"Obviously if you continue to lose, you have to look at the reasons it is occurring," Smyth said. "Do you make change for change's sake? Right now, the easiest thing in the world to do is to point fingers. The old: 'he can't play, he can't coach' stuff. The next two games will tell us what, if any changes, need to be made."

what about the 12 previous games??

those 12 games were used for 'gelling' purposes...

Mute Mal ain't so mute in this case. Hopefully it fires them up for Wednesday. Not having Maher to defend Harvey again hurts.

The signs are all there. Phil is doing the media rounds, doing seemingly every possible interview.
Mal has addressed the team directly...

Reading between the lines after listening to Phil's radio interview last night I suspect Chappell has been given the next two games to deliver.

Thing is, he could quite easily come good for those two and then slip back to mediocrity. Then what do you do? Seasons gone all because somebody didn't have the goolies to make the tough decisions early on.

I really hope Chappell does step it up, hes got the skill and the class to score 20-25 a game, he just isnt.

Gold TR hehehe


"The old: 'he can't play, he can't coach' stuff. The next two games will tell us what, if any changes, need to be made."

So..if the next 2 games are not successful (i would be interested in the definition of successful), then the decision would be..cant play ..cant coach, and we would sack the people who cant do those things?

I dont think he does have that skill anymore, Skud...he WAS agreat NBL import, but his time has passed.

Does anyone know?

Young Aussie gun Stefan Blaszczynski, Did be just stay a few extra months at St. Nicholls State Div 1 US College to finish his studies? He was a senior last season so cannot play this current season.

Would he be looking to play somewhere in a couple of weeks? Does anyone know? 6' 5" Big guard / small forward, 3 point shooter? Does anyone know where he is at the moment?

ok,

he is training with the Razorbacks, that means he is unsigned and in the country. Is the same Stefan that was ranked in the top 5 Aussies in Div 1 last season?

why is he only training with them?

Yea could the 36ers snap up Blascynski??? they should definatly have a crack

bring him in to train for a week, he is young and plays a couple of positions aka Mike McKay, wouldn't harm having a look at him ..

who is he???????????

I didn't even know we had Aussies in College in America

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Think you missed my point of using the alias phil

couldnt hurt to give him a shot though, atleast at training, and if hes better than say a Ng or Sutton or Dench put him in the 10, atleast he would be a future prospect, and if he does well could rejuvinate the team and save phils job

stefan is better than both of them. he is a flat-out scorer...he would start for several teams in this leage. not many australians put up those kinds of numbers in div1

If he was that good, wouldn't the Pigs or Slingers have grabbed him already? Or the Hawks, to replace Tait? There must be a reason he isn't in the league already?

is he not playing nbl cos he is still looking at Europe and asking too much $$ for an unproven rookie?? or do clubs not view him as good enough despite a excellent college career, if he isnt asking too much $$ i say the 36ers should loook at him, atleast bring him in to train, a young back up SF is exactly what we need and if he turns out to be decent like a matt knight who has also returned from college, then we could hav a great pick up and someone to build around, which could help make up for some of th losses of young talent we have made in the past