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PostPosted: 10/26/05 1:20 am    ::: alana beard signs in australia Reply Reply with quote
don't know if anyone else has posted this - but she signed for current aust season - with jackson's team canberra

if they do not take the title - i'll be surprised - i hope she enjoys our summer
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 1:28 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
http://www.wnbl.com.au/powered_by_INTERFUSE/fs_newsitem.asp?id=1652

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short term contract.


How short are we talking about? I know she's also going back to play in Korea.
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 2:36 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Great pickup for the Caps. Just a short time ago, I read that Graf was going to bring back Shellie Sandie and Lucille Bailie. Shocked
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=sport&subclass=local&category=general%20sport&story_id=433893&y=2005&m=10
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 2:44 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Shelley Sandie was at the Flames/Caps game. She looks in great shape. Not sure about the shape of her basketball game though.
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:31 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
this is interesting to me because i was studying the w's list of players overseas and wanted to (confess my ignorance of such matters and) ask why the aussie league so rarely has non-aussie players. who has the answer(s)?



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:32 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Wow, what fun for the Aussies.
A backcourt of Alana and Tully? Oh I'd pay to see that!



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:33 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
sebibb wrote:
this is interesting to me because i was studying the w's list of players overseas and wanted to (confess my ignorance of such matters and) ask why the aussie league so rarely has non-aussie players. who has the answer(s)?


We don't have the money to attract big time imports.
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:36 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
sebibb wrote:
ask why the aussie league so rarely has non-aussie players. who has the answer(s)?


I assume it's money. I would think the warm summer weather and English speaking natives (give or take the weird slang like Mappa Tassie) would make it an attractive option otherwise.



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:36 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Keegan wrote:
sebibb wrote:
this is interesting to me because i was studying the w's list of players overseas and wanted to (confess my ignorance of such matters and) ask why the aussie league so rarely has non-aussie players. who has the answer(s)?


We don't have the money to attract big time imports.


are you serious? i mean, i was thinking it was because there were plenty of talented aussies to field teams, and your league was more exclusive in that regard. 'cause when you look at the overseas list, a hierarchy emerges. you mean korea can afford talent but australia can't?



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:40 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
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you mean korea can afford talent but australia can't?

Yep, that's right.
WBB has virtually zero profile down here. The girls play in tiny, crappy stadiums in front of crowds measured by the hundreds, and teams get by on shoestring budgets.
For most teams, paying a quality overseas player any kind of attractive salary just isn't an option.



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:41 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
sebibb wrote:
you mean korea can afford talent but australia can't?


Very much so.
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:43 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
i am stunned. just stunned. i had no idea.



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 9:44 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
sebibb wrote:
are you serious? i mean, i was thinking it was because there were plenty of talented aussies to field teams, and your league was more exclusive in that regard. 'cause when you look at the overseas list, a hierarchy emerges. you mean korea can afford talent but australia can't?


I'm serious.

In Europe and Korea, the big teams are bankrolled by generous sponsors (you'll find the Korean league is almost entirely funded by the big corporations there) who think it is prestigious and maybe a part of their philanthropic duty to fund sports teams and develop the talent. Here, money is funneled into other sports and basketball is treated like crap. For all our success in women's basketball, Australia generally still treats it like an unwanted third cousin (except when it comes around to the Olympics Rolling Eyes )
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 11:38 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
caune wrote:
Wow, what fun for the Aussies.
A backcourt of Alana and Tully? Oh I'd pay to see that!


Well, considering it would start with about $1200 in airfare, you would be paying a lot for that privilege, caune. Wink
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PostPosted: 10/26/05 5:49 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Keegan wrote:
sebibb wrote:
are you serious? i mean, i was thinking it was because there were plenty of talented aussies to field teams, and your league was more exclusive in that regard. 'cause when you look at the overseas list, a hierarchy emerges. you mean korea can afford talent but australia can't?


I'm serious.

In Europe and Korea, the big teams are bankrolled by generous sponsors (you'll find the Korean league is almost entirely funded by the big corporations there) who think it is prestigious and maybe a part of their philanthropic duty to fund sports teams and develop the talent. Here, money is funneled into other sports and basketball is treated like crap. For all our success in women's basketball, Australia generally still treats it like an unwanted third cousin (except when it comes around to the Olympics Rolling Eyes )


Absolutely right! Infuriating as it is, that situation just makes some of us even more fiercely determined to make a stand supporting our BBall players. The thing is that doesn't much replace the dollars they aren't getting but deserve to be getting. Sad



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 5:53 pm    ::: Re: alana beard signs in australia Reply Reply with quote
what the wrote:
don't know if anyone else has posted this - but she signed for current aust season - with jackson's team canberra

if they do not take the title - i'll be surprised - i hope she enjoys our summer


I hope, hope, hope this means her ankles are finally healed!

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PostPosted: 10/26/05 6:36 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
librarygeek wrote:
caune wrote:
Wow, what fun for the Aussies.
A backcourt of Alana and Tully? Oh I'd pay to see that!


Well, considering it would start with about $1200 in airfare, you would be paying a lot for that privilege, caune. Wink


ahh, but I betcha I could fins someone to stay with while there Wink



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 11:08 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
I love it!! Go Alana! Cool



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PostPosted: 10/26/05 11:48 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Sounds like Korea has and early AAU-esque situation - back in the day when Maytag, Aetna, Pepsi and misc. radio manufacturers sponsored teams.



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PostPosted: 10/27/05 9:47 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote
this one absoloutely snuck up on us

obviously graf networked well

probably done on very short notice

but still a coup
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PostPosted: 10/27/05 12:11 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
If snarky Sydney residents expect a Snell jersey, snarky Sydney residents better have game photos when Sydney plays Canberra.
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PostPosted: 10/27/05 12:17 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
CamrnCrz1974 wrote:
If snarky Sydney residents expect a Snell jersey, snarky Sydney residents better have game photos when Sydney plays Canberra.


I'll get my seatmate to try and get some. My digital camera is crap.
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PostPosted: 10/27/05 12:21 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Keegan wrote:
CamrnCrz1974 wrote:
If snarky Sydney residents expect a Snell jersey, snarky Sydney residents better have game photos when Sydney plays Canberra.


I'll get my seatmate to try and get some. My digital camera is crap.

Oh you thought I was talking about you? I meant the other snarky Sydney residents. Smile
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PostPosted: 10/27/05 8:34 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
How many other snarky Sydney residents are getting Snell jerseys? Have you been cheating on me, Cam? Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 10/27/05 9:11 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote
Keegan wrote:
How many other snarky Sydney residents are getting Snell jerseys? Have you been cheating on me, Cam? Crying or Very sad


You know you're my one and only snarky Sydney resident who is getting a Snell jersey. Smile
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