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I believe that role should be filled with murdocca. I believe Murdocca is shit.

I was brought up with the name soccer, followed the National Soccer League, our national team is called the Socceroos, Australian media refer to it as soccer, we have 3 football codes in Australia, and it annoys purists.

party hoff haha on another note, if anyone knows how to speed up gifs on pshop cs6 let me know, would look better a little faster.

Thanks pal. They should be out within the next few weeks.That's good, also the app is missing snoop and player chants for Hoffman, ramsay, murdocca, mauk, melling, chapman and james brown. Will they be added in the next update along with chants against other teams? Yeah cunt.

Thanks pal. They should be out within the next few weeks.

Hi guys, Just to let you know, that the new Melburnians app is available for iPhone and this time iPad. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/melburnians/id901122430?mt=8 The Android version is mostly done, just having some UI tweaks done to it and should be available soon. Hopefully we get some great content for audio and/or video as well.

If you're really the best team over the course of the season, you should be able to step up when it counts most in the finals, or quite clearly you are not the best team. Not necessarily. With such low scoring, the best team doesnt always win in soccer. Finals are great, but winning the GF shouldn't be more prestigious than finishing on top of the ladder at the end of the season.

The best review of the game you will read. No bullshit. Here.

So you want Wayne Srhoj basically. 'Cause I'd say he's available... He would be no good now, but he is pretty much the player we need.

Isaiah Osbourne played 25 times for Blackpool in the Championship last season. Currently without a club, 26y.o and is a big bastardly midfielder. The sort of player we should be targeting, instead we'll probably get yet another underwhelming Dutchman.

Lol Man United

Why can't I pick Jason Hoffman?

Ok then. I'm gonna call it fuckhead poofter wogball. Melbourne city fuckhead poofter wogball champions of Australia 2014/15 ole!

People should be allowed to call the sport whatever they want without people telling them that they're wrong.

Yeah, I think he played one at the start. Bloke has no chance cracking into their team though. Isn't french

If you're really the best team over the course of the season, you should be able to step up when it counts most in the finals, or quite clearly you are not the best team.

That's right ksk. They have their own agenda. If they see something they don't like, they make a new rule against it. It's like I was saying before, the loan rule isn't new. It's been around for years and teams have been using the rule consistently. So why now? Why when a player like lampard is able to come here, you now decide that the rule has to change? They fail to see the upside in lampard coming here and that's only inhibiting the growth of the league. Salary caps and finals series are definitely too much like afl. This sport is not afl. As exciting as a finals series is, all it does is potentially lead to the best team not winning the title because they may have one bad game at the end. The best team over the course of the season is the champion IMO, not who performs better in one game at the end

...they already do, and they've been pushed further south now to Hobart. I'n a few years it'll be 'Casey Base' Victory

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Confirmed to be in Fifa 15 instead of the Brazil League Don't follow it too much personally, but (somewhat) a fan of Caykur Rizespor - mainly because my fellow countryman Ali Adnan is a star in the making.

To be honest I don't want us to get around it. If we need lampard to win matches then that's pathetic.

I love what I have created hahahaha I don't.

I did something similar once. Now I realise what an idiot I was and how I could have killed myself and a family of four. Any young folks reading this drive safe and don't be an idiot like me or Tony. Instead stay alive and have as much sex as possible. And don't forget protection for sex if you are going to preach safety haha I literally just had unsafe sex about an hour ago. I feel like such an idiot. (Serious) Was it worth it? If so fuck it haha joking you bad man! At the time I certainly thought so. Anyway I will now stop over sharing. Wish I could go to this game. Be pretty awesome to watch a game in Alice. Can Heart break their duck in games against a-league opposition? It'd be nice to pop Alice's cherry

When Melbourne's fast asleep? Would that be approximately 2am - 4am

A coach from Melbourne to Alice Springs?! You guys are great but I'm also convinced you're nuts.

