I disagree. Ilbank played better when they started to play with only 1 foreigner. It's all about the team chemistry.
Yeah absolutely but I was talking about building a team not necesseraly about how the squad performs and what works best.
Ilbank still barely avoided relegation and it’s not like they were ever a challenge for higher level teams.
Behcevlier and Aydin are officially relegated.
I mean no surprises there, they sucked and I hope we see more competative teams in future seasons.
One of the things that prevents lower tier teams from building competative squad is 3 foreign rule. Most of those teams are struggling to find good locals to fill 4 out of 7 starters to be competative against NT level locals from top 8 teams. They end up playing with MBs, liberos and setters that are way beyond SL level.
Playoffs are set
Vakifbank vs Eczacibasi
Fenerbahce vs Zeren Spor
I think 5-8th is also decided regardless of Vakif-THY game
Galatasaray vs THY
Nilufer vs Aras Kargo
I really wish we had top 8 playoff format, this needs to happen in future seasons. 5-8th teams would be more encouraged to invest and fight for playoff if there was a real reward for being in top8 instead of just “challenger cup” that nobody cares about for 5-8th place.
Now, having all suprises here, can’t wait to have a Vakif-Ecza final
And Ecza winning after 10 years of Boskovic now with Stysiak 
Terzic’s curse continues lmao
Tbh Fener is very hard to like, both because of their cocky and wanna be hooligan fanbase and cause their managment sucks
I guess if they lose Final4 spot they’ll change 5th coach in 5 seasons lol
Zeren sucks, not their usual game.
Malinov is so predictable even when pass is good
Gabi is in libero jersey for the game today
It could be exciting game afterall
Blagojevic playing her first CL game as a headcoach 
she did a good job preparing a team for the game it seems
Zehra and Ogbogu are giving “I don’t wanna be here” vibes all game today
Wtf was Ayca doing there lmao
Sila sets perfect tempo high balls to 4 for Markova
Well I knew Aydin would suck as soon as I saw they signed Mijatovic.
Bye girl, see you in 2nd division
So basically Aydin is the 2nd relegated team 99%. They need to win against Ecza to avoid relegation and Ecza needs a win against them to stay in top4 so I guess we can say they are relegated already.
Ilbank with great win against THY basically secured their spot in league next season.
I hope we see some investements from Ilbank and Goztepe for next season
Interesting how Uzelac’s attack now is (rightfully so) considered fault but when Egonu did it Nuprer Ozbar, or whatever her name is, was so confident that there’s nothing wrong lol
Seems like Gabi had an usual bad day today. 2 points in three sets and subbed out for Sillah in the fourth
She wasn’t feeling well after she colided with Zhu on reception. She wasn’t even on the bench after that, she left the gym.
I was hoping Maja gets MVP, she played her best game this season absolutely.. like in her prime at 41yo
The number of times in this game that players were left with 1 block or unformed block defenitely deserved the recognition.
see Maja. Sometimes you just have to play a simple and basic game without trying to be 'cute' with the sets
Lmao, Bechis set maybe 2 times, the rest were all Novara’s errors.
Maja is making a huge difference in this game I don’t know what you’re watching.
Sarah Franklin to Zeren is done deal
Zeren wants to transfer Meliha Diken
Aycin Akyol has offers from Zeren and Kuzeyboru. Galatasaray wants to keep her as well.
Fully agree. Right now I just don't buy any of these rumors for Novara, they make no sense. It seems like a building such a worse team than this year to the point of parody. The Tolok stuff is complete nonsense to me and I don't even buy that Ishikawa is going to leave yet much less to Turkey. I will just wait.
Ishikawa’s transfer to Eczacibasi is reported as done deal by the most reliable volleyball news source in Turkey (that I know of at least).
Voleybolunsesi are always spot on and no fake stuff when it comes to transfers.
Yeah Barbolini managed the team badly, especially Naz-Groblena as starters, and he created bad environment/energy in the team.
However, let’s not pretend that Galatasaray managment aren’t the biggest clowns in Turkish league they give statments about how they are creating stacked squad next season, huge investements, “star” players (their words), etc.. hyping fanbase so hard only for them to create squad that we all knew would need to fight hard to even enter playoffs. The result is that their fans are angry on social media 24/7 and result is nowhere so the club makes all kinds of weird choices during mid season and nothing comes out of that again.
Then the cycle continues with another promise of investemnt and huge huge transfers for next season, fans get hyped and.. well, you know the rest.
