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Lemanis poaching Boomers under contract?

I just can't see how Kickert can stick around in this team and expect to get the minutes he'd like with Hodgson, Vukona and potential of extra import, Jervis, Bairstow. Then you add in Magnay and Young potentially returning.

That's a lot of big men and you can only play 80 minutes/game between them all.

This roster seriously need a star small forward.

I think Cadee will start and whilst I understand the hate for JC5 and his apparel range I think he could play well and him being backed up by Gibbo (who I can't stand) will not be too bad at all.

I like the look of the juniors coming through but the roster as it sounds it will come up will be too old and they won't get much of a look in.

Jervis/Hodgson/Bairstow (until he's healthy and starts)
Vukona/Young
MVP type import/te Rangi
Gliddon/dynamic import spark off the bench
Cadee/Gibson

My prediction shocking start and make a run in new year with Bairstow returning but ultimately 6th. TOO OLD and SLOW

The all Australian back court might look good with import forwards offensively but as an old coach I new used to say, guards my bigs are getting in to foul trouble because you ain’t defending.

:)

That's true. If you're going to select players to the Boomers for the purposes of poaching them then you should at least select good ones. The only reason Joey patted Hodgson on the back so firmly at the end of the season was because he was sticking a "poach me" sign onto him.

Or it's harder to win when what you poach isn't that good, but you still do it.

Winning with a Boomers team was much easier back when there were only 2 imports per team

I find it funny that Lemanis is doing what Goorjian did when he also held the dual role of club and the national team. Except Goorjian signed players that would go close or win the title. Lemanis though with the players signed is just heading for another non-playoff run. Hahahaha, this guy is so amazing in his mediocrity without the Blackwell's money.

Ignoring the valid gripe that players get approached in-season, the signings were hardly upsetting fans of the past teams. Kings fans generally considered Cadee no loss, Breakers fans would be happy to swap Vukona for Wesley, Cairns fans considered Gliddon flawed and many Adelaide fans were hoping to see Hodgson gone. (I rate Gliddon and think Cadee is a useful piece on the bench.)

Could be interesting for Lemanis now if he can keep Kickert and get Bairstow fit. But what minutes is Hodgson hoping for unless he figures he can supplant a healthy Bairstow? That's already assuming Jervis is heading elsewhere?

Its a joke that the Australian Coach can go and poach Australian players from other clubs. He should be sacked immediately for bringing the game into disrepute. Shame Lemanis shame.

Australian talented is limited in this league anyway. If you have the money you do it with your imports for the most part. Sad but true.

Half the nbl Australian team plus Vukona, it’ll be tougher to win in the nbl than Asia and com games. Will be fun to watch.

Call me when he poaches some players I actually care about. Gliddon? Vukona? Cadee? Hodgson? I think I'll sleep perfectly well at night. It will make their team stronger but it hardly debilitates anyone else.

The only thing the Gaze/Tigers "poached" (according to South Australians) was Bradtke! :P

No. L Gaze didn’t poach players using his Boomers links.

Tigers relied on A Gaze, imports and Bradtke.

I don’t think they would have ha$ room for Boomers (even fringe Boomers) on their regular rotations.

Definitely not Gaze. Pre their big sponsorship deal with K-Mart Tigers were also rans.

^sorry - that was me

" Goorjan and gaze in their day at least were on powerhouse NBL teams."

Que? Why is Lindsay Gaze even mentioned in this thread?

Gaze coached Boomers and NBL at the same time twice - 1984 Olympics and 1994 World Champs.

The 1980s Tigers were hardly a powerhouse. They didn't make finals in 1984, with an 11-13 record. Their best record for the next 4 years was 8-16 in 1988.

In 1994 Gaze filled in as national coach for the Boomers between Hurley and Barnes. The previous season (i.e., when Hurley was still Boomers' coach) the Tigers had recruited Bradtke and had become a championship team. The only Tiger player in the Boomers who played World Champs in 1994 was Andrew Gaze. I also can't recall the Tigers recruiting Boomers or fringe Boomers other than Bradtke around that time.

Goorjian did tend to coach powerhouse NBL teams that attracted Boomers and potential Boomers while he was Boomers' coach. But not Gaze.

Brisbane is going to be horrible. At least when Goorjian did it he won titles. This is all in vain. Lamenis at his finest.

Is it just me or did it seem that a lot of Boomers fringe players were very keen to play for Goorjian too when he was Boomers coach?

Just live with the fact that Boomers coaches will have an inside view on any of their representative players. Goorjian had it. Lindsay Gaze had it. Anyone who has ever coached Boomers and an NBL team has had it. This is not special.

Will be a little suss if they nab a number of guys Lemanis gave pretty big roles to over the last 12 months (Gliddon, Caddee, Hodgson, etc), especially with a couple like Hodgson and Caddee questionably selected over others arguably more deserving at the time and getting a fair bit of court time.

Part of some master poaching scheme to groom them into signing with Brisbane? Maybe. But realistically Brisbane may have just offered them the best deals and they didn't mind playing under Lemanis.

Always happy to see a Boomers or Opals coach using their contacts to stack their local team with Australian rep players, its far FAR better than a Boomers or opals coach using their contacts to stack their Australian team with their local teams' players .
:)

Too many stupid conspiracy theories.

"There is a very pungent smell about Lemanis' recruiting "

Trying to make your wooden spooner team better? Yeah, that definitely stinks. Who cares if he spoke to players during their Boomers stints? It's not like he gave them secret funds and nights with hookers for their signature.

"Wright has made his thoughts known about contracted players being directly approached mid season "

Love Joey, but let's be real, he's been known to have a good old fashioned whinge any time things don't go precisely his way.

"Gliddon now signed with Cadee to very likely follow
"

Oh no. The whole competition is over now that those two very average guards are going to Brisbane.

"Of course Kestleman wouldn't be stacking the Bullets to get them to play offs to make them more desirable in a sale. Why would you say that I wouldn't say that "

And here comes the tin foil hats, people. You have no evidence upon which to make that assertion but you do for some bizarre reason. Cadee and Gliddon does not a stacked team make. You're just going to pretend everything that happens anywhere ties back to Larry somehow. You're a halfwit.

Cadee is shit. He sucks so hard. He is terrible and so overrated. Blah blah blah.
Nek minit OMG he got poached. Lemanis breaking the rules to build a megateam. Brisbane got Cadee they gonna be stacked. LOL