whatsgoingon
Years ago

Opals Lose Third Straight in China

Does anyone else have concerns for our World Champ campaign? The girls lost the series 3-0 with no real sign of the old Jan Stirling form. I hear on the grapevine some key players from the last Olympics and gold medal winning World Championship teams are spending a lot of time on the bench. Can we still use the old adage 'but with LJ, Penny and Tully yet to join the team'?

We should be dominating the Chinese with the team we have now.

Assistant Coach Michele Timms was quoted as saying the team had done a fantastic job and improved over the series... Not good enough IMO. The Opals are ranked 3 in the world and there are no excuses for this performance.

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Amanda  
Years ago

Historically it is very difficult to get a win in China. Don't judge the worlds program by a couple of games in China. I think you need to take a breath and recognise that 3 to 4 of our starting lineup are not even in the team.

Do you know what the coaching team were working on in China?

We will be fine and the team that goes to worlds will be focused and very well coached!

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LC  
Years ago

Way too early to be losing sleep over 3 losses to a full strength Chinese team.

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MACDUB  
Years ago

Yes, agree with Amanda. All Chinese teams are very hard to beat in China.
Look at the recent Emus tour there. The Australia Under 19 team lost to China over there, even though the emus won the AST and China finished in 9th or 10th place.
No doubting the Emus are better than the Chinese at u/19 level, however they are extremely tough to beat there.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

china has improved

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ringlord  
Years ago

This is disturbing news to me,but lets face it china are a good team.

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