Good club.

Terrible organisation tho - domestic comp is atrocious

for some reason their u/12s and u/14s are generally great but then it drops off for 16s and 18s.

are there to many other clubs close by?

While there is exceptions, a lot of the kids who are very good in 12s and 14s don't grow as much, so by the time they're in 16s and 18s they lose out to the taller and longer athletes coming through, who previously weren't as good in comparison as their bodies held them back coordination wise, just how puberty works.

Some clubs, like Hawthorn have such intense development programs at an early age that they have a lot of very good kids at 12s and 14s, and there is nothing wrong with that. But it bites at the top end of 16s and 18s when they aren't as gifted athletically anymore. This is just historically, most clubs have started a balancing act in the last few years or so.

There is also a issue of differing priorities due to the socio-economic area. Hawthorn being in a well off area, a lot of the kids are private schooled and have a lot more academic pressure as a general rule, combined with the fact they have school sport at 8am coming off a 9.40pm game the night before before, something has to give. And school and school sport is one that can't give.

Hawthorn have a women's team in D1W of Big V. Very unlikely they get a look at NBL1 when clubs with both teams in Champ will be applying.

Werribee? They have one of the best coaches in the league and still cant get a team together. Just coz geographically it looks nice doesnt mean the basketball is any good.

Casey and southern penn?

@Reality, they'd be playing out of the Boroondara Sports Complex. Closest teams would be Nunawading and Waverely some twenty minutes away on a good day so not really super close.

To the point of adding a team from the West, go ahead if the results demand it but currently Keilor and definitely Werribee aren't making a case that's better than Hawthorn other than the 'not another team in the east/southeast' argument.

Casey aren't interested in going up next year

Casey are very interested in going up next year!

Hawthorn is NOT going into the NBL1.

Hawthorn: D1W program. Okay SCM program. Poor Jr program.

Keilor: SCM. SCM. Both doing well. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Quality Jr program with VC representation across the board and consistent state reps. One of the best venues in Melbourne.

Werribee: SCM. SCM. Both doing okay. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Reasonable Jr program, but better than hawthorn. One of the best venues in Melbourne in a huge catchment area.

Casey: SCM. SCM. Both doing okay. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Reasonable Jr program, but better than hawthorn. One of the best venues in Melbourne in a huge catchment area.

Hawthorn aren't even close to the other three, and there's no way they'd have a case of the other were also looking to join NBL1.

Hawthorn: D1W program. Okay SCM program. Poor Jr program.

Keilor: SCM. SCM. Both doing well. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Quality Jr program with VC representation across the board and consistent state reps. One of the best venues in Melbourne.

Werribee: SCM. SCM. Both doing okay. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Reasonable Jr program, but better than hawthorn. One of the best venues in Melbourne in a huge catchment area.

Casey: SCM. SCM. Both doing okay. Equal or better than Hawthorn. Reasonable Jr program, but better than hawthorn. One of the best venues in Melbourne in a huge catchment area.

Hawthorn aren't even close to the other three, and there's no way they'd have a case of the other were also looking to join NBL1.

Whispers from inside Casey is that they don't feel they are ready to go up to NBL1. Reliable source from within has told me that.

But are they still selling it to recruit players? I guess so.

Casey 100% are ready and willing to move to NBl1. They have already started to prepare for the move if granted.

Casey has money to offer to players for both a women's and men’s team that hawthorn does not have.

Casey off court is light years better than hawthorn.

Casey are a solid chance for the move to Nbl1 season next year.

Casey 100% are ready and willing to move to NBl1. They have already started to prepare for the move if granted.

Casey has money to offer to players for both a women's and men’s team that hawthorn does not have.

Casey off court is light years better than hawthorn.

Casey are a solid chance for the move to Nbl1 season next year.

0 chance of Casey playing NBL 1 next year and I am going to repost this once the fixture comes out and Casey are still playing Big V

And a major benefactor

You guys have no idea.

Some of Casey's members have said off the record they don’t think the club is ready for NBL1

If the whole board can’t agree well then I reckon that’s cause for alarm bells

you're kidding if you think keilor and werribee are better than hawthorn, you obviously haven't been to any games this year

Hawthorn are a great club.

Classic case of tall poppy syndrome.

id say not next season but nbl1 season 3 or 4 would be better for the magic.

Junior program isbottom heavy (12s,14s,16s), will take a few years for them to have a nice lead in to nbl1 to top up senior rosters.

That's the problem with NBL1 PersonlFoul. Associations/Clubs don't have the money. Any money comes form junior domestic competitions. Clubs who pump money into this thing are robbing Peter to pay Paul. 2020 budgets being bandied around of close to $1m. NBL1 is a second tier league that is trying to be semi professional. Sound familiar to the later years of 'SEABL'? When clubs go buying players and think they are in the big league the whole thing crumbles, because there is no money. Small budgets. Minimal sponsorship and exposure. Originally the 'Elite League' that was proposed by BV as the replacement for SEABL was sold to Associations as a grassroots competition with a clear pathway for their local juniors. They were going to prevent large player payments and an influx of imports. Enter LK. We now have NBL1 trying to be semi professional league with no caps and no pathways in an unsustainable environment. There will be clubs coming out of the league at the end of this season. They cannot afford it. NBL1 only issued 1 year licenses. They will go back to BigV. Watch what happens when parents of junior basketballers in these Associations realise that their hard earned is going to imports and ring ins with no pathway for their kids. It's SEABL all over again, a great competition that lost its way under the commission in the later years it was doomed to failure because they wanted Associations to fund a semi professional league that was unfunded. Is disappointing. Is it a coincidence that 2 of the commissioners of SEABL who had their dreams ruined, who were thrown out of their home club by the members for over spending on imports and ring ins to chase a championship are now at Hawthorn and are now pushing to get into NBL1? No surprise there. don't misunderstand NBL1 is great and will survive if they are realistic about what its trying to do. If you want the Associations to pay then ensure a pathway for the local kids, cap payments and restrict the number of imports. you want a point guard, develop one.

If you are going to keep nbl1 as a local competition primarily to provide lots of opportunities for local juniors then you doom winter basketball in Aus.

If this is the future then, for god's sake, let a team like Mt Gambier go and play in a clearly superior NZNBL.

Is this the Fat Controller's vision for winter basketball, multiple mediocre conferences spread around the country? Never mind the quality, as long as I'm in control?

BA demonstrating all the vision of a bat and no courage or leadership. BV completely up itself and only interested in looking after itself. The fat controller just wanting to be the boss of everything.

Where's the vision for growing winter basketball, in all of Aus, not just in Vic?

Where's the plan?

Where do talented younger players, fringe NBL players and those with NBL aspirations play winter basketball in Aus? More and going to NZNBL?

Way too much self interest coming from the folks with the power.

Who are they people that have left SEABL and are now at Hawthorn?

Maybe the tool who is getting on their Facebook page to demonstrate some skills & drills might get enough donations to save them....

I am hearing the next episode is going to show kids how to bounce around the backyard with your eyes up !!

I'm hearing that they will opt-out of this years Big V season

A few clubs are going to opt out