I guess Zeren is going with Malinov-Hilal as their setters
And this might be the reason why they may stay out of top 4 next season, together with their libero duo and local OH.
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Thx for the information. Judged by the stats, she seems to have played fairly well in Engelholm this year. She is one of the best blockers in the league and is producing decent numbers in attack as well, still she isnt in the Swedish NT roster this summer, isnt it a bit strange? She was in the wide roster last summer, albeit with inferior numbers on paper in relation to this season.
To be fair, despite the stats, she is pretty slow in her movements. She improved a lot, she was waaay slower before but still her technical capabilities and agility is difficult to fix. That might be the reason why she was never invited to the NT other than the wide roaster.
Her stats also are not as meaningful, watched Linköping-Halmstad final match today and it looked slow motion with hitters doing the same thing over and over. It is simply too easy for anyone, even a very slow person to make a good block in a league like this when she is that tall. I hope Maja finds a way and works on her agility though.
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Mehmet Cibara of GS announced a lot of things today in an interview.
Things I remember so far:
Naz, Grobelna, Lukasik are in GS. They are looking for 1-2 more OHs. Timmermann is also in the roaster but not sure about this.
LYY is someone they wanted for a while but looks like she won't be able to play until December no matter where she is transferred. So they want to sign 1.5 years with her.
Dangubic to Vakifbank. Yasemin Özel to Besiktas. Aslihan and Kalandadze to Aras Kargo and Sude to Göztepe. He was not sure about Bihter and Ceylan's next destination.
He also criticised national team's manager Pelin who invited players to the NT chat in Whatsapp yesterday, right before the last matches where none of the GS's middles were invited as well as Ayca Aykac of Vakifbank (in Ayca's case, it might be that she is invited but she did not inform her, where she was criticised of demoralising her since she is also FB's manager).
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Engelholm volley, the team which raised Isabelle Haak in Sweden, has dissolved due to bankruptcy. Their roster this season included a promising MB, the 196 cm tall Maja Jonsson, born 2003, who henceforth is avaliable for next season. She has averaged in excess of 10 ppg this year and was one of the best blockers in the Swedish league. I would like to see her in a better league such as the German or French one in order to develop further.
That's not correct. These news came up in February and it was all over the volley media and 2 days later, they got anonymous donators, ensuring like 5 years of donations to them, putting them back as candidates for championship, so they are staying in Elit series.
I know Maja since she was a kid! Hoping that she goes abroad at some point and has the opportunity to improve further
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And Vilma has a knee injury. It will be a difficult summer for Sweden, most likely will become a setter training camp
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Arina needs to take care her form better. She looked better in shape when she first arrived to FB, but last two seasons, I am not sure what changed in her look, but she looks bigger and I am hoping these are only muscles to protect her from injuries but it simply had an effect on her. She was more agile and her swings, both in attacking and serving looked way more deadly back then. Also she could reach higher quickly in her attacks. I can associate some faults with Drca's setting but not all.
While you guys were comparing Ana C and Arina, I also like Ana C more but if you ask who has more potential, I would say Arina. That's unfortunately because Ana C had an injury already and even now, her knee is being taped. As far as I know Arina did not have any major injuries yet and unfortunately that is one big criteria setting limits to a player's development.
Congrats to Vakifbank! The level of the match looked insane with Markova reaching 3.1m in most of her spikes and Van Ryk reaching over 110 km in her serves. I think the one serve with 113 km, her body looked absolutely incredible when she did the serving motion and as soon as I saw that, I knew it would be an insane serve. People are wondering where her power comes from but that rotational power she generates, the core (I only can imagine) + elasticity to be able to rotate that much, is absolutely insane.
Also a big applaud to Cansu. This is the best I saw her in like 2 years, which was blended with injuries. But this match showed that she is finally healthy and back in shape. This Cansu is the best setter Turkey has and is an absolute delight to watch.
