Posts by MTS

Quote from Realista

Yeah, caring about political opinions of celebrities is always something that fascinates me, it's nonsensical on so many levels. Few months ago, Tomasz Fornal said that he focuses on volleyball and he doesn't care about the politics - and while he was heavily criticized for that, it's not like a millionaire hitting the volley ball for a living without any proper education is impacted by every day's struggles or anyway has anything substantial to say. So I kinda respect this honesty. If celebrity participates in a state propaganda or whatever: that part sucks, but on 'regular' level why would you care about Gabi's political opinions?

I agree with almost everything you’ve said. The only issue drawing criticism is that the Western Nations and POles do not show the same level of sensitivity regarding Israel as they do regarding Russia. Israel is a state that acts irrationally and fuels terrorism in its region just as much as Russia does. That is why the Poles face extra backlash; however, I do understand Poles reservations regarding Russia and am aware of the suffering they have endured throughout history.

If I were to vote, I wouldn't care about Gabi's opinion, just like I wouldn't for most athletes. She comes across as someone lacking depth, simply shaping herself based on whatever she perceives as 'good' in her head.

I don't know much about the situation in Brazil, but I believe both parties have been in power in the past, failed to govern the country by causing corruption and misery, and eventually lost power. It feels like there is no difference between the two.

Quote from Aro

I watched part of the game, and IMHO Eczacıbası has two major issues, Aslı and Simge. They have both passed their primes. Aslı can’t even jump anymore, while Simge aside from the occasional good play, can’t pass well and is weak defensively. All she does is lose points and smile. I do like her smile though 😊

And this is also a counterargument to TVF, letting mediocre Turkish players play is not going to improve the quality of Turkish volleyball. Aslı has reached her limits she is not young anymore!! Luckily, for international games, Aslı won’t play, Rettke and Weitzel will play instead.

Türkiye is the best team in the world rigth now and most Turkish players are in good shape, Turkish teams won all tournaments and so far in 2026 Turkish players contributed a lot.

I don't like the foreign rule, but it helps just as much as it causes problems

The bronze medal will go to Poland today. Poland has a deep bench and a higher focus on winning the medal. Serbia, on the other hand, becomes a mediocre team whenever Boskovic stops playing like Boskovic.

Even if Poland loses, it won't be a 3-0 victory; it will definitely be a tough match.

Quote from Bogdan

There is nothing to say except that you are just amazing and probably smartest cookie on this planet, maybe even universum wide.

Bogdan, you need to update yourself a bit. I was on this site 5 years ago, and you guys were trying to silence the people who were right in arguments by having a few people troll them like this. You're using the exact same tactic for years

Serbia is paying the price for the mistakes it made because of their ego. You treated Guidetti poorly, appointing him at the wrong time and dismissing him at the wrong time.

HI SERBIANS, I EXACTLY TOLD YOU WHAT YOU SHOULD EXPECT 1 MONTHS AGO BEFORE. Now come and tell me that I am wrong about anything I said here

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you wont be much different in the ECh anyway

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Türkiye has better rotation depth at almost every position compared to Serbia. The only close matchups are at setter and OPP—and even then, I'd argue Türkiye holds a slight edge, though it's debatable.

Vargas = Boskovic

Cansu, Elif >= Maja, Mirkovic

Zehra, Eda, Jack > Kurtagic, Popovic, Osmajic

Hande, İlkin, Yaprak, Derya > Uzelac, Tica, Cajic, Ivanovic

Gizem, Eylül = Gocanin, Jegdic

If Ebrar was on the roster, the gap would be even wider. Hande and İlkin are far superior to the Serbians in defensive side of the game. Offensively it's close, but we have good attacking depth off the bench with Derya and Yaprak.

Beyond that, Türkiye and Italy both have well-defined roles and an established system. Serbia lacks this completely. It’s still entirely unclear who plays where, what their exact roles are, and how they will actually fit into the rotation.

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It was Serbia's older generation that won more than Türkiye, not this current one. Players like Uzelac, Kurtagic, Cajic, Mirkovic, Gocanin, Osmajic, and Ivanovic have won nothing. Have they ever even played in a semi-final? Meanwhile, Türkiye has been a top-three team over the last 3 year and has consistently competed in the medal zone for the past 8 years.

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Let's have this conversation when a Serbian MB scores 19 points hitting 70% wtih three block in a World Championship final. Eda was the best MB by far in the last WCh. Eda'd still put Kurtagic and Jack in her pocket lol. People just blindly write her off as old. She literally scored 15 points hitting 65% wiht 4 block in just 3 sets today

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Who said it’s just about medals? What has Uzelac actually accomplished in a major tournament? What has she achieved, and when has she ever carried her team to success, or at least been a crucial player for them?

