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Quote from TimHH

German Cup, Quarterfinal:
Düren vs. Herrsching 2:3 (25:21, 16:25, 25:20, 24:26, 12:15)
[...]Nice surprise by Herrsching in Düren, i know a happy user on here. Congrats Bayer
[...]Due to the small size and height of their hall, Herrsching won't be allowed to play in their own gym. So it is still completely open, where they will play their semi-final.

Thank you TimHH.

But the handling of the situation by the VBL (German League) was far from professional.

There is a real shitstorm going on in Bavarian media at the moment because of two facts:
1. the right to play at home was simply withdrawn by the league. It was clear that Herrsching is not allowed to play a semifinal in their gym beforehand. But with the home field advantage Herrsching could have made a deal with other clubs to make an event out of their Cup semifinal. I don't know how they simply can withdraw a right.
2. the gym in KW (Netzhoppers) is about the same size (even a little smaller) that Herrsching's. But they're allowed to play. No one understands that.

Greets.

Quote from TimHH

BR Volleys vs. United Volley RheinMain 3:1 (21:25, 25:22, 25:22, 29:27)
United played with a young receiving line (Aciobanitei/Reichert) and paid the price for it when the guys paniced a bit in the end of 3rd and 4th set. But overall, they didn't do bad, especially Aciobanitei showed some good things.

Good description, but United has a young team overall. So they will always have a "young receiving line". I think it will pay off later.
Your ranking after preliminary round may easily look like:

1. VfB Friedrichshafen
2. United Volleys RheinMain
3. BR Volleys
4. Düren
5. Ingersoll Bühl

Friedrichshafen at the moment looks stronger that expected to me, the opposite for Berlin.
Once Friedrichshafen and Berlin will be engaged in CL, the definitely will lose points somewhere.

Greets.

Quote from TimHH

Herrsching with 74 % overall attack efficiency against Netzhoppers

I was there. I never thought that Herrsching could smash Netzhoppers that bad.
But Netzhoppers also were really helpless.
The only light in the dark was Gavenda (SVK, opposite) who was used by the setter far too few times.
No sight of Andrae (only 6 points).

Greets.

Quote from TimHH

I'm back , thanks for keeping this thread alive....

That would be bad and no, i don't know where he signed.
Other news:

• Lüneburg resolved contract with Nicolas Marks in mutual agreement for "personal reasons". They will need to hire another OH now.

• In Berlin, Steven Marshall got injured. It is probably a knee injury (ACL). Most likely, they will hire another OH too.

It's definite that Westphal is abroad. For several reasons I guess France. But no confirmation yet.
The replacement for Nico Marks is Mads Mollegard from Gentofte, Danmark, announced here.
I also believe that Berlin will hire another outside, but I have no information on that topic.

Greets.

Quote from Bayer

Netzhoppers KW had the most activity in the last weeks. [...] Dirk Westphal (from Nantes)
[...]But I don't know if they have a libero yet.

Well. Rumors say, that Westphal had a contract that would allow him to change to a foreign league on a good offer. Now he obviously signed somewhere abroad.
Does anybody know where ?

Greets.

Quote from Kaziyski

Grzegorz Szymański is in Germany, while Batchkala returned in Israel I think

Do you know where Szymanski will play in Germany ?

Updates on men's rosters:

My comment on Berlin Recycling was that they would still need an experienced outside. Now they found him in Nikola Kovacevic (from Shanghai to Berlin).

SVG Lüneburg added another young talented outside, Lukas Radzuweit (from VCO Hamburg) to their roster. But I don't expect, he will get too much court time.

Netzhoppers KW had the most activity in the last weeks. And it looks as if they start building a tough team: Filip Gavenda (SVK, Milano/ITA), Björn Andrae (Friedrichshafen) and Dirk Westphal (from Nantes) are outstanding transfers But I don't know if they have a libero yet.

The only transfer for Solingen Volleys so far is Oskar Klingner (from Lüneburg - in fact he was there on loan from Düren). They mainly stick to their 2nd league roster so far. If it will stay that way ...

Greets.

Surprise in Herrsching: Jan Pokersnik dissolved his contract. Aleksandar Milovancevic (SRB, VBC Einsiedeln/SUI) is the replacement (source).

