Word on the street is No Dowdell. Can anyone confirm Mottram playing??

Don't need Mottram, Deng has been playing better than him anyway.

The burgundy jumper is at the Salvos

No Dowdell, what about Mottram?

In the men's for me:

Truslove v Tucker: I wouldnt think Truslove would guard Tucker, but Tucker might have to bang with Truslove on the other end. Truslove has been playing well, but Rashards quickness and agility will win him the matchup here.
Haydon v Rankin or ?: Both role players, but can hit the open shots effectively, if one of these guys scores 10 points or so could swing the game.
Fildes v Evans: Fildes a lot younger and athletic with a decent shot, but Evans has the experience, rebounding and toughness. Think the experienced head would win here.
Sullivan v Nurse: Both excellent shooters that have been hot lately for each team. The only thing is both don't play too much defence. Whoever wins this matchup probably will seal the deal. Thinking that Sully has done this many times before and will be able to be slighlty more effcetive then Nurse.
Doyle v Pearce: Doyle is super quick & a good distributor, but Pearce can be an excellent defender when needed (see last wks game) Think his physicality and pressure may give him the edge in a final over Doyle.
Bench: Eagles have Blair and Deng who have been contributing well, while West have Braithwaite and Spud doing most of the damage for West. I think its a toss up between Blair & Braithwaite to see which one will have an impact on the game, both streaky who can shoot you in or out of games. Too close to call for me.

My tip: will be a ridiculously close and physical game. Without Dowdell, West may struggle defensively too keep the Eagles run and gun game down. Eagles by 4.

are we getting web casts stats from both venues tonight? or will west once again fail to get with the 21st century at port adelaide?

Result from the womens game?

web casting is the clubs responsibility the joke isn't on BSA the joke is on West Adelaide every other club can get their webcast going many stats people doing it at their own cost. Pity about West Adelaide now they have lost to forestville it will be everyone's fault bar their own

Some forestville ferals in the crowd at Pasadena

So a Norwood forestville double header. Should be epic!!! Carn the flames!

Nurse created nearly all of the contact. He was tying up and holding the defenders arm as he was leading to the ball. Maybe if he stopped looking for and trying to get the foul and actually led to the ball correctly he would have had better production.

west never lose a game especially in ABA it is always the referees fault never that their opponents played well nor that they were short one of their star players, maybe some of their players didn't play well on the night, it simply has to be the umpires fault.

Maybe when we have somebody in Basketball SA presidency we might start not getting screwed over.Still if the Forestville no 6 was marked better it could have made a big difference in the game,the guy was on fire shooting and we never had a player within a 2 meters of him fkn stupid zone defense!

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so you agree then that playing zone defence caused your teams problem and led to your downfall?

ah so now it is not only the refs that screwed you over but BSA as well?

How about the superior team on the night won, you lost.

were 5 west players fouled out?? exactly

Were west players trying to foul to stop the clock in the last quarter - exactly - stop looking through rose coloured glasses

That is like saying is president Obama running around Afghanistan ,no he is not but he is the commander of the army and what he says goes!As far as Mr Nabisco is concerned the smug look at the end of the game towards the refs tells the story-don't act stupid of course he favors his club.Next time we have to play at least 20% better to eliminate the crap refs.Last week against Sturt some weird-arse reffing was going on also-first half sturt were copping it ,the second half it was West something has to be done about the standard this is not good enough.But as Beyonce sings;your hurt/your sad boo-hoo did you expect me to care.

5 players being fouled out is an absurd amount for a big game like this.

So stop fouling!

Oh and just for the record the BSA President is a West Adelaide legend.

Try again

To Anon;I know the rules very well,as i have won an Olympic gold medal in 1980,where did you learn them playing for the southern panthers maybe?And the only thing i need kleenex for will be for wiping my arse because of the referring as it gave me shits!

I am far lesser popular than my friend Kico,but i won 2 Olympic medals and one European title.My surname does end with ic and my club won 2 now called euro league titles in the eighties.Yes my old country had the name above,now my homeland is the same of the late Drazen Petrovic with who i play before .I am visiting friends in your beautiful country and am impressed with talent here very much.Tomorrow i travel to Brisbane then back to Europe.My friends son took me to the game Saturday it was technically good with average shooting but very unusual arbitrary work.Keep up producing young talent and get some more players to try euroleauge as to NBA.I believe young ozis would fit in good there and make some cash.