Great work Jack.....you should replace Boti at The Advertiser and then I would start buying it again!!!

Great games this week and a great write up

Forestville women without Monz Bello might be the difference.

Hahahaha...."sounded as pretty as a middle aged Bulgarian transvestite"...GOLD!

Yeah, I am hoping that'll be like a stick of dynamite in an orifice and give them a boost.

I think I saw that Bulgarian transvestite at the game last week! It put me off the Prawn Cocktail...

so no bello for eagles, sabres without m bowley and madgen - will balance things up a bit - will be a close game

Don't count Bello out yet...

only going by oberon comments - if bello plays the eagles will win - easily.

No wonder the Sheep carrier "Al Messilah" came back into Harbour,they didnt want to miss the West v Sturt match.Spadevecchia vs Holmes rematch

For those who care, we should have WebCasting back up and running tonight. Attempts to resolve the issues appear to have worked in non-game situation testing.

I make no absolute guarantees that it will work, but all signs appear to be promising.

Congrats to those involved in getting the Webcasts running again. Couldn't make it to a game tonight. The Flames Bearcats women's game looked like it was a game for the ages and the Eagles seem in to have hit their straps at the right time of the year. Be interested to see the reviews.

Sturt choked in both games tonight

Norwood men were very, very good tonight. Forestville were not bad at all but Norwood were cruising. I would expect the Prelim to be a shoot off with West and Forestville but I definitely think we'll see another Eagles vs Flames GF blockbuster!

Was anyone @ the Norwood v West womens game? Just checked the live stats and looks like there was a foul on Foley with 2 seconds to go to put her on the line when it was tied 69-69. Surely better to let it go into OT than put Foley on the line but given I wasnt there there might have been a good reason.

Can anyone give details?

Lets just say would have been good for the players to decide such a fantastic game...

Right well that makes perfect sense. How disappointing. Well best of luck to West next week. Hopefully they get the W and get a second crack at it. And hopefully this time the game isn't decided by 1 umpiring decision.

sturt were never going to win the womens game with no mons and tess madgen.

with them they would have won.

Don't think given free throw count 32-9 in West's favour that you can say one call decided the game.

Hands were up, but the reason the ball was fumbled was because the West player was moving SIDEWAYS. Hands can be up all you like if you illegally block the players path its a blocking foul everytime regardless.

The time on the clock and score on the board should NEVER effect the referees decision. If the call is there it should be made.

Was Truslove's elbow to defender's head a fair response to continual harassment throughout the game or a blatant unsportsmanlike foul?

Depends on the contest I guess but usually a blatant elbow is a straight unsportsmanlike. A similar situation in the Norwood v West Womens game. Webber was receiving alot of attention and threw a sharp elbowing connecting with the Norwood defenders head, forcing her to the bench. IMO should have been a straight unsportsmanlike but I guess most referees make the call based on how aggressive the elbow was..

Yeh good on the person who said Holmes will school spud!!! Clearly not!

Just wanted to say as well, the atmosphere at Mars for both the women and mens games were phenomenal! Mars was pretty much packed out with plenty of juniors from all 3 teams which really added to the night!

Err holmes looked helpless with 4 points +8 rebounds ,Ng 3 point @ 20%(team total was 11%) .Sturt Croach looked like his head was going to explode 2nd qtr LOL.
West superiority blew out the lead in 2nd qtr,sturt fired up 3rd Qtr but finishing was lacking polish.
I could hear the victory song clear across the stadium.

Trruslove is always all elbows. Only way she knows how to play.

"Continual harrasment" can only be written by a West fan. The amount of holding done by Truslove and locking up of the oppositions arms was laughable.

The elbow that connected with Shierlaw's nose was pure frustration that a young pup clearly had the older one's number last night. Shierlaw's efforts in the absence of Ackroyd and Herrick is a key reason why Norwood won.

WEBBER!!! Maybe if WEBBER wasnt pushed, whacked and hacked all game she wouldnt of thrown the elbow out of, yes, frustration.
But what else would you expect ALL BIGS in every team get hit the same way every week and the umpires let it go.

Yes west did have alot of free throws but norwood fouled alot and considering the foul count was 26-21 it wasnt alot of favouring.

And that last foul on McLeod, ok yes was a foul but if he called that one then all the norwood players shouldve been fouled off for doing it all game and getting away with it. Someone like Durant should know how to be consitent and not call a game deciding call in such an important game (in other words unless it was a massive foul [for either team] he shouldnt have called it and let the teams go and battle it out for another 5 mins)

But on a positive note both teams played brilliant games and I hope to see it repeated in what will hopefully be a grand final for the ages.

durrant enough said - big game call by a little man
no call surely and game decided by players
thats what we want.
refs shouldnt be game breakers

Gotta ask, what was the player guarding foley like that for anyway???? It was far too risky.

She could have played well inside foley and not made contact at all, given they were not losing, at the time.

Meg showed her in experience I believe

west werent winning the score was 69-69
and she wasnt even defending she had her hands up and was backing out of foley's way. Foley was the one with her head down driving into Mcleod

Consistency
Correct they weren't winning, but at that point they couldn't lose, without a miracle shot.

A tied situation, just pushes the clock out another 5
minutes.

It was most certainly a foul, as she was pushing sideways into the offense.

I agree with Wam Meg's hands may have been up but she made the contact. it was a game going into overtime till that foul, you live you learn. West had the best of the umpiring all night even getting the ball advanced in the last overtime after their time out when the clock was showing 2.38, you can only advance the ball in the last two mintues I believe. West should have won it in regulation time, should have won it in the first overtime.

agree with anon
you dont step off one of the best shooters in the league with couple of seconds left

yes there was a foul but not a big enough one to call to decide the game and as i said before durant should know not to call that sort of foul in the dying seconds in an important game

438 you just proved that the referees were incorrect to advance the ball.
Only in the last 2 minutes of any extra period is the ball advanced according to that article. There was 2:40 left.

I believe balance beam said there was 2.38left on the clock in which case the ball should not have been advanced! Nice of you to quote the rule but read properly first