Posts by Batabid

And that Fener doesn't have the winner mentality like Vakif.

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What a game! It was a thriller, especially the tie breaker

Congratulations to Vakıfbank! Cansu managed to keep both boskovic and Markova lead the offense while alternating every set. Markova has been super solid throughout the year but boskovic started to show up in last couple of games. I hope she can keep this level. One thing Markova is above all offensive OHs and Opps in the world is her super low level of errors. She get blocked once in a while but she very rarely hit out or into the net Guidetti's Derya/ogbogu experiment doesnt really work so far. Not because of Derya though, it is just ogbogu is in a bad shape. Zehra's amazing shape is giving a huge edge to Vakıfbank against other top teams. Fenerbahçe's Vargina (okay this was bad) and Zeren's Uzelareva are putting similar numbers like Vakıfbank's Markovic in offense but they don't have 3rd attacker supporting them like Zehra does. Also she owned the net at tiebreaker with back to back monster blocks

About Eczacıbaşı, Dilay should really get starter position. Not that Elif is bad but Dilay's creativity is very different and she has great connection with Stysiak. Dilay reminds me of Orro because she also contributes a lot with her block, defense and serves. I really wanna see her as starter whole vnl in NT. This season simge is our best libero. Eczacıbaşı is basically core of Turkish NT this season. I would be happy to see ebrar-simge-yaprak lineup at reception. Yaprak is such an inspiration for all short players Ebrar had very solid reception and recently her defense improved enormously, which was her weakest element in game. I would have basically used Eczacıbaşı's lineup +Vargas+Zehra in ECH if I were in santarelli's shoes.

Both Turkish teams in such a great shape that they are the favourites against Italian teams in CL in my opinion

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Lol @ Vargina

Oh my. What a huge loss. I think he's one of the main reasons why Poland was so good in the past years. I was really looking forward to his return to NT but health should always be a priority.

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https://www.milyonertv9.com/channel?id=trtspor

Thanks! This works better for me.

Hello. Anyone got link to the game? Thanks!

Link?

Fener and golden set aren't really meant for each other

Fener still has a chance! I hope Ana Cristina starts in the golden set.

Antropova dethroning Arina as Ace Queen

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Bottom line is that asking for a top team like Conegliano to be dismantled because other teams can't keep up is peak insecurity go destroy your own teams

Agreed. Why is it Conegliano's fault that they've consistently built a great team? It's the other teams that should strive to be better. Now that is for the good of Italian volleyball.

It was an asshole move from the US and Israel. They were negotiating with Iran but still went on to attack Iran anyway. WTF? Treacherous and dishonorable. And look, the supposed "progressive" European countries are silent (again) about this but when Russia invaded Ukraine, they were so quick to condemn. The double standard and hypocrisy is real. And it's ridiculous. If anything, this attack seems like it's intended to distract the people from the Epstein files. The world is a much worse place when people like Trump are elected in power.

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I had to check because I haven't been there in ages but yes I am

Likewise. I only remember when this board went down

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Sounds like a good idea, maybe a Whatsapp community would be modern and useful for everyone, so that everyone can inform each other faster. Thanks for addressing this, Matthias! Are you the admin too of the inside volley FB group?

I think Facebook is already dead, personally i dont look at it anymore.

Hard not to agree with that. But could be useful as a temporary place to discusss just in case something like this happens again in the future.

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I'm not entirely sure but most probably it could have been a software issue. The forum software has been outdated for years. I mailed the owner of Volleycountry yesterday to ask what is wrong and he said he was going to take care of it, which he obviously has done because it's back now.

Thanks for addressing this, Matthias! Are you the admin too of the inside volley FB group?

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With that shut down, the first thing came to my mind, if the forum members could ever gonna find another place to come together and find themselves to talk about volleyball.

Obviously there is no backup plan for something like that and everything we build here over the years could be nothing in instant. It would be nice if Mods, admind do something about that.

Since no one inklusive Mods any idea who is the owner of forum etc. I see the danger is big.

There's actually an Fb group but it hasn't seen any activity for years

I get that people could get carried away with offtopic (which, quite frankly, I don't mind from time to time so long as it doesn't involve insults). It's natural for certain dicussions to lead to other topics because that's part of a normal conversation. And some OT are worth discussing. I know it's tough for the mods to manage a forum like this, specially when they don't get paid to do this and also have to focus on more pressing matters outside this forum. Not to mention it's gotten a bit more toxic here compared to the previous decade (God, I miss those days) but I guess, it's better to open a new thread or move OT discussions here? What I'm sure is, closing threads frequently is not really a good long-term solution to this.

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Ebrar doesn’t do it to mock anyone. She does it to motivate herself. She doesn’t do it behind someone’s back, she does it to their face. It’s not about the opponent; it’s about firing herself up.

Danesi, on the other hand, does it to make fun of Elif and Ebrar.

Ebrar always keeps things on the court with her opponents, while many of them have taken it beyond the court several times.

Even if she does it to motivate herself, it doesn't make it okay. If anything, it sounds like poor justification of her bad behavior. It doesn't help her to change and it just enables her attitude. It's like "I have to insult 10 people just to make it throught the day. I don't care if people will get hurt and offended in the process." If this is how she motivates herself, she should probably think of a new way.

It's really simple: it's hard to emphatize with bad behavior. Maybe if she changes, then people will start to emphatize with her? That maybe, Ebrar is getting disliked as a response to her attitude and she's reaping what she sow? I find it strange that the people reacting to her actions are the ones getting blamed. How about not acting like a clown in the first place so that people will not have nothing negative to react to? It's like "I'm being rude to people. I wonder why they don't like me?"

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Fun fact I didn't say I liked this side of Ebrar based on whatever you just said, you're just making up things. What result, what matching? Danesi is just mocking, match the energy and yell for all I care. I've always defended on-court Afrontes tbh it's not that deep to me as long as it stays in the point. Honestly to me there is nothing lower than someone making fun of someone else or looking down at them. We all have like 80 years on this planet before we turn to dust chill down and have some consciousness.

Yea, people make up all sorts of things to avoid the fact that they just don't like her being neurodivergent and needs specific support and guidance, it's always hard for neurotypical people to empathize with that. Also this forum is highly dominated by gay men and lesbian women have complained for a long time that gay men tend to antagonize them where Lesbians support and fight for them, they still have mysoginistic views regarding women and how they "should" look or act.

Uhm, no. Just that most people here don't like her disrespectful behavior. It's got absolutely nothing to do with her being a lesbian or neurodivergent o whatever. You can be all that but that doesn't mean you get a free pass to be rude to other players,

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Scandicci started without Antropova, because Vakif had won the previous match 3-1 and they just needed 2 sets in order to be the first team in the group. When the fourth set ended Vakif were first and Scandicci second, so there was nothing to fight for.

I see. That explains it. Thanks!

Just watched Vakif vs Scandicci. Markova is incredible. But any ideas why Scandicci didn't start with Antropova in 5th set?