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Geelong Supercats NBL return

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/news/geelong/geelong-basketball-pushes-for-24m-for-new-dream-stadium/news-story/79df0dd6053390625c062aeb12b2079a

BASKETBALL Geelong is calling for Federal funding to bring its $24 million dream Waurn Ponds stadium to life.

The proposed stadium will see nine additional courts for the region, including a 2000-seat show court which can be used for basketball and netball, and provide a high performance training and education centre.

V8 Supercars are massive but you wouldn't say that it is #1 sport anywhere but it has been marketed well and brings huge crowds everywhere.

Your #1 comment is still correct though but it's not the end of the road and we should be able to still make inroads but it won't happen with 8 teams!

Perth is a big market because of the mining industry thriving and our mega stadium.

If $8.50 pies and $12 hamburgers and $9 beers aren't scaring people off then I think we are a big market and its hard to ignore that we haven't had less than 10,000 to a game this year.

If you were the Supercats and you were trying to market the team to a new market, what demographic would you choose?

At Wildcats games we have grandparents, young men and plenty of young ladies (decked out in club gear) and plenty of families...

The Wildcats have every demographic covered so I know I'm ignorant but why can't the Supercats and every team for that matter get everyone coming to games?

So are we all in agreeance that Singapore Slingers shouldn't be looked at again or until we atleast have 15 thriving teams?

West Sydney? Never again. Never. They had great/good/exciting teams and could not sell more than 1000 tickets.

Hobart? Would be cool, but what players want to go and live in Hobart? No offense Hobartians, Adelaide has the same problem ;-)

2nd Melbourne team? Would be huge if it was done right, appealing to all the supporters of the other clubs in Melbourne not named Tigers.

Newcastle? Would LOVE to see the Falcons back in.

Brisbane? Same as above.

Canberra? Again, cool, but just not feasible. Geelong in same boat.

NT? Forget it. Same with 2nd Adelaide team.

2nd NZ team? I don't know enough about NZ basketball, but surely a North Island/South Island rivalry could work positively for the league?

I think we should drop salary cap as well, as Tiger Watcher said.

I think the reasoning behind aiming for an NBL licence is simple. The crowds they were pulling when they were hosting and winning the championships are gone. People want something new so they left. The days of pulling 1400 members, plus the overhaul of the revamped stadium killed off quite a few seats that were close to the action.

If memory serves me correct, the halycon days spoke of the 3 year plan which was when the former owner who i cant remember his name, but he owned a vineyard or two outside of Geelong said, we have 3 years to get back in. If we dont, then we never will.

The stadium itself is well positioned both near the highway and a railroad, but its a dump. I also fail to see where they will get corporate sponsorship from, given they couldnt get a MAJOR sponsor in the mid 90's which saw them get dumped.

Nice thought, but my former team I barracked for as a kid, wont get a new licence.

I'm with tropical Booz, that is a league I'd love to see and my Wildcats season membership would have so much variety.

As for Geelong Supercats, I'm all for it, if we could have some collaboration of the cats and Supercats building a facility big enough for them both to train and seating up to 5000 then they have my support and maybe their model should be community based.

I'd love to see Hobart, Geelong and Newcastle have successful bids before we consider a second NZ team, a second Sydney or Melbourne team.

Hopefully bullets are in next year

NEWCASTLE!!??

oh i forgot NZ.

They can stay also...

Imagine if we had;
Tigers
Bulleen Boomers (or whatever melb side)
Kings
W Sydney
Geelong
Tassie devils
36ers (& maybe another SA team).
Perth (Freo?)
T/ville
Cairns
Bullets
NT
Canberra
Gong
Newcastle

Wow that would be cool...

The quicker we get 4 more teams in the comp, the quicker we'll have 4 less teams in the comp!

Melbourne is a basketball & sports town, Sydney is not.

@Speed44 Why can't Sydney have 2nd team, but Melb can?

I'm not asking to be antagonistic, but honestly interested in why this might be the case?

It could be argued that the likelihood of a 2nd team working in Melbourne are just as small as for Sydney. There have just been, in the past, more businessman in Melbourne silly enough to back an, ultimately, futile expansion team.

Sydney cannot have a 2nd team. It will never work, it's a stupid dream. Melb, Bris, 2nd NZ team, and then regional sides.

yeah, hopefully we can get a team before we lose one, i really would hate to see a nbl team fold

Like I said in the other post today about a new NBL team (that got deleted) I'd like to see at least 2 or 3 years of stability without the NBL losing any teams before a new team being added is even considered.

Indeed they did, pretty sure Tragardh and Martin came out of the program at John Paul College, who won a couple of national school boys titles a few years back.

Townsville is larger than Geelong but Geelong is larger than Cairns (by population).

Would be interesting, but need a new stadium. Nothing against the current one but it only holds, what, 2000?