I'd love to see Wanna play again.
2019 ASEAN Grand Prix (Sept 20–22, Thailand
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She did play for PEA Sisaket earlier in July... as an MB
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Piyanut is past her prime, she has been rather lazy these past couple of years. I would love to see another Wanna type of libero who covers the floor and pass well, digs/saves every ball, reads and anticipate every ball that is coming her way etc. She is by far the best libero THA has ever had and one of the world's best during her time. I think if she was still in the game, she could probably out perform all the current THA liberos lol
Agree, Piyanuch hasn’t had any good matches so far this year. I’d love to see Supattra back with this senior team in SEA games. She’s quite good at digging but her passing skill can be improved ^^”
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What about Yupa + Suppatra duo for SEA games?
Though both are digging libero. So guess it would still have to be Piyanut + Suppatra or Yupa.
I still like Piyanut and she is the best passing libero, but like I mentioned, she has become a bit lazy. Lol
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Date Score Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Total Video 9/20
Indonesia 3 – 2 Philippines 25 – 21
26 – 28
12 – 25
25 – 18 15 – 9 103 – 101 YT 9/20
Thailand 3 – 0 Vietnam
25 – 18
25 – 14
25 – 22
75 – 54 YT 9/21
Thailand 3 – 1 Philippines 25 – 13
25 – 21
23 – 25
25 – 20 98 – 79 YT 9/21
Vietnam
0 – 3 Indonesia
19 – 25
21 – 25
15 – 25
55 – 75 YT 9/22
Philippines 3 – 2 Vietnam
25 – 21
22 – 25
25 – 21
15 – 25 15 – 12 102 – 104 YT 9/22
Thailand 3 – 1 Indonesia
25 – 17
27 – 29
25 – 20
25 – 12 102 – 78 YT FINAL Standings
Rank TEAM Sets
Points # W L Points W L Ratio W L Ratio 
Thailand3 0 9 9 2 4.500 275 215 1.279 
Indonesia2 1 5 7 5 1.400 260 258 1.008 
Philippines1 2 3 6 8 0.750 282 305 0.925 4 
Vietnam0 3 1 2 9 0.222 213 252 0.845 Awards
MVP
Onuma Sittirak THA Best Spiker
Chatchu-On Moksri THA Best Server
Megawati Hangestri INA Best Setter Tri Retno Mutiara Lutfi INA Best Blocker Mary Joy Baron PHI Best Libero Nguyen Thi Kim Lien VIE -
The Thai team will have advantages of practicing together though. Korean league will start soon and all the players are playing in different teams with different systems. Plus KYK will be back to Turkey.
The Thai league will start in January after the OQ to give them the best chance of practicing together as an NT.
I do really hope they can win. Let’s see
It doesn't look a great idea to me to not have league game till january? Only practice???
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What about Yupa + Suppatra duo for SEA games?
Though both are digging libero. So guess it would still have to be Piyanut + Suppatra or Yupa.
I still like Piyanut and she is the best passing libero, but like I mentioned, she has become a bit lazy. Lol
As much as I love Piyanut I have to agree with you.
What about Thapapaipun? She is experienced player however I didn't see her for a while. What do you think about her as second libero?
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As much as I love Piyanut I have to agree with you.
What about Thapapaipun? She is experienced player however I didn't see her for a while. What do you think about her as second libero?
Honestly, I haven't paid much attention to her, but what I recalled, she is about on par with Supattra and Yupa in skills. So I guess any of them will work as a 2nd libero. But she does have the advantage of playing an OP if ever needed lol
I'm anticipating to see what the u18 libero can do. She was awarded the best libero from the recent u18 WCH. Let's wait and see if she can become a Wanna type libero. I really do miss Wanna.
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Piyanut has a great presence on court, her attitude is really nice. In fact, all of Thai players have that positive vibes on court. I hope she can step up her game. The OQT will be a do or die, it might be the last chance for the original golden girls to have any chance to play at Olympics together.
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As much as I love Piyanut I have to agree with you.
What about Thapapaipun? She is experienced player however I didn't see her for a while. What do you think about her as second libero?
After 11 years with NT, Thapapaipun just announced 2 days ago that she’s quitting after the Taiwan Invitation. She got the best libero from that tournament.
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It doesn't look a great idea to me to not have league game till january? Only practice???
According The the news, they’re going to hold a practice camp in Japan for a while. Then, they’ll have a SEA game in November right before the OQ.
And I may have to disagree with you about the league. Thailand league is not that intense. They only have competition once a week. Practicing as a national team is much more intense. It’s good to get to practice together. This is why Nootsara didn’t go abroad last season (and this season).
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According The the news, they’re going to hold a practice camp in Japan for a while. Then, they’ll have a SEA game in November right before the OQ.
And I may have to disagree with you about the league. Thailand league is not that intense. They only have competition once a week. Practicing as a national team is much more intense. It’s good to get to practice together. This is why Nootsara didn’t go abroad last season (and this season).
Thailand league is not that good, but not playing at all except very low level SEA Games is not a good idea either. Let's see how things will go.
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Then what do you suggest them to do???
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Hard to say, I think best thing to develop player singularly is to make them playing abroad, but maybe they should have done this previous years and not this season.
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It seems that there’ll be no money prize from the Philippines as a host of leg 2 (4-6 Oct). Now the THA and PHI are only 2 confirmed teams for the tournament.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first and last time for the ASEAN Grand Prix. Everything seems to be a little bit messy and Thailand seems to be the only country willing to host the whole thing (with reasonable prize).
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Rumor has it that the Philippines only decided to host a leg of the SEA grand Prix due to the hosting fee was waive or there wasn't any????
The PHI can fix all of this funding issue if they could get some of their rich sponsors from their two semi pro commercial leagues to support the federation. Every teams in the two semi pro leagues always hires at least 2 foreign players. Imagine if those same sponsors supported the federation and it's cause instead or at least support both at the same time.
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It's really too bad that something can't happen to grow the game for these SEA countries. Maybe I'm an outlier but this tournament was very fun and illuminating for me. They made a fan out of me. There were only four teams and it was short. I could digest it. I'm kind of slow, I needed the simplicity. I wish they could do all four legs but now it looks like the second one might not even happen
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Thailand roster for leg 2 is basically the same except Thatdao(out), Chitaporn(in), Tikamporn(out), Supattra(in).
It seems that they’ve decided to rest Nootsara completely for this tournament.
Schedule:
ASEAN Grand Prix 2019 (2nd leg)
The Philippines [GMT+8]
4 Oct
16.00 Vietnam - Philippines
18.00 Thailand - Indonesia
5 Oct
16.00 Indonesia - Vietnam
18.00 Philippines - Thailand
6 Oct
16.00 Thailand - Vietnam
18.00 Philippines - Indonesia
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Thailand roster for leg 2 is basically the same except Thatdao(out), Chitaporn(in), Tikamporn(out), Supattra(in).
It seems that they’ve decided to rest Nootsara completely for this tournament.
Schedule:
ASEAN Grand Prix 2019 (2nd leg)
The Philippines [GMT+8]
4 Oct
16.00 Vietnam - Philippines
18.00 Thailand - Indonesia
5 Oct
16.00 Indonesia - Vietnam
18.00 Philippines - Thailand
6 Oct
16.00 Thailand - Vietnam
18.00 Philippines - Indonesia
Indonesia? Did they really changed their minds and are going to play? 😲
