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Big V Finals

I think any team can apply to go up or down in any division regardless of results and that should be the case if your personnel or situation changes dramatically.

I think Shepp and Casey will and should go up providing they can at least keep their core groups in tact or improve on them.

Casey were just not good enough, Were completely outplayed for the most part of the series & there were reasons they got as close as they did....

@VP, yes amazing results and achievements, how often has that happened? I wouldn't think that often...

Big V-D1 women went to Geelong at home, after they took game one in Mildura.

If they had dropped both home games to Mildura I would be thinking something strange was going on, such a tough ask, but it can happen if the home team drops the ball, so to speak!

A replay of the Game 2 win for the Ringwood Hawks SCM over Corio Bay to force a game 3 is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYoyQeV5eE

Recap of week 1 of the Big V Champ finals are now up on PnR thanks to Dean Zardo:

Big V Grand Finals (Week 1): Stingrays men, Hawks women on championship brink

Corio Bay’s men and Ringwood’s women are on the brink of securing the 2014 Big V championships after first-up away wins, leaving both sides needing just one win from two home games next weekend to clinch the title.

Youth League in Victoria is under 23 years of age, it is an excellent competition in its own right and is a wonderful development pathway for the best teenagers out there, especially if they are about to head over to the US for college ball.

Big V Champs, D1, D2 are also excellent for their own purpose and as VP has suggested, they are there for the Associations that can field a team at their particular standard to compete in an open age competition...

There is nothing essentially wrong, therefore no need to fix, if there is some improvement we can discuss that is good to present on a forum, but combining these all together is pointless!

I have no idea of how much anyone is paid, but I would guess that the top of the CB tree is the two imports, plus Ma'alo and Jason, then there would be something for the veteran guards and players with previous Big V/SEABL level experience.

The glaring thing from this team's perspective is that they play about 8 deep and then nothing, so whatever the amount it takes to get a team like this together is, well it is working.

I don't think anyone can say any team in Big V buys a championship, because if salaries or player payments was an issue then the Big V should step in and start to dictate salary caps, police them and punish those Associations that go over the top.

Any finger pointing in regards to the best team being paid the most, no matter what team, isn't going to be factual and it isn't the deciding factor in team success anyway. No matter what you spend, coaching, any key injury, poor form or team balance are more important in deciding who wins than money spent IMHO...

It would be the same for the women

Anonymous
Earlier this week
15:52 11 Aug 14

Reply #487444
re: Big V Finals
YL and D1/2 are on different development pathways.

SC YL is part of the pathway to BigV Champ/SEABL, D1/2 is where players end up that aren't up to the standard required to progress into Champ/SEABL/NBL.

So naturally the skill set and general athleticism of those players will be fundamentally different to each other.



Spot on, their may be bigger bodies in div1 but skill sets are not on the same level. Easily seen by how many younger players are actually playing in this div especially in the women, and doing ok in it, yet put them up against those in YLC and they struggle to do anything.. Only thing playing in div1 does for younger athletes is get them used to bigger bodies, but it does not improve their overall game. Div2 is way down again from div1 , again more so in the women.

Week 2 of finals action now up on PnR:

Big V Semi/Preliminary Finals: Top two men, women advance to decider

Corio Bay and Ringwood will face off for the men’s 2014 championship after both made their way through to the deciding series with preliminary final wins, while Ringwood and Hume City completed clean sweeps in their semi-final series’ to also advance to a grand final in a rematch of last season’s decider.