Her time with the Serbian NT has been full of disappointments, and at the club level, she’s just been a high-volume scorer for mid-tier teams. Nothing more so far. You're just hoping she can contribute more in the future. And honestly, she still has a long way to go.

Quote from Cofi

Yeah I get it, with your logic Busa is better then LYY cause she won 2 OG medals and she is 2 times world champion as starter… LMAO

I’d also say Hande better then Gabi during NT season by your logic.. former won 2 VNLs while later didn’t

Or better yet, Derya>Gabi, both won CL but only one of them won VNL, the judgement is clear as day.

Who said it’s just about medals? What has Uzelac actually accomplished in a major tournament? What has she achieved, and when has she ever carried her team to success, or at least been a crucial player for them?

Her time with the Serbian NT has been full of disappointments, and at the club level, she’s just been a high-volume scorer for mid-tier teams. Nothing more so far. You're just hoping she can contribute more in the future. And honestly, she still has a long way to go.

Quote from Cofi

Did we really need to bring this out of nowhere? Lmao.. you people, cmon.

I won’t let any slender here against Uzelac being compared to the likes of Hande, sorry not sorry. If there was Busa and Lozo that won WCH as starters, do you mean go tell me that they were better then Uzelac is, or even Cajic and formless Ivanovic. They were good enough but compare them individually to almost any OH duo of 2022 season and they’d lose.

The team is far more beyond individual quality, best players don’t make the best teams. You can see that for years now with Brazilian NT, with Italian NT in the past and with Fenerbahce and Ecza superteams.

I am not satisfied with what Terzic is doing but let’s not pretend he is Abbondanza, Ferhat or Sullivan. He can still bring the best out of players when it matters, his methods, attitude and opinions are questionable for sure.

What exactly has Uzelac achieved in her career that Hande hasn't? She’s mostly just been the go-to outside hitter for mid-tier teams. There are so many situations where Hande has proven herself, whereas Uzelac hasn't even been tested yet.

Take the most recent example: Has Uzelac ever put up a performance in a major tournament like the VNL Finals that matches what Hande did in the 2026 VNL Finals? On what basis is she better?

If the criteria is just being the top scorer for a mid-level club, then sure. But if we're talking about executing a crucial role on an elite team, I think that's highly debatable.

The Buša-Lozo-Mihajlović trio played way better than all of your current OHs (excluding Uzelac). Plus, your middles, setter, and libero from that generation were already much better anyway.

Your coach was Santarelli you should give him huge credit for 2022 Wch.

Furthermore, good teams are built with good players and coaches. You can't be a good team without good players. But let's assume you can—is Terzic really the coach to pull that off?

Serbia has already lost two high-quality players to injury, and Terzic is psychologically abusing another. Being down 3 critical players is a massive blow

Quote from Madden54

Then again turkey barely beat us in the 2023 when all their players played their absolute peak game of their careers and Serbia was missing multiple starters for most of the match and played badly besides boskovic Lol. But I have to say you are really confident for a team that’s only been relevant since they started raiding norceca for talent because what they had domestically wasn’t good enough….

Whenever you run out of arguments, the topic always shifts to Vargas. We don't care. The concept of citizenship in Türkiye is similar to the French model. The vast majority of us do not accept a backward, racial purist, ethnicity-based definition of citizenship.

Historically, this has rarely been accepted here either. Jack is Turkish, and as a result of a mutualistic relationship with the country, Vargas is Turkish to us too. If you want to watch it again and comfort yourself by crying, I'll leave the link here.

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I think with Aleksic and Dangubic we absolutely could have had a really nice chance at gold in just one match vs Italy or turkey but without those 2 it’s going to be very difficult and require a huge effort from boskovic and uzelac both being on point

That's exactly what I'm saying; if these two players were still there, I'd see the situation as close, but right now, Serbia's chances against these two teams with are low.

Serbia has a good generation but needs time and a new coach.

Quote from runnerupster

3/6 starters for Serbia (with Aleksic and Dangubic missing or could be 5/6) are double Wch gold medalists and OG silver medalists though. Turkey does have the edge the last couple years form-wise but this is not a new rookie team.

No, in Turkey's and Italy's main rotations (both at the club and NT level), there are tons of players who have played multiple Champions League or major national team finals in the last 5 years.

If we were to create a point system and add up every player's match experience in top-tier semi-finals and finals, the gap would probably be something like 150 vs 38. And the vast majority of that 38 would belong just to Boskovic and Maja.

