Redhage will be back at redbacks. It got done today.

Stirling are waiting to hear the verdict on Cody Ellis regarding minutes. League source tells me they are applying for special dispensation on the grounds that he had a whole bunch of DNPs. One would assume it will be granted too.

They also confirmed Davis meaning the Stirling starting lineup can look something like:

PG Wroe
SG Davis
SF King
PF Ellis
C Anshila

B - Litterick
B - Coburn
B - Bruton
B - Thwaites
B - Thwaites

If Ellis can't coach that team to a semi final, then you really have to ask the question. 1x Wildcat 1x 36er 1x Hawk 2x Imports. Have the option of Vague too though I’m hearing he’s making a return to Cockburn OR junior club Willetton.
Good sauce.

Caleb Davis is a 4. He's a not particularly mobile 6’8!!! Hearing that he’s making some good money though. Stats in SA were ok but %s were poor. Not sure what kind of player he will be in SBL.

Vague not returning to SBL.
Coaching staff at Wildcats want him playing seabl or nznbl

championship winning player and Australian opal squad member darcee garbin set to return to the rockingham flames.

um, yeah, no.

https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/sport/darcee-garbin-back-to-light-up-qbl-with-townsville-flames/news-story/aa252ad3e0bbac62ca42e42668854a0f

Early pick for SBL mvp

The mayor of Rockingham

QBL - starts on 28th april.

WSBL - starts on 17 march.

garbin will play for the flames for a short period.
alex Loughton done a similar thing last season.

Ladder (Top 8 In Order)
Redbacks
Buccs
Wolves
Senators
Tigers
Flames
Giants
Hawks

Wooden Spoon - Eagles
League MVP - Bowie (Tigers)
Grand Final - Wolves vs Redbacks
Champion - Wolves

It's a boring league anyway

garbin - fake news , new your journo- ha ha !! see you in march darcee.

why are we talking about Women's basketball again.

Slammers in discussions with Justin Reynolds. Looks nothing special, fits the rest of the roster

Coaching staff is not even sure whether half the team is playing or not

so Redbacks just announced Mo Barrow, Hussey, Roberts, Vigor, Smith, Wagner and LAko says the big one to come on facebook page (assume Redhage), where the F is all the money coming from, and is there not a cap?

Despite Jake's incoherent gibbering, it is confirmed. JJ and Burston both will be at Willetton in 2018.

What a joke.

Hussey - paid at least $500 per
Barrow - paid at least $800 per
Roberts - paid at least $500 per
Vigor - paid at least $500 per
Redhage - paid at least $1000 per
Lako will be getting paid too no doubt, $300?

thats $3600 per game * 26 = $93600?!?!

PER THE SBL BYLAWS : "The total player/coach salary cap for the SBL will be sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) per team per year."

So Perth are blowing the Salary Cap by $30k and we all gonna sit around and be cool with that? Even take $100 off each of those above, at its 20k over.

SMH.

Slammers could have a line up of:

Lay
Puot
Voelkel
Reynolds
Weeden

Durnin
Douglas
Leary
England

(Bit thin but a playoff hope)

Although it is most likely it will be:

Lay
Leary
England
Durnin
Weeden

Douglas
Woods
Hall
Harper

(Good luck)

I did just make up numbers and declare a team is over the cap.

It's called estimating and inferring and it happens every day in real life.

What are you going to do about it...

So Perth are blowing the Salary Cap by $30k and we all gonna sit around and be cool with that? Even take $100 off each of those above, at its 20k over.

what are you suggesting we do?

I've tried hitting the letters on my keyboard extra hard and I have even used numerous exclamation marks at the end of my sentences and it doesn't seem to be making any difference. I'm out of options. Do you have any tricks up your sleeve my fellow keyboard warrior, lets rally the troops and get them up off there chairs sitting back acting all cool while these Redbacks go over the salary cap

So what would your estimates be KR?

