Wed 10th March - Rocks v Lions 6:00pm

did you need to create this and remind us 

Hard to disagree with any you say. Teams know rocks have 3 weapons on offence. Keeling, delph and murray, take out 1 we struggle yo get any rhythm. Boban had great dec/jan but now just seems to pick up soft fouls. Looks to me the 2 french guys have struggled to settle and both look low in confidence. Both have the potentkal to excel but must be tough. Different language new place and shut down due to lockdown hopefull they come good of sorts

Its a different type of english up here thats for sure

Hmm thinking of purchasing on BBL player tonight now there is an Apple TV App an dits at a family friendly time will report back on performance

based on stats prior to tonight, Joe I looks like a player either carrying an unannounced injury for weeks and not being risked or so out of sync from what they are trying to do will get minimal minutes in games

half way through 3rd and not on yet - so at most 15min game but more likely single figure mins again from looks of it

Absolute class from Lions media team as always!! You really couldn't make up how truly dreadful they are yet they still keep the contract!!
Obviously I had to grab this from someone else's Twitter as  still blocked!

and it takes less characters in your tweet to just put a rock - then no fuss

Completely disgraceful performance from Lions social media.

Plus them doing *their after Sam said there was out of order. I hope Vince has a word with the person putting out these stupid tweets.

It's a rather sad indictment of the state of Basketball in this country when one team shows a complete lack of respect for the other and that we are discussing this rather than the game itself.

I saw DaveF suggested that on twitter, and the photos on Lions twitter appear to back it up as true. 
Even if they've got the money to do it, is this really the best use of such money? From experience a return trip is likely to have cost them somewhere between £5,000 and £10,000. And for a game which, lets be honest, wasn't likely to be an important one.

Of course it's rubbish and isn't helping anything, but I'm not really getting hung up on the social media accounts. A social media account isn't my basketball club, regardless of who's typing. Sitting in the stand around other fans cheering the five players on court is the club, and always will be.

And if it is bothering you, it's probably more effective not to engage. Raw numbers of follows, views, replies and retweets will be the measure of success, and there's probably little to no analysis of whether they're attached to favourable opinions. It's sloppy and short-sighted, but most likely to be the case.

is it such a big deal this flight thing ? In the distant past seen Rocks have flown south (yes on commercial) for double headers that then involved hotels and coaches still at the other end. Bet they did not get much change from £4k for that unless they bought non refundable tickets months in advance and who can do that worth fixture changes etc.

So if you are not going to ask your squad to spend 8 to 10hrs on a coach each way then there will be more costs than just a bus and driver.

12 players, 2 coaches, 6 support staff - sound right for London based on what you see on the tv games.
commercial flights at 7 days notice - call it £200 x 20 so at 4K just like that - but so few flights at moment going to have to stay overnight and so add 10 hotel rooms if lucky for total £500 but likeley to get to £1K. Sure they will get group rates so maybe get the flights for £3k

suddenly going to a charter flight option - at a time when those companies have very little business - is not such a stretch as could negotiate a decent deal. Get your squad up and down same day as game, no 20hrs spent in a bus, no mixing on commercial plane or trains.