Haha good luck with responses

Money.

Had seen that Modbury had been denied which was puzzling when others had continued.
As long as these clubs remain viable in terms of numbers and are financial, then they are better off than some district club's. Woodvilles girl program should have seen them killed off.
These smaller club's should be able to compete and ultimately if they can grow, should be given the opportunity to compete higher. But established club's don't want that because they don't want competition, they'd rather had 10 more teams in their club than support a newcomer.

BSA District is a very closed shop and the reason why the sport in this state is stagnant.

I'm not going to enter this debate because it's like banging your head against a wall, other than to say there are some very naive opinions in this thread.

^ Agree 100%.

And your point is?

Shouldn't be any new representative clubs unless there is an association behind it. Ie multiple clubs, with people actually trying out.
If we are talking domestic clubs joining an association there should be no limit.

Yes. Magic should join one of the domestic competitions which surround them.

Why should BSA allow Country and Church to run competitions unhindered but meddle in District basketball. If I were The 10 NBL1 clubs I would be pushing for that. Other clubs can then set up their competition and compete head on.

BTW Church's first foray into Div1 at district was a loss greater than 100 points

If nothing else Transparent, your points are good for a laugh.
I'm sorry your club didn't make it as a district team, maybe they can enter one of the domestic comps instead. Good luck champ.

Just to clarify Central & Eastern (in theory) are District arms of local assocations.

Forestville play in South and Southern's Domestic League.
North, Norwood, Sturt, West & Woodville all run or jointly run domestic comps of varying size.

so that's all 10.

The history of basketball in this state gives 9 of these 10 Clubs a fair claim to preferential treatment and the 10th continues to serve its purpose and offer something to a community that would otherwise go without.

There's no reason the people of the Modbury area can't play for a current District Club. (Modbury is 8km from both Lightsview & the Arc). It's only 15km from St Clair!

United and Church have long been involved in BSA competitions as seniors only clubs and expanding into juniors is a natural progression.

Comparing SA to Vic is pointless. Everything is different here. History of the game is different here. The stakeholders are different. The management structure of the sport from top to bottom is different.

Lastly anyone who knows anything about Vic junior basketball knows the reality of massive growth in club numbers and the forced growth of Championship VJBL has greatly hindered the quality and spread the elite kids thin. Their Nationals successes have waivered in line with this change. (pre-COVID).

In SA our girls comps are very uneven with 2-3 teams generally well above the others in Division 1. Yet our Girls State teams have success. Our boys competitions are far more even, and deeper, yet our Boys State teams have struggled for over a decade, maybe 2.

Bigger is not always better.

My guess is the location being within the recruitment area of at least 2 current clubs would be reason enough for BSA to pull the club from the District Competition as its a community that already has representation.

181 well said, and clear on facts that Transparent won't like or accept

Comparing SA to Vic is pointless. Everything is different here. History of the game is different here. The stakeholders are different. The management structure of the sport from top to bottom is different.

To convert this to english for the initiated. We are resistant to change, we do not won't change and we never will change. We are stuck in the past and that is where we will stay.

#205 go troll elsewhere and don't misrepresent me. Clearly that's not at all what I said. Try arguing with facts like I have instead of gaslighting.

Those Domestic comps are new. Clubs are diverifying. The District comp is changing, and yes it needs more changes. But they have to be for a purpose and not just for the sake of it, or to keep one team of parents/players happy.

From memory, and I stand to be corrected, most were around the div 4 standard. If the kids and families are happy then why should they have to join another district club and be swallowed up. If a kid or three show potential and want to have opportunities to play higher, then they can move. Exactly the same as Magic kids.
From what I can see, Modbury seem to have a solid base of domestic teams and kids probably just want to play with their mates in an organised competition. Shouldn't have to go to a mega club like north and be split up.
BSA opened Pandora's Box by allowing them to compete last season, why suddenly drop them unless they were a mess financially and structurally. In that case a Southerns recent history should have seen them gone.
As for fielding competitive teams in Div 1, Woodville and Central's also have not met that criteria. They both don't even have teams in 16 1s again.
Like small business, it's only when small club's try and expand too soon, make false promises and are delusional in terms of performance, that problems occur.
The season is new, so let Modbury back in asap.

"and kids probably just want to play with their mates in an organised competition."

This is exactly why they are a Domestic Team.

Modbury were playing in the North Adelaide Domestic comp then left because it was so poorly run

Modbury were in the Norwood comp