East Perth MSBL have their coach already. Just not announced.

I want more info about player movements. Need to see where the chips fall and see which teams are in for a big year.

Well who is it?

driscoll

Is Lako retiring on a high or going for the double and eventual threepeat?

can anyone from wolfpack confirm Christian clausen is to lace up the boots for the Joondalup wolves in 2018.

Lako is back. Who is Driscoll?

any news on Kalgoorlie? have they got a coach or signed any players etc

Driscoll was an assistant at Perth last seson wsnt he?

I believe a well known south west basketball identity is the front runner for the goldfields giants top job for season 2018.

Mike Lay?

Hearing that Goldfields may have to find two new imports for this season.

Jacob holmen will be a massive loss if this is the case. pillard was a front runner an soft as butter . he will be easily replaced. its the support staff and coaching that will be the biggest challenge for the giants.
the bunbury rumour is strong for their coaching position. the giants are always letting us know what is happening they have been the best for many years with sharing their information. LUKOSIS ?

Feel free to share who this Bunbury man is for the coaching job

Megan Thompson named Cougars womens coach
Charles Nix named Redbacks womens coach

tanya fisher to coach east perth woman and colin driscoll to coach men

That would leave Mandurah women and Slammers men to be the last gigs vacant?

goldfeilds

Watts almost a lock for that gig

What do these SBL coaches get paid? Are we talking $0-$3k or $3-$5k or $5k-$10k or $10k+?

Lakovic elite now?

ok to 5k hardly any if any on more than this.

Can confirm with 100% driscoll is not the coach of EP men

comfirm with what, do you have a name.

Craig Watts, very experienced at State level and was assistant to Miegel this year. However Randy will be going around again from all accounts

lets talk about player movements,( not coaches ) chaudier pal is the interesting one - ive heard the Mandurah magic are in the running , also heard seva chan possibly on the move again

Chan is not moving from Cockburn, why would he? Nener wants a team of young kids and the club wants zero imports, means Chan will do whatever he wants.

Della would have returned if he was playing more than 10 minutes, no doubt. Rumour has it Thomas is recovering well from Ankle Surgery but if he plays on at Cockburn, not sure. Some young boys coming through the program there would have valued those two sticking around. Will it happen?not likely.

Cougars will still have Field, Cummings, Chan.

Holman to the Hawks

Hussey to the Wolves

Little H why is that funny? If you dont think either of those two guys arent a chance to play at those clubs mentioned then clearly you are the one who should be laughed at.

Elaborate or gtfo

WTF is with the SBL advertising for a security firm? Very odd

Link?

East Perth men's coaching gig just advertised

I think the real question is, has the glass been tested.

If Cougars don't have a decent import they run the risk of being wooden spooners.
Heard DT wants to go to Hawks.
Nener does not value Della as a player so no point in the 35 year old playing again, wouldn't surprise me if he followed DT to play under Parsons.
Holmes is a decent player who continues to improve. But foul prone.
Field no where near the player he used to be since his arm injury.Cummings good Not much else there.Chan a bit soft. It's ok to want a young team but only have players suitable as 8,9 and 10th players.
Don't believe as a coach that Nener can attract players
Without an import and another big no finals for Cougars

Field needs to not be the third or sometimes fourth option on the Cougars team. He wasn't at his best last season but a lot of that had to do with Neners game plan. He just didn't get Field enough looks. He chose to feature the import and Cummings.

Don't know how Nener got the job again Will probably play Field as a guard again.

still looking for coaches slammers,eagles,giants ,

That was actually his best move of the year, allowing Gavin to play the 1 and actually get the team through sets, that's when they played their best basketball.

Every year there is talk Cougars wont have imports, they always end of with one if not two.

Played Field 1 and put Della on as well for more than 10 minutes Has He retired or not.

Rendulic got screwed for the Redback WSBL job. Should have been his. Typical trash club not looking after their own homegrown. Wait for that team to be a shambles this year. Nix couldn't coach at PL and he got lucky to have Michael Lay as his assistant this past season. Will be found out this year.