Lacko cheating the system, just like last year but more blatantly this year. Sbl never check the books so they'll do what they do. All teams might as well do it, make it with no cap. Besides he has no real respect either, all the sbl coaches tolerate his ego at best. He was kicked out of wildcats practice cause they know his full of it, and they had an open day with 700 people attend the following week. Applied for under 20s state team, didn’t get it. Let them burn money buying sbl championships. Then once the well dries up and he’s one more championships than lakeside, he can be the next Andy Stewart working around like his important.

Christian Rice just announced as redbacks GM. Good to see he is using his BWA knowledge to cheat the system

Exactly, Hussey will be getting paid through World Academy, probably Barrow too. You say this is legal, which it is. But the league should wake up. It's ruining the competition. Why not publish salaries like the NBA? I know it’s a big leap into the unknown but...

Hey

Don't be mean

Redbacksrule

Wow he was the SBL CFO and now a team GM? hahahaha I can't imagine it from his days as a volunteer who everyone loved to needle.

SBL CFO?! lol the SBL has one person running it, Adam Bowler whose the GM.

Christian was once the GM and then became COO at BWA.

Chief Financial Officer for a State League, bruh this ain't BHP Billiton.

Eagles about to announce their import. Ex teammate of Sunday Dech at Metro State

Are you planning on contributing more than 2 and 2 per game this year than your lost showing ya spud?

The Mayor of Wanneroo/Rockingham needs to conduct an internal audit of the SBL salary cap and its enforcement

Redbacks will be going back to back with that lineup. Very high caliber players. Redbacks are smart in the way they conduct their business but they are being funded Mr Major. The money man himself. They got the chip last year but thats on other teams to step up their "Do it Shady" game.

Don't hate the players, hate the BWA/SBL By Laws and their ridiculous loopholes.

How would you fix it?

East Perth got the Jonathan Morse. No Ketchup...Just Morse. Raw Morse.

I see 20s boys beat Victoria today

ALEX Ducas has played very well through 2. Will be great for the Buccs if he starts at the 1. Amazing what puberty will do, kid was 5'8 runt 2 years ago. Now 6’3 and stacking on muscle.

Ducas is listed at 197cm so 6'6 now

Christian is a good dude he will sort out the office stuff

World Academy Inc.

Lakeside Men putting some pieces in place:

PG - Isenbarger
SG -Bell
SF- Morgan
PF - Cooperwood
C - Prue

Wolves - Billups, Sullivan.
Redbacks - Barrow, Roberts.
Tigers - Diagne, Bowie.
Senators - Anshila,King
Giants - Sovine, Sharpe.
Hawks - Monroe, Carlwell.
Buccs - Natesan, Colter.
Eastern Suns - Davis, Belger.
Flames - Hire, Ritchart.
Cougars - Sebirumbi , ?
Lightning - Isenbarger, Cooperwood
Magic - ? , ?
Slammers - Voelkel , ?
Eagles - ? , ?

Morgan not returning for Lightning.

Suns with the best import combo?

Cooperwood lol

Where has cooperwood being playing?

he was a bit of a bust in the sbl. a lot of talk and hype but wasn't actually that good

also heard he was a fan of not training due to injury but would heal up just in time for game night

Its not a rumour. Lakeside have signed him.

Redbacks back to back this year. Fully loaded.

What teams will be a bust this year?

What teams will over achieve?

If Hire is unrestricted and Flames can get 2 imports plus Hire good move.

If not then bad move!

Wolves - Billups, Sullivan.
Redbacks - Barrow, Roberts.
Tigers - Diagne, Bowie.
Senators - Anshila,King
Giants - Sovine, Sharpe.
Hawks - Monroe, Carlwell.
Buccs - Natesan, Colter.
Eastern Suns - Davis, Belger.
Flames - Hire, Ritchart.
Cougars - Sebirumbi , ?
Lightning - Isenbarger, Cooperwood
Magic - ? , ?
Slammers - Voelkel , ?
Eagles - Morse , ?

why would hawks improve? Haven't really gained much at all.

