Posts by pjotr

  • European Championships 2011

    Quote from Kk15

    I have to admit that this year CEV had had a very tough work, with no offense pushing Austria to the 1/8 was almost an impossible mission, not to mentione the 1/4...


    And they put Czech in the situation to play vs the strongest pool. I mean, look at Frence: as second classificated they played the 1/8 vs Turkey... Whereas Czech has to beat Poland. They weren't helped so much, after all. (And you can say that may be Poland wasn't "supposed" to be third, but in any case the third classificated team in the pool D would have been a valuable team)

    Dunno... As a Czech, I don't think we were given such a bad path. We had everything in our own hands, every opponent in sight was beatable (we've beaten both Poland and Bulgaria recently). And as a fan, I liked the groups in Prague and Vary, it was exciting to watch.

    Quote from triglav_kran

    I'm reading your posts and I wonder what do you argue about. But I think I finally got the point of raylight - he's saying that the formula doesn't allow equal chances for title/medal for all teams.
    Ofc it's normal nowadays for all tournaments for the hosts to be easier paths to quaterfinals,semifinals,finals. So they make tougher groups to eliminate the favourites by playing against each other. And other teams profit for that as well. Just Bulgaria is so often unlucky to be part of those teams who are in the tougher stream. But not always, you mentioned WL 2011. And that's no conspiracy against a team, it's just circumstances. You'll see next year in WL how we will have very easy group and we will be pulled to the final. Just money that are spent by the host country have to be return back. The way is by pushing the host team further in the tournaments so that there would be more tickets bought, more people will watch TV, more money from the sponsors etc...You know that, everyone knows that,I don't know why I'm expldining it to you. There are two things you can do: accept the situation or do something to change it; just stop complaining! :wavy:

    Abouth the formula in general... I'd prefer the semifinal groups model, but I'm not saying this one is unfair. Basically, if you're a medal/title contender, you should win your group. In that case, you should come across an opponent of your (or higher) quality in the semifinals. If you screw up in the group, you simply have to prove yourself earlier in the playoffs, or you don't have the quality to win a medal.

  • European Championships 2011

    Quote from Kk15

    BTW probably the formula isn't good, but rememebr that CEV can't makes miracles. Someone HAS to play with Russia in the quarter...

    Exactly. I can't say I love the formula, but in the end, you can always win the group to avoid strong opponents. What I dislike more is, that in the 1/4s you can end up playing against the same team as in the group. That's kinda boring


    Czech - Poland, that's going to be a premature final, at least regarding the number of fans :-) I can't wait to cheer for my side!

  • European Championships 2011

    wow, no way I can read the new 30 pages you made during the weekend :white: So just a few remarks from the matches I've visited.


    RUS-EST
    I liked the Estonian game, but Russians, even at half-speed were out of their league.
    Big cheers to Esti fans. You're a great crowd :flower:
    And the estonian libero... it took me a set until I've noticed there's two of them :-)


    CZE-POR
    Czechs were pretty nervous, as soon as Portugal started to play their defense well, some of them quickly got annoyed (Platenik and mainly Vesely). The referee didn't help it too much. Not a very nice match to watch, but an important victory for us (Czechs)


    SVK-GER
    The Germans made soo many mistakes, unbelievable. Schoeps was bad and Grozer wasn't better, I was actually surprised the coach didn't try to switch them back.
    A very quiet crowd for the first match and no commentator to cheer it up.


    POL-BUL
    That one was much louder :lol: Including one polish guy whistling into my ear at every Bulgarian serve :box: :lol:
    Opposites were the difference between these two, Bulgarians could afford to change Nikolov for Sokolov and still were strong there. Both Gruszka and Jarosz were weak. No surprise there, actually.
    Kubiak was playing like a god. I think Stoychev spent all his timeouts to stop his serve :obey:
    And the matchball... the match surely deserved a better one. Poor guys.


    In general:
    I'm disappointed they don't show replays on the screens in any of the halls. They did when I've been to Champion's league FF in Prague, and the experience was much better.
    Also, some verdicts by the referees :down: Especially when there's a nice rally and after a good defense, the referee stops it with some very strict technical error. I mean, that's exactly the point when the referee should let it flow and let us see something spectacular :teach:

  • Friendly matches

    Quote from Kk15


    That's all what I found:


    Amichevole (7 settembre)
    Rep.Ceca - Russia 0-3 (21-25, 22-25, 17-25)


    not so much, I know... :S

    Some details in czech and a few photos: http://www.cvf.cz/?clanek=8572
    not exactly statistics, but description... in short: first set was tight, in second Russians were leading and Czechs only improved late, third was decided from the beginning.
    Best scorers Popelka 12 / Mikhaylov 16

  • European Championships 2011

    Quote from YavorD

    I was wondering what the chances are to see Ondrej Boula in the Czech NT. I remember he had a decent season when he was in the French league with Poitiers, I have never watched him, on the other side, and have no information where he will go to for the new season and why he was never given a chance, Zapletal seems to me like the eternal substitute in the national team.


    Also, about Slovakia, Masny is a good setter, but I honestly prefer Branislav Skladany more and maybe his time in the NT has come after the good games in Unterhaching. I really don't know though whether Skladany would have been preferred as a starter in case Masny wasn't injured right now.

    From what I've heard, the chemistry between Boula and rest of the team didn't work well, back when he was in the NT. Zapletal is a good substitute, knows all the players well and is ready to come to the court when necessary.


    About Masny, it's been made official today, that he's not coming (http://www.svf.sk/Default.aspx?CatID=667&NewsID=6313). It looks like Skladany will be the starter, but don't forget Zatko... his touch is perhaps worse, but he may help in defense much more.

    The champ website is pretty poor :down:
    "Universal player" - at first I thought it's a bad translation from Czech, because that's how the opposite position is literally called in Czech. But some players are marked as opposites, so it probably means he can play both outside and opposite

  • Universiade 2011

    Rybnicek got his master's degree two years ago, but he's a postgrad. student, so I guess it's legit. Being a lazy person and playing abroad, he may stay student for a few more years ;-)

  • Hubert Wagner Memorial 2011

    Quote from bella

    Jakub Novotny... Damn good player in times of playing in ZAKSA. He was outstanding and unbelievable :white: And then he went to Skra to sit on bench :down:
    I have no idea what is happening with this fantastic player. I hope he will return to his great play one day. And return to NT.

    I'm a bit sceptical about Jakub in NT... I mean, I like him a lot, in his early years in NT he was the reason why I started to like volleyball so much :-) But there's a strong competition between Czech opposites. He's still in the broader nomination, but Stokr finally started to prove his class in the national team and Konecny plays great in the french league. And both are younger...
    Yes, the move to Skra was weird, but at least Jakub earned some money and put his health together :-) This year he may show his quality in the Champions league, we'll see

  • Hubert Wagner Memorial 2011

    Well, in that article about Lebl, Jakub Novotny mentions Rak among players who have already retired from the national team, but I haven't read or heard about that anywhere else.


    In addition to the recent health problems (it took Rak quite long to recover from a knee injury), he also started his own business, so he might lack motivation/energy for playing in NT. But that's just speculations.