voleybolaktuel wrote it apparently. I dont know how reliable they are. Some claims that they will move Aylin to OH and Brancuska as OPP
Brancuska is good, but she already got bought out of her two year contract with Suhl by Busto, so if Vakifbank buys her out of the contract with Busto, sooner or later clubs will be very cautious about making contracts with her 
Some Turkish Twitter account claims Vakifbank signs Monika Brancuska as replacement for Dangubic, which doesn't make any sense because Dangubic is OH and Brancuska is OPP, plus Busto already announced her. I wonder if there is even the tiniest bit of truth behind this rumor 
is she back in a good shape atfer is ACL torn surgery?
She's back with Sweden NT so I guess she's at least fully recovered. She wasn't really "good" before her injury either but for a team like Hamburg she'll do fine I guess.
Hamburg announced Swedish NT setter Vilma Julevik.
Aachen announced SRB MB Veronika Djokic (ex-Potsdam) as their last transfer.
A setter's soft-setting dump is still essentially a setting action. The contact is short, and the ball is directed in a straight line. That's why the action Seki took during the match against Germany was allowed.
Furthermore, a call against Sylves in the match against Japan has been reviewed as legal because it didn't involve up-and-down pressing or a change in direction. It's a setting action instead of an attacking action.
I think the biggest issue is how they rule on Ognjenovic's setting. Her hands are not clean, and everybody knows it. Many of her settings can be called lifts. The referees should be harder on her!!
There was a call against Sylves in one match when she played the ball with two hands far into the corner of the opponents court with a clean touch but referee called it a lift.
Ognjenovic has very clean hands, just a rather long touch 
But yes, some of her back sets are indeed quite thrown. But Queen should be allowed to do anything IMO 
Good. I am not so familiar with asian players anymore...
She scored 37 pts vs Belgium last weekend and had a good season in France.
Is she any good?
Yes.
here's the link to what they were sent.... yea... i can see where they're coming from lol
It's funny how half of the "illegal actions" video consists of Alsmeier 
And those should never have been legal under the previous rules either, that's the main problem.
I still think it's a good move to ban those unclean attacks. The men's side has been getting even worse in the past few years, I would say. Some top players use these techniques quite often, like Michieletto and some Polish outsides. This trend should be stopped.
I absolutely agree that thrown balls should not be allowed. However I don't agree with FIVB's way of handling it, like why ban two-handed attacks altogether unless it's a setter dump and have some weird thing included about wrist movements? Just make it plain and simple: if the contact is too long, it's a mistake, no matter how many hands are used. Everybody hated those calls on balls that were above the net and pushed over with two hands by a player because it's pretty much the only possible solution sometimes. If the contact is short and clean, just allow those balls!
I just read an interview (printed) with a German referee about the current rule tests. She says FIVB provided them with videos regarding the lift calls, but those videos did not make clear what they're supposed to allow and what not It shows...
She also says she hates that double contacts are allowed because young players don't have to learn good technique anymore if they're allowed to do pretty much everything with the ball. I agree.
Generally, the FIVB database isn't particularly accurate when it comes to club affiliations. For instance, Tanja Großer is still listed as being with VC Wiesbaden. So, it is certainly possible to find outdated information there. However, I haven't come across any data that is outright incorrect so far.
That is why I was rather surprised to see Schwarz-Weiß Erfurt listed in the FIVB database as the current club for the Slovak setter Anna Kohútová. So, we shall see if she really does end up forming the setting duo alongside Larissa Winter.
Kohutova was announced by Prostejov today, so she's not coming to Erfurt.
I remember Erfurt's management said last season in some interview that they were lucky to sign Respaut due to her previous club's bankrupcy because the setter they had originally signed for last season got injured in NT, so I wonder if Kohutova was supposed to be their setter for last season 
She ended up playing in Finland though.
there's always serbia!
I'll gladly take any of Uzelac/Ivanovic/Tica right away!
Germany was lucky to meet a disorganised Canada in their first match, if we had met them later we'd be at zero wins now.
The performance against Ukraine was already pretty bad, but today's match was outrageous. Also this isn't the body language and fighting spirit I want to see, they just let it happen.
Straube wasn't really good all week, she had good moments but wasn't any solid. Kohn won't do on this level.
We can't take Weske as only OPP, however limited Kindermann is we need her as backup. Kirchhoff has no business playing on this level.
Grozer was the only of our OHs with a decent performance, I hope her knee will be ok and she can be back for week 2. Alsmeier is in terrible shape, Stautz is not for this level except for serve and defense, and let's simply not even talk about Jatzko.
The MBs were the only ones with a good performance. Strubbe was surprisingly good actually. Still I think Cekulaev has even more to offer.
Cesar wasn't particularly bad but not any good either, I want to see the other liberos getting more chances. None of them can replace Pogany though.
Next round we have China, Belgium, Turkey and Brazil. If we play like today we won't win any set there 
It's ok to lose against USA, but the way German team played for 2.5 sets was simply embarrassing! Worst European team in this VNL! 
I have an offer for USA fans: you can have Bregoli if you take all German OHs in return, we'll gladly take Sullivan and USA's OHs in return
Is Grozer injured?
She's been having knee problems during club season as well, looks like this came up again. She started limping after landing from an attack but played some more rallies, so probably not a serious/acute injury but a long-term issue.
Lina might be the least clutch player in world volleyball
She's so out of shape it hurts to watch. Stautz will end up being our best OH today 
try cesar in front row
Stautz is not much different from a 2nd libero on this level.
Everyone who wonders why Orthmann still gets called to NT every year just needs to watch the alternatives
It seems obligatory for Germany to have always a phase of something like 15 consecutive attacks without scoring a single one
