Andy and Forestville are a disgrace!!!! Hope North thumps them

Eagles should be ashamed and so should those supporting their bottom feeding tactics.

Top 10

Starling 35
Turnage 33
Thomas 26
Mcgriff 25
Doyle 23
Johns 23
Legan 19
Teys 18
Davis 18
Martin 17

Or even better

http://www.basketballsa.com.au/assets/images/general/Woollacott-Voting-By-Club-Sheet1.pdf

*generic forestville are cheats statement* get over it.

Tigers not lucky last week? ;)

I hope west thump Norwood. I want a Webber V Truslove first round.

Alex is NBL caliber and he's stands a chance to prove it. It won’t happen. But he had a good season.

Nyberg has had 3 finals appearances in 3 seasons. I don’t think he can do anything else to get his case forward.

Do it without that team?

Tell me how the team is different to West's this season.
2 imports
Juniors of the club.
An old angry centre.

Creek was a wild card - however that season Sturt had DJ and ravioli won coty.

Forestville are cheats. Whatever it takes though right.
Tigers got the check they needed and are back to wanting it. Watch out.
Norwood v West will be a cracker. Both in good form and many potential heroes and villains can emerge in this game.
Alex is NBL quality, maybe not from the free throw line, and North are a shot. 5 in a row including Norwood. Playing great ball compared to 7 weeks ago.
Southerns huge budget gets Nyberg no love and rightly so. Premier League coaches don't seem to rate his coaching or are they just jealous?

Differences
Paying Brine 20k
Paying imports more
Paying Johns more

So in short, paying shitloads more than West who are paying way more than probably bottom 5 teams combined.

Imports more? I doubt that - Legan easily the most credentialed of the imports prior to this season.

Brine 20k? Doubt it's even close.

I suspect all 5 in finals are spending a similar amount.

You suspect incorrectly then.

Idiot

North paying 2 imports who are probably highest paid in the league and Atem not cheap.

Norwood paying Lycett and Stanbridge huge money and who knows how much the Webber's take from their club plus two imports.

Thomas, two imports and West don’t come cheap.

Forestville have three 6ers and an import.

I think all would be comparable to Tigers paying two imports and two juniors.

No, no, no.

Brine is on $20k
Johns is on $30k
Mays is on $15k
Stadue is on $10k
Turnage is on $45k

According to the other genius, West just provide love and understanding to their players

Patty Thomas gets flights to the US so he does come relatively cheap.

Correct, West do provide love and understanding to their players. Plus their imports are the best looked after in the league. No other club houses their imports in Quest apartments.

Which the imports have to pay for. And work.

That would be because it's a holiday and WORK visa they are on perhaps?

Imports paying for accomodation... you are trolling #7998

West imports 100% lay for their accomodation at quest.

Pay with money West give them!

Don't import generally pay for things with money the clubs give them?

You would think...

West don't give them money they both work. Dowdell does construction work.

His Visa allows that??? I'm surprised at that!!!

Work / Holiday...

And Tupac makes posthumous rap records right?

Haha, Andy's probably trying to start a work visa controversy so Dowdell gets deported before he plays them. Not the dirtiest trick tried so far

#8023 Probably pay for their own flights over too with your logic smh

West imports both work. They pay for their rent at Quest by themselves. And Thomas gets flights to US paid for.. which I'm sure is a lot less than southern players are getting.. but Thomas is a west junior, loves the club I’m sure not about the money

Are you suggesting Sam Johns isn't about his club? He’s about the most loyal guy in the state I’d say.

"Brine is on $20k
Johns is on $30k
Mays is on $15k
Stadue is on $10k
Turnage is on $45k"

Is this a joke? Can someone from Southern confirm or deny? What a mockery. Payday for average players while the juniors here flounder without adequate coaching - KaChing

I'd be very surprised if those numbers are accurate! And I think they spend a shitload but that’s just some made up figures.

Not saying Johns isn't about his club.. just saying that Thomas isn’t getting much money at all.. you’d surely think he would have had the chance to go play elsewhere but hasn’t

Seems like someone inside West with a lot of inside knowledge about Salaries and the way certain players are getting paid is getting defensive.... cough coach cough.

There's no way they’re spending $120,000 on their players when they’re already spending that on Nybergs groceries

Johns would have been looking at >10k for another QBL stint so would say 30k is a little excessive but no doubt he is still on good coin. Coaching would also be tied into these big Southern contracts you'd think!

I'm not the coach but I’ve had a conversation with him about thier import package and he was quite open about it.

Norths budget is not what people on here suggest.
Returning visa argument is outdated. New sporting, sponsorship visa Is not like the old returning visa costs, not even close.
Alex paid match payments and works full time for the club to supplement the majority of his coin.
CJ and Atem not on anything like Southern / Eagles / Norwood guns.
No-one else paid
Men's and women's budgets capped at exactly the same.