UP
Senators - Ellis + 2 imports + Davis. Top 4.
Giants - legit 3x imports
Suns - big jump, maybe 3 or 4 spots. Davis and Belger alone are to be feared.
Lightning - add Prue, Isenbarger and Cooperwood. good juniors, maybe a place or two.

DOWN
Hawks - Monroe looks ave and DT is getting old.
Slammers - no comment.
Cougars - no Billups.

SAME
Wolves - not down so not moving.
Redbacks - not down so not moving.
Flames - downgrade on imports but add Hire
Eagles - not up so not moving.
Magic - not up so not moving.
Tigers - downgrade on Turner but more ball for offensive studs Scott and Bowie
Buccs - downgrades on imports but add Ross

DOWN DOWN

Coles (apparently)

Hawks will be around come playoff time. Monroe will be solid.Hes not going to be a 20/10 guy, but thats not they recruited him for.Hes going to be a solid piece for them. He will prove people wrong.Cummings is the big pickup. He has vastly improved from last season. Add in their young guys improving, the do it all vets and some leadership from Daniel Thomas and they are going to be better than some are predicting.

A potential starting 5 for hawks, from what I can tell it's more dangerous than people think.

START
Thomas
Cummings
Purser
Monroe
Carlwell

BENCH
Smith
Cassir
Hickert
Clark
Hayto

Cummings, Purser and Carlwell are all scorers in their own right. Thomas can still score on any night when needed and Monroe from what people have said is a hard worker and will scrap to get points.

The big jumpers this year will be Joondalup. They will be in first all year and pending injuries will probably win the chip with the squad they have put together this year. Domination is in store for that club. New arena, New Jerseys, New players, New Championship in 2018. WOLFPACK

we are now mid feb, any sbl practice matches on the cards or already played?

Hire only avg 8.5mins per game so why is he restricted?

Crazy! Cant even play finals makes it every worse!

Hire would be unrestricted if he was playing for the wolves, genius.

Rocko anons having a whinge they signed Hire as an import.

More like wolves having a cry that hire left.
Regardless of status, still a solid pick up and will play 20 plus games easy. And finals

Hire was signed under the pretence that he was Restricted. And Ellis was signed under the pretence he was unrestricted. Stirling did their due dilligence, Rockingham are now playing catch up.

At some point the league needs to draw the line and say, this is the cut off. Otherwise it implicates all teams when the actual season starts if the goal posts are constantly changing.

Hires restricted, probably skip Finals too. Deal.

Carlwell can't become an Aussie with the snap of his fingers. Hawks and Carlwell have to follow a process set by the Government. If he could do it that easy he would already be an Aussie. It’s not like they aren’t trying to get it sorted.

good luck to the clubs that get off their arse and recruit quality players into our league.
the giants and buccs have been doing it for years - every year they bring in someone who is an exciting player , the slammers have done it in recent seasons as well.
you have to spend a little money to make some money
if you can fill your stadium each week it pays for the recruiting you have done.
our pool of quality Australian players isn't that good compared to the eastern states only because of population, so for clubs who bring in eastern states players as well good luck.
well done to the redbacks, giants,buccs, flames,wolves, they have done a awesome job with promoting and recruiting in the off-season.i think the clubs to watch this season in both men and women are stirling and wolves.

signing hire as a restricted player still has its benefits
1. he is a known quantity both on and off the floor. he is a dominant SBL player and a high character guy around the team and the club (ie no Vinny Zollo's)
2. you don't have all the bother with flights, accommodation, visas, clearances
3. he is a mayor

If your getting the vintage 2012 SBL version of Hire eg has free reign to play as 4/5man in SBL then he could be a good pick up.
Wildcats trying to make him 3 man (which 100% understand thats his role to make a living at NBL level).

