This is highly recommended in order to give consituencies adequate time to discuss proposals with their members and receive mandates. Question is: has this been done? If not, then what is the point of belonging to structures if you are not going to be consulted about the direction the sport should take?

Its a pity that this meeting is only for 1 day cos maybe this could be more fruitful over 2 or 3 days depending on the agenda.Hope to hear the outcome and hope it doesn’t get postponed

Very well said, it is our responsiblity as ballers to participate in BSA to ensure that BSA knows what we want from it. I guess this is more food for thought for the eminent BSA general meeting.

My misgiving though is that as much we may join the structures this does not gurantee that BSA will play ball. For instance, has BSA ever done any survey to find out what structures want?

I am sitting here and asking myself on how long are we going to blame BSA and not come up with solutions. at the end of the day we might have all the best solutions to problems and for as long as we not taking part in our local structures, they will just remain best solutions. we need not make all these assumptions without sound knowledge. i personally don’t know why the clinics were arranged in S.A or postponed but i can surely say that they would have helped a lot of our local coaches.

rather than we spend time feeling bitter about what BSA does and doesn’t do, we should rather be looking at ways to develop the sport in our own small communities. we are going to fight and argue for the next 100 years. we all can contribute with solutions, but how many of us can implement that.

people were here last year saying all the wrong things about GBA/GBL and then an AGM was called. and how many of us went there?now we have an interim GBA committee,people were hacking the poor commitee why gauteng isn’t going to the seniors. out of all that everyone had a chance to be at the AGM and a chance to be part of GBA structures but no one bothered. so,lets do in action not words.

We will keep on making assumptions until BSA communicates with the bball public, we will keep on making assumptions until BSA properly consults with its stuctures either in their planning or in communicating plans.

Also, my assumptions are based on pure strategic planning principles and I am not convinced that the clinics were properly planned as part of a strategy. In fact methinks FIBA Africa VII was looking for a host and we obliged, problem is this does not fit our coaching reality.

i fail to understand what informs you to say all what you saying without us knowing what happened before they were arranged, who arranged them and why were they postponed. till we get that information then we will be making assumptions. i think we need to avoid that. secondly, i hope you attend bball meetings and taking part in your local structures to share your positve ideas.

2010 here we are. time to buy world cup tickets.