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I cant see any quotation marks

if you're using your phone click on the 3 dots/bullets on the upper right of any comment once you click on it there should be a drop down menu with quote and like

Quote from Phoenix

I don't have an answer for you but Fukazawa is focusing on her rehabilitation right now

She's been doing that since 2022. What's with the chronic injuries

Quote from Hassan Kadem

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Miyu coaching Kitty. Zayasu is usually the one talking to some of the girls but she's retiring as staff too so she doesn't care anymore lmao

I can't imagine them being able to recover next season. Nishimura is fine but without another good second libero they're going down. She was a success thanks to Toe's support but if she has to cover the entire season alone this team will go nowhere as they did this season. Same for second OPP. Nakagawa is retirement material. Fukazawa too is inconsistent verging on unreliable so many breaks every season. A lot of injured players including Araki. Where do they go from here?

Quote from forzalube

She is not old, I hope she will play abroad

it seems she’s retiring

I wish Shibata was drafted. Seki has very low awareness of her opponents on the other side and priotizes where koga will hit which most of the time is 3 seconds late that the other side is ready to block and Koga isnt any good with swerving the ball’s trajectory once she swings

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The wide roster submitted to VNL are already available at the website earlier - maximum 30 players can be submitted.

So other than the 24 registered players, here are the 6 additional names. It won't matter since they will not play, but just interesting to see

Miyabe

Aoyagi, Kinoe

Sakae, Shibata, Tsukada

It's weird that it seems like the list aren't there anymore, but most of the teams have their list there earlier

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who are kinoe and tsukada?

Quote from gkv

Kill / block / deadly serve / nuke pipe is ideal just like with her predecessors sakoda and nagaoka. i think wada will eventually perfect that deadly serve.

So far for pipe koga is the strongest and serve is mayu reception obviously hayashi but none of the middles are good at blocks

You forgot oos. She has to keep up with that otherwise Hayashi can pretty much deal with the heavier load on the right.

For example Nishida can be destructive but Ran is so much better with oos and he's got good reception too. The very reason Ran was able to secure his spot over Yanagida period.

Airi is an offensive mb with good reception so I would like to see more from her alongside Yamada

Quote from skorost

think of haikyu as jva's taylor swift and ran takahashi is their travis kelce. isn't that right? Phoenix

That's ugh

Haikyu is JVA's kpop. Ran and Yuki Ishikawa are their BTS and Blackpink.

Quote from tomen

Who knows why?

Alain De Armas couldn't join Japanese NT at least this year due to the FIVB sports regulations (Section 1, Chapter 1, Title 5: Change of Federation of origin).

Might he just join NT after 2026? Oh, my god!

According to those involved, the association was informed by FIVB in early March that he did not fall under the exception, but this was not communicated at the mid-month meeting of the strengthening committee, which selected the national team candidates.

But yes by all means he will be eligible by the next cycle

I was looking forward to him but I guess that can wait

Quote from K_kloz

Most recent one

good to know that she was really there. i can't wait til her and valdes are able to join the nt as official players. i dont know if they can join at the same time due to the naturalized player limit. i havent read up on that one

has anyone seen any photos or videos of jaja at the training camp?

Quote from Phoenix

Presscon is officially tomorrow. Noise marketing promos are upon us.

*the presscon last season was not geoblocked but just in case have your VPNs ready or else you'll miss whoever tf cut her hair as a tribute to the gods this olympics also kurogo is there so the lotta ya make sure to do some breathing techniques in fact go ahead and meditate before the stream

It'll probably be just the VNL team but I kinda wanna see Jaja and Valdes appear

Was Kubota even a starter right away at Hitachi? I can't remember how she started since Hitachi housed some freakwhackers during her rookie days. It's a mystery why they never quite reached powerhouse level. Ebata and Kurihara both OG'd there.

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I'm very indifferent towards rookies. The last rookie I liked from the get go is Kubota ex-Hitachi. I definitely believed in her back then. In terms of reception she's a lot better than Mayu. I would say around Hayashi's level when she was motivated but that's probably me being biased which you lot should blindly accept lmao

Miyu Kubota? That's delulu omg. She had a great reception but Hayashi's reception is better than most liberos. Only Shinnabe is comparable to her.

Quote from sitenoise

of course lol

SFs:
Hitachi v Okayama

Denso v JT

next week

what happened to nec?

Quote from sean1

At least the younger gen has taller options now starting with Akimoto who is almost 190cm with super long arms. Chunganji and Baba are both 180. Miina Inoue is 2006er only 2 years older and is also at 180. And this I hate Volleyball Nabeya lookalike

Provided they all develop well

Akimoto is the same age as Inoue. How old is Kitamado? Valdes and Akimoto are the same height if both will enter as op in the future.

Quote from Playmaker

Mayu also said ``There are times when I make a mistake and go, ``Ah...'', but I've learned to switch things up. Furthermore, when I score a goal, the people around me celebrate, and I've learned to be aggressive. I wasn't able to experience that in Japan.''

This part didn't make sense to me but I realized she found joy in celebrating aggressively rather than just smiling all the time?

Initially I thought she was talking about the crowd as in the loud cheers from the crowd which is no longer a thing in vleague but now that you brought it up it's probably the rowdiness and excitement when they get a kill whereas in vleague most teams just smile and huddle. remember when kobata got hate for jumping around every time they scored?

Sportiva: I think you were on the bench for last year's Japan team, weren't you?

Mayu: Yes, I did. Until now, I have not always been on the court because of my role in the team. But now that I have spent the season in Italy, I want to "show what I have done as much as possible in the Japan national team. Because of my experience here, I have a strong feeling of 'I'm going to do it.

This is too vague. I wish she would have elaborated on what her role is. She also never mentioned any injuries as some of you suspected.

Mayu is the type to take everything seriously and it sounds like the failures of the NT really sucked the fun out of playing for her. Yuki isn't this austere but he has better control over members and who he can count on. I don't know how it is for Mayu since she kept it vague.

Quote from Hassan Kadem

Wait wtf is this Fukasawa? literally just leave

This girl might be the worst highschool ace she has that pandemic curse for sure

Very unreliable. Always MIA. She's never there when they need and they can't count on her when she is around. Sorry but sayonara please

Quote from kravmaga

It would be a wise decision for Valdes to leave PFU first and foremost but since their coach was the one who said that they'll help her goal to make the NT she might not actually be able to go elsewhere. Also, Nikkan and Number magazine have both listed her as a possible option so JVA already knows what to do with her since both publications get their sources directly from the federation unlike Sportiva

If she were offered a contract by any of the top teams her and PFU would be in no position to turn it down especially if it supports her access to the NT. I don't know if that's what happened to Nishimura but she made the ultimate power move which she wouldn't have reached if she stayed in Okayama.