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NO COOPERS?

The hell?

I retract my previously posted alcohol related optimism.

Big sexy, i personally believe so. im a big coopers fan. its a shame they are no longer selling at the stadium anymore. as foresee a pretty exciting team to watch i am predicting the no coopers will be my biggest disappointment. it just wont be the same.

i thought earlier this year they would have taken the advice of hoops forum dwellers suggested by me to get the naming rights for the stadium call it the coopers beer gardens or the coopers house of pale etc.

what beer will be available again. i remember coopers has nothing to do with the dome any more, thats more disappointing than anything regarding this upcoming season

It's all a bit of armchair expert / internet expert fun. Truth is, anything can and will happen between now and the grand final series.

Buy your tickets, spread the word and cheer hard like every year.



Remind your friends - we serve beer.

Can't believe there are all these negative comments and EC isn't among them.

Traditionally, as long as you forget the past few seasons, the 36ers have been a fast breaking, 3 point shooting team. The team put together seems to fit that mould. The other consideration is that last years team, could easily have won several more games, with better coaching and player decision making. With a change of coaching staff and 5 new players, this team should perform better.

I think everyone has missed anon 095's point.

But hey, while we're at it, Volgomort had faith in Jason Williams.

There. I said it.

I think 'faith' is where the concern comes in.

We're putting faith in DJ to step up to a starting role, faith in Hill to turn his form around, faith in Dowdell to perform, faith in Winder to be able to handle the ball and distribute etc.

Marty has his first season cut out for him pulling it all together. Looking forward to Game 1 - should be interesting.

anon 095 i agree with Elite, your rebuttal was an epic fail of mass proportions. i think most people knew ninnis was a fail so to say he was ok and then to include cortez in the same sentence was a double fail. i remember how sceptical people were with the cortez pick and it was with good reason.

While in a perfect world Burston, Loughton & Knight would be fantastic players to have,all would want to start in front of DJ and they would be ALOT more expensive than Dowdell.

Being that the main factor in getting DJ here was the starting position I really doubt that those 3 were really viable options for the club. There is only so much salary to go around and I dare say the majority is tied up in Balls, Winder & DeVries.

Also would any of those 3 fit into the points system with our current squad? Dowdell would have been cheap both salary & points wise.

All Dowdell has to do is defend the post and grab some rebounds, he isn't going to be getting heavy minutes.

Would take Burston, Loughton or Matt Knight in a flash as a big off the bench, as all three would be a great compliment to the current pieces we have. Lets just hope Dowdell can repay the faith Clarke has put in him.

The Sixers have a decent line up of bigs, they'll cause a few teams some problems and the Import choices look better than in previous years.
Just a matter of sitting back and seeing how the season plays out now.

I'm quite happy with our team , coaches , training and the like.

" So , in every individual the two trends,
one toward personal happiness
and the other toward unity with the rest of humanity,
must contend with each other. " - Freud.

i see your points when looking at the paper, but im still very sceptical of saying we will get belted. what good are bigs for boards if there are no boards to get. but in saying that i like entering the league as an under dog then proving other wrong. it will give good bragging rights to those of us who believe we are a good team this season. each to their own.

i think the team is going to be much better than people are expecting. we have alot of players with good different qualities and as long as marty exploits there strengths on game day we should be able to beat any team in the competition. it will be interesting to see this team come together i think they have alot to offer. i personally think going big can be a huge problem and i dont think tigers are going to be a big threat if we steal and hit the fast break which i see being one of our strategies

My own preference would have been for a genuine 3 man along the size of a Cattalini, Kevin Brooks, etc who have played in 36ers line ups of the past.

Keeping to the criteria that the Coaches set in selecting a player who had played in the league before, who would be a better choice for the same $$$ and was willing to join the 36ers?

So you wanted another big to sit behind Balls/Johnson? I think our big man rotation will do better than alot of people think...They are going to be a hell of alot more mobile than most others...Apart from Melbourne I don't think any team has a SIGNIFICANTLY better big man rotation than us.