Posts by Ollie

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This team just is not comfortable to watch, even when they win points. There's no flow like the 2019 team and I understand why everyone's so quiet here now.

I’m still here! But yes there’s no real excitement watching the girls play bc it just feels a bit hopeless. I will say I have been surprised by the improvement WYY has shown in the past few years - the Middles are still playing up to standard, and Wang Mengjie has continued to impress. I feel so bad for Gong bc she’s literally the heart of the team but still so unappreciated…

As for the OHs and Setters, everyone is just wanting ZT to come back and save everyone but I don’t think she’s trained that closely with Diao who is prone to going mad during games so idk, I just hope they get to Paris.

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hahahahahahahahhahahah

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Now, no one match could be lost.

but aren’t they assured of a spot by being top in Asia?

LOLOL tbh CVA needed to be taught a lesson - if China doesn’t even qualify to the Olympics this will be the BIGGEST upset lol 😂 but ofc they still will. Goes to show how little depth the team has and how poor the coaching decisions have been…

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OQT roster

主攻：李盈莹、王云蕗、仲慧、吴梦洁

副攻：袁心玥、王媛媛、高意、杨涵玉

接应：龚翔宇、郑益昕

二传：刁琳宇、丁霞

自由人：王梦洁、倪非凡

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Still can’t believe we’re sticking with WYL…

Quote from fire_cai_bin

I have sadly, it's all over weibo.

She was at Yao Di's birthday party. It's obvious our head coach Mr. Clown Bin does not want them. Just gotta hope they will be back for 2024 I guess.

I think it’s the other way round… I wouldn’t be surprised if she doesn’t trust the coaching team and CVA to honor her wishes on the training load once she signs up to be a part of the team… we all know how they love overtraining their athletes… she’s already won it all anyway, they need her more than the other way round, I’m glad she’s prioritizing her health

Watched the first set (and half the second set) before I had to head out to dinner and had a really good feeling - the team is finally playing as a team. Congratulations to our ladies for getting to the finals! Payback for that 3-0 loss during the round robin, and all without ZT! I am glad to see their hard work paying off.

I've missed seeing the Great Wall!!!!!!

truly terrifying performance from China… so bad that even Korea looked threatening

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These sets by Diao

lost for words

I’m back！And shocked by how China is performing against Korea. They don’t deserve to get to the Top 8 with the way they’re playing. So messy - no strategy, no system, horrible setting…. More thoughts later but this is an embarrassment.

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https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fo4y1r77z

Zhu and Yao were very impressive today in Italy

They really looked soooo smooth

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I think she is well on her road to recovery and version 2.0.

She has been looking more and more aggressive in the past few matches. I have the same kind of excitement as I used to, when I see her gear up for a kill! Pretty decent recovery - about a year ish for her to come back to good form and she’s not even at her peak yet! *rubs hands in glee*

Slightly off topic but seems like Yao Di’s transfer to Scandicci is all but confirmed… Definitely not on my bingo card. WHAT ABOUT LYY!!!!!!!!

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Beijing has their back against the wall now....can they take a page out of Shenzhen’s book and win 3 sets to turn the match around ?

I don’t think they can...not after that second set collapse.... and they are up against one of the most resilient teams in the CVL

wow watching Beijing is painful… Luckily for their foreign players they still get paid well but this season is…

Was watching the Scandicci-Firenze match yesterday, and heard Clayton Lucas make an offhand remark on Washington (around the 2nd set 6-4 mark):

“Well you see all these forums of volleyball and obviously, everyone has their opinion - that’s fine, you have an opinion, not that it means a great deal if you don’t have anything to back it up particularly, other than just the fact [of] what you watched someone do on the telly, and it’s said that Haleigh Washington, not perhaps as good as she could be, I think she’s absolutely phenomenal…”

I recall some criticisms of Washington a few games ago on this very thread haha - I wonder if Lucas is on here…

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Zhu is back

she is looking better and better each week.

what’s the point of Zhu when the setter is so bad lol. She can’t even set properly to 4 to anyone of any height or any power or any style… no pipes either… Castillo sets better than her lol

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Monza vs Firenze is too (although Orro is slightly less bad than normal)

Di Iulio going from bad to worse in Set 3 lol this always happens

Scandicci v Bergamo is like battle of the bad setters