Also, all players are announced. Plummer will probably play a double role (OH and OPP)
Plummer will be bench for almost whole season or sub haak. Honestly she should try opposite. She will be more useful in that position.
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I mean… I’ve watched her for years
look what Poulter did with Plummer in two weeks vs what Wolosz couldn’t do in a whole year 🤣I mean she can't pass. She should try beach. 🥱
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Frantti is almost guaranteed to go to WCh. It will be a toss between Plummer and Bajema.
Frantti is the new hill of this new quad. unknown and unpopular player becoming a superstar, next season big teams will recruit her for sure. They should bring her, while she is on her peak.
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They should bring frantti over plummer. The girl can't pass! Egonu will make sure she punishes plummer for her bad performance in CL championship 😂
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Wow, is Zhu healthy to play already? I thought vakifbank gonna sign her lol but I think they choose egonu.
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this will never happen. They would have done that from the very start if they wanted to. Add to that the "Japanese only" culture of Japan. They are purest. While other countries are embracing naturalized players for years, Japan has only came around to adding hafus in their rooster. Athletes with no Japanese blood will probably have zero chance.
I do see that Japanese prefer to have only Japanese players! But not sure if they are planning to change it now. JN committee invited her early Last month a meeting . This is per Twitter news and not sure if this is true. But she is in Japan now months before the league start to complete her yrs of residency.
She got offers in Brazil and Europe but she still considering change of citizenship to Japanese and play in Olympic. Again I just read this in Twitter, looks like she has fans active there.
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Who will be JTs foreign player now that Drew's did not renew? I see Lowe following JT and other JT players.
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Why kingdom still with USNT? seriously after her stellar performance in Korean league years ago. Nothing special about her.
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So the spot for OHs again is Very tight for USA. Mbh can take rest and resign for NT and give her time with her family. I say krob, frantti and plummer are locked it will be between bajema and swp Last spot.
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Frantti, gurl!!!
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I kinda see Kim Hill in her approach, but she jumps higher
I miss hill 😢
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Amazing match! Herbots was on fire.
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Looks like lot of fans of herbots in the arena?
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Why herbots always croscourt? Libero is digging her. 🙄
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Coach Hill. Love it that she knows what she really want to do. She is done playing and wants to share that experience to future USA players.
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Frantti looks like a combination of Hill and Fawcett to me lol
I like her. I think she has better chance replacing hill/Mbh over plummer.
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So the rumors of Jaja getting her Japanese status continues 😂
I think so! Goodness! Saw her highlights in yt. Lol is she famous in Philippines? Very tall and looks good in attack and block. Japan will be happy to have her for sure.
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Yep, said it before. Swp is no way on the level of 4 vets. Not yet. Tbh I don't know who can replace Larson, hill and MBH for 2024. Krob will carry all pressure 😁.
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Display MoreSimplest answer for Japan. The team got old. If it was 2020, they probably would have been better, but Shinnabe retiring did not help. Let alone Japan has always had problems at middle. I love Erika Araki, but it just wasn't coming out of her body. Yamada was not ready (she's getting there, but still young).
Ishii in 2018 was decent, but on the national team, Ishikawa was going to replace her, but still with Koga's injury in the games, she was the backup. That was not a recipe that was going to replace like for like. Koga is much better.
Plus with Nakata's five years of running the team, it just was not changing. 2017 was a surprise, 2018 a leveling (while the rest of world improved greatly), 2019 was about the same as 2018. In my mind if they made the quarterfinals, that would be as far as they would go. Koga's injury and the loss to South Korea in group play made it hypercritical to win the DR game. It didn't happen.
Manabe's basically, play the kids, but keep a couple of the veterans. Also focus on serving, which worked really well on Sunday against USA.
I think Japan is very close in solving that MB problem. I saw a post in Twitter they are a trying to naturalize a foreign player from philippines. 1.95cm, been playing in jvl for 4 seasons and heard she was doing well with Japanese system. Currently best MB in JVL. I think they also have another opposite naturalize player name valdes?. I am a fan of Japanese team and I am getting some updates. These 2 possible naturalize players might help Japanese more solid.
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In the V League thread someone said she turned down the offer, someone else said she was gonna think about it. But this is from October 2021
Yes, saw that, let see if there is another offer.