Hoops

Eight Club Competition

Secret Sabre, who gives a shit who started what? My intial response was tongue-in-cheek, designed to get the reaction it did, like I already clarified. Don't take things too personally on this forum, well don't take anything I say personally, or seriously for that matter (waits for smart-arsed comeback from incognito...)

And I find it extremely ironic that you used that example of my club voting for the 'single-team division 1 rule'!! If it decreased the level of competition in division 1, then how come the same team can lose games in division 2? Should those teams that beat it be angry at their clubs for not nominating them in division 1?

Anyway, VV is right. Domestic programs run by clubs, involving schools (my thought as it takes out the issue of organising 'clubs' from scratch) or whatever, shoudl be the main priority. The 89/90 group that my club has is a once in 5 years kind of thing, that kind of strength doesn't happen often.

*What is most frustrating is we keep sliding back into small, unimportant club based preferences or inter club bickering. I can understand why this would happen but it doesn't mean its right.*

Here Here!

SAW,

You are taking this thread way to seriously. All these clubs have excellent track records for developing kids along with other clubs eg Forrestville.

If you still need something to lighten your mood, check out Coach Dodson's bum part hairdo on his picture in the MARS bar...hehe

Yes agreed that some of the Hall of Fame pictures in the Norwood bar are a little stretched. Any truth to the rumour that Willy Farley stopped into MARS the other week for directions to the Powerhouse for 36ers training and that the Flames tried to put his photo on the Hall of Fame wall...hehe

Just kidding James...oh I mean libertine. You do have some very fine Norwood products on the wall.

Heh :)

All goes in cycles I guess, Tall Poppy Syndrome and wanting to have a go at the dominant club blahdiblahblah. We all know that North does it! :D

Hey, I was only mucking around!

Sheesh, some people take things slightly too personally on this forum....

8 association clubs - won't happen in the near future, all the clubs are healthy and have enough members. Plus, people don't like giving up power too easily.

8 team comp for promotion/relegation - won't happen whilst the current delegates sit on the President's board.

Sturt producing state/national/international players - likely, as they pinch the best from everybody else!

The above post from the Tigers man is worthy of comment. Before the merger Adelaide Southern were more concerned with competing with NCT for players and staff than they were at promoting the game. Here is a for instance. I used to be a member of Adelaide Southern Suns back about eight or nine years ago until I went to one of their AGM's. At this meeting the President was a local dentist. About a third of the meeting had progressed when a lady Vice President got up and started to berate the President, calling him names and moved a vote of no confidence. She had got the senior players to support her and the President got dumped. The rest of the meeting degenerated into a 'I hate the Tigers' "discussion" (for want of a better word to describe the fracas). And to make it worse a son of a member of the Noarlunga Executive played in Adelaides age grades and his dad was there as a parent. At the conclusion of the meeting I managed to speak to the Noarlunga person and his comment to me was "What do you expect from a pack of neanderthalls?". I never renewed my membership and friends used to tell me that club meetings had a 'hate Noarlunga' session on a regular basis. Now it is all different as it should be. The latest decision by City of Onkaparinga probably would not have been made if the clubs had not merged. Council originally offered a five year lease (from a councillor) so to go from 5 to 21 years is significant. If you want to read the material from the Council meeting go to the City of Onkaparinga web site. Councillors are not idiots. My eight clubs requires the merger of West and Woodville to form the Port Adelaide Magpie Basketball Club with black and white colours. Think about the implications of such a development. See you at Pasadena on Saturday.

The thread is 8 club competition but after reading the last few contributions it should be 'Bag Southern Tigers' Why because they are successful. Bag Centrals? Can not do that. They are nothing. Bag Sturt. They are a strong club (after Saturday when Sturt - Williams play Mavericks + Jacob I predict that Sturt will be not as strong. They will have their collective rear-ends spanked by a Hills unit that showed last Saturday night that against the strongest opposition in the league just how good they are). the eight clubs could be North, South, East, West, lower South, Upper North, north-East and South West.

just saw the post... sorry the punctuation didn't paste too well from word!!

Jirachi,

For the most part your posts are clever, intelligent and generally food reading. However on this issue you are none of the above.

I doubt you are in a position to comment on the circumstances of the merger, if you were, your attitude would be different.

I for one applaud the actions of the Tigers management, one of the best ABL Home Game hosts in the league.

My only real question to you is this: Would you have prefered Adelaide Southern to go under? That was the undeniable situation. They were going to fold, Noarlunga threw them a lifeline.

RESULT: Initial indications are that we now have a very strong club anchored in the south.

Morning Raplh... Morning Sam - Blue Collar.