The level of competitiveness isn’t of concern. In a league already this small every team will be missed, not only because of missing revenue from ticket sales. Especially the smaller teams need the games in general to have substantial media coverage.
Posts by SatanClaus
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I think the situation in Potsdam has the potential to become the most threatening one. The possibility of tax evasion is quite a serious thing.
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Regulations for the new 2nd league Pro were announced: Teams are obliged to accept promotion to 1st league after 3 years in 2nd league Pro, teams that got relegated from 1st league have to accept promotion already in the first year. If I understand this correctly this means Erfurt and Straubing would be forced to play 1st league next season if one of them becomes champion of 2nd league Pro
Besides there are regulations for German players: half of the team registered for a match has to consist of German players, two have to be under 23 and two German players always have to be on court. Clubs will receive financial rewards for letting U23 players actually play.
I do like the second part, but coaches should have their passport knowledge ready when making substitutions.
I would have preferred limiting the licences regarding players not eligible for German-NT, so the coaches don’t have to consider passports when working on the best lineup of the team.I think the whole idea with creating this new 2nd league may start to backfire soon. It kind of cannibalised the 1st league and in the light of the financial troubles with Dresden, Wiesbaden and other teams and now the doom looming in Potsdam: If there is one more team folding in the Bundesliga the domino effect may be taking some other clubs down as well. And with maybe 6-7 teams left in the Bundesliga this „2nd Pro“ won’t make any sense…
I hope none of this will happen, but the next step of the licensing process in September might be very thrilling.
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Now it is official, that the Cup-Finals 2016 will be hosted in SAP-Arena, Mannheim. http://volleyball-verband.de/i…nagnfi2rfv9dk3dv6bn0gj1f1
I think, it's the right step forward to develop the Cup Final. It was reaching limits in Halle/W. although I enjoyed every final there. Was a great venue all these years.
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It's good to know that also the players were asked about their opinions of the candidates and were in favor of Pedulla.
I see this a little bit different. The players own their fair share of the problems with Giovanni, and now the federation is giving them the little finger when it came to decide who will be the new head coach. So far so good. Be positive. But I don't know if that's a good situation the federation put themselves in right now. If the times will get rough again some day...will they ask the players again?
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The crowd in Dresden is usually very fair and shows quite good volleyball knowledge... But the larger the crowd, the large the chance of having some idiots among them. Statistically. Also boos are louder then cheers.
But one problem in Dresden is that they tend to make quite bold statements prior to games, so they should not be surprised to have to deal with some frustrated fans after not living up to their own expectations. -
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VolleyStars Thüringen - Schweriner SC 3:1 (20:25, 25:18, 25:22, 25:21)
http://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2013-14/Women/&8017.pdf
MVP: ?
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Thüringen once again played most of the time without Martina Utla, but looks like Natalia Cukseeva had a very good match yesterday.MVP (well deserved): Natalia Cukseeva / Ivana Isailovic
VolleyStars were startig slow (like usual) and made a lot of errors in the first. On the other hand Schwerin was serving quite good and had some good defense from Lousie Ziegler. But End of 1st set Suhl could find the rythm, allthough it was too late for this set. Then the game was open, but now with some more errors on Schwerins side.
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I loved that the DJ played the hammer song when they were working on the tenacious ball.
But then I really was shocked... This is very bad for our sport. I hope they will put the "on demand"-version of the game on dvl-live.tv.
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The ball lying open in the bowl has been taken out BEFORE the DOL and was replaced by a sealed one. The open ball had therefore nothing to do with the DOL whatsoever.You're right in the first part: The first broken ball was repaired before the DOL (maybe too good, because they had problems opening one of the balls of the first lot
...)Then the bowl was mixed for the second draw and again one ball opened in the bowl, but was drawn anyways.
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Good draw, there's no match between two big teams in QF yet, so we have the chance to get a very good final this time.
...Definetly not a good draw, because it was made in infraction to the rules of the Pokalspielordnung (cup play regulations) source (PDF, german) DOL for the next cup round have to be made publicly in connection with a cup match of the ongoing cup round (paragraph 3.1 and 3.2) and definetly not in the office of the DVL.
Not to mention that a "cup" competition draws quite a lot of its attractiveness from the fact, that also smaller team have a chance to advance to the finals. So even if this DOL would have been made within the regulations I would not consider it as a good draw. If you want the top 4 teams in the semis, you can play a tournament and put aside the other rounds.
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Cup match Wiesbaden - Dresden
...Felix is now coaching Dresden?
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This tragedy is sad and shocking enough if you only consider the facts, the loss of life and the grief that familiy and friends have to suffer now.
But for me it's also sad, that the media - that sometimes fails to cover the sport Ingrid dedicated her life to in an adequate way - now seems to exploit every cruel detail of this horrible crime in a certain way. I wish they would not had revealed some of the details...
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What exactly did you sing for her?
I hope Suhl gets good MBs, then they can certainly compete for Top 4 next season!
Haha...sorry. Too early.
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Suhl signs Setter Karen Lißon (Alemannia Aachen) and confirms that Claudia Steger (OH) and assistant coach Markus Pabst renewed their contracts. More details:
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What about Pucareviç? Is she staying in German League?
German newspaper wrote today that Pucarevic and Bertolacci will leave VfB Suhl.
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I predict a lot of yellow cards for "delay of game" and some yellow and maybe red ones for coaches protesting.
...and probably a lot of rotation errors too.
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From another perspective, this will be a nightmare for the media coverage...True. With a range of game duration between 40 minutes (quick 3:0) and 2 hours (hard fought tiebreak) it will be almost impossible for TV stations to plan with a reliable structure on volleyball broadcasts.
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Any of you guys in the mood for some action including some swedish twins?
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The biiiiig secret has finally been revealed: Felix Koslowski signed a 3 year contract as coach of Schwerin.
Good luck to him, I hope he can be as successful as his predecessors.
Finally.
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Vfb Suhl becomes champion next season
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Suhl signs setter Mareike Hindriksen source
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Matthias Ziegler Lousi Souza is married to German? If yes think she could obeter German citizenship and and defend the NT?
She will not just need German citizenship - a player also needs to be cleared by FIVB to become a "volleyball-german" and to be eligible to play for Geman NT. As fas as I know there is a fee of CHF 10.000 to change her status...
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... For a healthy club, one sponsor not paying would not be a reason to declare bancrupcy...
If (Wiesbaden) had a budget of 850 k € per season and suddenly 50 k are missing - it probably would give huge troubles to all clubs in DVL. A hole like this in the cash flow - especially in this time of the year, when the bills of VBG (employer's liability insurance association) are coming up - i guess only few clubs have saved this much money on the bank account for "unexpected things" to happen. In a case like this a club might be able to compensate with a loan. ... but in Wiesbadens case with the old debts in the background....