Women's game was close - could have gone either way with 2 minutes to go. A clear foul on Williams for Sturt when it was a 3pt game not called and then straight down the other end for a much softer call for West - then a 5pt game and Sturt tried too hard and turned the ball over in their haste - well done to West a very strong starting five. I would watch Sturt for next year as they are very very young and have some very good players coming thru.
I thought the two games ticketed separately worked well but didn't need such a long gap between games - should have been 5pm and 8pm. BSA staff did a good job managing the event.
While the 36ers Arena can take a much bigger crowd the reality is that a lot of the Sturt/West supporters would have left and many of the South/Woodville supporters wouldn't have come to the first game.
I understand the new SBC at Wayville is around 2,000 seats which is double Lights, could be a great atmosphere with a 1,000 supporters for each team on each side of the stadium (and there will be no hiring cost so much cheaper than hiring 36ers Arena) so tickets prices can be even lower.'
For the sake of clarity I don't work for BSA :)
