BBall Parent
A few hours ago

Rep Tryouts

Hi All,

Just wanted to hear peoples thoughts on the below just experienced at Rep Tryouts with Keysborough. To be honest should have read the posts on here about the club first prior to trying out there. My child has made it through which is great but the whole process run by them is a shambles!! Some kids were never even given a chance but we made to come to all tryouts instead of being cut. Pretty much no communication. And to top it all off once teams were picked and players rejected their teams they went outside of the people who attended to tryouts to replace them. These were kids that attended zero tryouts for the club as they chose to tryout somewhere else. Now that my child has made it i feel really disheartened at the process they run and how unethical a club they really are. They call themselves the family club. But should really call themselves the disfunctional family club. Surely VJBL need to finally hold this club accountable for the way it is run. Anyway we are there now and hope to have a good season but would lobe to hear peoples thoughts! Am i expecting to much!!!!

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Nightwing  
A few hours ago

another parent who thinks they know it all.

Tryouts happened, some kids were given extra sessions to try make teams, some kids came in afterwards as they were clearly known/better than those cut once they missed out at other clubs.

Is it a difficult, cut throat time of year, absolutely. Was anything mentioned an example of the process being a shambles or unethical. Absolutely not.

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Crackers65  
A few hours ago

Gee I don't miss rep basketball and the know all F all parents that come with it.

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retired  
Today

At our Association players must register to attend and those from out of Associatios must lodge an Expression of Interest to trial with the State Body.

Our State body also have a limit on how many Out of Association players can transfer in so that some Associations cannot go poaching numbers of players to build their teams and not consider those who have been local juniors all their time and get cut.

As usual some Associations find a way to get around it but nothing as bad as how it previously use to be.

Prior to trials we run a rookie rep trial tryouts for 3 weeks.

From there those considered worthwhile are invited to the rep trials.

We run 3 trials and after the 1st trial everyone is invited back.

After the 2nd trial those who are considered not suitable can be cut and the 3rd trial is invitation only.

By the end of the 2nd trial the Div 1 Coach should know who they are selecting for their team leaving the 3rd trial for the Div 2 Coach and other teams if numbers are there to select and finalise their team/s

If you do not attend the first 2 trials then you cannot be considered unless you have a very valid reason.



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