^ if this was true *cough cough* the West coach would be so thrilled you decided to post it on a public forum!!

There's no way North have equal men and women budgets

I actually don't think it’s a big secret.

"Alex paid match payments and works full time for the club to supplement the majority of his coin."

So he's being paid a lot under the guise of the 'FT' gig.

"CJ and Atem not on anything like Southern / Eagles / Norwood guns"

How would you know how much other clubs are paying? So much insider knowledge.

North were willing to spent the $$$ to bring players in: they all just chose to sign elsewhere. Wonder how much Goodluck would have earned this season too...

I can confirm that north Adelaide contribute exactly the same to each of their men and women's team. What Norwood is paying for a transfer of ONE player from Woodville is more than the entire payments to all players excluding Starling. This is confirmed in their annual accounts

Alex, CJ and Atems match payments would be nothing compared to,
- DJ, Teys, Doyle and Richard ( throw in Deng for a couple of games )
- Turnage, Mays, Brine, Johns, Staude, Burns and Dodman
- Stanbridge, McGriff, Lycett, Both Webber's and Kennedy

Starling DOES work for the club.

Teys was recruited but decided on Eagles with his Sixer mates. Who else signed elsewhere? Stop talking shit.
Goodluck, please..........

"would be nothing compared to"

Ahhhhh, so you DON'T know what Norwood, Forestville etc. are paying. Just fabricating numbers to suit your narrative. Gotcha.

"Starling DOES work for the club"

I believe that he does, just not that he's the most qualified person for the job. So the FT gig is to make up for the shortfall in match payments. In accordance with his value-output he's essentially being paid a lot to play (since that's where he excels), and a little for the FT position. Fair enough.

At Norwood Kennedy is getting paid nothing, maybe a little petrol money. Desperate to be in Australia so playing for nothing and just a shooters role off the bench. Webbers earn good coin off court and Drew is VP I think still so wouldn't be after cash.

#090. Wrong again mate!!

"I can confirm that north Adelaide contribute exactly the same to each of their men and women's team."

Oh. So the budgets there, they just don't spend it all

At Woodville we pay our players too.. throw some shade my way?

Just trying to be relevant again

You pay your players at Woodville???? Should ask for a refund!!!!!!!!

Doubt Boonstoppel came cheap. He would have had plenty of offers after his div 3 season

yet another eagles junior forced out of his club due to these 36ers. When will the club learn

We will annihilate the Rockets - they have no chance

I thought the Sixers were playing the Jazz?

That's our reserves team!!

Annihilate the Rockets eh. Obviously haven't seen their last 5 outings. It will be on mate.
TEAM vs hired guns. Will be very exciting. I hope the basketball gods favour the Rockets.

These blokes would be 'hired guns' anywhere they signed. Can you get over the fact it was in Adelaide, the city they play professionally in. Thanks

314/321, I initially thought your trolling was pretty weak but have evidently overestimated the intelligence of the average Hoops-reader. Bravo.

I do not begrudge these persons playing but I am disappointed that we seem to spend more time working through the legalities of the By-Laws and searching for loopholes rather than using that time better to develop our in club resources

Hey give me some credit (#315) as I triggered the response! :D

"team" got unlucky tonight

always next year :/

League obviously told the umpires to stop Forestville winning but DJ wasn't having any of it

Mcgriff was huge tonight - this coming from a West supporter. All 4 underdogs got the win tonight very interesting

You mean the referees

Does it really matter champ

North did well defensively conceding less than 60 by 3/4 time. A couple of brain fades and. 36ers meshing well finally got win in OT. They are not unbeatable!

Doyle back next week and it's game over for the season to the rest of the league.

Was a fantastic game. North kept getting out but the eagles kept dragging themselves back. 9/22 from the line cost North. CJ hits one of those with 30 seconds left and they win.

From an Eagles supporter: Forestville are definitely beatable, and hats off to North. Their defense was fantastic virtually all night and played solid team basketball offensively, lead by Starling, Jonnek and Atem (coming off an ankle injury, no less). Missed free throws and a couple of lapses late cost them, but it was a good performance and entertaining contest.

Did. anyone see any of the other three games?

Not sure what happened West V Norwood, doesn't look pretty for West....

Southern women played their best game of the season Saturday night, led by Jess Frost. York made some great coaching moves especially on the defensive end of the floor, and Norwood simply had no response. Tight game until midway through the fourth, at which stage the Flames looked to just about give up.

Danger game for Sturt this Saturday night, after letting the Eagles off without Thompson. Southern at their best, are the second best team in the women's side.