Hoops

R22 PL: The Last Hurrah

I'll add another bahahahahahaha to Mescke and probably the same for Tucker too. Is the Norway gig long term? Maybe they'll place someone from within in an interim role and wait for Dickel to return.
What's old Matho up to now days, he could make a return?

#195 That's a very narrow minded comment. You've based her ability to coach on one poor year. They have won 4 of the last 11 years and were second in another so focusing on just this year is short sighted. Do i think its time for a change, yes it probably is but lets not have this year's results tarnish a successful coaching career. As for who ever takes over, good luck to them, as the keyboard experts will be very quick to judge.

As Jason said, its funny/sad that almost any topic regarding local leagues ends up in a hate fest with the eagles.

Yes they didn't do well this year. The men were only a win or two from finals and the girls were ok at different times considering most are 16-20 years old.

The fact is that they have both been at the pointy end for most of the last decade.
Not too many clubs can boast a 3 peat in both the mens and womens, perhaps that's where the hate comes from, success.

As for it being common knowledge some girls wont be back? If its so common tell us who? If an earlier cryptic post is true about the head coach going then i would suggest players would stay?

I guess before any of that is proven to be true we'll have to put up with more ill informed comment by the haters.

731,
in the six games involving those teams
South beat West twice so have the split on them
Woodville beat South twice so have the split on them
Woodville and West went 1-1, but Woodville have the split.

Does that make it:
3. Woodville
4. South
5. West

As of 6pm not one game result on the sporting pulse sight ? Anyone the same ?

yes, sorry, it's 10 years in total.

Regardless, it's a bloody lot of Saturday nights.

With the run of hot weather at the moment, it is likely that not many games will be played this round in line with BSA policy. With 38 degrees meaning cancellation of games played on non-air conditioned courts, there's really only the Dome and starplex as acceptable venues come the weekend. 7 possible courts to play on, but with Sixers playing Sat. night, probably only the starplex's 4 courts available. So like most seasons, looks like one Sunday in the future will be wasted travelling to some trashy tin shed, aka a stadium.

Of the 150-200 games per week, it looks like only the 6 scheduled for starplex on Friday night will be played.

I know BSA has to count each penny like an old Scottish aunt, but would it not be in the best interest of BSA to play as many of these games on the scheduled day? I know the response is that most kids train on a Sunday regardless, but I know of too many teams with kids having other commitments on a Sunday and the forfeit rate of these "catchup" games concerns me.

My proposal is that BSA re-schedule stadiums on hot days to those air conditioned stadiums rather than re-schedule. I would expect that the courts to be $30/hr so 7 courts and 5 timeslots of Friday and say another 5 on a Saturday, it means 70 games get played - around 35%. Hire cost, $2,000, less the regular hire costs. I would rather drive the extra 30 mins to Starplex on the schedule game night, than be stuffed around on a Sunday.

Is $2,000 going to Starplex and the Dome such an evil thing? Considering Sunday catchup games seem to have a number of forfeits and BSA benefits from forfeit fines, do BSA worry that some teams are forced to forfeit? Rather than re-schedule, I would prefer to be in the position to change stadiums rather than dates.