Hoops

Ma'alo Hicks signs with Corio Bay Big V Champ side

Max, I have no idea what your point is in regards to Stingrays helping Bellarine with having a D2 team..... we are 2 different associations.
If Bellarine wanted to play D2, good on them. Not sure why you think it is our responsibility to assist Bellarine in their quest to have a senior representative program.

HO, do you believe everything you read? As each post gets more ridiculous, the funnier it gets.

A lot of hysterical posts here. $70 grand in player payments, WOW! The club must have some serious cash, especially with the redevelopments happening at the stadium in the near future.

Rebula has now signed with the Stingrays:
Got to love this comment which backs up my previous argument that Life Be In It has been a breeding ground for Supercats players “I played majority of my younger days at the Life. Be in it Centre and always had the Corio Bay organisation supporting me throughout my basketball career”.

Here is the rest of the article: http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-7333-0-0-0&sID=143617&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=21303398

Corio Bay are and will always be pretenders. The way they are going they will fold in 2 years after wasting the little money on old have-been players. Signing Maalo proves Dan Riches is a knob and has little knowledge of basketball. They will make playoffs purely because Big V SCM is so weak but will not win a championship.

Bear, that would be great if Geelong and Corio Bay could host an annual match between each other with no imports.

HO, I am not going to rebut any of that. Please do some homework before you make an opinion, you might write something that has fact behind it. You really do have no clue what happens and who we had prior to being accepted into championship.

This money line keeps getting thrown out. What money? Where is this money coming from?

It wouldn't be because the club has a good bunch of players on and off the court, good coaching staff, great culture, good crowds (not comparing to Supercats but just in general Big V terms) and good staff behind the scenes.

HO, wasn't disregarding your statement, true with what you said with Osborne the only junior having an impact this season. The question was asked who else in the side played juniors at the club. The club was only established in 2003 so the oldest junior players are 21. Anyone over this age and can hoop in the region has most likely played for Geelong at some stage as there was no alternative. The likes of Reardon, Walker, Osborn etc have been playing in our domestic competition for years on end but there was no pathway or senior program for them. The players are still locals and if you ask them most originally started playing at Life Be In It before GABA. GABA clubs used to (not sure if they still do) and scout kids on a Saturday and if they could play they would introduce them to rep.

Agree with Anon above, all clubs recruit players/coachs from other clubs.

Obviously your ignorance is getting in the way of your reading skills. I said back to Life Be In It Centre not Stingrays as Corio Bay Basketball Association didn't exist til 2003.

Obviously your ignorance is getting in the way of you reading skills. I said back to Life Be In It Centre not Stingrays as Corio Bay Basketball Association didn't exist til 2003.

You seem to know names Anonymous. You forgot Luke Osborn too. Life Be In It has been the breeding ground for the Supercats for a very long time, they have had 3 associations to pick players from (Bellarine being the other one), now the Life Be In It Centre (Stingrays) have a rep team it is time to bring some of them back home where they originally started playing. It seems like the Supercats can't handle another competitor in the region. All those names must be coming to Corio Bay for a reason......
Yes Osborne played for Geelong in under 12's but the Stingray program didn't exist then. He also played Ballarat D League SEABL and played one season of Geelong Big V, not Supercats SEABL>
The young kids who are Stingray juniors who are in the current Big V side: Hobbs, Eichler, Ogle and Osborne.

And what development did they put into this young Supercat? Bench warming development? Also where did this young Supercat play all his junior basketball?
By the way, Osborne isn't the only junior playing in their Big V side.....this is quite amusing to read the amount of bs being written on here.

Eric (import, every team has at least 1) and Ma'alo are the only players who are from outside of Geelong. Ma'alo now lives in Geelong with his girlfriend so he is a local player in terms of residence. Stingrays aren't paying for his accommodation to play with us like other clubs do for certain players.

I wasn't referring to Ma'alo, obviously he isn't from the Geelong region. I was meaning players from the Geelong region.

Tiger Watcher, Stingrays aren't poaching or buying players with cash. A lot of players played juniors but there was no rep program for juniors until 03 and no mens program so the only way to go any further in basketball was Geelong Supercats or their Big V side. They had the luxury of having 3 associations to pick their players from as Bellarine and Corio Bay didn't have programs set up other than domestic. Now that Corio Bay feature in seniors, players can come back to where they originally started off playing.

Anon is right, he has been staying in Geelong for a little while now to live with his girlfriend. FYI Eric Williams and Ma'alo were teammates at Nunawading.

saw him play in the SEABL prelim finals & thought he'd make a pretty handy NBL backup.

The country vic 'big fella' coach has gotten back on the horse and taken on the challenge of a Jockey.
With his physique he should be pretty successful, will probebly need to put a bit of size on though.
KF Stables