But Rocko need him in the paint not standing around shooting jumpers and 3's.

whats happening with s/w slammers import to go with voekel,lay,weeden.
the s/w slammers women I believe are signing 2 imports this year maybe the club has decided to give the girls a go for a change.
still nothing out of the eagles camp.
still nothing out of the Mandurah camp other than they have chaudier pal.
Cockburn also quite .

Carlwell is going through his PR process now. He has been for a little while now.

I would expect wildcats happy to expect hire with what he is at this stage of career..won't be pressuring for him to get playing time at the 3.

Ellis will replace Hire at the 3 for Cats next season so won't matter where Hire plays in SBL

SBL fans do a great job of talking up 'how great this league is', then turn around and have a cry when teams try to bring in nbl talent and imports by carrying on about the rules.

Your league sucks cause you lot keeping making it suck.
SBL behind on the rules compared to every other league with restricting players.
SBL is behind with social media and media releases.
SBL is behind streaming games.
SBL is just behind.

Behind who exactly? We know the SBL is behind the SEABL, a basketball Australia competition.

SBL has actually got a great product in terms of the talent on the floor. It is at the very least on par with the BigV or even above. But the league administration and club marketing is where it is let down. Some clubs do a great job of marketing and promotion which lets face it only involves a bit of social media and the like. The SBL website has gotten worse and worse over the past few years.

Basketball is a fun game to play.

Do all teams in BIG V/QABL/SEABL have 2 x imports per team?

Im sure they do.

Some SBL teams still going around with 1

I love the SBL.

BWA don't even have a media department or manager. It's one person running the show. Big V have 6 full time staff working on the competition.

And also, I'm not sure if you've seen the Big V website, its trash.

Its the SBL, its a semi-professional league, expect a semi-professional approach. Go back to watching Bleacher Report edits.

Suns with Timms/Belger and Davis will be big Improvers.

Horn is also serviceable.

But then absolutely zero after that!

Push the 8!

Bush league hey?
Assume you not talking about the talent.

How would the 2017 champs in SA (Premier)/BIG V and QBL compare to SBl winners?

Be interesting to see.

I reckon SBL have them all covered.
QBL may be close game in the GF.

QBL would kill SBL, Big V and SA similar to SBL. SBL has two actual NBL players (DP's don’t count).. both will need some luck to even get a contract next year.

QBL??
Mate look at your championship team, a 38yr old Peter Crawford leading the way.

Chris Cedar having 50pts for the losing team haha

Exactly, some people on this site are riding QBL D*&ks hard. Very hard. Peter Crawford was the teams best player. Are you kidding me?. The dude is well well past overdue, he wouldn't be a factor in the league in the SBL. Whilst he was here at times he was a complete non factor. The SBL product is much better than given credit for on court. Some great talent. I agree the SBL need to do a much better job of staying on top of media and social media production.

Just watched Chris Cedar on you tube score 14 points in 3 minutes. My god check the pace of the game and the standard. Awful. There is a guy in there with ginger hair who looks like he's 45 years old and has a belly on him. What a joke.

just get over it. SBL is really bad. Too many players in the league that shouldn't be playing, but thats what happens when you have too many teams in the metro area.

SBL sucks. No players in the NBL have come from the SBL is recent times. The people who glorify it are the same ones that say Tre Nichols should be playing for the wildcats.

Lol yeah the SBL really made Gliddon the player he is in a half size dozen games haha

Wolves not playing Wildcats! It's there academy group. Wildcats wouldn’t risk their team playing those scrubs.

Your sbl sucks

QBL haha!
SBL would beat them by 20 plus!

PC still playing and dominating at 38yrs old. Thats a classic.

But yeah your leagues awesome!

Redhage is your best player and he isn't far off 38 himself

So that Paul Graham scored 82pts and it was to only TIE the scoring record of the SBL? Wow, what a bush league.

Lee Roberts is the best player in that team.

Even so Redhage to PC come on dude!

