Happy to make the Allen+Ellis > Helliwell+Gilder deal official when you are TR. I should probably wait until Daniel Eade's story is proven to be a load of shit, but I'm pretty sure it is.

Here's my team after that is put through:

C - L.Nevill
F - M.Worthington
F - T.Coenraad
G - D.Martin (C)
G - A.Gibson

F - T.Abercrombie
F - T.Gilder
G - K.Braswell

C - W.Helliwell
G - B.Madgen

Ok, I need to make a move for the playoffs, even if it kills me in the short-run. We have Bizzy, Beantown and DB5 fighting for Lockie's 4th spot and all of you could use Damian Martin over the next few weeks to get you in there (6 games in the next 3wks). Personally, it doesn't really bother me whether I finish 1st or 2nd, I'd rather have someone who is going to play in rounds 24 and 25. So here are my offers:

Bizzy: Martin + Helliwell + Braswell for Ng + Wilkinson + Goulding.
Or Allen instead of Helliwell if you believe Eade. I like this one for us, considering Ninja won't be back until playoffs, or at all.

Bean: You know the deal, I'll even settle for Hinder instead of Loughton

DB5: I was going to offer Martin + Braswell for Devendorf + Bruton but if you're interested in that we'll wait to hear for sure that Daniel Eade is just talking shit.

Lockie: Feel free to make an offer for D-Mart but I can't se anything there.

I'll wait 'til all of you accept/decline and pick the best one in case more than one of you like the deal...

Skip and X, happy to proceed with that trade.

Allen+Ellis for Helliwell+Gilder

I'll hold off on the confirmation, just in case Bizzy likes my offer but would prefer Allen.

Just to make things nice and complicated. Sorry TR lol.

But I'll confirm Ellis-Gilder if I can.

TR - Happy with just Ellis for Gilder?

Round 16 scores are confirmed

Bizzy 238 defeated Xztatik 220
TR 138 lost to DB5 261
Beantown 299 defeated Lockie 253
skip 250 lost to Statman 335

Stats is now on top spot and only 1 win seperates 4th - 8th, so playoffs are still are chance for anyone.

Skip and X, happy with a Gilder for Ellis trade, and then we can revisit the Helliwell for Allen part.

Done - Trade confirmed.

Gilder comes to Adelade, Ellis goes to Canberra

F### me. I just went back to look at my team from last week and I accidentally wrote in D.Martin instead of A.Gibson in my starting lineup :/

Sloppy mistake cost me the game!

I still got 231 though as I swapped Ellis for Abercrombie:

"After looking at Abercrombie's solid record against Cairns, I'll swap him for Ellis into my starting lineup, thanks skip."

Ouch :(

Hey Statman, still interested in that trade of Vukona and Lisch for Hinder and Shannon or Howard?

Sigh, hopefully I can get through this weeks round without making a mistake.

X, Skip sounds like he's whinging. Lets see if we can engineer an 8 way trade to keep him on the ball! ;-) LOL

lol sounds good. A bit of payback for not picking me up on the Martin/Gibbo mistake. I bet he noticed it too...

Give me Eddie and Hinder over Vukona and Lisch every day of the week just quietly.

Unlike you X, I wont question your line up :-)

lol touche skip.

Stat has to take that doesn't he? Get Mika outta there!

C: L Davidson
F: I Clark
F: S Weigh
G: G Ervin (captain)
G: R Carter

F: D Rychart
C: A Majok
F: B Williamson

G: M Cedar
G: M Dickel

Hey Skip, whats with Penney the last couple of weeks? Seems to be putting up poor numbers all of a sudden. Do you know if he is injured or anything?

Dunno, considering trading him.

Howard for Penney?

Oh crap, cursed import restrictions strike again... would have to include one of your imports. If its feasible, I'll have a look at your roster though...?

Howard and Loughton for Penney and Dorsey?

Haha he thinks he's serious^^^

I'll give you Ben Madgen for him ;)

skip, have you emailed out results yet mate?

Not yet, will tonight

Okay thanks.

Damn you Skip, you WERE yanking my chain! I thought it was a bit odd, but had to throw out an offer.

The real reason for my initial question about Penney was actually cos of my Dream Team roster. Was trying to work out if the time was right to splash out and bring Penney into my team this week.

So Statman, you've gone quiet out there. Any interest in my trade offer above?

Beantown - It's Penney! Unless somehow Im getting Khazzouh, he aint going nowhere.

Devo out, Hudson in please.

Where do you guys read injury lists? The NBL site is shit. Says Harvey unlikely to play last week, and nothing on the Blaze website. Just noticed he got me 46 on the bench..

DB's Desperados

Harvey
Bruton
Tovey (cappo)
Sanders
Knight

Hudson
Hill
Hoare

Crosswell
Dowdell

Twitter is good for injury updates if you follow the actual team.

Other than that, most of my info comes from a handy little website called hoops.com.au

Cool, don't do twitter..Should have asked blazefan or someone I guess.

I like all the club pages on facebook if u have that. A few of them are good for updates.

