Tigers aren't lucky anymore?

Mavs not getting respect for taking it to west last time? (Don’t blame you, West by 100++)

Hoping for a north solidifying win to get some form back

Teys should get 40 a game, won’t against Woodville but will get up

Norwood by 30 with the score being 60-90 with Davis numbers being 58pts, 0 rbs, 0 assists, 1 steal

North is my game of the week. They need to pull their finger out towards the pointy end if they don’t want to repeat last year

Well the Tigers did happen to play Woodville with only one import but I don't think it would have made a huge difference in that game.

Mavs men and South women should face the "back in the day relegation challenge" with Western Magic, Flinders or USA!

McGriff struggled because he was
Moved to the 3 spot so hulland could start in the 4/5 with Bridge

Scored back to back 40s in the 4 not the 3

Bloody hell who would have thought Centrals would push Southern

McGriff with 25/17/6, back to his best
South had someone score 45, but it wasn't Davis
Another 35 for Teys
Fair to say after another low scoring game from Starling teams have him figured out, didn’t stop him grabbing another double digit rebound total

Rockets women go 14-0
Eagles keep woodville to 9 in the second half
South manage to keep their 14th loss respectable, only going down by 33

Centrals been pushing a lot of teams, just young. Good things happening out there under coach Simpson. Looking at results just southerns imports were difference.

The people claiming early that Wise is a top shelf import were 100% kidding themselves. He's a chucker and the only thing worse than his defense is his body language. West went at him and he fouled out and sooked to the end of the bench.

Who have Centrals been pushing? Credit to them, they beat North, but in the last 9 games have lost to teams they should be snagging wins over in Sturt (-10), Woodville (-9), and South (-7). They barely beat Mavs (6), and have lost somewhat convincingly to Forestville (-16) and West (-15), and thrashed by Norwood (-34).

I've watched the game from the weekend, and Southern were out of sorts. Seemed like it had very little to do with Centrals directly, other than playing scrappy.

Realistically, Centrals may not win another game to finish the season. Jimmer is a bright spot and they have several talented players coming through the ranks (no, the coach's son is not one of them), but let's keep it real.

I think you're probably under selling their performance on the weekend. Centrals hung with a very tough southern side for longer than almost anyone this season.

Up against south till choked in last quarter, up against forestville at half, had a bad 5 minute patch against west,pushed Norwood in first encounter till last quarter and numerous injuries vs Norwood in second game of double header. Look it up on webcast, flick on most Saturday nights if I'm not at game and are surprised with where they're at with what they've got. Overwhelmingly picked to be winless but compete nearly every week. Couple of their 18s step up next year and a recruit or 2 wanting an opportunity and wouldn't be surprised if they pushing for 5.

"I think you're probably under selling their performance on the weekend. Centrals hung with a very tough southern side for longer than almost anyone this season."

You're describing the score, I'm describing how the game actually unfolded. Southern were jumping at non-shooters, allowing Centrals players to cherry-pick layups, bobbling passes inside that would normally lead to highlight dunks, questionable shot selection. All things they can control and are normally on top of - just not on Saturday.

"Up against south till choked in last quarter, up against forestville at half, had a bad 5 minute patch against west,pushed Norwood in first encounter till last quarter and numerous injuries vs Norwood in second game of double header."

So they competed for significant stretches, then had a couple of lapses and that cost them. That or injuries were a factor. You're basically describing every team.

"Overwhelmingly picked to be winless but compete nearly every week."

Nope. That would be Mavs (minus competing "every" week).

Southern are obviously overwhelming favourites to be in the grand final. Who do you think will be the other team to make it to the gf?

Favourites maybe but not overwhelming. I think 3 teams could beat them.

That was to MAKE the gf, not win it. They are very beatable.

Yep - they could be bounced in straight sets.

I suppose keeping brine to 3 of 18 and John's 1 of 6 and stopping their influence wasn't a factor. Just another feral southern fan making excuses for his team that'll choke in finals again. Why did they jump at non shooters or allow layups, pretty dumb statement trying to justify how good your team is when they make basic mistakes.

Southern fan here and I thought Centrals played as well as anyone has in any game I've seen this season. Took Southern’s imports to get them out of the hole and fortunately they were good enough for this week but finals will be interesting.

Nice assumptions: not a Southern fan at all, just don't think Centrals played THAT well. Certainly not enough to hype them up so much. Brine was one of the players that had questionable shot selection. Southern would have had a scout for certain players and didn't follow it. Similarly, they failed to get back in transition when they normally would. These aren't dumb statements just because you lack the capacity to understand them.

I was at the centrals/southern game also. Central's played decent and southern’s Performance was influenced by both sides. Wasn’t just "southern sucked". Southern must’ve had the weekend “off” last weekend. Brine was definitely out of form offensively, talk in the stands was he’s been pretty sick for almost 2 weeks. Hopefully they can jump back next weekend against south.

Yep, that's a fair assessment. I wasn't aware that Brine had been sick, but it explains some of his performance on Saturday.