I agree.

But consider this - if they were talking to Newley, would they say it publically?

Ahhh Isaac my son.....you are very wise.

Yea i would hope that Smyth, if he is staying as coach, is talking to Newley, i would imagine every club would be talking to Newley, well any coach/management should be talking to him!

So Newley is not contracted for next year?

what about Ingles? what about any of the other South Aussies we would love to have back...who is available?

There should be a free agents list out in a few weeks time but does it really matter if they are from SA or not?

Surely we just want to see a team that competes hard and is successful....

As a minimum, but crowds will respond best to exciting and/or local players on top of that.

Who would you rather watch play? CJ Bruton or Brett Maher?

CJ

..what else would one expect from a Vince Carter fan?

"Playing for the Sixers must be viewed as a bad career move by the top players. And when they leave they don't contemplate a return"........Martin Cattalini, Willie Farley, Jacob Holmes has already stated he would like to return to Adelaide. Dusty would probably return under the right conditions.

id rather brett over cj any day,you look at the top teams and they all have a solid import combo, i agree the local talent brings the crowd but the the imports flood the gates.
either way i will never get rid of my season ticket.

Brett Maher pounds CJ any day! If it wasn't for the fact that CJ has played for Goorjian for a lot of his career and Maher never has, Brett would have been the one favoured for the Australian team!

My point was that many of us would rather have Maher because he's our local hero.

EC - Farley won't return. Cattalini and Rychart would return under the right conditions, i.e., MONEY.

If you saw the foxtel interview with Farley during the game, he had a very embarrassed smile when asked if he would be with sixers next season, and said his agent has advised him to to speak about that. It was also mentioned that his father is ill and getting back to Chicago in the off-season is a priority for him.

And what did you take from that? That he'd stay or go?

Neither really.

My take out of the Foxtel interview was; Farley was already on the plane and wanting to leave Adelaide ASAP.

If he plays in Australia next year it will be with a different club but his days as a Sixer are over.

Yea it seemed that way to me from his abc.net.au interview wit Peter Walsh aswell. What other NBL teams would look at Farley do we think?? If Ebe Ere or Wetheres left there clubs he may be a good fit there or even maybe the Slingers for Helms or Cairns could do with another scoere to help Cat, or somthing but i couldnt see him going to like a Perth or the Kings or something though. I would love to see him in the NBL as he has been a fav of mine since he got here!

Isaac, I didn't mean Farley will return. Its a thing of the past where he played with Adelaide, left for West Sydney and then came back. Same for Catallini, he played for Adelaide, left to go overseas and then came back to Adelaide. I'm just pointing out that great Adelaide players don't all go away never to be seen again. Might have been the way I worded it because my reference to Holmes & Rychart was a different matter stating that those 2 would return.