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Ch 10: Newley going to Europe

Remember Phil says it takes 4 - 6 weeks to gel...

Understandable, but how do you gel a combover???

Don't worry Dana, seems typical here that whatever the Sixers do, it is wrong..

I was very disapointed with last year's team, but impressed with what the Sixers did to rectify it in the off season. While it sucks we won't have Brad next year, at least when he does come back, it will be to Adelaide.

Isaac, the Tigers are still a much better team than us even if they did lose Newley. They did not stand to lose as much as we did. They could have afforded the risk.

That's why he shouldn't have been signed at all. It was better to find someone immediately after the season ended that you could have been certain that he was available. The whole time that Newley has been signed has left a huge question mark over what the 36ers were to do if he did take the overseas option. We never really had him at all from the time he signed the contract. It only served to waste time in finding a suitable replacement. I am not sure that any other NBL club would have taken this risk. Also while NBA and Europe outclauses are offered here, the quality of the league will only deteriorate as you are saying to the better players, feel free to leave whenever you wish. It makes it too easy for them to go instead of putting their talent to good use in Australia. I know they have to follow every opportunity that they can, but it has to be their risk in doing that not the club's. When they sign a contract, they don't have another offer overseas, it comes later. They either sign a contract and honor it knowing that atleast they are guaranteed of a job for the next year or two or wait around for something better with the possibility of ending up with nothing at all. Its a gamble the players have to take.

Jonno, I don't agree with you that the risk had to be taken to sign Newley even though it was not certain he would play for Adelaide. By taking that risk and wasting about 4 months over it, the opportunity to find a good player is gone. The Sixers needed to act quickly to sign a full squad immediately after the end of the season. So what, if they didn't sign Newley and then he was picked up by another NBL club. Regardless of whether he stayed here or went overseas, it was always a risk for any club signing him. We are now in a position of fielding a team that's not much better than the previous season. I don't know about you, but for me, last season was way too long, I don't want another one like it.

As for Newley, if it is to be Europe, does anyone know if its his choice or if the Rockets are ordering him? If its his choice, he should never have been given the outclause to Europe in his contract. Especially if he is taking this long to decide. If an outclause was inevitable, then an expiry date should have been included, a date which was much earlier than now.

I still think this team is better than last seasons team though as Davidson is a fair upgrade on hill, and Mottram or who ever we get wont be any worse than Nash, etc and if our imports combine better than last years did then thats a big upgrade aswell. How ever i dont think without Newley we will beat the teams like Brisbane for the title, i think our best shot would be if Ballinger was naturalised and we could bring in a import, that would be sensational!

Hopefully, would be great to actually see him in a Sixers uni some time..

Agreed, if they didn't sign him, they would have been lynched.

Damned if you do......

Yea, bit of a blow losing Newley, how ever the 36ers had to take this risk, imagine if they said we wont chase him hes off to Europe and he signed with say the Tigers and actually played in Australia, everyone on here would be after 36ers management/coaches heads for letting him slip again.
Yea Mottram is a big down grade on Newley but probably is one of the best Aussie players available, who else is there to chose from the only significant players i can think of are guys like Drmic and Trahair, who are not really any better than Mottram anyway, and then there is guys like Derek Moore and Pero who like Mottram have been in Europe and Mottram is as good as either of them, so i dare say he is among the best available, next off season will be interesting though, as there is bound to be another couple of big name free agents, and will be interesting to see if the 36ers can bring one of them in.
With Newley going to Europe does he have any clause saying he has to play for the 36ers if he returns to the NBL in the future????

Earlier reports say he is meeting with the 36ers tomorrow morning to discuss his future. Don't tell me he would reveal his intentions to the media before the club. It doesn't mean anything that 3 TV stations have reported it, they all report the same news anyway.

Who's ISSAC?

yea but starting Maher and 4 bigger players is a bit different to starting Maher and Davidson in the back court

So who do we get to replace him??? Mottrams name has been manetioned, if we get him what will our line up look like??

PG Davidson/Sutton
SG Maher/Ng
SF Chappell/Copeland
PF Ballinger/Mottram
C Dench/Cooper

or

PG Maher/Davidson/Sutton
SG Chappell/Ng
SF Ballinger/Copeland
PF Mottram
C Dench/Cooper

I think i prefer the top line up but i think both could be used at times, could Ballinger play SF successfully???

Any other players likely to replace Newley??

i hear ya anon