define "official" or are you just basing it off Anstey's tweet?

OK, so whats the dirty secret Melb has?

It's not sounding like just normal player movements IMO.

best United player??... give me a spell

With all the talk late last season, it is no surprise that there would be an exodus from United.

Is there room for him in that Cairns roster? Who would they leave out - Weigh?

I thought they might move wortho on, they need too keep Kickett now and play him as the stretch 4 and Walker as the back up with a good import 5. The 3 and 4 was a log jam for United last year

The wrong player for U to lose. He was the only guy who played his guts out every night. The rest played with a misplaced sense of entitlement.

weigh hasn't signed with cairns ,either has mitch young so there would be plenty of room there.question is do we want him.

Weigh is never going to be a great player. I wouldn't bother signing him for anything but an 8th man spot.

Europe it is!

http://www.botinagy.com/blog/bye-bye-wortho-and-not-happy-as-larry/

"Worthington's good friend and former United coach Chris Anstey tweeted today: "Wow! Amazed at the reason so many great people leave @MelbUnitedHQ. Gutted to see @Wortho33 join list of people not wanted by front office"

Interesting indeed.

The good oil is he is being replaced by a former Crocs player.

Can't play for Casey, he's never played at Dandenong.

We need anyone to fund the league. I would prefer it was someone not attached to United but beggars cant be choosers. They didn't really do badly when it came to marketing and fans, it was just terrible on court and they did disenfranchise many people.

Pretty sure Wortho hasn't played in Russia, his stints were in Germany and the Adriatic League, where he was very effective before injuring his shoulder. Will be interested to see if there are still any decent offers for him there as an import.

which Crocs player is rumored to replace wortho?

Probably last chance for him to get a really good pay packet at the age of 31.Maybe one of the mid size European leagues would be a good fit.

Adriatic League is a good fit for Wortho. Similar standard to NBL and also similarities in the size of athlete there.

Wortho was United's most active player in the media and was in essence the face of the team in Melbourne.

Wortho was United's best player early last season. Later in the year, that mantle was passed to McRae.

He was a good player but it’s all about value. We can’t talk dollars here because we don’t know the figures.

This gives United an opportunity to reshuffle their team and solve the number one problem inherent in last year’s roster: It was a donut team.

Sign a legit 5 man to add some rim protection and muscle. Someone like Ibekwe. Your 4 and 5 spots are then taken up by Ibekwe (or similar), Patton, Kickert and Walker. If you want to go small or spread the floor then you could still play Kickert at the 5 occasionally with Walker at the 4, or even play small ball with Barlow or Odigie at the 4.

Kickert can obviously play the 4 on offense, so the main query becomes Kickert’s defense at the 4 but hey, I’d rather him get beaten off the dribble on the perimeter than get beaten up in the paint like he was last season. And apart from the actual defense, he just doesn’t give enough grunt, physicality and rebounding to anchor the D from the paint.

Potential team:
Ibekwe/Patton
Kickert/Walker
Barlow/Odigie
??/??
??/Tomlinson

Ins: Ibekwe, ???, ???, ???
Outs: Wortho, Corletto, McRae, Dennis

But most importantly, get a coach who will pull them all into line, get them buying into their individual roles, understanding who's the boss (the coach....) and not putting up with BS (although it must be said, a lot of the BS is gone with those outs).

Just remembered they already got a new coach

He's an older guy who's been in basketball for a long time so hopefully he's experienced at doing exactly what needs to be done with this group. A change in attitude and a new culture.

I like the look of LV's frontcourt. United need a lot more out of Barlow this year as well. So realistically Melbourne need a good Australian guard with Tomlinson as the back up and an import guard.

Wortho had a big cut made to his salary in the new United offer.
Kings were trying to put a package together but the actual dollars weren't high enough. Lots of extras but obviously not the right ones.
His kids are near school age, this is a tough position to find himself in.

Blanchfield is the melbourne signing.
Cairns hoping to pick Wortho up hence the non signing of weigh yet if wortho doesn't go to cairns weigh will be resigned.
Sydney Will sign AJ Ogilviy or Julian Khazzouh.
Rhys carter will be in melbourne.

O28, More out of Barlow..Won't be hard,he's coming from a very low base.

wrapped about the Blanchfield signing. More efficient, younger and plenty more upside than wortho.
Carter would be another great pick up if true as he just brings that spark off the bench along with great defensive intensity

Blanchfield's a good player but he brings a skill set that is similar to Barlow, Odigie and Walker.

Blanchfield probably has more upside than any of those guys but the fact remains that United has other gaps in their roster that they need to fill.

So I hope that rumour's wrong.