Kinda sucks if you're eastern playing home games at St Clair.
Chicken or the egg question again, if want to play div one move to club that hasn't got a div one team. If not they may dominate div 2 but if kids are legit about playing higher rather than winning then this will always happen. But parents and kids are blinded by being successful rather than big picture. So the rich stay rich, and the poor stay poor.

Cat I agree with you on most things but the Norwood Division 2 team has several first year 18s that played U16 country state last year in it so I doubt they would get smashed. certainly it would not help the sport if that was the case and they were not up to it but neither is a lopsided draw in Division 1 that just coincidently impacts most on the bottom two teams.
18s girls is an issue and has been for several years with no sign of improvement and BSA clueless about how to fix it.
Maybe BSA should ask one of the two bottom teams to voluntarily go to Division 2 so that at least the top division in junior girl's basketball can have a fair draw without byes and gives every team the same opportunity.
Bringing up the premier two team is the most practical.

If you are worried about draws consider the YL Men Div 2. 10 teams but four of first five rounds have two teams having a bye each week. Why should there be any byes at all in a 10 team draw. Does BSA know what they are doing?

This is to cat

Before I go on I want to make clear I am not involved in the Magic.

What are the reasons for holding Magic to the agreement of no division 1 or 2 (beyond sticking to your word).

Surely if a club has teams good enough they should be allowed to play at the level appropriate for their skill level. If Magic has stronger teams than a club with a established pathway, maybe those other clubs should look internally and ask why that is.

It's a social club because they are not allowed to progress past that point.

A brilliant idea restricting Div 1 and Div 2 to the 10 "premier" clubs who cant and dont always fill "their" god given spots. The naivety of never expanding the elite competition beyond those 10 clubs is mind boggling brain dead.

Imagine if Victoria never expanded beyond their original clubs. Now befpre I hear the old catch cry "they dont have premier league costs" well neither do all the Vic clubs. Some play SEABL, some play Big V champ and some even play Div 1. They dont care!! It's like SA is stuck in the 60's and cant see past the good old glory days and way back when this is what worked best etc etc

Its 2017, time to move forward and not be stuck in the past.

Can anyone explain the logic behind double byes?

I assume double byes is because they don't have courts. Maybe going down to the div 5 level they should limit number of teams so they have enough timeslots. In reality it's not much better than social, if not put them on Sunday's somewhere.
As for having member clubs as only having div 1 teams it's a must. Otherwise it becomes mayhem, imagine afl, sanfl, netball, etc having a club or 2 showing up once in a while. I think maybe if they come top in div 3 in summer to maybe have a go in 2s, but why would you want to weaken the league. Simple, play div 1 go the member club, stay loyal to current team and play lower grade. Maybe I'm wrong but haven't seen too many non member clubs dominating consistently in lower grades in various age groups. In terms of Magic it's really weakened the western clubs, having 3 clubs in that area is spreading the talent around, especially with woodvilles girls programme. Imo magic should look to consolidate, not merge with either west or woodville and push their talented kids into higher grades

so what? Every Magic supporter trots out this sort of rubbish to somehow validate a promotion to Div 1. Unfortunately the gulf between Div 2 and Div 1 is massive, resulting in nothing more than heavy losses each and every week. Magic supporters also have this amazing sense of entitlement to access all grades. Until you pay equivalent subs to every other Club you must stay where you are!

Does every one of the 10 premier clubs charge the same equivalent subs that you speak of anon #894? Do South charge the same as Norwood? Do Forestville charge the same as North?