is Gibson playing?

Not for Forestville.

Eagles smashed Woodville without Gibson a fortnight ago so I don't think it is a huge deal if he suits or not. He could potentially stuff up Doyle's ryhthm as he had a huge influence last time they played.

On the basis of the comments here I guess I should just stay home and watch TV as North and Woodville have buckley's chance of reversing what happened two weeks ago. In fact North have lost all three to Sturt this season. As for Forestville they have to be certainties as Sharon is free from her coaching commitments and will be able to assist Andy.

Warriors are a chance. If Ng and Wyatt have good shooting games and their bigs contain Mottram they will go close.

Doyle + Rios > Ng + Wyatt

Andy + Sharon > Al

Woodville - No chance

Then why didn't the Eagles win every game that they played against Woodville?

Because it didn't count for anything

Because Sharon had Women commitments

Do I need to go on with the obvious

Agree that Doyle and Rios had great games last time they played. Warriors shooting was way off which is why Ng and Wyatt need to have a good shooting game to get up. Eagles full court zone/press certainly put the Warriors off last game.

In what world is Doyle and rios better than ng & wyatt? Ng is a game changer who has played Nbl for many year, Doyle is still a towel boy (maybe one day he will get there but not yet) and I'd take wyatt over rios all day, he is a better all rounder who plays d and can't just shoot. It not those 4 who are the issue! It's the support staff. Those 4 are players but its the rest of the team that needs to show up. And Woodville do have a thing for beating the eagles at home. Hope it's a fight to the final buzzer!

Isn't it easy to wind up the Woodville faithful!!

got to say Wyatt if he hogs the ball like last week woodville will lose. He may have scored points but OMG did he ball hog big time especially in the last quarter

Wyatt was the only one scoring and in the last quarter they ran alot of plays to just give him the ball and then wind down the clock as they had a handy lead. In the 3rd they did the same with Ng but he had an off night.

LOL LOL good story still laughing don't worry about the fact the ball bouncing after the siren would make it dead. Can't ruin a brilliant story with the truth.
Gets strange looks around here just laughing hard at a computer screen.

I actually thought you were telling that story and at the end you were about to say:

Grandson: "And Grandad, is that when everyone started calling you Ricey?"

That was just a cool story! On to the game tonight, I don't think you count woodville out either. At the end of the day they didn't end up 15-3 for no reason! They have won 2-3 against feagles. Yes last game was a very ordinary showing by them, but you have bad games, that's just how our great game is, I think that will be a battle and will come down to the team who wants it the most obv IMO only, good luck to both teams

North into GF. Poor shooting and outcoached cost Sturt. Huge reversal from 2 weeks ago

Looks like Eagles to good for the Warriors unless a fourth quarter miracle occurs.

3/4 time

Doyle+Rios = 27 > Ng + Wyatt =5

Eagles = finals. Not even a club member. They made it look like a training run though. Sad considering how woodville played all year, but they play a damn good TEAM game. Good luck to them. I hope they being it against west and go the three peat. Don't see too many of them.

sour grapes woodville sour grapes

What happened to Sturt. Only scored 6 points in second qtr and 2 points in third quarter. Is this a record low score by an ABA team in one quarter

Are you serious Green. The clubs have little to no control over the running if District or ABA. This is a major issue fir basketball in this state. BSA dictates to district but not to country or church. These associations have strong representation on BSA commission and can influence what happens at a district level but not vice versa

District clubs need to consider what they can do to take more control of their destiny like country and church

Surely Marcus has enough talent in that team to change things up. 8 points in two quarters is U12 stuff

FYI Mottram and Oakley have been with the team since the start of the season, Mottram spent along time out getting a torn calf right, Oakley has been training to get himself right after 5 years out of the game. Because they aren't playing doesn't mean they are last minute pick ups. The programme always had room for a restricted player and Gibbo clearly slotted in nicely. Last nights team had 6 under 23 players in it and they have another 3 training with the group. In all 10 players have played all of their basketball with Forestville. Most Juniors coming up take time to develop and to train in the Eagles programme rapidly speeds up their development. To play at this level is not a players right just because you are a club junior as some think. You have to earn your stripes, most can't do that and many fall away as it becomes to hard or other interests take over. Those that do the hard yards and have the desire may still not make it but at least they had a crack and the Eagles programme will give you that opportunity

Is that 10 of the team last night? Surely Doyle, Gibbo and Rios off the top of my head have played elsewhere?

Yes that's right the Eagles squad has 16 players including Brad Hayden who is currently injured and of the 16, 10 have played all of their basketball with Forestville. 6 of last nights team have played all of their basketball with Forestville

Rios + Doyle 43 points, .. Ng + Wyatt 8 points
Enough said

And approx 40% is good!!! I would suggest That is one of the highest and nothing to be proud of

#688, how dare you ruin the Woodville sooks and their sob story by bringing reason to this argument!

Yep, well I did say that Ng and Wyatt had to shoot well for Woodville to be a chance, they didn't and all credit to the Eagles. Eagles defence suffocated Ng and Wyatt and they didn't have an open look all night. In contrast Warriors defence was just terrible, so many open looks and the Eagles shot an amazing percentage (with no D) just like last time they met.

All credit to the Eagles, coaching staff worked out the warriors and shut them down and Rios and Doyle were definitaly a class above. Good luck to the Eagles next week and hopefully the Warriors can go one better next year.

The preliminary finals had some amazing score lines - F/ville dominating W/ville but looking at the box score for the women's final is amazing. How can a team with that talent only score 6 and 2 in the second and third qtr after scoring 29 in the first and dominating.

Have a look at the box score - it is amazing reading.