How does anyone score 82 points twice in a state league unless it's bush grade. Point proven.

Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 and Kobe scored 81 in NBA games, does that make the NBA a bush league? stupid argument, if you dont rate SBL, fine get off the this thread and go back to your own thread

Nope sbl sucks.
Won't leave the thread.
Just like untalented hacks won’t leave your league.

How many SBL followers would be looking at a QBL thread hahah zero!!

Enjoy our league mate!

OK troll, what an exciting life you have following threads on leagues you dont like!

You should consider a QBLX to make your league more exciting.

can anyone remember ron nunelly in the premier league , he must have had some 70 point or 80 point games. is that a bush league to then

lets not forget jarrad prue was an sbl product and won an NBL championship

Senators just made Anshila official via FB

Pretty sure he played more like 6-9.. and he has the ring as well.

Doesn't count the games he was signed but didn't hit the court.

What a ridiculous arbitrary date.

Regular season ended 18 Feb yet they use a random date of 15 Jan... lol. BA are morons.

No, as that discriminates against players not in the playoffs.

and I know you were trying to make a point but it was a flawed one.

God you guys are a bunch of babies. Clubs want it this way so that they can plan for who they sign and when. If they have to sit around and wait for the end of the season then people already at the club are in limbo and so are potential imports.

And before you come back with 'duh no it doesn't have to the end of the season, it can be another date'.. well then that would just be another arbitrary date then wouldn't it you dumbasses.

the sbl changed the decision with corbin wroe, if i was rockingham i'd be at least giving it a shot with greg hire and reminding them they've done it before

SBL season is too long, shorten it like they are doing over east which will help move the cutoff date later.

Now we are complaining about the season being too long? My god, lets just get rid of the season all together then yeah. Apparently no good products, the season goes for too long, lets do everything over East is doing.

I imagine the Perth Wildcats use that similar approach. Big Dog Trev sitting there saying we better do what the Sydney Kings are doing this year and lets replicate that cause WA doesn't know how to do anything basketball wise.

Like seriously get off the East Cock PE*%S and stop commenting if you have no general interest in the SBL.

It actually make sense to shorten the season to less weeks Just have more double headers .
You would get more NBL players willing to play if the season was shortened it would make the competition better and you might Even see a better D1 comp as more experience players would want to play that For a longer comp.
It's does burn players and staff of these teams out as your pretty much getting a 2month break between end of season and preseason .
That doesn’t include planning meeting and recruitment

or do as QBL and play triple headers. And don't say you can't do that, as the QBL travels further distances than the SBL.

Doesn't bother me. If you simple folk that keep your league from progressing.

"play triple headers" yeah the product of games would be amazing by the third game wouldn't it? laughable! That makes no sense. Would love to know what Plebs make these comments. If they are actual players in the league, lets see how you are going on court the past few years or this season.

Anyone in their right mind would not want more triple headers, just to make a shorter season. Two games a week is plenty enough and the league has had no issues. Imagine the fan base of those teams for triple headers. Expect fans to show up three days over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

Country teams cannot just play triple headers as it comes down to finances, its a large expense to have people in hotels over night all the time, along with travel expenses. If you don't like the SBL and you're a QBL lover, then head on over to the QBL site and have a chinwag.

So QBL basically has one thing and thats some streaming coverage which back in 2009 ad 2010, the SBL did have with game of the week streaming over the internet, with commentators and scorers etc. It was just no longer feasible. Why stream it and get even less people through the door?

What about a format like this:

All teams play each other once. When it hits the all star game weekend, we determine the top 8 and bottom 6

Then from there, the top 8 play against each other and bottom 6 against each other.

Which means top 8 play only 7 games ,while bottom 6 play only 5 games.

This will make the level of competition consistently high and will be a hard game each week, the level of basketball won't go down.

Then we could do the same system as the AFL finals for both top and bottom divisions.

In that case we will finish the season before Aug.

