Why put money into the WNBL hub what a waste of funds

I'm not really sure how the WNBL is going to fund this? Many players have to subsidise their miniscule wage with another job so to put them in to a hub situation is fairly unrealistic and unworkable.

I'd suggest there would have to be government money for anything to happen

Bunnings makes sense from a cost point a view.

Scrap the season and prepare for nbl takeover I say.

opals should play showcase games with current and fringe opals like nz did and plus play kiwis a few times before Olympics.

There'd want to be some serious financial backing coming from somewhere! Potentially having players families in the hub too. I just can not see this happening

After reading that they are kidding themselves

I hope the players have an opt out clause...

Why has comrade isaac locked topics from being commented on?

Would teams have to renegotiate players contracts if the season is going to be cut short??
Minimum wage will have to be changed. There's so much involved in trying to use a hub.

Most should go back to state league and play a 24 player opals showcase.

Women's basketball is the most successful team sport that represented this country in the international arena. If the government is not gonna help now then when?

Success doesnt mean eyeballs in this case

I don't know, hire out a couple caravan parks for a couple months, get dominoes on board as official food supplier and a couple sausage sizzles and it's all go. As for officials, make it all virtual with refs watching on Tv's, they've had enough practice with half of games calls being reviewed these days.
And before the morons start jumping up and down, that was sarcasm. Can't see how a league that already runs at a loss being able to afford it. Those that rely on the money can look overseas, those that aren't can play state league somewhere. Scrap the season and by this time next year it should be ready to start again. Not the end of the world in cancelling an unviable league.

Sheesh sounds like we've gone back to the dark ages. You say that like it doesn’t matter! Why not just can women’s sport altogether? These are professional athletes that deserve to be treated as such. Thought we were making progress but comments like that just take us back 20 years. How are netball doing so well? Their players are paid decently, they have sponsorship and crowds pay to watch. Seems like the WNBL need to have a good look at their model

That's why it should be canned now, and start focusing on getting the nbl involved instead of the idiots at BA.

Use Foxtel $10 million government gift for woman's sport, that should cover it, if not dig into the $30 million they got the season before.

Why not use those millions to go to the grassroots and help the kids play the sport. Just looking locally, a lot of juniors have left, don't know the reason, another sport maybe, taking a break or giving up entirely. Why invest it now into wnbl where there are other opportunities for the elite players. Netball is huge, will always have girls playing that.
Yes, the wnbl is what young players should aspire to, but why waste the money in such a volatile environment for one season. One quick outbreak and season goes down toilet losing a lot of resources that could be kept in bank when sport is viable.

Basketball is a national sport, netball is talked up but played hardly anywhere seriously. Let's invest in a world sport or the Lauren Jackson’s of this world will be lost.

Why is netball so successful then? If basketball is so popular we should be pooping all over netball

Because its run poorly, it has been that way for a decade or more.
Keneally, Phillips, lj, richter, sterling, Maley, on and on have done next to nothing to help the wnbl grow.

Look at the nbl/nbl1 site vs wnbl and ba site. It's pathetic, dont give me that no budget bs.

Netball is popular because the media love talking up winners and other than NZ who with there small population do very well we are unbeatable.

Huh, we are. Ranked 2 in basketball and we lost the major netball comp to England.

Maley's in charge. Nuff said.

What a ludicrous comment 'put the money into grassroots' grassroots is doing just fine. As has been pointed out, the clowns in charge (BA) have no clue what they’re doing. They screwed up both the nbl and seabl, both of which were rescued by LK. If it wasn’t for LK being their white knight we’d be having the same discussion about the nbl.

As for netball, they charge every grassroots player an ‘elite tax’ this is to support the elite level. They have for many years used this money to pay to have it on TV. Clever operators netball, basketball not so much.

How long until Cambage organises a protest when in the bubble?

Cambage will definitely throw a few tantys in the bubble to go along with protests

Cambage wont get to throw a tanty as WNBL/BA have no chance of a bubble without massive government $$. Most of their referees reside in NSW and VIC. They aren't doing crap this season. Call it now.

What about this.
Hear me out.
A WNBL/music pfestival hybrid?
Think splendor on the hardwood?
Just less pingas than usual for her as she has to play.
Thoughts?