A goalkeeper would be good too

Well the club has certainly retained the Heart identity on the pitch. That was really disappointing, but not end of the world bad like it has been declared. The style of play was ok, we dominated possession for large portions of the match and at times looked really dangerous, but couldn't really deliver anything meaningful into the keepers box. I don't have much of a soccer background so there may be something I'm missing, but I do have a few questions about stuff that happens on a regular basis that baffle me. Firstly, why is everyone so stagnant so often? Frequently when one of our defenders had the ball, particularly Hoffman, he would look up and have nothing to pass to at all, forcing him to pass it backwards to a CB. I understand zone defence and the press and all that, but so often this happened because everyone of his teammates were just standing in a useless position and offering him nothing. Why don't they move and try and find space. Even if there isn't any it forces the opposition to track them, and hopefully pulls their defensive formation out of shape. Secondly, and this is my biggest problem with this side and has been for years, why don't they ever try and shoot? Last night they were playing in the freezing cold, in the dark, with a wet ball on a wet pitch. We know Kalmar and Mooy in particular, but alos Williams, are capable of delivering decent long shots. We couldn't pass into the box at all, so why didn't we occasionally just have a ping from distance. It keeps Janjetovic guessing as to our intentions, there is a chance he misjudges it or better yet fumbles the wet ball with his cold hands, and in any scenario where the ball remains in play (either through a save/hitting the woodwork/the shot is deflected) it catches all their players out of position. On top of this we have three bloody quick forwards who should be surging into the box as soon as Kalmar or Mooy strike the shot and as such would be a good chance to beat their defenders in and hopefully have a follow up shot with a keeper still recovering from the first one. The option we often chose instead would be to just pass it to a full back who would reset the whole play by passing to a centre back, and there would be no attacking play in the end. If you apply the pressure right their defenders at best will do a rushed kick to our centre backs anyway, so you lose nothing. Thirdly, our players seem content to not take the game on and instead pass it backwards when pressured, even when they have the attributes to attack. Ramsay on multiple occasions refused to take them on despite being one of the quickest guys on the pitch. Are they under instruction to play safer? And lastly, why do all our players always seem to be o the back foot? There was one play yesterday where Duff got goalside of his defender, looked up to put the cross in and had nobody within 5m of being dangerous and none of them were exactly hustling to get there either. This is a consistent issue with many of our crosses, almost as if our guys think we are going to lose possesion so they shouldn't bother anyway. Why don't they push up and become the tap in option so often derided on here but yet a position that could potentiall clean up considering the quantity of unmet crosses we send in. As for players, most of them have been covered enough but I want to single out Massimo Murdocca. He is so frustrating because he is the one player who actually works hard to provide that attacking running option but as soon as he gets it he is embarrassingly bad. He panics big time anywhere near the box and almost invaribaly kills the momentum of the play by refusing to shoot, cross or put in a through ball but instead do that weird turn thing he does and pass it back to the midfield where the play is reset and almost always turns it into nothing. I want to like him because of his work rate and tenacity but he is the worst attack killer in our squad and a defenders dream.

Correct. But on the flip side, those that are making the effort shouldn't have to listen to others whinging about having to travel an hour up the road.

OK, let's not fuck around, how about something like this for our home derby? Not sure if it would all fit into the away bay for the first derby.

It's artificial magic. But hey I'm a purist about this kind of thing. I would have preferred that moment when a small club got to the semi finals for the first time on their own merits (and you know what it might have happened this year anyway). So is the A-league. What makes it real is the fans. I was of the opinion that the structuring of the FFA Cup and how a lesser club is guaranteed a spot in the final four was disappointing about a month ago. I've since changed my mind. This isn't going to be the structure year in, year out, perhaps only for a few seasons until it will move to a more true cup competition format. However, in the short term it will create buzz around the lower ranked teams. In the Herald Sun today, there's an article with South Springvale pictured with AFL players Ty Vickery and Ivan Maric. Now, that may not seem like much, but for South Springvale that is huge. A lot of AFL players will see that and give it a read too, and they'll learn a little bit more about the FFA Cup too. The early years, for me, is all about letting people know about the cup (of course I refer to those people outside football). The FFA Cup will be a success, it's a competition like no other in Australian professional sport.

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