does that then preclude hurst from playing norwood womens team and todd matthews from playing in the mens team?

i can't decide whether thats a good thing or a bad thing, but i am certain it will stuff up my tips...again.

damn.

You should still be able to change your tips up until a certain amount of time before each game starts.

I think Caroline Nixon is out for Sturt, and Oscar rolled his ankle during the week too.

And not just basketball. If memory serves the same thing happened in Netball a few years ago. Natalie Avaleno (?) wasnt allowed to play for an Adelaide team because she still lived in Sydney, despite the fact she was in the process of moving and changing jobs....

I don't quite remember the outcome, but it was fairly big in the media at the time.

no way north will play erin - she will not risk injury on the eve of her debut

she is away with the opals this week and flys out later in the month

she would only be availble for abl over easter - if there is games

too much to risk playing abl now she has big time international commitments

i have no doubt she will probably go to any games and watch

she will hardly front v centrals at hillcrest when she has this as a home stadium the next week...


http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=165913

Wouldn't you think rather than punishing players for taking the initiative to play somewhere such as SA you would encourage it to make the competition stronger? Marons!

Norwood have a lot of juniors in their team so i dont think its fair to go that line. As for Erin shes a north player so why couldnt she play if she wants to. i dont think they either could be a team accused of recruiting over theie juniors, considering they are only one short of being all north juniors.
Good to see sturt going great with sturt juniors too.

greeny, it's simple.

I believe that Erin can't play because ABL clubs cannot play players who won't qualify for the ABL Finals.

Erin is off to the WNBA, which starts before ABL finals.

I believe the ABL finals qualification is 50% of the season's ABL games, plus 1 more ABL game.

does that mean that the two games played v Southern should be reversed on a moral stand - they too broke the rules - this is the same club that spoke up about the Canadian players for South

Stone them! We have had a stoning since the middle ages. Bring it back I say and stine the. Either that or we say stuff it and get stoned our self's.

Sorry about that it doesn't make sense I must be stoned myself. Or had a few too many drinks at lunch!

stoned, drunk, high, whatever I though it was funny!!

Hence the title of the post... "Good for the Goose, Good for the Gander?" We have to wait and see.

Some interesting points here, if you look at the hoops stats provided by our friend isaac here you will se that teams are playing up to 18 different players so far this season although only 12 can play in 1 game (and most likely only 12 will go into finals). Teams are still sorting their rosters and at this point in the season any player playing can make the quota for finals (40% of the season as posted earlier) players only need to play 9 games to qualify, Abrams from norwood, Screen from forestville even phillips from north however unlikely could get their 9 games in. who knows what will come.

if a player plays this week and tears her ACL should we lose the points cause she wont qualify for finals??

on the other side of the coin any team (in contention for finals) that plays a player for the first time in round 16 should be sanctioned for that action as there is no way for that player to qualify for finals. Or if screeny returns from the opals in round 18 I would hope forestville would recognise that she cannot qualify for finals so they would leave her out of the team.

g-diddy - Your "ACL" scenario is simple. You can put injured player on injury waivers & play a replacement, provided the injured player misses a minimum of 3 games (along with other conditions). An example of this is start of this year, Forestville/Ranford/Screen at the beginning of this year.

You can replace an injured player (Ranford), so Screeny replaced Ranford, because ranford was on injury waivers. (Screen was a restricted player, but Ranford was injured, so F/ville could play Screen).

Your 2nd scenario is simple too. Screeny CANNOT play any game if the club KNOWS SHE CANNOT qualify for finals.

Screeny also cannot replace another F/ville player for the finals, if Screeny hasn't played enough games to qualify for finals.

Hope i made this as clear as mud for you. :)

Just noticed my post to g-diidy clears up the (#77548) post above it.