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Premier league week 1 finals

Good on southern for taking It up to eagles...

I’m guessing Forestville spent nothing last year. Did they run out of brown paper bags in the bar???

You’re right, it was all Dean causing them to miss countless open shots.

Team lose its coaches fault. Team wins it's apparently nothing to do with coach. Dean has turned southern program around. Give him credit. Very gd operator. Other clubs gladly have him on board. Gets results.

Don’t think Dean was responsible for Teys and Johnson forgetting how to play basketball.

Let’s not forget Dean outcoached Andy in last year’s GF and made most of the basketball supporters in the state very happy!

I doubt Southern thought they were going to finish anywhere near 4th or 5th so when CJ advised them at the start of the year they could absorb his absence because they would have had the double chance. Drmic goes down mid year and that theory went to sh*t real quick. But that is sport, injuries happen.

i can’t believe CJ would be selfish enough to choose being a friends best man over a basketball game. Absolutely disgusting. Can’t believe his friend would even dare plan a wedding on a weekend a friend could possibly have a basketball game on. Just a shitty bunch of people in general, hey 075. Just as bad as all the Forestville players who chose Sobeys wedding rather over a basketball game.

Get off dean's case. It was the player who let club down. Dean recruited considerable talent and gelled. Championships are proof. all losers can make up conspiracies theories. Reality he is a winner has runs on the board.

Is basketball his sole means of income? Did southern pay a decent wage just for him to play and do some clinics? Yes, he is a professional player in a semi professional league. If that's all you took away from statement you are in fact a moron, thanks champ.

He’s playing Premier League. Barely professional basketball champ.

He's a professional basketball player and is employed to play that game, now his team is out of it. Sure his teammates minded a bit. It's not div 2 social at Mars. Surely in wedding planning a quick check of availability isn't hard.
And mong, is that a Christies Beach insult, sorry, I don't go to slums that often.

Asking a bloke to move a wedding so you can play a basketball game is fucking stupid you mong

042 Dean hasn't been coaching juniors recently anyway, so why would that give you any hint?

Just a can you do it a week earlier bro, my team needs me! Not hard stupid.

“Move your wedding so I can play basketball”

Feel sorry for Dean? Great recruiting? For previous 3 years he had the highest payroll and got a couple of titles and mainly won by sheer talent, not great coaching. Only an idiot could have lost with those teams which he did when McLean and Oldham outmatched him in GF and he didn't know what to do. Apparently it was all these great sponsors they had and progressive management. Guess what happened next,big clubs pulled out the chequebook and caught up and surpassed in talent. Suddenly Dean has to coach on a level playing field with 4 others and suddenly isn't a genius. Then it's revealed things aren't quite rosey fiscally down south, now instead of Brine they bring in Calligeros, hardly a even trade. Then the geniuses must have known that Turnage wasn't available on the 27th, could he as best man asked his mate to bring the wedding a week early, maybe yes, maybe no.
Anyway most don't feel sorry for Dean and Southern, they made their bed, now they have to lie in it. My money is on Deano pulling the pin, not doing juniors is a huge hint. Mainly because he won't have the money to compete next year to get Drmic and CJ back, and they will be back to where they were before he got there, with a weakened club. Maybe he can join Jamie at South and rejoin the dream team. Maybe Jayden can step into the head coaching role, probably all they can afford.
Definitely someone else and the whole committee should be liable for the mess, but they'll be running away leaving someone else to pickup pieces and probably junior fees will go up.
Anyway, don't go feeling sorry for people who brought it upon themselves.

He should have been!! And what part of Teys hit Marshall’s face

Imagine uproar if teys reported.

Cant imagine North deliberately lost.
Reckon they just thought they had won it and forgot they needed to actually win the next 5 minutes.

Anyhow, back to the great hoops being played at this time of year.
Who's winning this weekend?
North v Norwood at Hillcrest?
Gambier v Eagles at Ice House?

Of course you need to look backwards. It’s like why history is studied. If you don’t know your history you are likely to repeat errors. You need to look back to improve

I think you are assuming that Nyberg was in total control with anyone overseeing him. No way that would be the case in a club. There is shared responsibility for it all out there. The first part of improvement is taking on shared responsibility and working through how to improve, not looking backwards.

Sounds intriguing and concerning if true but this is hoops. Where there is smoke there is bullshit and sourgrapes more likely.

