Geelong and Dandy in the women's. /. Albury and NW in the Men's

tickets purchased for basketball back at the derwent entertainment centre!

Women's comp has two new teams this season so will be interesting to see how that goes

Melbourne tigers women's are looking the goods

Chargers draw sees them have many 2nd up games for a change. 4 in a row at home should decide their future pretty early on.
Saturday Women Vs Tornadoes and men Vs Thunder.
Chargers still have one player announcement up their sleeve.

Chargers import to put team first. (Paywall might win)
http://www.themercury.com.au/sport/chris-whitehead-prepared-to-sacrifice-for-greater-good/news-story/72297b558a9cb3399ed7e538d3ba80ce

surprisingly still no word of who the chargers NBL recruit is?

The seabl fans here are next to zero.

Can we please refrain from posting chargers news here.. I'm sick of it. They are never relevant and never will be

Hobart.

Chargers

In Chargers non news they have recruited Tom Garlepp for a month to fill the gap until Lewis Thomas arrives. great signing.
Beware the paywall.

http://www.themercury.com.au/sport/chargers-grab-nbl-veteran-tom-garlepp-to-fill-shortterm-gap/news-story/246940654ab55dae222cba7a1cb96a7f

Pioneers for me in the men. only two changes to their squad those being the imports. Alexander a significant upgrade. jones will give them a different look, super competitive.

Hobart were very relevant in 2002 when they won the national championship.

yeah lets not forget the 2008 inaugural SEABL championship nor the 2016 infamous Grandfinal appearance. Should give it a shake this season too just quietly

Seldom anything from any other teams here. Post your teams info anon if you care so mush.

Is about the competition as a whole not individual teams. Love our team and cheer for them. It come on here with an informed discussion about their competition as well.

who is standing in as coach during stewarts suspension?

How full will Derwent get?

Expectations are that at least the same crowd will be in attendance so 1000+. Hopefully a few devils fans will return. The Chargers are trying to be NBL ready in 3 seasons time with a strategic alignment now in place with BTAS and BA the pieces are starting to fall into place.

Great write up in The Mercury about the re transformed Chargers. A 2 page spread infact. The haters really can hate now cant they.
http://www.themercury.com.au/sport/local-sport/higher-stakes-for-hobart-chargers-as-return-to-dec-creates-an-unprecedented-buzz/news-story/98c9d3bcb49bb853e25135c60449ead7

LMFAO^ goes to a pay site, who is going to care to pay to read about that rubbish?

Yeah clearly it's rubbish as was the 57 point win. Obviously a NWT fan.

the mercury pay block pretty much 95% of the articles now...search the headline in google and itll link into the article...direct links however hit the block

Don't worry. That tip would be wasted on the hater.

Is it my imagination or has the standard of the women's comp fallen off a cliff?

^^ i thought exactly this while watching the hobart vs launceston game!

kathleen sheer and lauren mansfield (even if she didnt have a big game) were obvious stand outs but could honestly throw a blanket over the rest of the players

It's your imagination.. WNBL players didn't play or haven't even trained with their teams before playing. Teams are still waiting on imports to come in. Give it two more rounds then you'll get a good picture of what's what

^ exactly right , if you look at the stats across the board most WNBL players either didn't play or had super bad shooting nights, it's called game adjustment , stepping down , if you look at previous seasons it's always the same they rarely have a good first game or two after the WNBL season ends especially those players who's teams have been in finals
Most have barely trained... SEABL needs to be put back a few weeks , lots of rounds where byes are fitted that could be utilised to stall the start of the season,

Let's not forget Rush is coaching the Torns.