Rendulic definately got screwed, My male was coach was asked to groom him for the job and then he didnt get it

It was d league marky mark,
and it was a pretty stacked team.
JAKENS 150+ GAMES WSBL
ASHWORTH 60+ GAMES WSBL
HUGHES 60+GAMES WSBL
STREET 50 + GAMES WSBL
LISCOMBE 200 + GAMES WSBL
DONOVAN 150+ GAMES WSBL
HAYWARD 150+ GAMES WSBL
Should be playing grand finals

They were beaten by Mandurah u-20s side for the div 1 GF this season. Nix a good coach and will get this squad up and about and probably wont include a number of the above.

Two thirds of the above comments from Tim himself no doubt. Been with the club as a player and coach, so they obviously know him well enough to know he isn't good enough for the job. Move on, because frankly no one else cares.

All is not lost , Tim can assist Nix this season and take over next season as the only reason Nix is coaching woman is because there are no Mens jobs going in the city and he didnt want to commute.
Can bet your life when a mens job comes up next season he will be gone.
He has to coach to stay involved and this was the only job going, If you sit out of coaching for a season its hard to be accepted for other jobs.

i think they are better the past few years with the players they brought in(played finals)
Previous seasons finished near the bottom with the long standing loyal players you speak of

They even bring in players from the Suns? Wow.

I am pretty sure Parsons and DT are mates and just because they are catching up means nothing.

They played Field at the 1 and got through sets. Isn't Chan a PG? Isn't DT a PG? Isn't Van Lit a PG?

3 games better and a finals appearance
Dont know if the woman would have spent 60k?
Import was injured the whole year.

The league was 10 times better in 2016 and 2017 than it was in 2015.

SOUNDS LIKE A DISGRUNTLED 2015 PLAYER

Nixy mmmmmmmm......
They had 4 x imports plus Ty for a few games.
On face value that team NEEDS to win the Chip.

But they did face Perth Redhagebacks, so Slammers were clearly 2nd best i reckon.

Still on paper 1/4s is terrible result.

Nix is going to be coaching girls, how hard could it be!

Seeing in the article for HC applications that Joe Alan plans to play on in 2018. How many games has he played now? He must be getting close to the record.

Hussey back to Wolves?

Cockburn throwing all their money at Hussey and Armour and Scott to head to the Den. Rumour has it they have lost Cummins. Will there be enough balls at the orange shed in the paddock?

armour and scott are not a successful partnership.
hussy and scott may work - the 3 of them together - no chance in hell of working.

How do you lose Cummings? He was their one player worth building around. No disrespect to Gavin, but he wasn't someone you were going to build your teams future around. That's a massive loss if true.

I call bullshit on Cockburn trying to get all those guys. They wouldn't pay for a second import so how do they afford all these guys.

I had heard Cockburn weren't even going to be able to afford one import let alone recruit others across. Cummings probably headed to East Perth with the wildcats connection

Teams pay $$$.
Coburn doesnt pay players.
So its that simple, those that want to play for the club for free will stay around.
Those that dont, wont.

At times its a fair chunk of coin too.
You cant blame the young guys for leaving for $$$ there is no right or wrong here.

So what possible reason would Hussey want to go to Cockburn for if they can't pay him?

Hussey will go to whoever pays him the most
Cockburn won't pay anyone no imports this year.
Without Cummings, No imports and No Della ,Coach has little to work with .
Hard year ahead
Club with the most money will win

Wow so Lako will be starting himself and Wagner coming off bench? That guys ego has no boundaries

Why wouldn't you play both together. Wags is not a scorer so could simply distribute.

Cockburn haven't paid anyone in a long time except Gavin and sometimes leaving the club isn't always about money.

Get Marcus Goodes back!!

HUssey confirmed at redbacks.. where?

seva has been offered money from mandurah.

So Cummings is back at the Tiger?

Lol at that Tigers lineup. I guess making shit up is popular on this forum

Can confirm the Tigers are looking at:

1. Armour
2. Cummings
3. Scott
4. Bowie
5. IMPORT

Turner has already signed with the SEABL next year, hoping to make NBL as a naturalised player. They are looking at another dominant big that has played in this league 2 years ago.

