Posts by JoanaBG

The only takeaway from this match is that if Maja is going to play like this, she might as well go home now.

Also, the MB position is looking rather thin.

It's extremely unlikely that a Bosniak would be called Dušanka, LOL.

Ajna Ramović probably is though, judging by her name, and I see she's from Novi Pazar.

The thing is, I sure as hell remember how DESPERATE we were to play the Grand Prix back in the day when it was very exclusive. And it made perfect sense because it was the only way for our team to grow, by consistently matching up against the very best teams in the world.

And we are in the same situation now. The Golden Generation is gone. These girls need to learn how to win and they're basically being sabotaged every step of the way.

it's unacceptable pull off garbage like this. If you don't want to play, just fucking don't.

This is costing us money. Have some bloody decency.

They really want to make sute there are no more volleyball fans left in Serbia, huh.

We can't afford to lose Uzelac. This is ridiculous.

Yeah, I wondered if it was directed at her as well. I really hope they can work together because we need her while we most definitely DO NOT need another Spasojević drama 20 years later.

According to Terzić, it's now clear "which players are up to the task for playing on NT, and which are not for whatever reason, be it physical, mental or lack of desire".

I guess he's referring to Ivanović there?

Also, he says that when the grandmas (his words! ) join next week, it will be a good team that can compete against everyone.

I don't know what the hell is going on, but this is not good. We really shouldn't suck this much. Yeah, the setter and OPP position are extremely problematic as we all know, but it's not like this week's opponents were that much better.

This team simply doesn't know how to win.

I forgot my password ages ago but I randomly remembered it today, so here I am.

It's both funny and kinda tragic that Maja initially wanted to finish her career after London (!) but here she is 14 years later. 😂

But hey, she's still clearly our best setter, so why not.

The previous season was such a massive disappointment (mostly due to how the team was managed) that I'm being very cautious for time being. Mostly I just want everyone to stay healthy.

Why Bukilić why why whyyyyyyyy

I can't believe I'm missing Bjelica Bring her back

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I don't think comments Terzic had last night are appropriate for the moment tbh. Maybe if he said that before the competition, okay, but after so many losses in a row, it's really disappointing to hear. The coach should be instilling confidence in the players, not saying that he doesn't think they are as good as we had before.

It was terrible and I'm actually disgusted by him now. Not only was it neither the time nor the place to say it, nor the way to do it, regardless of how true it might be, the worst is that he made it sound like it's all the fault of the young players. Meanwhile, by far the biggest busts (Mirković and Bukilić of course) are decidedly NOT young and should not even be a part of this team if we're thinking long-run.

In the end I just feel sorry for the girls because there's got to be a lot of scar tissue now after losing FOUR tiebreak games in such short time, if we include that stupid and totally unnecessary friendly against Russia. They didn't deserve it and with better management it could have easily been avoided, but alas.

And that's another thing that pisses me off. This is not the beast team we had 5-10 years ago that could piss around and not give a F because you just knew that when it really mattered, they would get going. These girls have yet to build such confidence and for that, they need to win, and win a lot and win big, but right now, they are really far from that. And losing a bunch of games this way doesn't help.

Also, the previous two season we had an unexplicably (and very frustratingly) nonchalant attitude (which of course culminated in that spectacular Paris debacle) that led to losing a bunch of matches we really ought to have won. As a result, no one is really afraid of us anymore because they know they have a chance. That's another mountain these girls will have to climb as they won't even have a name and reputation to fall back on. Everyone will be gunning for them and no one will choke just because we're Serbia; which happened plenty of times with the previous generation.

So yeah, in short, I'm super pissed.

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What about tica? You guys were very excited about her too, could she change anything?

I don't think she would have made much of a difference last week because the whole team was a mess and she could have hardly turned it around single-handedly. However, in the long run, it would make MUCH for sense for her to be on the team instead of frigging Mijatović and I can't believe they're doing this shit yet again.

That + Taubner not even getting an invite were definitely the two biggest mindfucks and it really put me off the team quite a bit because that's really not how we should be doing things at a delicate timing like this.

Lazović was decidedly not good, but it might have to do with the burden of expectations. From being a fringe player on NT for years (which she should NOT have been), she's suddenly become the one that was supposed to lead them and it may have been too much. I do expect her to perform better once Tijana is back.

Osmajić was IMO an even bigger flop because I was really excited to see her in action and she ended up looking like a random MB from the Serbian league.

This is a bloody nightmare and it makes me want to scream. The team is mentally shot at this point. They simply can't close out a match. What the hell was Terzić thinking not going to Canada with them?!

Now I fully expect the attendence in Belgrade to be a total flop as there's no hype around this team anymore, plus the political mess we're in and it will probably be 40+ degrees again like every time we try to host a volleyball tournament here in the summer so that's not going to help either.

At this point I don't even really care that Tijana is coming back. Yes, it will be better with her but the whole point of this week was to show we can manage without her and we CAN'T. We have no setter and no other OPP. You can't play like that. When you start to miss Bjelica, you know how bad it's got.

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We are actually starting to look more and more like Ezc, and I hate it. Unless Tica is god mode we ain't doing shit. Winning is a mentality. Changing such a huge portion of the roster, and then sending those players off with awful coaching to 'develop' with no expectations, gives these results. I wish nothing but the worst kind of hell on the whole management of OSSRB.

Oh, DO NOT get me started on that. When I saw the list with bloody Mijatović being there and Terzić not going to Canada, it really almost made not want to watch at all.

This isn't 2015 anymore when we had the luxury to piss about in Grand Prix and have people like Lazarević or whoever on the roster just to make up the numbers. Now every match counts and we desperately need to develop new players instead of putting out those we damn sure KNOW will never amount to anything.

I was really OK with Terzić coming back because, let's face it, it's not like there were too many alternatives out there, but it's starting to feel the time has passed him by. Of course, the season has just started and there's a long way to go, but for now it's just same old crap we've been seeing for the last couple of years and he's doing nothing to turn it around.

OK, bring back Maja and let her play until someone actually decent shows up, because this isn't going anywhere. Also, we've become such a loser mentality team and I fucking can't stand it.

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In with universe?

The same one where Maja Aleksić is no better than Asli Kalac

I think the real reason was that she was upset for losing her position in the starting line-up to Veljković.

It wasn't much of a loss because Maja could never really set for her. Her best NT performance by far was WCh '22 when she played with Drča.