Anybody's predictions changed after watching those friendlies?
nope 
Posts by sitenoise
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What a Beautiful Photo
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Display MoreSo here's a summary
"Nakada's Way"Hail Araki
Ace Kurogo
Koga the side bitch
Mayu is an Ishikawa
This is Momii's team damnit
The Ishii-erasure is real
You've been BINGO every day these past few days
truth hurts a little bit though
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In case anyone's interested, here's apreview of the variety show the London Squad are appearing in
Maiko Kano looks like KYK in that thumbnail
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yes lol it happened in the first set of the scrimmage yesterday
So Brutal
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It looks like a virtual reality animated volleyball game
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I still remember when Kurogo dropped 30 points against Dominican Republic in VNL 2019
Yes! When she hit from the left side. The good old days
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This is going to be a fun Olympics
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Except nobody really knows anyone in this team
Yeah LOL.
Imagine the response of the Serbian players if Terzic said “Don’t serve to Shinnabe”
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Spiders have 8 legs
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Isn't this the old Manabe trick? Change everybody's number and give them the same haircut so they don't know who is who
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Shinnabe was 12 during London Olympics and 3 in Hisamitsu. Her number isn't 4
Don't you remember the admonitions: "Avoid number 4. Don't serve to number 4"?
[Edit] oh, unless the Olympics are a special category, not including other NT tournaments. Is that why they switched numbers?
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I thought Yuki Ishii was born with Lucky Number 7 tattooed on her back. I wonder what prompted the leap to #8
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Jersey numbers have changed apparently: https://en.volleyballworld.com…n/teams/jpn-japan/players
I'm really bad with numbers
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Aya Watanabe signed with Hitachi per Sportsnavi.
I wanted her to go home to Sendai
This is the 2020-2021 thread, though. We keep tossing stragglers over here
I posted about her move in the 2021-2022 threadmaybe sloth can move these last few to 2021-2022. The ones from after the Hisamitsu Kimono photos--a fitting end to the thread, I think. Doesn't really matter though
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Can hardly recognize some of them with those "photos"
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I'm ok with Hande, she has her ups and downs but Meliha is too ... void right now
so I'd start with Hande and Tuckba but Meliha will start I guess. If she receives well her main job is done tbh. The rest is on the middles (which Zehra doesn't look too good right now ) and the other attackers.You certainly have keener insight here than I do. I guess for me it's just a case of "Likers gonna like". If it were Derya and Ilkin over Hande and Meliha, I'd be like-y about it.
I'm kind of pessimistic/mean about some of Japan's choices. It's just the way we can be about things closest to our hearts.
I want Turkey to do well in the OG and thought some #goodvibes might help
Bummer extraordinaire about Zehra's possible condition
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I wish ya'll weren't so mean to Hande and Meliha
I'll give you the after-BUT first:
It's important/cool/smart to jump on hot young talent. Amazing things can happen. That's why I would have sent the Japanese U20 World Champion squad to the World Cup. Seems you Turkish aficionados are sort of wishing for that kind of thing with Buse, Derya, Ilkin, etc., now.
The pre-BUT analagy
Hande and Meliha are about on par with Sarina Koga. You might think Sarina just "arrived" this year, but she's not as good as she was 3-4 years ago. She languished and offered nothing (club or NT) for a few years and just bloomed again at present.
Players at that level have good times and bad times. They don't just all of a sudden suck irretrievably. Hande and Meliha's "slump" might extend right through the OG and that would be unfortunate, and the "I told ya sos" will be thrown about justifiably
The big-BUT
Hande and Meliha might both do their jobs well in the OG
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shouldn't it be 14 out of +20 hahah
I don't know. I'm really bad with numbers
