Posts by Sebastian

Trouble is brewing in Weissach (Flacht):

Their sports hall is currently not classified as a place of assembly ("Versammlungsstätte"). In principle that would limit the number of spectators to 200, however a special permit issued by the district allows them to exceed that limit. The community of Weissach wants to invest 800.000 € in ventilation and fire safety to meet the usual requirements for a place of assembly.

There is however a strong protest in the community against this, a petition was signed by more than 600 people. They think the costs are excessive (Flacht is in Swabia...) and that the hall will need to be closed for several months for reconstruction work. The community of Weissach consists of two parts, Weissach and Flacht. The sports hall that Flacht VB is using is in Weissach, the petition is carried mostly by people from TSV Weissach apparently, that might play into this.

If reconstructions are not carried out the club might lose their special permit and they would be limited to 200 spectators which would make Bundesliga unsustainable.

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…60-9453-091a5bc3189b.html

https://www.openpetition.de/pe…-vorteile-viele-nachteile

Charlotte Krenicky (S, BEL) and Stuttgart have resolved her contract. According to the newspapers in Stuttgart she received an offer from a club in Eastern Europe that will play CL.

Blaj? Or is any of the Polish teams still looking for a setter?

This was mentioned in the (women's) VNL thread before:

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In both volleyball and beach volleyball, a new interpretation of the double touch rule was approved for testing. Double contact will be allowed during the setting action, provided the ball remains on the same side of the court, with faults only called for two clear consecutive touches. For balls played into the opponent’s court, as well as catches and lifts, the current interpretation will still apply. In volleyball, this new rule interpretation will be applied during the VNL 2025, then assessed before wider application across events. Meanwhile, in beach volleyball, it will be applied at the Gstaad Elite, Montreal Elite, Brazil Challenge and Baden Challenge, before being applied more widely.

and there's also this:

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In volleyball, to reduce sudden rally interruptions, teams will no longer be able to request a mid-rally Challenge. Instead, teams can request a Challenge at the end of rally to review the referees’ decision regarding any action during the rally, including the service.

https://www.fivb.com/progress-…commissions-and-councils/

After their last home match of their 2 BL Pro season, Flacht has said goodbye to a few players leaving the club. More relevant for this topic are the players not mentioned, so I guess these will stay to play in BL next year:

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Saskia Lenk

Julia Teso (D/Lux double citizenship?, setting for Lux NT)

Opp

Frauke Neuhaus (played for Schwerin 21-23 and other BL teams)

OH

Julia Cedeño (b. Wenzel, played for Straubing, Wiesbaden, Neuwied)

Leonie Büdenbender (? had to deal with injuries, did not play much last two seasons)

Sara Marjanovic

Hanne Binkau

MB

Britta Schammer

Julia Schneider

L

Alina Stäbler

The most noticable player by far is Neuhaus. I hope they will add some strength to the team, otherwise a lot of their games will be over real quick.

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Can't read it but according to the transfer rumours the 9 players should be Rivers, Segura, Koskelo, Knollema, Robinson, Bozic, Reesink, Morrissette, and Veltman

That's the list. The paper says Knollema goes to Firenze ("Florenz", I assume that means back to Firenze, not scandicci)

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Apparently they also signed Mikala Mogensen from Münster

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…3b-a79f-ba90db562703.html

They article also says Reesink will likely go to Schwerin

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I can imagine it is hard to arrange 3rd game due to busy national league schedules. But I think they should play golden set independent of score of winning team. If Milano would win 2 sets, they would put their backup players on court right away and it would be a meaningless match for everyone, also disrespectful to all the audience who came to the gym to watch their favourite players🤦CEV values winning 3-1 more than winning 3-2, which is understandable but win is a win, golden set should be played anyways in the case both teams win once, independent of the score

I like the idea of always playing a golden set when both teams won a match. Maybe the team that won more sets could be given an advantage of something like 3 points/set, then for example:

- results 3:0 and 1:3 => golden set starts with a score of 3:0

- results 3:0 and 2:3 => golden set starts with a score of 6:0

That way there would be no meaningless sets but on the other hand every set won counts for something.

In the article about Koulberg, Stuttgart's press states that the club "will" lose Koskelo as well, so it seems she's made her decision and will retire.

Schwerin Dresden 3:1 / 98:75 (23:25 25:9 25:23 25:18) https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2024-25/Women/2122.pdf

Aachen Suhl 1:3 / 87:98 (25:23 22:25 19:25 21:25) https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2024-25/Women/2123.pdf

Potsdam Erfurt 3:0 / 75:50 (25:20 25:11 25:19) https://live.volleyball-bundesliga.de/2024-25/Women/2125.pdf

Standings

1 SSC Palmberg Schwerin 23 19 65:20 58

2 Allianz MTV Stuttgart 21 18 57:23 50

3 Dresdner SC 22 17 55:26 50

4 SC Potsdam 21 13 44:30 35

5 VfB Suhl LOTTO Thüringen 22 11 40:41 33

6 VC Wiesbaden 21 7 30:48 23

7 USC Münster 21 7 29:50 21

8 Ladies in Black Aachen 22 5 30:56 17

9 Schwarz-Weiß Erfurt 23 1 10:66 4

This is the same ranking as last season, except for Aachen taking over Vilsbiburg's pos 8 and the addition of Erfurt. It's quite likely also the final ranking unless there's a major upset, maybe Suhl will go to pos. 4.

