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Dragons to sit out NBL 09/10

i can see teams pulling out, and to be honest BA saying they will run an interum season is not ideal, and will cost clubs money they do not have, but by holding out they will be making it harder on themselves to come in...tighter reign on all things is where the nNBL will keep the others honest.

ohh and keep an ear out for asia...they will be sniffing...a long with a 2nd NZ team...

and as for a rogue league...see how many players from that league play International basketball ever again...BA pick national teams..play against them and kiss it goodbye....and with enough young talent playing overseas to take spots...they wont need them!

times are a changing, Sengstock was no pussy on the court and is even harder one off it!

I actually think BA are monitoring discussion threads such as this to get a feel of the community...

HAHA, 603 is me, was at work so forgot to log in...

I too agree the cap is needed, what happened last year is tho, the nbl came out and said they have no way of controlling it, which sounds like they are not well set up to do this...which i think i read the guy doing it is just that, 1 guy...so it will be hard, but all contract need to go thru the league, along with bank details... which get's hard when the imports have US accounts so they will always battle that one, unless company records are allowed to be scrutinised...again gets hard when it has private owners who pay thru the company...which then comes down to assistance from the taxation office....and where the government intervention comes into it as per my previous post..

these are things that the nNBL must put in place this time round..and these issues are ones that we are seeing team (company) owners baulking at.

isaac, i think you are right there too, Cowan is waiting for the interim season to just play out and see how it goes...if they can get 8 teams to come into it, and play a decent comp, get some air time, Cowan could find himself hurting when trying to get in 2nd time round...even more stipulation on contracts and being open to the cap...

Cowan would also be itching to not have to pay to use Hisense and still at heads with the Tigers over the use of the State Netball and Hockey centre. New 5,000 seat sport (basketball focused) complex to be built out knox way (South East Melb) where ALOT of basketball especially at a junior level is played. Wont be completed for a few years so a year or two off may be in his best interest. He cant make money at Hisense and has no other realistic options for this coming league/season.

I'm in Adelaide - Todays advertiser has 'Dragons drop out' article - written by scott gullan AAP.
It's not on adelaidenow.com.au/sport - yet.
But, should be later, today.

Today's Advertiser reads they've gone under - revealing it was no longer financially viable.

ahh Olaf & skull, i'm with you...finally someone stands up and takes the owners on and guess what, they dont like it...

if we keep moving the goals, they will always want them changed...

the next best thing the nNBL can do is regain ownership of all identities in the game...

so any team name that comes into the league is owned by the league....then if the likes of Mark Cowan decide to sit out, the nNBL just look for a new owner of that name to take over...ala A-league...

dictate, not be dictated too!

When they play: I meant what nights, time slots and all that that teams request whent he program is coming out..

Where: the same...I'm not playing gold coast on a wednesday night...sort of crap..

and agin...no cap: i didn't quite mean it as that, but they certainly want it raised to an extreme level to again bust out the competition..

as for BA not changing, i think they are doing everthing they can to change where it needs to be done, but they are fighting a battle with again teams that are richer than the body...

the $1M buy in is no more than security that if your teams falls over mid season..ala a few teams this season, we dont have to go to our coffers to pay it all out...

if BA can stich up a deal with Fox to provide 4 games per week live, they will be miles infront of where they were from last season..Why? with added exposure teams can now offer sponsors something, because last season they could offer them nothing.that is an inroad, and it will be just that, baby steps, people are expecting big things straight away...

exposure once in a blue moon as it was before is what was driving sponsors away and people in the eastern states away..no one was following it because there was no decent coverage...even in SA boti was far more interested in calling out Mal then giving the game the coverage it should get, he still is..

go read The Age now and there is plenty to read on the local stuff, as well as NBA and updates on the NewNBL...During the season I had to continue to read that online to see what was going on,because for 6 weeks of the last season, all i could get was Hodge stories and the bullsh!t thursday funnies down the bottom...this forum had better insight to the game than the local print.


as i said before, if this is going to work it will not be seen for 10 to 15 years. and with that it will be a group effort, not just BA making decisions, but others helping...

the sad thing is, basketball is thriving in Australia, plenty of people doing great work, heaps of kids playing it, local comp's are strong as...even the WNBL is decent....which is obvious by the looks of this online forum...where we are having decent discussions...which i thank you for LA Boy...beats me talking about the same issues to my mates...with the same results...

It's getting a bit hard to fathom whats going on - it's changing every day. Cowan was happy, Tuesday.
Bendat , recently signed coach Rod Beveridge for 3 years. He didn't want to put up $1M guarantee.
( But I THINK he has , now - I think ?)

Link to NBL website: http://linky.com.au/ku79m

Cowan is playing hardball fo sure...could we see Perth follow suit?

Seems strange - when Cowan and Larry were having discussions, in Melbourne 3 days ago , and the interim league means players and coaches are employed, while giving time to develop the new league.