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Bear

Years ago

Who will be the next NBL team to die?

Bad business decisions, poor management and a failure to connect with your local community for ground roots support are the 3 main reasons for the failure of an NBL club (probably can extend to the A-League and beyond to other franchise based sports really)...

At the risk of watering down our quality of product for the short term, wouldn't it be interesting to see the NBL totally restructured to a conference style competition and align all clubs with their junior program like the strongest SEABL level teams?

Pie in the sky stuff maybe, but if we really want to make this sport viable in a country (countries if we include NZ) with such a low population base, comparatively low finacial sponsorship dollar, small stadium availability and therefore sallary cap compromises, isn't it worth thinking about?

In stead of asking the question, who will be the next NBL team to die, I would like to know when we will change the attitude and thinking to one of, how can we make a national competition thrive in a sport which is recognised as number one at junior lavel...!

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Anonymous

Years ago

Seems to me the question re A-League vs NBL ownership is simply one of how much money do you want to lose? Very few NBL clubs making money, NO A-league clubs making money?

Is the A-League Marquee player allowance still $1.5m? Assume that is being spent, A-League clubs needs to generate crowds 150% greater than the NBL just to pay for one player? And then there's the rest of the team and management and operating costs to pay for (remember Palmer limiting the Gold Coast crowds to minimise his overheads? Marketing Genius!).

Obviously I'm not a soccer fan (and it is soccer, and one code of football!) but given the amount of cash the Fed Gov't has injected into Lowy's baby, you'd expect they be doing better.

You also seem to have glossed over the stillborn Sydney Rovers A-League franchise - wasn't that suppose to be born and bred in the football heartland of Australia - western Sydney - a surefire succes?

A-League - more profile - less stability, greater losses

NBL - less profile, more stability, lower losses

Profesional sport in Australia - pick your poison!

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Anonymous

Years ago

Anon, where do you get your info from. I have not read or heard anything here in Tville about the Crocs being bankrupt. Our stadium needs fixing tha's true, but as to the other, as I said where did you get it from. The management has always been to tight with spending money to have none.

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