Gerard Whateley

Are you going to be able to rectify that or does that require the step towards privatisation?

How damaging would it be if household name Australians, so not the Australian players, but those who have underpinned the BBL for a long time, took contracts to South Africa and upped?

So we're used to the international players doing it, but there's not really any precedent for the Australian players doing it.

How damaging would that be?

In this town, how do we expect fans to go, having been told that their two teams were folded three weeks ago, and now they're still going to be going around?

This is gymnastics in sport like I've rarely seen.

Hey, your team is not going to exist, but come and watch them again.

In the moments where it was announced the merge and then what was going to happen, you sort of go, so the Renegades are going to hold a list together whilst the Stars become something else having merged.

Is there any capacity or necessity to allow flexibility on the lists of those two clubs heading into this year to go back and forward between them?

Do you have any trepidation about staging these seasons against a backdrop of such uncertainty?

Do you think there's a risk that it will strain the goodwill and the affection toward the competition in the way that you've just described?

So are we in a holding pattern for these seasons, for the WBBL and the BBL season we're about to go through?

Yeah.

In this town, how do we expect fans to go, having been told that their two teams were folded three weeks ago, and now they're still going to be going around?

This is gymnastics in sport like I've rarely seen.

Hey, your team is not going to exist, but come and watch them again.

we start with the art of coaching with Ken Hinckley, which feels particularly timely today.

We have a team on a 13-game tear in Fremantle, and the last team to do this was Port Adelaide in 2023.

But believe the hype.

And if you don't believe the hype, believe the numbers.