Canada update

The Canadian Uni volleyball  season is into its mid-season break.

Paul Sanderson – Luke Reynolds – Fred Marsh (sitting out this year) – Brandon University – facebook The Bobcats are sitting equal 4th in their conference

In the pre-season Men’s Volleyball Super 8 Tournament, Brandon Bobcats lost 3-1 in the final. Tournament Best spiker: Paul Sanderson. Paul continued his early form, and is now coming second in conference for kills, first for aces, second for points.

Gregory Mann – North Alberta Institute of Technology The first half of the season ended with NAIT holding a record of three wins and seven defeats.

Canadian games live

• Paul Sanderson – Brandon University – facebook
• Luke Reynolds
• Fred Marsh – sitting out this year

HOME GAMES STREAMED ONLINE. This year the Brandon Bobcats will have all of their home games streamed online. This enables family and friends nationally and internationally to log on and watch the games from their homes. This certainly is exciting for the program and a step in the right direction.

http://www2.brandonu.ca/athletics/live/index.asp

Fred off to Canada

Correspondent BigRen reports that Fred Marsh has committed to the Brandon University Bobcats for the 2010/2011 season.  He will be arriving in Canada in January to begin his schooling, and training with the team and the Aussie contingent at Brandon.

Controversy in Austria

If I’m reading the translation correctly, then the Austrian team of Aussie Fred Marsh – Salzburg PSvBG –  have hit the protest button. They apparently have video footage of incorrect decisions, and report that the central ref may have said things that he shouldn’t! It doesn’t look like they have much chance of over turning the decision. Salzburg are currently sitting 6th of 9 teams. Fred is having a good season playing center, with an average of 8 points a match, 121 points for the season. He is ranked 3rd in the club.

Aussies OS – player movements 08/09

UPDATE 3: Originally posted 26/06/08

It’s the off season in Europe. The Aussie players are home from their European clubs. The issue of foreign players being allowed in clubs has been put on the back burner for this next season. And players out of contract are spending time talking to managers about resigning and new clubs. The goss so far?

We know that Aussie captain Ben Hardy is off to Poland with Igor Yudin‘s KS Jastrzebski Wegiel SA

Phill DeSalvo will be playing for SG Eltmann in Germany

Shane Alexander has signed with Austrian club ‘Aich/Dob’ for the 08/09 season. It is a two year deal competing in the MEVZA (Middle European Volleyball League) and Top Teams Cup.

Fred Marsh has also signed in Austria with PSvBG Salzburg.

Nathan Roberts is off to Apollon kalamarias in a town called Thessaloniki in Greeece

David Ferguson has re-signed at Arago de Sete. This is his second season with this French Pro A club

Rhiannon Watt is to become the 3rd Aussie playing for the Kangaroos in Germany. There is a mention about it on the Kanga’s website.

UPDATE:

Spike Mag is reporting that Jess Peacock is heading to the College of Southern Idaho

There are plenty of rumours out there. I’ll let you know when they become “official”.

More Aussies on the net!

Freddie Marsh in Sweden has let me know that his  team Tierp  – WorldLingo translation will be playing current top team Falkenberg on Sunday in a match that will be broadcast over the internet! It will come on at 3 – 4am Monday morning for us; so I don’t know that anyone but Freddie’s parents will want to get up to watch!

There is a link on the www.volleyboll.se website (translated) which sends you here. The info about the Tierp game comes up in the middle column, be patient. You have to send an sms to get the code to watch and it costs 50 Kr – about $10.

The Swedish web tv site is interesting. It has page ads, including gambling, and pay for view. It covers several sports. There’s a business here for someone in Australia. With so many minor sports not getting coverage in the news or on the tv, there are a lot of starved fans out there.

Swedish invasion continues

Another Aussie will be playing in Sweden this season. Fred Marsh, a 212 cm middleblocker is joining Tierp, and the other 7 Aussies participating in the Swedish competition.