Those that know the truth of a club that had to be bailed out of certain closure for failure to pay will not be feeling sorry for anyone. More to what the eye can see. If you knew all that has gone on and still going on. Keep watching. Risking an entire club and alienating many in it sometimes leads to karma. No one person is above a club but while some enable them and blinded by a few championships and their own being taken care of others know the truth and will not be patronised. Many will complain with their legs because its impossible to be heard.

Got to feel for deano. Whole lot of bad luck including drimic injury. Recruited well to assemble very strong team but factors out of his control derailed. Club needs to regroup. Progressive planning will get results.

Little cost to club? How about waste of whole season and payroll included. Pretty unprofessional. Poor Deano, relied on having best roster money could buy, next minute Mt Gambier, Forestville and North tell him to hold their beers.

If club knew import not playing finals then that ok.especially if little cost to club.

On the bright side, Turnage, Drmic, Johns and Gilligan wouldn't have cost much, few others would only have been paid pennies, pretty fiscally responsible even though Southern are in a strong position financially, pretty good effort to come 5th.
.......hang on a second!!!!!

Grave miscalculation and waste of an import.

Who were the new local arrivals?

Fact is they didn’t finish top 3 even with their 2nd import arrival and new local arrivals. They should have got the results through the season with their import to make that top 3 but didn’t, they brought in another and it is pretty arrogant if they did hedge the bets knowing 2 would be missing for this elimination final and thought they would be sweet against trams like Norwood. Thats disrespectful to the abilities of other teams and coaches. Relying on the buy in of a single superstar and then another at the expense of the rest of the talent sometimes bites you on the arse. Other clubs have felt the same wrath making similar choices. Consider the arse bitten.

If Southern had finished in the top three rather than fourth we wouldn't even be talking about this, as they'd be playing again next week with CJ back.

Yes it was a risk but it was only a problem if they finished fourth or fifth. The fact that that's what happened is unfortunate.

Well that's ok then being best man. Maybe mention to the groom not to have wedding in late July or August.

Reckon North will be alright and get the monkey off the back. They have lost once in their last 13 games and that was in OT vs Eagles at Wayville last night.
Cant see them losing two in a row, this is a very different North team compared to past finals teams.
Norwood wouldnt even be there if CJ played.

Can North handle the pressure of being bundled out again in straight sets and Norwood dodging a bullet will have nothing to lose. Would be concerning with Bj as your point guard taking 13 3 point attempts, didn't watch the whole game but the ones I saw were mainly bad shots. Webber will get inside his head.
Hopefully for Rockets Starling doesn't miss this week to go to movie world.

I don’t think North will be that poor defensively again. Seemed to lack intensity plus taking poor shots. Any even then sent it to overtime

North will more than handle Norwood.

Tigers egg on face. Very poor management. Hit finals and have mvp bail.. futile exercise.... just the break flames need. Take care of north now... like they say finals are new games... can't play finals can't play...

Not getting paid to miss friends weddings I guess.

Nothappy plays minor round but not finals. What was he getting paid for

CJ in Bali. Mentioned several times champ.

Teys choking late in a big game and Majok playing hero ball when someone gets in his ear, could set your watch to it.

So why didn't cj not play. Washer the game. Injured

Yep for Deano, hot chips or some dim Sims in 2nd quarter. Can never predict what he's going with, then it's either coke or fanta, totally unpredictable!

Don’t bring Sturt in to your beef FatCat. He only coached teams with talent there too and had some failures and I don’t think they would have him back. Nothing to do with them. He is his own man clearly. They don’t seem to have Jury with them anymore which would be a huge loss and completely undervalued. He is one of the few coaches there that gets results year in and out and a Tiger faithful. See his name is not on the Junior list as well so a huge loss there too. This is a Tiger issue and how they choose to run these days. Leave other clubs out of it.

Lol @ anyone saying Deano doesn't make in game adjustments.

So hear me out I heard a rumour and it may not be true that forestvile or as we like to call them the cheatgles (we being the whole league) are in talks with the league about getting Daniel Johnson back for the next game so hopefully they don’t have to touch the bench at all. Look I may be wrong but the way Cameron bell looked tonight it could be true. I also walked past 4 parents and what looked to be a grandparent who stopped talking when I was going past so I may be wrong but just putting it out there

mcveigh too busy running his mouth to realise overtime had started. And finished.

Fat cat is right, Dean can only coach with talent.
Meanwhile at wayville North forgot how to basketball in overtime. Can Hawkes get a win next week?