Or we could start the season end of April to get more NBL players and more imports to the SBL easier.

I would be angry as hell putting in that much pre season and effort for 8 games. 20+ games in a season is not much. Been doing it now for a long time and if players are any type of athletes that aspire to NBL or College or Europe or even NBA, then they should be able to handle this.

There needs to be a change. SBL players work full time then play don't forget. I was astounded when I found out SBL pre season training began in November/December???

Puot not returning to Slammers

I reckon young Rowan Mackenzie might start for Lakeside at the 2, making big strides

Div 1 MVP Benjamin Lee moved over to Lakeside too, plays the 2/3

It's scary to see where the Lightning will be in 3 years when Grida, Ferguson, Shervill and Mackenzie fill out.

It's scary to see where the Lightning will be in 3 years when Grida, Ferguson, Shervill and Mackenzie fill out.

1 guy out of the 4 you mentioned are playing for Lakeside.

^ Pathetic comment

Simon met his wife 10 years ago.

Shervill will return from college this season and rejoin Lakeside.

1 guy out of the 4 you mentioned are playing for Lakeside

Hence why I said... in 3 years

So that leaves Scott as the lightest 3 man in the league.. or he comes off the bench?

how about putting armour on the bench.scott is a flat out 2 . armour is not.
ill take scott over armour all day - phil j ring

rockingham vs Mandurah tonight . pre-season clash in rockingham .

The fact some idiot is talking trash about Peterson is an absolute disgrace. Keep your personal attacks to yourself you absolute pathetic excuse for a human being, Good old KEYBOARD WARRIOR!!!

Peto AKA "the commish!"

gotta love the bloke. Was a solid role player for the Mustangs back in the day

The one player people are sleeping on at lakeside is Garbellini. Every bit as talented as Grida and Shervill but has to date not had the same level of opportunity with minutes. With the roster they have this year expect him to really make a mark

very over rated backcourt

Willetton will be running Collins a lot more this year too:

PG - Armour
SG - Scott
SF - Bowie
PF - Johnson
C - Diagne

b- J.Jackson
b- Black
b- Burston
b -Collins
b- Noordhork
b- L. Jackson

do SBL teams make players pay rego fees ?

Aaaand senators just made King official

Dark Horse. Saucy.

Lakeside and Perry Lakes in a bidding war for Redhage

Anyone know anything about the Slammers two newest recruits? Justin Reynolds and I have heard they have another in town

Wolves minus Trian and Damo lost 80-100 to the Wildcats Academy group who only had 7 players themselves.

Wolves played their main squad all first quarter to be down 2 points at the break. Then rotated their bench in the 2nd which didnt go to plan and found themselves down 49-33. After that Etto and Co. played their main squad again all the second half but it was a wrap by then with the young cats rolling the wolves.

Import guard for wolves looked average against the press. Billups was dominate though.

Grida, Callum Beard and Ben Gasper very serviceable players for the Academy team.

More importantly who played for the Wildcats academy? Also did any first teamers played to be ready for finals?

No NBL guys for the Academy group.

Academy
Vague, Cummings, Bragg, Grida, Beard, Casper, Melusi.


No Illiadis and no Matacz

Wolves.
Billups, Huntington, Salinas, plus their two new guys Clausen and Sullivan. Plus Ironmonger, Wellsteed, both Maxwells and a bunch of bench guys.

I know its only preseason but Wolves got shown up. Academy team had 3 development players and the rest teenagers.

haha good reminder to show you folks how average the SBL is!

Remindwe to people that SBL guys are semi pro and are probably not even close to being in game conditioning and the wildcats development team
Is almost done with their season and at their peak...

Bragg, Cummings, Grida, Vague as the top 4 for an SBL would be very handy. Those are 4 very good SBL players. They are all young and have had big moments in the SBL for their teams. I don't think the Wolves would be all that worried about losing to a team like that. One team is now in full season mode with full time players and one is still getting into its preseason.

