cool, heres hoping they sort it all out and Maher stays a sixer!!

In my Opinion.
He will stay or season ticket holders will not renew there season pass. the fans are at there lowest in years so to let the Face of The Franchise Go would be almost the Dumbest move in Phillps Championship History.

If adelaide dont resign Brett, it will be by far the lowest point of The 36ers Franchise.

Brett Maher has been in Adelaide his whole life, really its not Rocket Science to stick with Maher.
If Adelaide dont resign Maher they must have a screw loose, the club has let numerous young guns float away (Foreman, Holmes, Newley, Ingles).
Surley there not stupid enough to let the best player in Franchise history walk away.

Yes by far the best player the franchise has ever had,
they shouldnt even be in negotiations with Brett.
Just Sign the dotted line.

Brett Maher must be given a contract for as long as he wants,whatever it costs.When he decides to end his career, his shirt and the no. 5 must retire to the rafters of the dome for everyone to gaze upon and admire what a great player he has been for the sixers.

He will remain a 36er, all this talk of east coast clubs in particular the gold coast I believe is rubbish. I belive its an attempt to try and get an increase, which i think is fair enough! Maher will remain a 36er

Don't worry everyone...I'm confident things will work out.
After all, Brett, Mal and Phil have all sat together in an interview when Mal was talking about his desire to have 'local' players in the team.
I'm sure the club and Brett will be on the same page. It's in the interests of both parties to get a good outcome. I'm sure Mal knows that, as would Brett & his agent.

James,
Mal's "Franchise" did not let Forman, Holmes, etc go. This was previous admin. It's my understanding that Mal is trying to start fresh and wipe the slate clean from the past, but it doesn't help when the supporters can't move forward with him.

Dana and Hoopla, you are correct. I think it's fair for fans to be optimistic about Brett staying (the club knows how valuable he is) and to be aware that Mal is definitely looking at recruiting South Australians where possible.

It's quite amazing that 108 posts have been dedicated to something that's not going to happen - Maher leaving.

No doubt it was timely for Bell to announce he had been approached about Maher considering Maher's contract is currently being negotiated with the Sixers. It gives him power to get Maher a good deal to finish his career as a Sixer.

Then we focus on the next generation, anon. But as long as he is physically able to play in the NBL, he has to remain a SIXER. If not, Apollo is right....the 6er fans will become very bitter and dirty. Retiring is very different to not getting paid your dues!

Apollo,

If Brett doesn't re-sign with the club, it wouldn't be our lowest point.

Our lowest point was when we cut Brian Devincenzi in 1985. A sad day indeed. Who replaced him again?

Anon #115198,

I personally will be a Season Ticket holder for life, however if Maher finishes his career with another club, its disrespect and just asking for trouble. almost like telling the season ticket holders to drift away with him.
The club will lose respect as well as membership, if he stays to retirement The fans will continue to come out to games through the rebuilding process.

You lost me Moses. cant recall that, although i was only aged 4 at the time.
For starters we won the championship the next year 1986 so it couldnt of been that great a loss.
Then from cellar dwellers to back to back champs in 98 and 99 and other title in 2002.
Thanks to Finals MVP Brett Maher i might add.

Moses play fair it is cruel to punish the youngins with deep sixers trivia.

I still say not pursuing Jarvis Basnight was the sixers darkest hour.

At what stage does the club say enough is enough?

Is Maher worth losing huge amount of dollars?

Is it worth missing out on a Newley or signing a top level import to sign Maher?

Is it a good idea to offer Maher a huge salary considering someone has obviously spoken to the media (on Brett's behalf) to apply pressure on the 36ers management? What does that say about the strength of Mal's leadership and the strength of the club's administration?

While I agree the club need to ensure Maher gets a fair salary there has to be a cut off point where the club has to say enough is enough and its not worth crippling the team and club to sign one player. Even Brett Maher.

or we cut one Phil Smyth for a youngster named Brett Maher to get more court time.

I'd be more inclined not to renew my season tickets if Phil is re appointed coach than if Maher goes elsewhere.

Sawmeinhalf...the fact there have been 108 posts about Maher possibly leaving shows how passionate forum users are on the issue.. regardless of whether it will happen or not.

anon when those guys left they where supposed to come back to the sixers.

They did not leave here to go to another NBL club. Only Rillie and Brogan i can think of that did that.

All that have left have left to go overeas and then returned to other clubs in the NBL, even Willie has done that to us before.

Kent...

Wasn't Willie's situation he went back to the US to try for an NBA gig, missed out and by the time he was looking at an NBL return, we had locked in Charles Thomas, so we didnt have space for another import.. I cant recally who the other import was that year, I'm thinking we only had CT due to cap restrictions.

So I don't think it's quite fair to paint Willie with the Cattalini/Bradtke brush.

We had Rychart playing with Thomas as an import.

any chance we can have brett coach the team as well

Apollo, it was tongue-in-cheek. We cut an underperforming Brian Devincenzi and replaced him with an import called Mark Davis. Apparently the Davis guy was an OK power forward, so the club took a punt on him.

And the rest as they say, is history.

PS. Kent - I still would've liked to see Karl Luke kick on though. He had an awesome rookie year and then just disappeared.

Kent, by the way, what's this about Jarvis Basnight? He died in 1997 aged 81. Were the 36ers looking to recruit him this year?!

"Jarvis Basnight, 81, of the 7000 block of Alligood Road, died Jan. 3, 1997. A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in St. John's Missionary Baptist Church. Rowsom Funeral Home, Columbia, is in charge."

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970107/01070168.htm