Cody out with hip surgery, will hurt them with shot blocking and just a body in the paint.

Can confirm that there is a difference between looking at and actually having a player on your roster. That lineup for the Tigers is wrong. It's just a made up pipe dream.

Bowie at the 4 is silly

Bowie at the 4 isn't even the dumbest part of the post

Just goes to show you how the SBL is on the decline. Cody Ellis can't get a game in the NBL but averages big numbers in the SBL.
SBL only had Dexter Kernich Drew and Cody Ellis from the NBL, the QBL has more NBL players. Only a few years ago you had players like Tom Jervis, Luke Nevil, Peter Crawfords in the SBL, but now you can't even get half decent imports.
SEABL, QBL and Big V arguably better than the SBL now. Sad days.

Just enjoy the players that are in the league now. You whinge like a little bitch over what the SBL doesn't have instead of enjoying what it does have. Heaps of great players to watch and some really good rivalries being built.

Ellis averages were 16 ,5 and 3 hardly big numbers, about 30th in scoring , 36th in boards in the league so for a starting power forward pretty average.

Just enjoy the players that are in the league now. You whinge like a little bitch over what the SBL doesn't have instead of enjoying what it does have. Heaps of great players to watch and some really good rivalries being built.

You don't watch the SBL do you? You must be one of those old fucks who just complain about stuff on the interwebz because you are sad and miserable. Cody was one of 3 NBL players on his team. Avg of 16 in the league last season was the equivalent of about 20 in the previous season. Not bad on a team that ran an offense which involved more than 1 guy who took all the shots

#653770 which reply / poster are are you abusing?

the SBL is very average. No player gets any NBL interest. Its a bush league and is treated as such. SEABL is more competitive and professionally run.

SBL is trash. If you like it that's fine but don't expect people to not tell you the truth about its quality just to make you feel better about it.

SBL is putrid. WA lags far behind.

whinge whinge whinge. And yet all you SBL-haters... guess what. When the season rolls around, you still put up $10 every weekend to go abuse the referees and yell at coaching adjustments because you could do SO much better. If the SBL is putrid...what does that make you? grow up.

I don't go because it's too boring.

Hahaha
I don't go because it’s the worst form of basketball going around.

So all the people bagging it don't actually go to games? Sounds about right.

We stopped going.

Passion? How subjective.

Ranking:
SEABL
WASBL
QBL
BIGV
the rest

QBL is 100 times better than the SBL ! you are just being silly if you think otherwise.
QBL had Torrey Craig, Jeremy Kendle, Tom Jervis, Mitch Young, Damon Heuir, Daniel Kickert, Shaun Bruce, Lucas Walker, Alex Loughton, William McDowell-White, Lance Hurdle, Brendan Teys, Stevie Weigh, Adam Gibson - and so many more!!!

SBL had Loughton for 4 games, Cody Ellis, Dexter Kernich and a retired Shawn Redhage who at 36 absolutely dominated the Bush League.

QBL is far superior, some of you SBL lovers really need to get with reality.

top sbl players
Jackson Hussey - played 2 nbl games, 6 minutes and 3 turnovers.
Chudier Pal - averaged 7 points and 7 rebounds in seabl compared to 14 and 14 in sbl

Top qbl players
Actual nbl players

Yes while you like to watch it and it's available to you, don’t kid yourself by saying it’s better than the qbl or Seabl. It’s great you make do with what you have, but don’t get ahead of yourself. Your league is equal to waratah and the SA league, and I say that from experience

I don't watch even though it is here and I hate it. If I liked it I'd watch it.

With the SA state league now having two imports I'd say that league is stronger too. Only 10 clubs so it's not watered down.

I think its pretty clear and accepted that SEABL is the top league in AUS outside of the NBL. The examples you are using to discredit the SBL are pretty pathetic.