Weirdly enough, VBL has scheduled for the last matchday of the regular season a repetition of last year's qf (with Schwerin playing Aachen) so these games could see a repetition directly afterwards in this years qf.

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Stuttgarter Zeitung/Nachrichten report that according to Renkema herself she has "three realistic options". The paper believes one of these would be to succeed Julia Retzlaff as one of the managing directors of the VBL.

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…67-8a09-6f4c77f46b84.html

They now say it's a done deal and Oszvald-Renkema will start her job at VBL on May 1st.

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…8b-882d-af7c5a113150.html

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VBL news:

Contract until 2028. Daniel Sattler's (other managing director) contract has been extended, but it's not mentioned for how long

Oszvald-Renkema's responsibilities will be:

Sponsoring, positioning the VBL brand, further development of highlight events. Also she will focus on the development of clubs and locations, and the areas of top-class sport and talents.

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In dieser Funktion verantwortet sie den Aufbau und die Pflege von Sponsoringpartnerschaften, die Markenpositionierung der VBL sowie die Weiterentwicklung der Highlight-Events. Außerdem wird ihr Fokus auf der Club- und Standortentwicklung sowie den Themenfeldern Spitzensport und Nachwuchs liegen

https://www.volleyball-bundesl…page=0#a_185901_775171442

They say it's a conditional application, so apparently it's not certain someone else will apply

https://www.skurios-volleys-bo…llen-erstklassig-spielen/

Stuttgarter Zeitung/Nachrichten report that according to Renkema herself she has "three realistic options". The paper believes one of these would be to succeed Julia Retzlaff as one of the managing directors of the VBL.

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…67-8a09-6f4c77f46b84.html

Apart from Hamburg the candidate teams are:

Skurios Volleys Borken (near Münster and very close to the border to NL, Grimma Volleys (near Leipzig) Binder Blaubären TSV Flacht (near Stuttgart)

https://www.ndr.de/sport/mehr_…ie-Bundesliga,etv222.html

The capacity of the halls at these sites is

400/2300 Hamburg (two available sites)

1042 Borken

950 Grimma

450 Flacht

200.000€ was reported for Flacht as well as a possible budget

Tomorrow's Stuttgarter Zeitung will contain an interview with Konstantin Bitter.

This season only 4 players stayed in Stuttgart, it will be more next season, but the club will lose players (plural) that have been with the club for years. The interviewer mentions Segura and Rivers (Bitter does not disagree with this statement) and asks about Koskelo. According to Bitter it will depend on her health if she stays, she has knee issues.

Stuttgart hopes that they can develop Slacanin and Steinhilber themselves within the next 2-3 seasons.

Updated projection

• Stuttgart would go to 60 points if they repeat the results from the previous round (i.e. win 3:1 or 3:0 in the remaining games, they only play Potsdam from the top 5)
• Dresden would end up with 59 points (they previously won 3:2 at Schwerin and 3:0 against Suhl)
• Schwerin would end up with 58 points (if they repeat the 2:3 losses vs Dresden and @Suhl)

If Stuttgart win out they will end up with the most wins so they would be ahead in case of equal number of points.

The club has confirmed this in an extremely short statement.

https://www.stuttgarts-schoens…ich-auf-eine-freistellung

That's not how you end such a long and successful era in my opinion. Why was it not possible to write a short recap of that period?

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Stuttgarter Zeitung reports that Stuttgart and Renkema are discussing terminating her contract early. She would then not be involved in selecting the team for the next season.

According to the paper the contract has now been terminated. Renkema is quoted saying she "cannot comment on this issue anymore". The paper speculates that there is a confidentiality agreement.

https://www.stuttgarter-zeitun…41-a1b2-c4de7ca699fb.html (paywall)

If the top teams were to repeat the results from the previous encounter against the same teams in the remaining matches:

• Dresden would end up with 60 points (they previously lost 2:3 at Stuttgart, won 3:2 at Schwerin and 3:0 against Suhl),

• Stuttgart with 59 points (they won 3:0 against Potsdam and 3:2 against Dresden)
• Schwerin would end up with 58 points (if they repeat the 3:0 win @Potsdam and the 2:3 losses vs Dresden and @Suhl)

We'll know more after the mid-week games this week (Potsdam-Schwerin on Wednesday, Stuttgart-Dresden on Thursday)

Stuttgarter Zeitung reports that Stuttgart and Renkema are discussing terminating her contract early. She would then not be involved in selecting the team for the next season.

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https://www.stuttgarter-nachri…9d-b408-568916aa9488.html

Is someone able to read it? Is Stuttgart honestly looking for a new player??

Renkema: Worst game in years. Bitter agreed to this statement. Bitter called the setting of both setters a "catastrophe" according to the article ("Die Leistung seiner Zuspielerinnen ... bezeichnete Bitter als „Katastrophe“").

Stuttgart is mainly thinking about a new setter but Renkema says: "The market is difficult and very expensive." and adds that there are other problems beside the setting as well. She says both the new and the returning players need to improve. "The team is able to do so much better" she says.