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Big petrol costs to families

The increase cost in petrol should not be a deterrent to parents allowing their kids to participate in sport. Its a healthy activity and your kids will be healthier for it. Look at it as paying for the health of your kids. As I pointed out before, costs in petrol can be cut in other areas. The main one being driving to work. 5 weeks ago I was paying $70 a week in petrol driving to work every day and then the usual weekend activities. I now pay $20 a week in petrol and $26.90 a week in a bus ticket. That's a saving of $23.10 a week on top of other savings like less wear on the tyres, less wear and tear on the car itself, the lower kilometres increases the re sale value of the car, keeping it at home in the garage keeps the body in better condition than left in the open air everyday. Again increasing re sale value. All these savings alone probably pays for your kids sports and the parents spectator fees. I don't doubt that there are many thousands of people that could make this switch but for their own convenience choose not to. I used to spend 90 minutes a day driving both ways to work, I now spend 2 hours a day catching buses. An extra half hour a day would not mean that my convenience takes priority over the kids sports.

Rostering would depend largely on:-
Number of teams that call the stadium "Home"
Stadium availability
Cost of staging the game
Capacity to conduct the games - (i.e how many courts)
any existing contracts with the venue.

To a lesser extent:
Availabilty of officials (Gawler)

Having no knowledge of the financials or contracts that exist at present, I cannot accurately address your question.

In relation to fuel cost efficiency for basketball only, it would be wise to play for a team that is close to your residence.

Likewise if your residence was located central to all frequently used stadia - eg Mile End?

It would be advantageous if that club had multiple courts available and many teams playing for it.


The disadvantaged are the players from outlying areas particularly Mt Barker and Centrals. Small clubs with comparatively poor public transport options. From a previous thread however, these clubs have high standard venues. (Morphettville also suffers from the tyranny of distance).

The take home point is that basketball and BSA are stapped for cash so cost efficiency is high on their agenda ATM, ergo subsidizing travel expenses is not.

thanks bbgun for that information I'm gunna have to look into it for next season.

I have seen on a Thursday night Majic play West Adelaide at Pasadena.

That is a lot of wasted petrol for both teams.
This was an U16 Div 3, 4 or 5 game?

If Basketball SA are serious about looking at this situation, then the above fixtures need to change.

Car pooling is a very effective way of combatting the spiraling transport costs.

I do think that it may become an issue, especially in the lower leagues and the less succesful clubs.
These teams and clubs are very important to the whole set up and need to be looked after.

Fuel cost is determined by speculation of available reserves at any given time by a bunch of suits specializing in jumping at shadows - "look! gran has not eaten her porridge this morning, oil has to be worth $10 more a barrel today".

"A guy in Israel farted; up $10 more - really humming now". Yep, there is a lot of farting that somehow always affects oil rich nations.

Prices can be esculated simply declining to conduct exploration for reserves. Likewise conducting exploration is costly and drives up costs. No one has a true figure on total oil reserves but it is fairly clear that demand is damn high. All people who chooose to indulge in automotive transport are to blame for that. Damn the Chinese and Indians for abandoning primative forms of transport.

In addition, we have a carbon emmissions problem (effectively causes a shift in atmospheric conditions = species death) that is aleviated by a reduction in fuel usage. Read - increase the cost of fuel through tax.

So the message is clear, high fuel costs like those in Europe, are here to stay.

Car Pool. Choose a fuel efficient vehicle. Choose not to travel to a venue. Choose not to travel or participate at all. Bump your ass on the moon however if you expect basketball rostering to change just for your increased fuel bill.

Rostering attempts to cater for all who are involved in the sport, driven to peak at excellence at the highest level. If a change is made to suit some, by pure fact it will disadvantage others elsewhere.

skyhooked, do you know about the transfer ticket system where you only need to pay once to spectate during the week? You have to pay about $15 for the transfer ticket itself but you do get you money back after a few weeks because you then only pay entry at one stadium. The tickets are available from any stadium and are good for one season. I've bought a ticket to watch U16s on a Thursday night and used that for Friday and Saturday games as well, and the occasional catchup game on Sunday . Having said this I think it's still completely unreasonable to have to pay to watch your kids play.

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??? I agree with you and then when you have two or three kids that play on a saturday morning at different stadiums you end up having to pay every time you enter a new stadium. Why won't they allow us to show the ticket from the first stadium that we paid at??

Hopefuly the tax cuts this new financial year will help alleviate this problem. Families serious about their child's basketball might like to use it towards that. Whilst a car is needed to transport a family from venue to venue, petrol rationing can be used in other travel, ie work. They wouldn't be the first to change from the car to the bus to go to work and before anyone starts arguing the merits of this, sure there are people it would not work for but the majority it would.

Imagine if you guys lived in the country!

The current price of petrol shows how average the public transport system is in Adelaide.

Dividing the comps into a north and south wouldn't really work.