Is he an Aussie?

yeah lets get him, he was awesome during the high stakes hoops games back a few months ago and was heaps of fun to watch to had the crowd really pumped, definetly a home town favourite in Adelaide.

he wouldnt be anyworse than we had this season, and is a crowd favourite so id support Willie Farley as an import for next year! Even see if he would play out this season and next year and spend the off season training with the 36ers guys and even play some aba, would mean there wouldnt be as many 'gelling' issues.

What about LeBron James as a Development Player Marty?

Is Farley even in Australia? Got permanent residency? Applied for citizenship? Expecting a response any time soon? Played in a top level league anywhere professionally since his 12-game stint in Argentina in 2008-9 when he got cut? What were his stats?

Farley's best days are well behind him and 2002 was a long time ago. Move on people.

8 years? Farley was last here in 2007, and was a shadow of his 2002-self then.

That 06/07 season record was 11-22.

Xy at least he had a shadow buddy. You are a first class hater!

Willie will always be a legend. But like me, he should never play in the NBL again.
Actually, I never played in the NBL...but I haven't given up hope. Next year could be my year, I hope Marty still can't recognise talent...

The so called 'hacks' have actually come in with pretty good reputations, stats and have initialled played well.

I ask the question - Are the players hacks or is it the current system they are playing in giving them no confidence?

I am no hater, I will continue to worship at the feet of Farley in the same way that I do Green, Pearce, Mee, Brooks, Catt, Davis, Maher and all my other heroes across the history of the franchise.

Does not mean I can't recognise the patently obvious, that Farley is past it. You didn't answer any of my questions above. What has Farley done since 2007 to suggest that he has recaptured his glory days in the prime of his mid-20s?

That 2006-7 record was with a much deeper more experienced roster than we have now, and still managed only 0.333 record. Farley was more than half of the problem. I recall because I watched every single painful fadeaway jumpshot three pointer he took (from recollection, shooting at about 27% - where is NBL stats when you need it?). How short is your memory?

Agreed - good players should be able to quickly adjust but why can no one on the current roster and 4 imports used this season been able to do it to date?

You cannot keep on throwing blame at the players IMO

Anonymous........bit harsh!

Div 2 in Spain is pretty comp comp and TDV was putting up decent numbers. I believe Barlow and Worthington played in the league so I'd say it would be a step up to NBL level.

Shannon's resume speaks for iself over a long professional career in the best leagues in Europe - enough said.

Howard was on verge of NBA after a standout D League season. Came in with good wraps.....

Jake

"Are the players hacks or is it the current system they are playing in giving them no confidence?"

What "system" are you referring to. Our team has played remarkably similar despite some major roster renovations across the last three coaching regimes.

"You cannot keep throwing blame at the players IMO"

Why not. Why wouldn't you take a good hard look at those players who have been the constants in those consistently bad teams over the past 5 years?

Why is that more improbable than when all of those teams have exhibited the same problems - Can't win away, can't finish games, stagnant offences, no heart/intensity, key players going missing, defensive lapses etc?

The constants over those years have not been "the system".

There's just so many reasons - most well justified - that we are so bad. It makes it very difficult to pick one, two or even three things to focus on and address.

We're just a mess.

Has Farley been applying his trade else where ??

Way to keep up special 1!!

I love Farley with all my heart. I would kiss the ground he walks on but he is not the player he was 5 years ago. Curious suggested how good he was at the HSH games but I was not impressed based on his game and could clearly see he was only a shadow of his former best. As for the suggestions that he can't be any worse than the imports we have had this year, I would hope the club have a higher standard of what will be acceptable in an import for next season. We can't just look for imports that are better than what he have had this season but imports that are going to get the job done. Also, please no more talk about local state league players unless Creek and Daly don't sign back for next season.

My bad didnt read all the posts

Wow, that was a pasting.

XY 100 - Opposition Nil.

Totally agree with you XY. Our roster just isn't very good. And it has exhibited many of the same tendencies this season as last. No coach would win with the roster and injuries we have had this season, let alone a rookie.

I said earlier this season that we might as well have had Farley rather than the imports we ended up with, but that was black humour. If Farley is better than either of the imports we get next season I'm gonna cry like D-Wade and LBJ.