Good to have you on side Joe :-)

I agree, cant wait for the season to start.
My picks would be
MVP - Anstey
ROTY - Not sure, Brown has had quite some hype tho
Coach - Lemanis
Grand Final - Sixers V Tigers
Spooners - Pigs

Here's to Big Crowds, Big Wins and a HUGE year.

Should be a great year for the sixers. Deffinately a different looking side to what we may have seen in previous years with a lot more height. should give us some great versatility both under the bucket and around the perimeter. Hopefully can bring some massive crowds to the Dome and get the foundations rocking. I can give you the hot tip that Myself along with the other 5 Farley boys will be in the stands showing our support as we did all last year. Got a big Challenge lined up for the Navy seals which shall be anounced At our first home game. My tip is sixers to make top 3. This is quite possibly the year for us i believe!

A challenge you say?

Hope you know who you are dealing with :-)

Cant wait!

just a stab in the dark

ROTY: Ingles
Coach: Lemanis
MVP: Saville Or The cat
Grand Final: Brisbane V Melbourne
Spooners: Would have to be the Pigs

Ingles
Joyce
Groves
Melbourne vs Brisbane
Pigs or Slingers

I am curious to know why you would rate Joyce for Coach of the Year?
I guess it depends if he stays in the game long enough???

I think Gorg is a chance this year.

I agree Ingles is a big chance

Melbourne v Sydney
Pigs for the spoon

My thinking is as follows: I reckon Wright and Westover are stacked to the point where anything less than top two for either is failure. Goorj has a load of Boomers and I reckon the Kings will be 4-5th. Smyth has done well (Copes, Horvath, AJ) but I think the 36ers will finish too middle-of-the-pack.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, but I wonder if Lemanis will struggle to get the Breakers above sixth. Woco and McLeod are going to be bottom of the table. Fisher isn't known as much of a coach and I don't think the Cats will finish above 5th.

Who's left? Unsure about the Crocs. I reckon the Taipans are stacked again, so I don't think Black necessarily deserves it. And that leaves Joyce - looks like a good honest roster with minimal tinkering. Not all rave about BJ's coaching, but if he can make a good run with that roster, I would support COTY going his way.

Maybe they should allow teams to spend over the cap, but rosters over the cap render their coach ineligible and players over the $175k max can't win MVP - I'd support that!

MVP - Horvath
ROY - Ingles
GF - Melbourne v Sydney
Coach - Smyth
Spoon - Pigs
Scoring Champ - Groves

Mark Price will probably win COY despite his team just scraping into the 8. That, or Joey Wright will get it for actually getting his team to perform to potential for once.

MVP: Horvath
ROTY: Ingles (Can't believe we missed out on him)
Spoon: Pigs or maybe Slingers
Coach: Westover of Lemanis
GF: Sixers v Tigers
Champs: Sixers

Thanks for the encouragement Joe, much appreciated. We are also setting up a blog, which will have pics, our take on anything NBL, Sixers + updates on what is happening.

Seal'd Section Blog

i don't mean to be a silly goose, but can someone link me as to why we missed out on Ingles..?
I say link because i assume this topic has been said many times. Even better just a short explanation.

was it smyth again? Cheers.

Bit of a mixture. He was looking at the Crocs and training up in Townsville but ended up at South - common element there is obviously Scott Ninnis, so I think you can assume that the two get along and that Ingles would trust Ninnis.

I think nearly every team (?) put an offer to him, and he ranked the 36ers offer at the bottom or close to it. I don't think that was ever stated officially, but my source was reliable on that.

I don't believe he was offered a spot in the 10-man rotation or better (rather, a place in a 13-man squad), nor was the offer (from what I heard) at all competitive in a financial sense.

You can assume that other clubs made better offers financially and in terms of playing time and so on.

At some point, the club were under the impression that a verbal agreement was made between themselves and Ingles, but one version of events suggested to me that it was a misunderstanding. Giving the club benefit of the doubt, you'd say that Ingles reneged once he realised there were clubs out there who had more faith in his ability, more relaxed funding and more opportunities on their roster.

Fantastic, thanks Isaac.