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Couldn't the Tigers dump Tucker or release Dave Thomas (who is looking at Europe anyway)?

Yes they can that's why the Tigers can still get Newley. If they release Thomas, Sixers should try and sign him, if they release Tucker, the Sixers should also try and sign him. We could get Dench and Tucker/Thomas while they get Newley. That would be an okay trade.

Tucker/Dench for Newley would mean the Sixers come off second best for sure. Neither of these players have that ability to come with big plays down the stretch. Need a guy that can make that clutch go ahead jumper up at the Swamp or in Sydney! By adding these 2 to the team, puts the same old pressure on Maher. Throw Thomas into the mix though and thats a different story.

I would be great if we got Dave Thomas, that would be a huge signing. Not too sure about Tucker and Dench though.

If we can get them both plus a import, that would give us a great team

C Dench/Cooper
PF Ballinger
SF Import (Tucker)/Copeland
SG Newley/Ng
PG Maher/Davidson/Sutton

A pretty small bench but Cooper and maybe the import can also back up the PF spot with Newley also being able to play SF so i could see that line up working and doing pretty well.

within the points cap???

Not going to be competitive enough starting Dench unless the second import is a lot better than Tucker.

C Moore/Cooper
F Ballinger/Dench
F Tucker/Copeland
G Newley/Ng
G Maher/Sutton

I think that would be a pretty competitive side.

Unless the Tigers knew that Thomas wanted to leave, I think they would be crazy to dump for Newley, when he is almost certainly going to leave in a year or two. Thomas is one of the best swingmen in the NBL.

Moore, and Dench, dud and almost dud.
Brad Newley and Stefan Blaszczynski, SF gun and SF future gun.

Pete....Dench officially is a dud.

at least and offer has been put forward to them,

still dont know if im happy or angry they are approaching dench

miss hoover i bent my wookie

I'm happy that they are offering Dench a contract and would like to see him play for the Sixers.

Dench scored 12 points against the Sixers last time, the time before that 18pts and before that 9pts.

Average of 13pts against the Sixers, not too bad.

You want to pick Dench up based on what he has scored against the Sixers??? Not like we have been a Defensive juggernaut last couple of years! So one dimensional its scary!

I'm just saying how well he went against us.

going that 123abc hes pretty crap cause i think 90% of league posted figures greater then that against us last year

Yea Dench would be a good pick up in my opinion, and is still one of the better Aussie bigs going around and would start at most teams except for if they have someone like a Anstey, Melmeth or Pepper, he did start for Wollongong and won the title as a rookie. I also think he would fit the 36ers offence well and him and cooper would balance each other out, with Cooper being limited offensively and good defensively and Dench basically being the opposite, so i wouldnt be too un happy with a Cooper/Dench centre rotation, especially since the 36ers hardly rely on having a dominant centre. if we get Dench and the right import SF, Tucker would be ok IMO, but i wouldnt mind a fresh face, we should be a decent team, with a bit of luck who knows how they will go, if we get lucky and land Newley aswell, that would be AWESOME and would put us right up there for title contention.

Dench did not start for Wollongong as a rookie Jonno.

Tucker did win MVP for the Wildcats. Imagine that for for the Sixers!

lets not forget hes "former rookie of the year" lol

i can see a sixers casey bingo nite coming up isaac

i noticed that Isaac now has a site www.celebritybingo.com it has

Britney Spears, CABL aswell as Casey!

Dench is the biggest waste of space. He's too outside oriented for such a big guy .. and he'd become even worse in the sixers offence.

Who would be better for Backup PF then?

Oakley-No
L. Davidson- No

who???

Dont forget people that Tucker is 37 years old, very young and fresh and lets not forget enjoys smoking some pot.

Dench did start as a rookie along side Melvin Thomas, Glen Saville, Matt Campbell and Charles Thomas, they had Matt Garrison off the bench for them,and he has several NBA trials after that season, and outside of Rogers, Pepper, Melmeth and Anstey i dont think there are many Aussie bigs better than Dench, (id put him and Derek Moore at a similar standsrd) so i think he would be a good pick up, providing we cant get one of the others. He has career averages of 10ppg, 5rpg, which is better than some one like Reesy or Coops or even Wheeler. We may also be able to pick him up cheaply with the Tigers having to pay out his contract for next season. I would be happy if the 36ers signed either Dench or Moore, and if we could get them both that would be even better, as along side Cooper and Ballinger that would make a pretty good big man rotation

Ben Pepper?? i read in a post about townsville, and they are apparantly after ben pepper, and someone mentioned the 36ers are working him pretty hard, does anyone know if this is true??? Pepper would be a good pick up, if we could get him, and if we got Pepper and Dench, that would be a even better bigman rotation than i was expecting