Tex
Years ago
Adding a team from Darwing now means that every major area area of Australia is covered by NBL1. This is surely a first for any sport in Australia!
https://nbl1.com.au/news/darwin-basketball-northern-territory-to-make-nbl1-a-truly-national-competition
Jock
Years ago
So will Darwin/BNT form one team to represent the NT in the North Gold Coast Seahawks association comp? What will the be called....will it be like an NT Senior Men's State team?
Darwin and north Gold Coast are seperate teams added to north conference next year.
Makes no sense why they would be north conference. It's 4+ hours flight to s.e qld and only 3 to Adelaide.
Better off with Darwin and down the track alice springs added to the central conference.
Yeah the teams in Adelaide didn't even like travelling to Mt Gambier, nevermind Darwin so I can see why they ended up joining the Queensland league.
There is only 20 minutes difference in flight times to Adelaide and Brisbane
Yeah Central love other clubs/teams joining their league. Haha NOT
Darwin to Brisbane 4 hour flight time. Darwin to Adelaide 3 hours 40 mins meh
RobT
Years ago
Welcome to Darwin but will be expensive. Can't see it fitting in as a double-header weekend as the southern teams all play Townsville/Cairns and Mackay/Rockhampton as DH'ers already.
In turn, the teams from the north often have triple-headers when they go south, but that is more manageable.
Is Townsville/Cairns/Darwin to become a triple-header for the teams south of Rocky?
Travel is standard for Qld teams.
SA teams complain when they have to go to Gawler.
#198 they complain going to Southern or Starplex lol
Zodiac
Years ago
Even though back in the old days when the NT and Darwin were part of SA and Adelaide was the one big state's capital and despite Adelaide being the closest major city the NT climate-wise is much more similar to QLD, northern QLD to be specific so make sense they would join NBL1 North rather than NBL1 Central.
Plus as mentioned Adelaide teams kicked up enough fuss that year they only had to go down to Mt Gambier let alone all the way up to Darwin.
Great to see Darwin getting a team in a national league too.
Truth
Years ago
"SA teams complain when they have to go to Gawler."
"they complain going to Southern or Starplex lol"
Have you seen those suburbs? Lucky to escape with your life...
Zodiac
Years ago
Have you seen those suburbs? Lucky to escape with your life...
Perthworld
Years ago
This is surely a first for any sport in Australia!
Jock
Years ago
The Adelaide teams complained travelling down to Mt Gambier in 2019 when the Pioneers entered the comp for 1 year. And the Pioneers had to pay for accommodation etc of each Premier League team travelling to Mt Gambier. No wonder the Adelaide teams and BSA are seen as a joke sometimes compared to interstate.
Personally I think there is more money in QLD than SA when it comes to basketball. QLD already FLY to games. SA players probably drive in their own cars
the longest roadtrip for SA teams is 75kms. Not sure a flight is necessary.
This is awesome news. Finally can say it is a National comp
Anon
Years ago
Interesting to see how they go.
They willprobable be better than any NSW Team.
NBL1 East will be the weakest of all the leagues and will not be that competative when it comes to finals time.
Until all clubs in South Australia have their own domestic competitions they wont have the funds to travel for NBL1 other than a one of finals trip.
RobT
Years ago
"Until all clubs in South Australia have their own domestic competitions they wont have the funds to travel for NBL1 other than a one of finals trip."
All clubs are "associations" in Qld (and southern states, too), with their own Domestic senior and junior and junior-representative teams.
So who owns/runs the other NBL1 Central teams? Private owners?
I'm SA they are still a majority of clubs using stadiums where the State association own the court hire contract and hence receive the revenue, even from club trainings when the clubs can actually organise them, usually only Sunday mornings.
Hence without the 'association’ income the only revenue they have is player fees.
anon
Years ago
"NBL1 East will be the weakest of all the leagues and will not be that competative when it comes to finals time."
I would say that they will slowly but surely strengthen their teams in order to be competitive for the national NBL1.
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