If you are saying Hussey is a top player in the SBL I would say OK, maybe a top 20 player. Chudier Pal perhaps a top 30 player and averaged 14 and 14 when SBL was still 48 mins.

SBL and QBL roughly on par, depending really on the talent of the imports year to year.

Ray Turner in 11 games in the QBL in 2016 averaged 22.5 pts and 12.3 rebounds. This year in the SBL, 25 pts and 12.3 rebounds.

Tom Jervis QBL this season 23ppg and 12.5 rpg... No longer have access to past season stats but I am confident in saying that on a 40min game basis Jervis' averages were lower than that in the SBL. The East Perth website has stats for the 2014 season in which he averahed 16.5 ppg and 11 rpg (after adjusting for the 48 min game length).

Alex Loughton 18ppg and 8rbg in the QBL this season... in his 4 games in the SBL he averaged 17ppg and 10rpg (granted he was in a reduced role but also played some poor teams during that stretch).

Redhage averaged 25 a game this year in the SBL and I'd say he'd pretty much replicate that in the QBL.

Finally of the NBL players who played QBL last season this is how many games they each played:
Craig - 10
Jervis - 12
Young - 12
Kickert - 5
Bruce - 21
Walker - 20
Loughton - 8
Teys - 1
Weigh - 9
Gibson - 9
Weeks - 15

That is less than half the season for most.

However you spin the two leagues (QBL and SBL) are not that far apart.. despite what some posters here may believe.

Keep spinning it SBL is at Waratah level not QBL.

Why do they have to be players? Fans can have an opinion.

Seabl
QBL
Premier league SA
Big v champ
Sbl
Waratah

That's the order imo

Massive LOL at BigV being anywhere near SBL level. Same for any SA league. LOL

Seabl
SBL/QBL AT BEST ON PAR. Sbl prob a bit better
The rest

No chance SBL is QBL level. I would have SA on par with SBL or slightly ahead. Better NBL guys involved.

it comes down to the quality of imports that are bought out for the season and also how many NBL players decide to suit up for the off-season.
just about all of the 36ers local talent play in SA . also a lot of NBL talent in the QBL. SBL has miminal NBL talent suiting up. redhage,ellis bragg.
I think it depends on the year , its a pointless argument anyway.
we don't we have the grand finalists from each state league playoff - top two teams from each state.

No way SBL is at QBL level. Some of you SBL fanboys need to get with reality.

Great post Lukosius. You love the SBL but at the same time aren't delusional like the others.

I assume those NBL players who play QBL and average over 10 mins a game in the NBL are still considered "restricted players", as is the case in the SBL? In that case each team is still limited to 2 restricted players. Many of the imports who play SBL or QBL if they were locals, would definitely be good enough play NBL. For example, a Dwayne Benjamin or Jacob Holman are as good a players as Mitch Young or Steven Weigh. I don't think a Brendan Teys would be averaging 25ppg in the SBL like Tre Nichols.

The difference is really then who has the better caliber "third tier" local, but unrestricted players.

^ well that further strengthens the argument that the 2 leagues are roughly similar. Regardless of the extra NBL players, the QBL teams can only have 2 restricted players (same as SBL). They are further limited by points.

any news on your coach lukosius ? or further additions to your squad.
every team must be looking for the imports at the moment, anyone signed any at all.

QBL > SBL

I would go SBL, followed by Big V and SA PL, with QBL and Warratah bringing up the rear.

QBL can't be at the rear with Waratah. Unless you're retarded.

There is teams running around in SBL that couldnt beat a few teams at Lakeside A grade.
That is bad for any league!

That's because British Basketball League is woeful. SBL yes is on par or better than that joke of a league.

Mm tight between SBL and QBL but I give SBL the slight edge by the length of a Tom Jervis dick

QBL is far better.

Sbl is trash, always is

Cairns, Townsville and Mackay would finish 1, 2 and 3 in SBL.

It all started with SBL fanboys ranking their league too highly and when called out getting way too defensive over it. Not sorry for calling them out on it.

Those northern QLD sides would rip shreds out of even the top SBL side which makes the delusional SBL comments even more ridiculous.