Great read mate!! Great gesture by the kids to give your son a ball!!! We went to the last adelaide bite home game and it took me until the bottom of the 6th to get a ball!! Had to rush, dive like crazy, basically the only time my 2 boys weren't near me and was probably the 5th or 6th one to land close to us!! My 9 year old was going off at a couple of boys the same age for hogging 3 or 4 balls..... Was funny as when I got the one we have now!! ABL is great, better fan interaction then the NBL!!