Whittlesea has annouced tryouts for D1 men so assuming RMIT & Altona and them go up.

corio and Bella in SC Men instead of keys

and talk of Gippsland, colac and a third country team to enter D2

No more to be said - call it promotion call it what you want I think most of this forum including myself got it wrong I thought Keys would be a shoe in to go up.

Corio Bay are not returning to Champ. Happy in Div 1 for 2022.
Bellarine unkown as of today

Why would Whittlesea go up? What a joke
Whittlesea go up over Wallan? Ok, y'all really trying to make peeps cry with laughter

Man Big V have lost the plot!

"No promotion or relegation, nothing to play for"
Nekminute
“Whittlesea would you like to play D1M, Mornington you won 2 games would you like to play Champ men next year”

Sherbrooke ARE going to D1 next year

Interestingly Surfcoast updated their website today stating they play Big V

It says :-

"The Surfcoast Basketball Association (SBA) welcomes all basketball players, coaches, officials and supporters to the Surfcoast Chargers Representative basketball program. The Surfcoast Chargers teams compete in the Big V Men and Women, Country Basketball League (CBL) Men and Women, and the Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL) competitions."

https://www.basketballsurfcoast.com.au/chargers/

If Big V are canvassing the league to see which teams want to go in which divisions after the rollercoaster 2020-2021 seasons and Casey and Keilor leaving, then why don't those people on here complaining that their club didn't get promoted just apply to go up ?

Stop bitching.

Big V need a massive revamp. Hopefully this is the beginning of this shake up.

Said it before - this isn't promotion and relegation this is applications for divisions. Forced by the move of clubs to NBL1 and the entry of 3 new teams. .

Wallan i assume like Keys can't confirm or have lost import, which lets face it was the team for most of the season.

surf Coast seems likely.

Clearly the Big V have said something to some and not others.

Sherbrooke are NOT going up, they will most likely win D2 but they aren't going up its RMIT, Whittlesea and Altona which makes room for the next 3 coming in.

Bellarine and Corio going up makes sense but feel for Keysborough, maybe the Hawthorn Camberwell switch is true.

Teams like Melbourne Uni have dodged a bullet - mind you Whittlesea Women have also been demoted to D1 out of CW

Your club did the right thing - maybe they didn't submit or begin planning for next season. This ain't what you do on the court its about how prepared you are on and off. roster, imports etc etc

^^There's quite a few still here from last year already and the borders will be 1000% open for fully vaxxed imports (workers) by March

Sherbrooke got clapped by RMIT both games and had multiple bad losses, not convinced they were the next best team, neither was Whittlesea. BUT Wallan seem to have been the biggest losers out of this.

Any news on changes in women's divisions?

Same gripes. "We didn't plan on getting promoted so we finished mid-table".
What ?

It's pretty simple. Especially now with all the jumbling of teams. If you want your team to go up, your club should be approaching Big V and putting their case forward. Not engineering your team to finish mid table for a run next season. If you have the capacity to go up a division, present that to Big V, simple.

Yeah Monix is right. Have a good season and apply just like Keysie and Wallan did.

Oh..

Then there is obviously an underlying factor why those teams didn't/weren't accepted up. Especially because Big V would be actively looking to fill some holes this offseason with their Divisions.

Bitch all you want, but if your club has all the right ingredients to go up, they can/will. Big V has a history of elevating teams upon request should they meet the requirements.

Or next season perhaps instead of planning to be mid-table, plan to win it.

The mid table was in reference to #594 whose club "would have approached the season very differently if we knew there was a chance to go up. Instead we finished mid table.".

As for Wallan & Keysie, considering their placements and Big V needing to reshuffle the Divisions with 2 clubs pulling out to go to NBL1, I can only imagine they didn't apply, or if they did were rejected, and would have been given feedback as to why that was.

I don't know those clubs individually well enough, but as one poster said above, maybe its because they relied too heavily on their imports (I didn't see any of their games). But maybe it was the strength of their program as a whole ? Their venue. If they did apply and were rejected in being promoted, you saying they weren't given a reason why ?

Big V stated that in their rejection response ?

"Hi Wallan, we think you're super and all, but we just like Whittlesea better. Soz".

You see the response ? Post it.

From someone at BV
Both Wallan and Keysborough would have gone up had the imports not left. The common belief is that they relied on the players that left


Its a shame for both clubs but always a risk when you have good imports

Unlike everyone else on here i feel for them and i hope they both have a good season and can look to get promoted next year

Well done to the clubs that got promoted hope they do well next year

Exciting to see new clubs coming in. Been a long time coming. Well done

BV read hoops all the time

So now its been announced that Sharif Black (Wallan) is going to Mckinnon, this would spell one of the reasons they are being given a Div 1 opportunity, they put everything on the guys shoulders 40 plus points every night for 17 games is a hell of a scoring rate but what are the chances of finding another guard like that?

Have McKinnon got the first official signing of the off-season?

@donotreach Where was that announced? And yes I've heard of Barkeley, Lampkin signings on these threads but haven’t seen anything official yet.

Where did Barkeley and Lampkin sign?

Barkeley signed with Sunbury champ men, not sure where Lampkin is

Barkeley Sunbury
Lampkin Keilor

No posts from Wallan about Sharif Black so not sure he's confirmed to McKinnon anywhere.

I think the league needs to hurry up and release its divisions to cut this crap out, Hawthorn while in trouble not sure they would just drop Big V. You can play in the league without paying players.

Not sure how hard it is to take registrations for the season, look at them debate and then release within 2 weeks. Fixturing obviously takes longer.