The Cairns v Perth game has now been rescheduled until March 26th, meaning that it is now in Round 24.

This means Perth player will be a part of the FNBL Grand Final and that Cairns now have 2 matches in the Grand Final.

Hi Bean,

sorry been tied up all week and havnt had a chance to really look at the trade offer, Ill endeavour to get back to you this arvo :)

With the Cairns/Perth game postponed, my team is in a bit of crap.

Gong is the only team with 2 games and I dont have anyone playing with Sav still out.

Leaves me with only 6 available players this week

STARTERS
C: Daniel Johnson
F: Mitch Creek
F: Cameron Tragardh
G: Kirk Penney (c)
G: Corey Williams

BENCH
G: Brad Robbins
F: Glen Saville
C: Luke Schenscher

DNP
F: Ronald Dorsey
G: Peter Crawford

Hmmm, cyclone Yasi seems to have screwed my chances for this week. I might have only FIVE players if Shannon isn't good to go! Could be a record low score!

Okay, in the absence of any trades, my team for this week is:

Knight
Boucher
Walker
Howard (c)
Shannon

Cadee
Lewis
Loughton

Hinder
Crosswhite

I don't know who the hell is on my team anymore......

Bizzy, I'll give you Nevill for Wilkinson straight?

I confirm the Allen-Helliwell trade.

TR - With it being over a day, I'll double check that you are still happy to go with that trade.

TR has notified me via SMS, he wishes to hold onto Helliwell.

Ahhhhhh k.

Don't forget to post/update your teams everyone.

Remember now that the Cairns v Perth game is no longer this round.

Cut off is in less than 3 hours.

Allen
Wortho
Coenraad (C)
Martin
Gibbo

Abercrombie
Gilder
Braswell

Madgen
Nevill

Statmans Hackers for this week.

Bean, not that keen on giving up Vukona at his stage - sorry


C Julian Kazzouh (captain)
F Tom Greer
F Mika Vukona
G Rhys Martin
G Kevin Lisch

Bench
C Alex Pledger
F Tom Garlepp
F Jacob Holmes

Left Out
G Ayinde Ubaka
G Phil Jones

X, how bad do you want to get rid of Nevill? Ive got a nice backup C sitting on my bench who would love some more court time if you are interested?

C: Helliwell (capt)
F: Grabau
F: Ellis
G: Bruce
G: Blalock

Bench
G: Corletto
G: Dann
C: Behrendorff

DNP-CD
F: Redhage
F: Demos

Yeah it would be a good idea for me to get someone at least close to starting quality in there.

Would a Jones>Madgen upgrade do it?

Or Greer>Coenraad?

What's Bizzy doin?!

TR - not trying to tell you how to run your squad...... but half your starters arnt playing this week and Corletto and Demos should be seeing significant minutes (unless Ive missed something)



Speaking of Corletto - would you like to trade him back to me ;)

Don't help him Stat! He's a reneger, he reneges, with all his reneging.

X - Not even close....

X - You reneged first! You could have had Helliwell on Monday!

and do you honestly believe that Bizzy or anyone else is going to want Nevill now?

I didn't reneg, I waited to see if he still had his job before confirming.

And no, that was a joke, I'm wondering where Bizzy is for the trade I offered him on Monday (Martin, Allen, Braswell for Ng, Wilkinson, Goulding).

You knew the risk of his job, you said you wanted to see if Bizzy would take him instead.

I didn't know he might be sacked when I offered the trade. No one did. Yeah I wanted to see if Bizzy would prefer Allen or Helliwell in that trade, with a day before the deadline and no Centre I thought I better take Helliwell before Biz replied.

Hey X, the deal was there to be made, your front office held it up and circumstances changed. I even approached you first to make the trade.

Thanks stat and skip.. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Stat, I'll do a Martin for Corletto swap.

Welcome to the new squad of Canberra "the sh*ttest team on the face of the earth" Choke


C: Helliwell
F: Dann
F: Ellis
G: Demos (capt)
G: Corletto


Bench
G: Bruce
F: Grabau
C: Behrendorff

DNP-CD
F: Blalock
F: Redhage (I'll get to dropping him soon)

This will teach me for trying to do this whilst in a the passenger seat of a work car.....

reneger!

You rolled the dice and lost.... The trade was there to be made..

Isn't the saying "you snooze, you lose"... :)

X - "Happy to make the Allen+Ellis > Helliwell+Gilder deal official when you are TR. I should probably wait until Daniel Eade's story is proven to be a load of shit, but I'm pretty sure it is"

So you had some idea.

I didn't roll the dice at all TR, that was the problem lol.

Doesn't matter, I'm about as much a chance as you now either way.

No worries TR - I wasnt quite sure what was going on with your team but guessed you hadnt quite meant to give up that badly!

As for the re-trade, Im too late for this week but if you still are interested next round we can have a look at it, assuming Corletto doesnt get some form of devastating injury now he is in your starting 5!

At Quarter time the scores are...

Bizzy 13 v Statman 96
TR 7 v Xztatik 47
Beantown 12 v DB5 20
skip 52 v Lockie 98