Edited the roster.

Björn Andrae (fact) and Dirk Westphal (rumor) in Netzhoppers KW.
(updated team info)

Greets.

Please check out the additional info for Solingen.

Greets.

I edited the rosters of Rottenburg, Netzhoppers and Solingen for Updates.
See the underlined additions.

Greets.

Quote from TimHH

[...]i allowed myself to add VCO Berlin to the list.

Thanks. You are perfectly right. I forgot that this will be a VCO season again.
(For non Germans: VCO Berlin elite school, which represents about 90% of the Junior National Team plays in 1st league every second year to prepare for the European Championships. I think it's a great achievement)

Quote from TimHH

You forgot Adam Kocian on Lüneburg's roster

Thanks again. Together we will fill up the information gaps.

Greets.

Trainer: von Solkema (NED, Groningen/NED)
Setters: den Boer (NED)
Opposites: Nibbrig, Gosmann
Middles: Klingner (Lüneburg), Pietzonka
Outsides: Gies, Ströbl
Liberos: Bevers

Solingen at the moment is a real mistery.

Trainer: Mirko Culic
Setters: Hammond (USA, Penn State), Kaleck (VCO Berlin)
Opposites: Gavenda (SVK, Milano/ITA)
Middles: Sprung, Ferch (VCO Berlin), Heinecke
Outsides: Andrae (Friedrichshafen), Timmermann, Hafemann
Liberos: Penk

Trainer: Hans Peter Müller-Angstenberger
Setters: Jankowski, Cipollone
Opposites: Nemeth (HUN, Kaposvar/HUN), Metzger
Middles: Wilmsen, Isaak, Nagel
Outsides: Karlitzek, Trenkler (Herrsching), T. Grozer (GER, Maaseik/BEL), Mehlberg, Schief
Liberos: Elsäßer

Trainer: Max Hauser
Setters: P. Steuerwald, Neumann
Opposites: Tarantino (USA, Pepperdine), Höfer
Middles: Ondrovic (SVK), Friedrich, Grabmüller (AUT, Salzburg)
Outsides: Strohbach (Rottenburg), Milovancevic (SRB, Einsiedeln/SUI), Doranth
Liberos: F. Tille

Trainer: Ruben Wolochin (ARG)
Setters: Finoli (ARG, Maaseik/BEL), Cléro
Opposites: Jungiewicz (POL, Kielce), Orthmann (Rottenburg)
Middles: Mayaula (COD), Sobirov (KAZ, Almaty), Baxpöhler (Coburg), Schramm
Outsides: Zappoli (BRA, Ravenna/ITA), Zhilin (RUS, Krasnodar), Schlag (CV Mitteldeutschland), Söhr (Volley Young Stars), Sandmeier
Liberos: Kaczmarek (POL, Bedzin)

Trainer: Tiilikainen (FIN, Kokkola)
Setters: Blankenau (CAN, Groningen/NED), Sippola (FIN, Antwerpen/BEL)
Opposites: Verhoeff (CAN), Prolingheuer
Middles: Andrei (Ajaccio/FRA), Broshog (Maaseik/BEL), Zachrich
Outsides: Sauss (LAT, Tiikerit/FIN), T. Rumpunen (FIN, Ploiesti/ROM), O. Rumpunen (FIN, Loimu/FIN), Barthel
Liberos: Bann (CAN)

Trainer: Stefan Hübner
Setters: Sabaté (ESP), A. Kocian
Opposites: Fitterer (USA, Teruel/ESP), Pörner
Middles: Kevorken (USA), Schlien, Kruse, Krage (GER, Pinneberg)
Outsides: Pompe (Düren), Kessel (USA, Schönenwerd/SUI), Mollegard (DAN, Gentofte/DAN), Bahlburg, Radzuweit (VCO Hamburg)
Liberos: Brinkley (USA, Irvine), Brüggemann

Trainer: Michael Warm
Setters: Zimmermann, Hopt, Thiel
Opposites: Dünnes, P. Wolf
Middles: Bauer, Krick, Escher
Outsides: Reichert, Aciobanitei (ROM, Friedrichshafen), Klobucar (SLO), Tulley (AUS, Canberra), G. Wolf
Liberos: Ringseis (AUT)