Lakeside beat Cockburn in a practice game Sunday.

Lakeside also beat a full strength Willeton last Sunday. Vinci and Bell looking very improved. Prue dominating the boards. Lakeside could surprise a few teams this season.

Haha yeah, that is all the league needs, another team in an already water down comp stealing the best 10 young players from every other club!

Wolves - Jalen Billups, Brian Sullivan.
Redbacks - Maurice Barrow, Lee Roberts.
Tigers - Diagne, Bowie.
Senators - Robert Anshila, Justin King
Giants - Kyle Sovine, Jeylyn Sharpe.
Hawks - Tyler Monroe, Brian Carlwell.
Buccs - Gokul Natesan, Colter Lasher.
Eastern Suns - Kevin Davis, Courtney Belger.
Flames - Greg Hire, Josh Ritchart.
Cougars - Brandon Sebirumbi **
Lightning - Jack Isenbarger, Cory Cooperwood
Magic - Shabazz , Shaun Stewart
Slammers - Brian Voelkel , Demetrius Robinson, Justin Reynolds
Eagles - Jonathan Morse **

** 1 import

How do the Slammers have 3?

Voelkel naturalising

How long will that process take?? And who is Demetrius?

wow, a lot of different imports in the league this year. it will be good viewing.
I also heard the slammers have 2 imports in the women as well- does anyone know the slammers import women.

Haha Clarke getting in early before the hate is directed at his crap team. You guys going to try avoid getting pumped by 50 this year?

Robinson won't start, Leary or Durnin will.

Voelkel will likely miss the first few games with playoffs in Norway and I don't think he will be an Aussie anytime soon.

Add to this the record of their head coach and it will be a tough year at the Slammers I believe

Calling BS on Voelkel naturalising given he's not even in the country.

That is my point, doubt he could even be considered when he isn't even here aha. Might have a rotation policy, although I can tell you Robinson is a few tiers below the other 2.

Also to keep the Women happy

Wolves - Zadina/?
Redbacks - Dyer/Standish
Tigers - ?/?
Senators - Johnson/Martin
Hawks - Farnworth/Burton
Eastern Suns - Ciabattoni/Rintala
Flames - Lloyd/Harrison
Cougars - Lee**
Lightning - Fipps/Schwagmeyer
Magic - ?/?
Slammers - van Kleef/Fisher
Eagles - ?/?

16.5 mpg

She has her PR, not a citizen

ciabattoni is a restricted player ave 17.2 mins per game this season
what does PR mean with schagmeyer? also is ash grant playing at lakeside or has she moved to Melbourne.
willeton have an import coming and ive heard kunek ?
cougars is that Keisha lee ?
magic have carly boag back.

Grant back at Lakeside along with Moyle and Byrnes.

Yep Kunek at Willetton and Lee at Cockburn.

Magic have Boag and Anita Brown.

Rumour going around that Garbin has made an appearance back at Flames

Yes it's true just like someone said quite a while ago. Welcome back Darcee. Cool of her to fill in for a while.

any news from Willo vs Hawks game?

Top 3 coaches in MSBL.

Parsons (2 x COTY, 1 x Chip in 3yrs).
Ettridge (Won 2, lost 3 chips( Losing 3 is bad record but at least your getting there.

Who is 3rd?
Ellis?

Based purely on SBL results not really a lot of contenders??

Lakovich is the best coach. He is getting NBL interest.

HAHA honestly forgot about him!

Does he sneak in for 3rd?? If so proves not a lot of depth!

Lako.

But seriously what is it with Ettridge. Seems like he chokes in GFs. As a Wolfpack fan it is very concerning.

Parsons is the best coach in the SBL. Ettridge is also very good. Ellis and Lako a distant 3rd and 4th. I think Oatman was hard done by last season. He was a good coach.

Lako should have won last season with that roster.Hell Nener could have coached that group to a win. It was ridiculous. Not sure anything he did coaching wise really was the difference. He will tell you it was all his coaching though.

