Astemo cleans house with the coaching staff be fired on the 22nd.
I mean if they were expecting them to win the title this year, that was probably not a great thought to begin with.
They were 7th last year, and finished 8th this year.
The only teams that jumped them were Himeji, who got promoted and Toray. Queenseis finished above them in 2023-2024, but dropped below them in 2024-2025.
they should get a foreign coach they have the budget
Nakajima taking 3 fucking hours with her team speech again. Szakmary bout to dose off before practice even begins
They better beat Himeji Selinger Airi and nepobaby or else
those are tragic numbers
Samedy was on Saga's local RBK Tadaima TV special today. I don't think she's leaving.
The last time Hisamitsu had a foreigner promote on TV it was Foluke. It doubled her income. Van Hecke and Mckenzie Adams didn't even do that.
Last time we got Koga and Nishida together before they announced that they're a couple
This time we have Sakae and her ex Fujinaka (behind Sawada)
wtf you should've said something sooner
So bored of Osaka I need Denso to squash their dreams now that Hayashi and Minowa aren't in the NT.
Kawabata best libero
It's difficult enough to like this team because of Ferhat and now Kurogo is back again ...for doing nothing, contributing nothing, for fading, for simply existing in a team that kicked out Niida just to give her a spot. Round of applause.
If Akbas goal is to beef up the offense then he should've eliminated Kurogo first and then Wada
Hayashi is Japan's best passer bar none. Wada is just as short as Hayashi but we have Valdes now. This makes no sense. What is Kurogo's place in this team?
Why the need for Emily Liyama when Minowa is so much taller, has better footwork, attacks well on top of everything else that none of the middles can do
they rented 3 buses omg
who is kojima's nephew talking about? i thought his favorite was dani lol
Idk
Kojima's entire clan except her 93 year old grandma just left Japan to finally watch her play live. More ticket sales
I was thinking the same (and hoping that bc it would mean Hester gets to be on the team a lot). Imo Gerritsen has the highest potential ceiling out of the "new MB girls" but she's only 19 still, if she can get (at least) a one-week VNL experience on the bench I'd be happy. Seeing court would be a huuuge bonus!
Vos has already had some VNL appearances two years ago if I'm not mistaken. She's playing as a non-receiving OH so that might be challenging but she is very fun to watch, Felix would be crazy to not let her play some matches and give Nika/Marrit some rest
I like Gerritsen. Also, she looks a bit like Baijens to me lol.
But she needs better footwork
can you give more context im having a hard time understanding it
They were in Japan that's why she said Japanese fans since majority of the crowd is obviously Japanese so she spoke in Japanese first not English
Hope the rumors about Hayashi going to Chieri is true. I think she has outgrown the local league and time for a challenge.
If Osaka wins the championship I don't really see Hayashi leaving Japan although it would be ideal for her to seek that challenge in a league like Italy of course. We'll see
is koslowski still head coach? they could do better than him
Ishikawa probably doesn't like her either
Sad we won't see this lukewarm drama escalate jk
PFU is at the very bottom of teams I'm interested in lol so it's really only when their arena started outbidding Saga that sorta piqued my curiosity.
Do you remember if they were always signed to an association? like how Queenseis and was it Denso are both signed to Aichi Volleyball Association. I read that being registered to an association triples the value of a team so those who don't want that have the option of just merging or acquiring a home team like a football/baseball team any sport as long as it's financially stable so handball doesn't count.
Maybe because the Blue Cats arena is new-er.
Both Saga and PFU have the most modern facilities. PFU also has a restaurant below whereas Saga doesn't.
