sounds like a socail comp... will they find a kid put him in uniform and have him stand on court?

Surely there is a better option than using Flinn??

I assume he would know all the plays, so perhaps that is why.

Its smells a bit like what Fremantle did in the AFL last year, probably not going to win so leave the stars home and get them healthy rather than risk further injury

sounds like a socail comp... will they find a kid put him in uniform and have him stand on court?

I thought u were gonna tell me Cooks was gonna play!! I nearly fell over...

They were going to activate Gordie, but they are still looking for his shorts from 1982

Retro/Legends round?
Gordie, Chuck Harmison, Cook, Kevin Brooks, Timmons - who else else is floating around that can help out

pretty embarrassing that the league would allow them to do this. shows no credibility at all

DJ, would be great if KB was still an assistant there. Da Klutchman returns!

Aren't Butch Hays and Chris Blakemore up that way somewhere?

surely there are some younger local abl players that would play for them, even if its a perth local or 2 to fill in just for the one game, would have to be better than suiting up a guy who hasnt played NBL in 15 years, i guess he would atleast know the plays.

How old is this dude?

Very odd. All the local leagues in Australia, the AIS AND development players out the whazoo and this was the best option to them.

Very disappointing; does make the Hawks look "thrifty" when it comes to replacements, though granted that this hit came at once whereas other teams tended to have some sort of staggered injury occurance.

Shame too as this game is a hyped game as well. Sounds like it will be quite underwhelming.

Where is Matt Shanahan when the Hawks need him?

I must say I do not recall him as a player even at his 'prime' 15 years ago. Can't find much about him (oh, the loss of NBLstats!) but he holds the equal fourth best single season three point shooting record for Wollongong of 50% on 6 of 12 shooting in 1992!

Matt Flinn played for Townsville in 1995 averaging 1.1pts 0.7reb
Played for Illawarra in 1994 averaging 2.8pts 0.6reb
1993 he averaged 4.2pts 0.6reb
1992 he averaged 4.2pts 0.2reb
He never averaged more then 0.6asts a game and never averaged more then 8 minutes a game.

Marty, they have two development players. One is going with them (Zac Delaney) and the other is in China though their press release didn't say what he was up to (playing or travelling or something else).

Not sure that they plan for Flinn to get on court - might just be there in case players get injured or fouled out.

XY, I have the old NBL Stats data and there is a record for Flinn but no games on file - I think there were only boxscores from 2003 onwards? (That link is from my abandoned attempt to get NBL Stats back up.)

Once went for 14 in a quarter

http://www.hawkshistory.com.au/videos/interview-matt-flinn-favourite-playing-moment.html

This would be all about the benjamins for the Hawks as Flinn would be traveling any way they dont have to pay for him or the extra flight and accomodation

Wouldn't that be good at half time.

Sixers legends vs "Away" legends

AIS players wouldnt play because it would make them ineligable for college. Well the ones that want to go to college anyway.

And I doubt he will actually be on the court it is just to fill up there minimum numbers required for an away game to stay within the NBL guidelines.

NBL rules require 8 contracted players, this excludes Development Players afaik.

Hopefully most of the injuries are short term, so it doesnt really make sense to bring in an extra, who probably wont get on the court anyway.

Beside who's available?

No we just need refs to rip us like last week and make us play the bench of Zac and Flinny.

It would be frigging hilarious to see him score 20+ points and dominate though!

surley they could get 3-4 SBL players to suit up off the bench on 1 game contracts, or top SEABL players on short term min contracts, give them a training run in the morning and they are probably still better than the assistant coach.

Sure they probably only plan to use 7 guys but if injury/fouls happen he may have to log meaningful minutes, so yea id rather have a young guy, who knows you may find a diamond in the rough if you give a few young guys a go

How old is Flinn? will he even be able to keep up atheletically?

Isaac - can you upload the raw NBL Stats data to a file hosting site for others to download?

Brad Robbins - what a doughs. Can give out the physicality but can't take it. Cries like a petulant little child. Hawks doing ok given all their turnovers and being undermanned

oops - spellchecker correct 'douche' to 'doughs' :) maybe the little ferret who has never played a second of legal defense in h life is both? ;)

he actually got on, not sure why they didnt play the lil guy more though, they were down by thirty and they should have brought him in earlier.

isaac?

Emailing you now. Just finding the files.

If I was Geordie I would've tsarted him and targeted someone like a Robbins or a Redhage to get in a tustle with and hope they got thrown out! ;)