Quote from runnerupster

I used to love Eda-Zehra duo but honestly they are pretty bad at blocking the last few years, Jack is my favorite Turkish middle but Serbia also has Kurtagic, Osmajic etc. The Turkish trio only looks superior when all 3 are mentioned together imo but there are only 2 middles on court at the same time...

Let's have this conversation when a Serbian MB scores 19 points hitting 70% wtih three block in a World Championship final. Eda was the best MB by far in the last WCh. Eda'd still put Kurtagic and Jack in her pocket lol. People just blindly write her off as old. She literally scored 15 points hitting 65% wiht 4 block in just 3 sets today

Quote from runnerupster

Well that's an opinion, let's just say that I would personally say MBs, but especially OHs are debatable and liberos are more clearly superior on the Serbian side. I'm the biggest fan of Hande, but let's be real, there are two versions of her since the beginning of her career and it's a roulette, also Santa doesn't really seem to use Yaprak in the final stages... Are we sure Derya is returning?

How is the MB position debatable? Kurtagic can compete with our trio ( ı think Eda and Zehra better than Kurtagic ) , but Serbia's second middle is nowhere near the quality of Eda, Zehra, or Jack.

As for the OHs, three of them have'nt been tested at the highest level. The only one who has is Uzelac, and she isn't exactly consistent either. Dangubic, for example, was tested and was a crucial player here. If Hande and İlkin were Serbian, they would automatically be in the starting six alongside Uzelac.

On the other hand, their liberos based on what are they better? Where have they even played? Our players always play for top teams at the highest level with the best players, which is why they are under a bigger microscope. Jegdic couldn't even get on the court for Vakıfbank last season.

Quote from Madden54

and yet Serbia has won far more than turkey ever has. That kind of experience matters. Plus Serbia likely is only gonna play against one of the other 2 and not both.

It was Serbia's older generation that won more than Türkiye, not this current one. Players like Uzelac, Kurtagic, Cajic, Mirkovic, Gocanin, Osmajic, and Ivanovic have won nothing. Have they ever even played in a semi-final? Meanwhile, Türkiye has been a top-three team over the last 3 year and has consistently competed in the medal zone for the past 8 years.

Quote from runnerupster

Well I wouldn't be so sure, Turkey might not call Ebrar and I don't think Ilkin and Hande are consistent enough to keep Turkey in the top. Uzelac is also clearly the first choice OH for Serbia, Dangubic is a great player esp. when she changes the games coming from the bench but I think we all know Uzelac has a higher ceiling as starter (esp. as an offensive OH, which is Serbia's style) and is like Serbia's KYK-like project this generation. I would say Italy-Serbia-Russia-Brazil-Turkey are very close right now.

Türkiye has better rotation depth at almost every position compared to Serbia. The only close matchups are at setter and OPP—and even then, I'd argue Türkiye holds a slight edge, though it's debatable.

Vargas = Boskovic

Cansu, Elif >= Maja, Mirkovic

Zehra, Eda, Jack > Kurtagic, Popovic, Osmajic

Hande, İlkin, Yaprak, Derya > Uzelac, Tica, Cajic, Ivanovic

Gizem, Eylül = Gocanin, Jegdic

If Ebrar was on the roster, the gap would be even wider. Hande and İlkin are far superior to the Serbians in defensive side of the game. Offensively it's close, but we have good attacking depth off the bench with Derya and Yaprak.

Beyond that, Türkiye and Italy both have well-defined roles and an established system. Serbia lacks this completely. It’s still entirely unclear who plays where, what their exact roles are, and how they will actually fit into the rotation.

Quote from Madden54

Aleksic is a massive loss for Euros though

Dangubic too

She may be the most reliable OH you have rigth now. Uzelac is good but Dangubic can perform better against top teams, she is more ready player.

Quote from Madden54

quite confident. Maybe you’re right but I wouldn’t count out a team with boskovic so soon. This Serbian team with her has the pieces to be successful and win the euros with this draw. Losing Aleksic and Dangubic definitely hurts though

I know you have a good draw, but with Terzic and this starting six, your chances against Türkiye and Italy are very slim, and that slim chance is only thanks to Boskovic.

Wish you look more promising, so we can be more excited about ECH.

Quote from Cofi

poor us.. and Russia is gonna relegate from VNL as well it seems

I dont think so Marina and Arina can score 30 points and easily beat teams like Thailand, France, Serbia in the VNL

but Terzic will be the end of Serbia.

Quote from Cofi

yeah I wish it was friendly or something that didn’t matter too much..

you wont be much different in the ECh anyway