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new flames coach announced

everything i have heard about shannon has been positive.
i hope he can get the flames firing.

Karen dalton need to decide what she is the club manager or team coach. And stick with it. Having a very young and let's face it inexperienced at this level head coach fits perfectly for dalton. She will still call the shots, and sorry but how successful have those shots been for Sydney flames with her at the helm lately!.
If lames are looking for a whole new restructure in with the new out with the old, dalton needs to stay away and let this guy do his thing, you never know it may be just what they need because they sure as hell needed to loose Poto and dalton

last poster, read the 1st post!!

Katie Ebzery, Jamie Kennedy and a number of talented juniors and younger people, make up the Hornsby roster. Katie hasn't played till recently, so they are doing pretty well.

Don't know about Shannon, but wish him well, new ideas and faces are what the Flames need. With Mitchell instead of Poto, already a good start.

hornsby ABA women finished 3rd and on a 4 game winning streak.

Dont know what there roster was like so cannot comment if they performed to expectations or not.

Agree with above poster, poor Mitchell , not much depth in that roster, and why pick a coach AFTER you pick a team, surely the coach needs to be able to select players that fit with their style of coaching. Think Karen dalton is still coaching but via a poor puppet coach in this rookie she has found.

With so much drama happening week to week in this the NBLs twenty-something-th season, I thought I should share some of my musings on basketball with the internet, and here they are. First on the recent JULIUS HODGE You Tube video where he disses the c*#p out of the Sixers&.I Couldnt help but notice the effervescent love displayed by Julius towards his boy former-sixers mentor PHIL SMYTH. Would one be crazy to suggest that if the well credentialed General were to pick up a coaching gig in the New NBL next year, that he would sound out J Hodge for a star import jump off? Giving Hodge his much coveted shot at stardom? Maybe at the big city lights of the re-launched Sydney Kings?. The pieces of the puzzle fit people. Sixers replacement Import ROD GRIZZARD was recently asked about his playing situation at the Melbourne Tigers and said that ; ``It just never worked out (like that). I was the lowest guy on the totem pole.', well Rodney my friend, the lower figures on the totem poll are actually slightly more important than those above them& lets hope this unintended double entente is a doubly positive premonition for Radelaide Rod and his Ranga front-court ensemble!. MARTIN CATTALINI felt it was just a big joke to pull on LUKE SCHENSCHERS pony tail in a recent Snakes v Sixers game at the Distinctive Homes Dome in Adelaide. Could it have been bad karma catching up with Big Red for past juvenile acts of animal cruelty after all these years? Karma is real, and those growing up in rural South Australia (like Sensch) know it is a rite of passage for kids to play stray cats like bagpipes (ie put it under your arm and pull its tail until it wails)&. what irony then that the NBLs kindred cat would repay the favor to Luke from Hope Forrest after all these years& Im not saying Luke did it, but Im not saying he didnt. Rumor has it that the Gold Coast Blaze stink so badly this season that they, at one stage, they toyed with the idea of signing NBA Live featured hip-hop artist JUST BLAZE for gimmick value. That and he would be great entertainment beatboxing at time-outs over the PA. Two for the price of one!!.... He was to have replaced NBA Live 2004 alumni JOACHIM HAWKINS, much like you can replace Hawkins with BUSTA RHYMES in the actual NBA Live. This was, of course, just before they found gold nugget LUKE WHITEHEAD. If the Coast had gone through with signing Just Blaze, they would have had their second gimmick signing to go along with SHANE HEAL, aka the human troll doll. Just on troll dolls, the NBA has all star bobble head doll merchandise right? Well, how come nobody has ever thought of having NBL troll dolls complete with official NBL uniforms and Swiss crafted player faces?? I can think of two or three players off the top of my head who would lend themselves flawlessly to NBL troll doll action figures. Lets start off with, SHANE HEAL and of course former Singapore Slingers former import MIKE HELMS and Son of a Gun CJ BRUTON, SOLID GOLD!!! Helms 23 by the way should have been considered by the Sixers to replace Jules Hodge. Instead we went for his partner in crime at the Slingers ROD GRIZZARD. DARREN NG left the Sixers at the beginning of the year to go to Singapore so & as they said once in some movies Its a small world after all& Fro man Helms has a dope MySpace page by the way, Im not joking!, add him as a friend today if you want to see what hes been up to!! Bling bling money aint a thing baby myspace.com/mhelms23 Apparently, the impressively large number of Korean Wollongong Hawks fans say of coach ERIC COOKS What about the GRILL ON BIG DOG COOKS!!, I wonder if he COOKS DOG BIG ON GRILL& its an oxymoron fellas, who doesnt like Chinese food?. And no, there is no truth to the rumor that the Gold Coast are so inept at signing players that they are on the verge of boning their sole player scout, who is a 23 year old nerd so obsessed with his PlayStaion that the only place he looks for import prospects is while playing dynasty mode on his mid-nineties editions of NBA Live. CONNOR HENRY is heaps worried that his player may poop down their legs against Sydney in an upcoming game. What he is really trying to say is that he wants a run and gun style game, not a runny bum style game. His first quote was just a case of verbal diarrhea. Wow I got to the end of this and I didnt have to resort to jokes about Breakers players and Sheep, or PERO CAMERON and Big Macs. But seriously, I could go on all day Well that is it for now, Keep lovin the sport of basketball and the NBL. Andy OG