Regarding Parsons.. are you guys just forgetting his previous stints as a coach in the league?

For the rookies posting hating on the SBL - the BigV pre season tournament was cancelled due to lack of interest... the WASBL one is always a success.

Parsons previous stints as a coach?
Do you mean the ONE year he had at East Perth and they made playoffs in his first year and he got Drew Williamson over to East Perth to play.

They made playoffs with a winning record, then East Perth got rid of him cause he was too hard on the young kids. Our precious little young kids. Since then he's taken a Cockburn team to a well above average effort in his second year and then a championship in his third year.

Last year with Perry Lakes was a rough year with way too many injuries and now this year has recruited well and got young and old talent to join him.

I thought he only had Cougars 2015 & 2016.

People forget that Parsons took that EP team to the playoffs in his first year after they had missed the playoffs the year before. He put together that team that would later win. He never got a chance to see it through because of the EP sooks and a Forde knifing in the back.

Now that we essentially know the 2018 teams, Round 1 predictions:

Redbacks v Lightning -
Redbacks most likely to have imports cleared to play as I believe Cooperwood is still a few weeks away. You would assumed Lako will kick the season off with a win, Redbacks by 16

Flames v Senators
Hire probably unlikely for the start of the season, and Senators second import may not be cleared yet. Still, I've got the Senators down as a Top 4 team this year, Stirling by 8 points

Cougars v Eagles
Battle of the single import teams, Sebirumbi not cleared but Jonathan Morse is. Really tough one to pick because Cougars aussies > Eagles. Cougars under Nener by 2 points.

Redbacks v Buccs
Game of the Round, Barrow vs his old squad. Buccs fresh and Redbacks on a B2B. Gero are usually pretty good with pushing through imports playing licenses, so assume a full squad for them. If Ross plays, Buccs by 5 points.

Hawks v Magic
Hawks looked real iffy against the Tigers during practise, and Monroe still finding his way. Magic probably won't have anyone cleared and Cummings to go off for 30 points. Hawks by 16.

Wolves v Tigers
Wolves also were a huge disappointment vs Wildcats DP with their full strength squad. Accounts that Billups and Sullivan weren't great, but to be fair they probably just need to shake the rust. We all know what Billups is capable of. Good chance to look at Diagne, he has length but not size on Billups, Bowie is always a beast. Wolves too big, winners by 12.

Flames v Giants
Giants along with KES are the big movers for me this year, I like them with some upgrades to Aussies and 3 imports. Giants to start 2018 in the green, win by 7 points.

Eagles v Buccs
Buccs will thoroughly outplay Eagles, have them covered at all positions. Ralph v Williamson will be a good matchup, Buccs by 24 points.

Senators v Giants
B2B for both but Senators with the 1 day break. I think this will be really evenly matched, really struggling to pick it. Senators by 5, purely based on the extra 24 hours?

Eastern Suns v Slammers
I like the Suns in 2018, and I think the Slammers will also pull off 8/9 with 3 imports (however they manage that). However I don't trust the Slammers to push through import clearances, and Davis and Belger been out here for ages. Suns play well at home and their running style will baffle Catalano. Eastern Suns by 14.

Worst kept secret in the SBL announced. Team Money Bags just re signed Redhage.

Lucky there is no luxury tax in the sbl or the world basketball academy would be broke

Yep Vigor and Wagner off the bench, Thats what you do with good, loyal club people.

Hussey should be off the bench.. but that won't happen because he wouldn't have signed there if that was the case.

Background info on World Basketball Academy please? Thanks in advance.

Yep Perth team going to be tough to beat.
$$$$ talks.

What can you do.

Some teams (Eagles/Cougars) going around with one import and others are paying maybe 7 players.

Tough to compete but it is what it is.

Good to see no clubs were interested in Rhys Vague.

Chemistry killer.

He's playing SEABL genius