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7 team NBL next season.

Not as far as I know, but it seems they have secured a good deal with the TECC, so there's reason for optimism.

I think the size of Cairns' profit is irrelevant. The fact is they spend within their means, the extra revenue from the playoffs is just icing on the cake.

I think the situation reads like this, Perth, Cairns and NZ are profitable or close to...

When the league and their clubs meet during the off season it should be THOSE teams speaking up most and trying to assist other clubs in better game night experience, how to market, sponsorship and the like. Most sponsors are region orientated so it isn't like we have had much sponsors stealing as could be prevelent in AFL.

The profitable and not the 'rich' are the clubs that need to be the most vocal or we won't have a league!

As much as I'd accept the promotion/demotion aspect of NBL and allowing a greater chance for a Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong revival in thenBL, the 5-8 teams isn't enough for the top division and hopefully something improves.

It truly breaks my heart to see what's happening and in the past 3 years I've really put my money where my mouth is but it looks like I'm only making Perth Wildcats richer!

Does anyone want a single owner of the league like Bendat or Slepoy?

I think the situation reads like this, Perth, Cairns and NZ are profitable or close to...

When the league and their clubs meet during the off season it should be THOSE teams speaking up most and trying to assist other clubs in better game night experience, how to market, sponsorship and the like. Most sponsors are region orientated so it isn't like we have had much sponsors stealing as could be prevelent in AFL.

The profitable and not the 'rich' are the clubs that need to be the most vocal or we won't have a league!

As much as I'd accept the promotion/demotion aspect of NBL and allowing a greater chance for a Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong revival in thenBL, the 5-8 teams isn't enough for the top division and hopefully something improves.

It truly breaks my heart to see what's happening and in the past 3 years I've really put my money where my mouth is but it looks like I'm only making Perth Wildcats richer!

Does anyone want a single owner of the league like Bendat or Slepoy?

I will add this, where you may be expecting a huge drop in quality and appeal if the NBL restructures, I see opportunity for expansion and rivalry to excite the people and build a new following for the game.

It may start off slowly, but instead of going backwards, or stagnating, perhaps there is a chance to grow and get people to become passionate.

1. One game in a one team town = 10,000 spectators.

2. Four games in six team town = 20,000+ spectators.

Taking into account each team is presented in a smaller franchise in option 2, with no financial problems and has the opportunity to grow, whereas in option 1 it may have already reached its limit of growth and continues to struggle to put on a show and survive every season...

Thanks @Matthew, it may be idealistic, but how do we sustain the current model? Do we wait until the league is actually broke, or down to 5 teams?

Whether we are forced into change because of neglect and complacency or we move towards change in a strategic and uniformed manner, the end result may be the same.

I am not going to offer the new plan here on a forum, I will leave that to those better equipped and in a position of knowledge, but I have for some time now advocated a change is necessary, along with a leader who can actually initiate and see it through...

Yes, there would be problematic issues to take care of, but if we can put a man on the moon, can't we fix a basketball competition?

Question for you Bear: How do you make it more sustainable?

Lets take a Big team here. Do you want the Wildcats who now draw on Average 10,000 people to a game to move back to an old run down venue where there are less seats for that 10,000? Where they might be lucky to sit 4000?

Basketball is a Business as much as it is a game. Teams cannot just 'start over'. They have creditors and debtors, they have deals with sponsors, organisations, ABN's etc. Even when a team goes into Voluntary administration there are still steps they need to go through, the same with Bankruptcy.

Even if teams play in Small venues and fill up every seat, you will still be paying out on your playing Roster far more than the venue can generate each night in sales for seats/ food other. So then it comes down to sponsorship. If I a team dosnt have enough sponsors then its gonna fall over. It might last a year or 2, but at the end of the day its a death sentence for the club.

There really is no way to just 'Wipe the slate clean and start again'. Sounds horribly romantic and idealistic, but finacially and realistically its next to impossible.

Don't allow naturalised imports if you want to keep the Aussie players in jobs.

...definition of insanity...

Just don't like it one bit, 7 teams, 4 teams, 2 teams, 10 teams! It's all the same if we do it all the same, Like Boti says, deficiation of insanity is doing the same thing time and again but expecting a different result.

The bigger picture is not our NBL competition with less teams, it is actually changing the whole thing and starting fresh with something sustainable...


IMHO that is!

Agreed tornado.

The Hawks dire situation has put a dampener on the NBL grand final series, which starts on Friday night in front of a sell-out crowd in Cairns.

It is a dampner, but a sell out crowd always makes us smile, at least for a while..