Hoops

Ideal Kountry Kid Ratio?

To the person that said that Norwoods JDO doesnt get out to many trainings...
You are kidding right? That man makes a huge effort to help any coach at any training. There are a lot of teams and trainings to get out to, but in my experience, all a coach would need to do is ask, and he would make every effort to be there, or if for some reason he couldnt, he would offer other types of support. Not sure how that comment is justified at all....

664, two very valid points. Training is a must regardless of Metro or Country. If you can't attend training, then the player doesn't know the plays and it ends up being 5 players running around the court passing to their mates. A team that trains is a team that wins.

Team placement is the most contentious issue of all and applies to both as well. Offering spots to players who aren't up to it to bring them to a club, or so their sibling can play in a team is a complete joke and should be viewed as such. Same to the promise of "play in this team for a better chance of state selection". When that happens respect is lost and is hard to get back.

Bottom line, High Standards. I couldn't imagine a boy playing Sturt Div 1 if he didn't attend training regardless of his ability.

Reality check has the thought even occurred to you that these kids want to play metro ball , and this is their priority in their basketball . Do you wonder how devoted these kids are to their sport to spend hours in the car to be part of a metro club? Ask some of these girls playing finals this weekend for lions , who have shifted to Norwood to follow their coach, how much they love playing metro. You are lucky to have them !!

Reality check if your club allows kid to play without attending compulsory trainings then your club has issues, if these kids attend trials and trainings they have every right to play. You should know norwood only tops up it's existing list with a few players anyway so what is the problem. At least you could give up the less ability, free uniforms crap, and tell me what is the diff in a country kid playing association ball no more than 4 weekends in a whole year to a metro kid paying school ball !

So sick and tired of the kick a country kid from metro parents whose kids just simply aren't good enough to earn their spot in a div 1 team. You refer to the current centrals u14 girls team which is made up almost entirely of country kids, some of the facts are that these girls are in their 4 th season at centrals and when they started as bottom age u12's without them NO TEAM ! These girls have now competed in the last 2 classics and have qualified for nationals and are lions players not some country association!