Don't bet against the home team!

Size advantage would go to the Div2 side but I think you will find the better and top Youth sides have the edge. The ability to apply sustained pressure for ful 40 minutes and the sped gets the win.

i know it is only pre-season but year after year you see good wins from Youth Sides over senior sides.

Seen GF Bulleen Vs Knox on the weekend very high level.

Quality of Athlete, Skill set and coaching would have to go to YL.

The only advantage a D2 team could have over a YL team is physicality. Even most YL teams have a few SEABL development bigs.

YL and D1/2 are on different development pathways.

SC YL is part of the pathway to BigV Champ/SEABL, D1/2 is where players end up that aren't up to the standard required to progress into Champ/SEABL/NBL.

So naturally the skill set and general athleticism of those players will be fundamentally different to each other.

corio bay in two games but will be close game each time.

Ringwood in 3.

corio bay have some sort of xfactor, seem to keep winning

Wasn't Corio Bay supposed to be in division two and not champ men?

New York Knicks?

Tiger Watchout you must be the biggest flog on this site. Everyone know you don't have transparency to the associations budget, nor are you connected with CB. People who know these people, realise how professional they have gone about things since coming into the league on three season ago. You need to stick to facts and not make cheap swipes at hard working association who are adding to basketball.

No point being defensive, CB have the biggest player budget, no big deal, stop denying it..!

These comments aren't coming from the players who continually put their hand up to play for a small association due to the culture and professionalism they all enjoy. All other comments are unqualified.

Please..... Players go where they make the most money. Simple.

Corio in straight sets waverly and ringwoods budget bigger more likely overachievers where sherbrooke could have nearly won it underachievers hume city

#487859 Thats because the Youth Coaches concentrate on teaching the kids and helping them to get better.

Majority of the Division coaches are trying to get ready made players, however if they are not ready the learning stops as all they are focussed on is the win.

Im gonna say the state youth champ men winner, YL1 and YL2 winner would all be top four in the D2 league right now without a doubt.

Bunch of people with inflated egos floating around in there right now.

Top sides in D1 this year were younger teams in Mens as well who all played hard each and every game and thats why they got it done.

Who's on the big bucks at CB? Anyone got figures?

Why do people actually say that anyway about corio? I've not heard of any major sponsors at Stingrays and they play in a private venue so they pay over the odds for their home stadium.
Waverley have 4 x players on $10k+ XR6 each from Strapp Ford.
Hume City spend $60k across 2 players and a coach.

Is it possible corio are just well managed and spend what they can allocate to the men's program wisely?

The amount of rubbish that is battered about on this forum is comical, worth every day coming on here with 10 minutes to waste.

Fact: CB pay only two local players, the two imports are on work visas, and receive no income from the association. The group is just super keen and well managed. Good luck and may the best team win.

Back at #487842
I hope all players who play week in week out for their clubs just for the love of the game take offence to this limited dick!

They work outside the association. They are on a work visa not a sports visa. Only valid once.

#487877 Begs the question why have YL and separate Divisions?

Both are considered senior open age competitions right?

Just combine it all together, have the best 13 teams in Div 1, Div 2 etc.

Surely it can only help the development of the 18-21 y/o players to condition them to more mature physically stronger opposition?

Ive often thought YL is too isolated and in many respects the gap to Champ/SEABL is just too big because of it. Adding the best YL teams with the best D1 teams would surely make a stronger comp as a result?

VP, spotonski on all accounts

I would have thought removing the YL div and just combining them would strengthen the competition and concentrate the better talent in the higher divisions instead of the current system that dilutes it and spreads it evenly.

YL serves no purpose any more, by the time players get to 18 they should be able to come with playing against open aged competitors.

Yeah, great win by the Geelong women Div1 team going to Mildura, now they have to travel on a plane to G-Town and try to win two games in a row, tough ask!

Anon #406 I would not like to see my assoc's best teenage basketballers getting smacked and hacked by those has been 125kg apes running around in Div2 or Div1. Rather see them play cleaner more athletic ball in YLC mate!

You sound like an over protective parent.

If the kids aren't up to the physicality of snr Basketball leave them in U20's till they finish.

The reason the YL kids are struggling to integrate into SEABL teams is the massive difference in Physicality between YL and SEABL.

Integrating the top YL teams with the better D1 teams will expose them to a higher level of competition somewhere between where they are now and the next step which is too big at the moment.

I agree that the best junior kids need to play at the best level, but it also has to suit the kid and if a Youth league team is the best fit for that particular Associaiton's pathway and that kid, so be it.

Let's face it many of the very best teen age basketball talent will get offers overseas, so at 18-19 they will likely be heading off to College in the US regardless.

So, what age group is US College, oh that's right it is about 19-24 years on average, gee that sounds like Youth League age to me!

Doesn't seem to bother them, great competition and they play against big adult size bodies too, maybe not over protective anon^, maybe just smarter than you think?

Where the Casey loud mouths at? Another year in Div 2 for you fellas!

Casey were just not good enough, Were completely outplayed for the most part of the series & there were reasons they got as close as they did....

So Casey are going to have Lester and these new recruits running around in Div 2? So Typical of Casey. It would be like them entering their U/18's to play in U/14s

Good work Casey

Like Fishing with dynamite in a small pond and celebrating that you caught a fish

If they stay in D2 Lester will have no effect, he is dropping from SEABl where he can be physical, if they don`t go up he will be on the bench most of the game in foul trouble.

why will shep and casey stay in Div 2. Both Teams standouts in Div 2.

Surely they would be more competitive in Div 1 compared to craigiburn (1win-18loss), melb uni + Warrandyte (4 wins-15Losses)

Think you would find if all three of those sides drop down and keep the same list they become the top three sides of D2.

Shep won they go up. Casey lost they should stay down. Being consistant over the season means nothing if you don`t take it out when it counts.

I think any team can apply to go up or down in any division regardless of results and that should be the case if your personnel or situation changes dramatically.

I think Shepp and Casey will and should go up providing they can at least keep their core groups in tact or improve on them.