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Junior Programme on Sporting Pulse

hanging around, "that's what I'm talkin' about!" travel costs are relevant to me as are most parents. Petrol prices are a bummer and I do pay for petrol despite what people think! Oh, I would love to have free petrol.

My point is that apart from justice being done, it must seen to be done. In this case, I feel that there is a great injustice by not scheduling home games at home stadiums. None of my children play in these comps and that is what I meant by saying "I am not affected by this" - it has nothing to do with a company car, or travel.

"Should BSA or Mavs try to 'take-over' this Comp, there will go a lot of support from a successful Comp and valuable feeder group." I think you may have mis-typed - are you saying there will be support?

I think you will find that the "Hills Association" is going very well and have a strong Saturday Comp running well. Should BSA or Mavs try to 'take-over' this Comp, there will go a lot of support from a successful Comp and valuable feeder group.
JackToft has previously mentioned his 'company car' which leads one to assume it comes with a company fuel card, meaning travel costs are irrelevant to him, but think about the majority who 'pay' for fuel, and those who have 2,3 or even 4 children playing (never mind club fees for this number)

It's a pretty disappointing situation with BSA adopting this approach and seemingly refusing to schedule Saturday morning games at either AHRC or Starplex. It pretty much shows where their focus is and which clubs are important to Bsa. In both those areas, the competition for players from other sports is huge and if you were a parent of an entry player to district coming up from a social comp and you had to travel an extra half hour for a "home" game, or had to choice to play another sport on a Saturday morning within 10 mins with schoolfriends, you'ld give strong consideration to the other sport.

Scheduling "home" games away from home stadiums when they are available is a joke and only hurts the sport.

One would expect a competent governing body to encourage and grow a sport in their area of control by helping smaller clubs/associations to grow, not put roadblocks to growth for smaller clubs. I thought BSA stood for Basketball South Australia, not Basketball south australia.

I am not affected by this, but feel Bsa need to reconsider scheduling Div 3 games at these stadiums after round 5 if they are serious about being a governing body of basketball in this state and provide a level playing field in the sport.

If you think ANY organisation, let alone a struggling sporting association is going to pay to hire a court when they have a "free" court available you are kidding yourself.

PS I'm not sure how free "free" is because BSA will have committed to lease fees that are guaranteed. Its just sensible business practice.

Anon, there has been more than that!

And, I guess you've hit the nail on the head. BSA schedule games and the clubs pay a season nomination fee to cover the court hire/refs per game which BSA pay. A cynic would say if you are BSA, why would you pay a court hire charge when you can schedule games at a stadium you own for "rent free"?

I would be extremely disappointed with BSA if it came to light that BSA was scheduling games to avoid court hire that was budgeted for.

Anon, Don't they normally have games there on a Sat morning? Starplex is not used at all on a Saturday anymore - neither is the AH Rec Center

Is is something to do with the court hire costs? Is court hire cost for the game borne by BSA? If this is the case, one would expect BSA to minimise their cost base by scheduling games at their stadiums where "court hire" is "free".

Just going through the Div 1 and Div 2 schedule, the clubs seem to be based at their home stadium, whereas the Div 3 makes no sense to me. Just to pick on a couple of examples, Div 3 U14 boys Woodville 3 have a "home" game at Marion, Centrals 2 are based at Hillcrest, and Mavs 3 based at Marion. Torrens Valley U16 Boys are based at Hillcrest and Western Magic 1 U16 boys have a "home" game against Southern Tigers 4.

I see that Hillcrest is scheduled to the max and on some nights, have 3 games scheduled on Hillcrest 1 at the same time!

What is going on with the draw? Why does it appear to be all over the place?

Anon, Don't they normally have teams playing there on Sat morning?

Anon, Eagles do appear to have the luxury of the draw this season if that is the case.

Div 1 and 2 appears to be OK and unbiased. The draw in the Div 3 grades needs to be urgently reviewed as there is no consistency, except that it is poor.

Why is the Div 3 draw so over the place? I can think of some reasons;
* Stadiums not available? For example: Starplex was used last season on a Saturday morning, why not this season - surely Centrals has a standard booking on a Saturday morning?
* Is this poor management?
* Is there a conspiracy to run this Div 3 down to put pressure on clubs to form their own Div 3 competition?

I think you'll find there will be a few teething problems this season