Handball 2018 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,169]

3 hours ago, Dunadan said:

More news

On Friday evening further communications were received from the Serbian government informing the EHF that the playing of the matches between Kosovo and Norway on Saturday and Kosovo versus Slovakia on Sunday would not be permitted. 

As host and organiser of the event, the Handball Federation of Serbia was asked for confirmation that all of the event’s remaining matches could go ahead and the tournament could be played without further issues.

Having received the answer from the Serbian federation that this was not possible, the EHF reached the difficult decision not to play the remaining matches.

http://www.eurohandball.com/article/30405

EHF has so massively dropped the ball there in awarding this specific tournament and in the draw. Unbelievable. 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Yeah, because for some weird reason Rhein-Neckar had to play in both the Bundesliga and Champions League on the same day Resulting in having to make choices, and they made the choice to basically send a group of amateur players to Poland, with the 'real' Rhein-Neckar playing against Kiel at this very moment. 

Ok, THX, I did not know that, I just saw the result and found it interesting 

[heywoodu 15,169]

5 minutes ago, VolleyRuller96 said:

Ok, THX, I did not know that, I just saw the result and found it interesting 

Me too  

 

So interesting in fact that I thought "wait...that seems odd", looked at the bookmaker's odds and noticed that in the last hours today the 'handicap line' went from Vive Kielce being 5-6 points favourites to them being almost 20 points favourites, which is really not normal, as if the entire team was suddenly sick and had to be replaced.

 

Too bad I only saw it after the match, these are exactly the things that give great bets if you know them faster than bookmakers  

[Dunadan 1,103]

29 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

EHF has so massively dropped the ball there in awarding this specific tournament and in the draw. Unbelievable. 

Didn't we agree to disagree? EHF has no fault.

By the way earlier I wrote that it was comparable to judo...and today in Sarajevo in the junior european cup two Serbian judokas withdrew...can you guess why? They are doing this in all sports.

[rybak 3,219]

Second loss for our girls against Montenegro, expected, but still sad :/

[rybak 3,219]

The groups for qualifications to Men's European Championships in 2020 are set:

 

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[thepharoah 2,405]

 Al Zamalek defeats their Compatriots  Al Ahli 21-20 in the African Clubs' Super Cup in Egypt and qualifies to IHF Super Globe 2018 , only if we didn't quit like last year cuz of broken relations with Qatar 

[VolleyRuller96 264]

Group draw for IHF U18 Women's World Championship Poland 2018 (7-19 August)

All Games will be played in Kielce

 

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[MHSN 3,628]

Japan received the Wild Card for the 2019 World Championship

http://www.ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/news/newsdetails.aspx?ID=5650

 

just because they are the Olympic host ?!

[VolleyRuller96 264]

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

Japan received the Wild Card for the 2019 World Championship

http://www.ihf.info/en-us/mediacentre/news/newsdetails.aspx?ID=5650

 

just because they are the Olympic host ?!

The whole concept of giving "wild cards"  (or rather, selling a quota)  for the world/euro championship / champions league  is wrong in any sport  and should be immediately cancelled.