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hoopie

Years ago

I think the NBL should take a break and restart

I wonder whether shutting it down for a season will mean more enthusiasm and filled stadiums when it all starts up again, or whether we'll lose fans for good.

What were the stats for attendance for the 2012/13 season? Did we see a lot of fans at the start of the season (because they'd been starved during the off-season), followed by a drop-off towards the middle? Or did attendance depend on which teams were winnning at the time?

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Anonymous

Years ago

Football is a completely different proposition to basketball. While the semi-professional NSL ran for 28 years folded for a season it was semi-pro in name and governance only with players earning excellent wages. The A-Leage that replaced it was a truely pro competition in every respect that leveraged 3 existing teams and created 5 new ones off the back of a national football participation of over 1,000,000 participants (now 1.7m) in a game players for nearly 150 years in this country and with strong semi-pro competitions in all the States of Australia and NZ. To put it into perspective, the annual turnover of the A-Leagues biggest team is approximately that of the entire NBL. In market value terms it is worth much, much more than that. In addition to these issues of scale, football has a range of revenue streams outside of the A-League that basketball can only dream of, and even where there are some parallels (global, young, edgy) just stop and think for a minute about the A-League All Stars game against Manchester United at an instantly sold out ANZ Stadium and compare that to the long established NBL equivalent? Finally, if there is some insight for basketball from the football 'reboot' - it's that it must go hand in hand with 'root and branch' restructuring of every aspect of the game from top to bottom - a scorched earth approach is needed. My suspision is it will be back to a ether status for a few years - this, along with an independent Crawford Report style public inquiry is the very least that fans should be demanding. The FFA are now rolling out a national second division to underpin the A-League. It is from this second division that future expansion will occur. The NBL, with a fraction of footballs participation, could do worse than get back to its roots and grow organically back to professional status.

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Daniel

Years ago

"return to a semi professional league contained within Australia"

HAHAHA someone wants rid of the Breakers because Australian teams can't beat them :P

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