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According of rules from REGULAMENT OF THE FORUM AND COMUNICATIONS FROM THE ADMINS hard times came for turkiye Users
You sound like you enjoy it harder Bartek
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And I suggest the admins to cool it off a bit and stop this aggressive way of managing the forum. The members here are a lot more than the 3-4 admins we have and also contributing to this forum a lot more, in short a lot bigger in quantities and qualities. So I suggest you try to keep the forum a peaceful environment and finding better ways to warn people, especially for good reasons, not because their English or memory is not sufficient to remember how names of thousands of players are spelled.
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Egglestone is a great in system opposite which is not easy to find in the entire world right now lol. She would easily sign up with most teams outside top 3 in Turkey as an opposite. But as an OH, I would not trust her.
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Was so nice to see Chiaka and Logan playing like this! Well deserved
Sad for Omaha, missing an important player but still well fought in the end.
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2021.
NORCECA held the Final Six during the club season so USA had this most random roster.
Dang. She could be super useful for Sweden.
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Bruns already played for USA
Whaaat? When was that? I was hoping that she never did that
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Oh pity! I was hoping that she will improve a bit so that she could support her sister in swedish nt this summer😶
By the way this Francis girl has good attacking skills (unlike her make up skills 😂)
Well Sweden won't do any good since there is noone else coming to support the girls as far as I followed Swedish elite series. I am lowkey hoping they notice they can naturalize Taylor Brunns (think she is already Swedish now) who can lift the team to a better level.
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no. she just likes her glam lol
haha loving it, but please someone send some make up tutorials to the girl :=) unless she is inspired by Rpdr
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The make up of Francis, is she protesting something :(?
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Aww I noticed how much I missed Egglestone! Go gurl!
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Eylul, Alexia and Britt were extremely nervous and I think their mental strength was not strong enough for such a match, when FB fans are there. I understand this happening to Eylul and Alexia, since both are very inexperienced but I expected better from Britt. Also this is not the first time Eylul flopped actually, I think she did a very similar match against Vakifbank, in the second match. Since she is nervous, her legs get heavier and she cannot move and therefore receives like thrash. I hope she can relax a bit and starts using her feet like she did in 1st match. After all, GS does not have anything to lose, and its best she chills a bit.
I have been trying to explain this a million times this season, Alexia is definitely not upto this level. Her arm is so weak and she does not reach high either, so only chance of her to score is these high speed sets. But girl gets blocked in single blocks and roll shots/tips, sending it on libero after a while. Since she is absolutely no threat, which applies to GS's middles too, front row spikers - Ilkin and Lazovic, have to do 10 times extra work, attacking always against a stable block and defense. This works when Britt delivers good sets, but today she was very shaky too and her choices were absolutely wrong.
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I really like what Kuzeyboru did. It is not like they had a better receiver line this season with Ayse. I think Czyrnianska-Lozo will remain on court as long as they can cover their own zone and when they fail, Guldeniz can come in. This duo is still way better than the duo they had last season.
Smarzek seems like a clear downgrade from Lazareva but with Gamze's setting like she did to Centoni many many years ago, she can have a good season. Same applies to Strunjak, who is clearly a downgrade from Dimitrova but still they have two names there anyway.
It is not like Kuzeyboru could fight for a 5th spot next season anyway with Zeren joining CL and building a team for that. Especially now if GS makes it to CL too, their goal would be to finish 6th and with this team, they absolutely can pass THY.
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I also agree that the potential is limited when there is simply no setter upto the level. Drca is retiring, will Maja be there? If not, there is simply noone I can think of and this is a big problem which will effect all other players on the court.
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It would be nice with a GS-Vakifbank final. I agree that Eczacibasi is better in Cev cup next season.
Winning against FB in one of those two games will be tough for GS, since it is hosted by FB. Only hope is Fenoglio being out and Eda's injury, sort of forcing them to use Vuchkova, therefore reducing 1 foreigner spot. At GS's side, I will be surprised if Ilkin can perform similarly in the next round of matches but Lazovic can definitely perform a lot better than today, and same goes for the middles, who simply were far behind FB middles today.
Vakifbank-Eczacibasi semi-final is easier to guess I think. I will be surprised if Vakifbank does not win the next match too, everyone in Eczacibasi looks lost.