good for SA. At least linking in to basketball and not the other sport !!!!!

I find it funny that whenever Fore$tville get called out for being shady (whether accurate or not), they immediately try to justify it with a Sturt comparison. Talk about "Little Brother" syndrome...

it's a free world..

if Forestville feel it necessary to up the ante with an import why not?

if you're little darling can't get on the roster move her to Centrals

Razor,

Talbot played 4 seasons at Forestville and 3 at Norwood. You can hardly claim recruiting her for 2 seasons a case of Mavs developing her. Same for Wilson who played 4 seasons at Sturt and only 3 at Mavs.

Saying that mutiple clubs developed them.

It was you who stayed Mavs developed them razor.

A couple of years ago Centrals made finals on the back of the nomad , her partner and an import. Souths will make finals with the nomad and an import. Mavis were hot with Tess and cold without her. Southern were competitive with import and ordinary without her. Woodville are treading water with their import and Sturt are now firing with their star where they were struggling previously. Imports not coaches dictate success and are short term fixes.for most clubs.
Strong clubs with lots of juniors should be able to field strong senior teams but often as said their development program has sent girls to college or wnbl etc. consequently better clubs augment their losses with imports. The weak clubs keep shooting themselves in the foot trying to have successful cabl teams at the expense of junior development. Several bottom teams are case in points especially woodville with almost no girls in the junior program at all and zip experienced junior coaches to develop what they do and ditto most of the lower ranked clubs. It's dumb to spend big bucks on a cabl coach and import if your junior program is dysfunctional and worse still if the coach you buy does develop his fringe cabl players . Centrals and woodville along with southern are the usual bottom teams and I can't see much changing until they realise why the top four clubs are top four.

Soooo true. Why these clubs don't get it is beyond me???? Get your juniors right!

Southern have finally got a proper Coaching Director in place as he does not quit over the politics that seems to plague them out there will get on track over the coming years.

Clubs that employ dodgy Directors of Coaching will soon have to spend money on Seniors to compete then they can no longer afford to invest that money in the junior program and then often go years and years without a proper COaching Director. North Adelaide seems to have gone down this path as has Woodville.

Except North don't have any imports!!

So pero and peach played for free last yr?

Jo hill plays for free??

Not saying the above players should not get paid. They should. But surely you get juniors in order first?

Who has been the proper coaching director at nth since kinsman?

The best thing that is going to happen at southern is the junior president is not going to stand at the next AGM, jumping before he is pushed, once he goes the president is a lame duck and will either quit if he isn't able to sell his dodgy merchandise or will be removed also, then Dean can get on with his job without the interference that these two will inevitably create in order to better their own kids careers or fill their bank account with cash through sales of uniforms/merchandise etc.

The club can then move forward and look at player development as it's number 1 priority rather than making dollars for one person who puts very little back into the club in the way of sponsorship dollars and time.

Then the club may return to the glory days and be a powerhouse again.

So when a Sturt/Forestville bring in an import its all good, when a Southern have an import (which costs the club ZERO) then its terrible and adding to the destruction of the world.

Well done guys ....

Do people understand a number of clubs do not have any juniors that are good enough to play ABL level so therefore in the interim they look outside the square, whether it is recruiting from another club or deciding to go the import direction. What are they to do?? I would be interested in your obviously expert opinion.

First ask why you don't have juniors, then at your agm vote out the board and replace it with one that has a junior developmental policy, plan and strategy to attract kids to your club and don't appoint wet behind the ears committee members. Also ask why you have junior coaches who haven't developed your kids thru their junior years . If you don't understand why it's ok for top clubs to have imports then you are probably one of reasons your club is sinking.
In the bottom clubs people are appointed to positions they can't do and you get situations like woodville where it's all smoke and mirrors, no girls, no coaches and all the money has been spent on the top end, paying a coach they don't need financing an import they don't need and no one with the expertise to recruit girls or know the first thing about how you go about it.
Southern should be the premier club in the state with its facilities and player catchment but self interest and lack of vision has seen it implode every year and I think the last import cost the club more than money and reinforced the 'don't go there' in neon.
Internal strife is generally the reason small clubs remain small and you will never get big until you have a program that sees junior players flow thru to the CABL.

Sounds great ... no sense of reality.

one that has a junior developmental policy, plan and strategy to attract kids to your club and don't appoint wet behind the ears committee members. Also ask why you have junior coaches who haven't developed your kids thru their junior years

The above is not a reality????

ummm you've obviously never been in a successful club ;)

It's probably southerns president