Bob Hanning in the THW Kiel: Stay away from Play

My opinion is clear at this topic: Stay away from play-offs in handball! In the NBA that may be exciting, but the Handball Bundesliga did not need that - and the football Bundesliga just as little if she asks me.

We are strong enough with our 34 league games. We can also allow ourselves to subscribe to our championship in this way. We also do not need to reduce the handball Bundesliga - and even more games. We need clubs of modern and traditional clubs. Modern certainly belong to HSV Hamburg or my Füchse Berlin, the best would be a handball site in Munich. But it also needs traditional clubs like the HSG Wetzlar, Gwd Minden and Tus N-Lübbecke.

I was just as a Bundesliga head coach on the way and have seen how hard that was to win at Tus N-Lübbecke last Sunday (32:26). The THW Kiel lost there at the end of October (25:29), the game against Magdeburg recently was a very narrow for 45 minutes. And at the weekend Minden brings a point at Vizemeister Flensburg (31:31). We have enough events within the league - and also many more: the REWE FINAL Four in Hamburg, the Final Four of the European League, the Final Four of the Champions League in Cologne - there we have Event and Show Par Excellence.

But I do not want more commerce and does not want a table sight to suddenly master. Because in our league there is a tension at all corners and ends, in all table regions. Of course we had a situation in the season 2011/12, in which the THW Kiel has dominated everything with 68: 0 points. But we already had championships, which were decided by two goals difference or as last year only by direct comparison.

Caution, SCM: With the THW you always have to expect

Again, it is expected to go to the end to greeted Europapokal starting places, in the relegation battle is also extremely tight. The SC Magdeburg currently plays a sheer incredible handball and you could believe you are already through. But I say: You always have to expect the THW Kiel.

With the play-offs I can not do anything, as discussed detailed, and yet I say that we have to change something at our league. We have to become a lot more professional. We also have the potential. For this great topic complex and also to the television contracts, I will express myself in detail in the next THW Kiel columns.

_Bob Hanning (53) has led the Füchse Berlin from the 2nd league to the Champions League, the DHB turned to the left in eight years as Vice President on the left and recently wrote a mirror bestseller (Hanning. Handball.) Written. In his new column, he analyzes the events around national team and Bundesliga for the THW Kiel.