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ITT: Hellenic Hero enjoys beating a possible child abuse victim at the only thing that allows him to connect with his father.

is this thread going to turn into screen shots of instagram posts Troisi has liked?

Molebourne City FC.

No comment on his comparison to Mauk but I completely disagree with the rest of your post in terms of what your insinuating. My opinion of the situation is at that exact point when we all wanted him to take that 'next step' what happened? More often than not he was given what appeared to be a role change or he was benched. And his terrific performances extend beyond just his month in March and last week. Think back to preseason lasted year and put yourself in his position...in that playmaker role you single handedly stand out and carry us through some of our earlier FFA Cup games. Throughout the season when you've taken on this same role you shine through and are the spark to our forward attack. Then you get jerked around throughout the season whenever youve shown your capabilities because of brain dead 'tactical' reasons cause the coach wants you to impact the game later. What would go through your head knowing you've shown your capabilities to impact games when given faith to do so. I know I would be screaming out to just give me a chance, give me some consistency to do this again and again. And don't bench me if I have one game a little bit off cause I know I'll produce. This was another problem that also impacted other players, this chopping and changing based on one average prior performance. I don't promise anything with where or how good Caceras would be. He could flop for all I know. But with the evidence that was at hand he deserved more consistent opportunity to prove himself capable.

It might not look too good for us right at this moment but IMO the Troisi no-show is probably for the best. The guy's antics with Maccabi Haifa and now us show that he's pretty unstable mentally. If we want to go down the visa marquee route I'm sure our scouts have plenty of people already lined up for consideration by the various clubs in the City Football Group. Move on.

Stefan Mauk with Troisi standing slightly behind him, smiling at Caceres as he walks out the door.

I just think you're impossible to please to be honest. "If we're having to release players and sign cheaper ones because of salary cap problems then I'm not impressed", so you'd rather us not address issues or try to improve the squad? I just don't get it. Regardless of what the club seems to do you find a negative in it and if they then adjust what they've done and try to correct the negative you've complained about you then complain about the solution, it's an endless circle of moaning I can't stand Mauk and regardless of what he does for the club that won't change too much, but I can also put those feelings aside to admit that he's a good enough player that if we can get him in on a lowish wage and move out an equivalent level player on higher wages then it's a solid move. I'm not going to go sifting through posts but I'm going to go out on a limb (although I don't think it's a very long shot) and say that you were probably one of the dissenting voices when it came to Franjic's return compared to expectation, as I was, and now you're complaining he hasn't been replaced a week after he left? And as far as Retre, I didn't mind him but he was simply squad filler, a replacement for Retre is effectively a body. Victory are about to lose two of their best players from last season (Troisi and Rojas), Sydney sold the best keeper in the league and currently only posses Redmayne, every squad has issues they still need to be addressed. If we had some of those issues in our squad you'd probably be as much if not more than you are now.

Its not gonna be much different to the people on here back peddling...

Agreed. Unless he doesn't end up signing for us, then it was one of the most deliberate, dirty acts in the history of the a league.

Pack it up boys, Troisi confirmed.

I am convinced this club is fkn stupid.

Nothing 'concrete' Greek construction worker is on strike

Lol you and @DAM10 have some serious blinkers on when it comes to Caceres. He's alright and appears to have terrific potential, but bar a month in around March last year and last week's friendly he's hardly belted down the door for selection. I was looking forward to seeing him take the next step this season, but imo he's no better than Mauk on exposed form.

Might explain why no other club touched him ..... dodged a bullet to say the least!!! No doubt he`ll pull the same shit next year .......

Captain Jakey

Circumstances change. They sign Caceres intending to keep him but then see an opportunity to bring in a guy like Mauk on less money, seeing as we're operating very close to the cap they decide they'd rather fill Caceres' spot with Mauk instead. I don't really understand why anybody cares about the announcement. What difference does it make to our squad building process? I personally couldn't care less what announcements or comments are made to the media as long as we build the strongest squad possible for the A-League season.

Mauk > Troisi

Yes, hassnt signed anywhere and wants to be in Aus. I believe the sticking point with any deal for Martinez is who ever he is owned by, they want a fee and a permanent deal and I think thats stopped the Clubs from here, hopefully we now go and buy him We need some sleuths down at the Kit launch tonight to see what we can get out of the staff to what happened

Mate 9 clubs already and he's what, 28? Sums him up really and I think that's why he found getting the deal he wanted harder than he thought it would be. As for agreeing to sign and just not rocking up, Pretty sure "integrity" was missing from his dictionary.

Wrong thread mate, South Melbourne talk belongs in the Grassroots Do you play? thread

Probably the Greek construction worker lurking about the facilities to get his inside information

Manchester City should offer him something big and then pull the contract out from under him.

So this greedy dog prick flips on his word last minute and that's somehow our fault. No moral or honesty, just a money chasing pig... and that's our fault. Ok.... Until round 1 comes and we have no team, then I'll say we don't know what we're doing. But this early? Come on...

Lol, pure dumb comment mate.

Well there you go. I Wassnt that convinced anyway so hopefully that gives us a free route to Martinez Also, going to feel good about handing out some red lines

Galekovic Muscat/Visa RB Visa CB Jakobsen Jamieson Kilkenny Brattan Troisi Fitzgerald Fornaroli Brandan SUBS : Bouzanis Cahill Mauk La Rocca Kamau That's perfectly balanced imo

Yeah, ? is a fucking gun.

UOTIH : The Mauk - Dekker incident was an accident/reckless challenge at worst.

My money is on Silver, Dobbin or Muffin the Mule.

This is good for two reasons, firstly bringing in an equivalent player on lesser money to free up cash to strengthen elsewhere and also for the reactions we're gonna get to see from Plamaker and Mrs.Caceres

He can change it to "City Blue Pride"

Such a waste

Alright, fuck it I'll keep this going then: And yes, Cornthwaite is coming too!!

Fair enough, this is all subjective at the end of the day. Look I'm certainly not disputing that Caceres was mismanaged throughout the season, that game against Brisbane when everyone was suspended he stood up terrifically well and had solid form for the next month yet kept finding himself behind non performing players like Brattan regardless. That can only be incredibly frustrating and disheartening when you come to the realisation that form is irrelevant. Personally id argue that he didnt shine through though anywhere near as often or as brightly as some others would believe and would often have absolutely no impact in some games. I 100% agree with your last sentence, but with the caveat that in my opinion his exposed form when given the chance was not overwhelming, in the same way that Brattan's opening month was not reflective of his whole season either.

I wouldn't be particularly happy, no. IMO Mauk is a dirty little shit of a player who left us on acrimonious terms and later hurt Wade Dekker. Maybe I need to learn to live with it, but my frustration is a general one rather than with any particular player. We looked to have a reasonably stable squad for the coming season, and suddenly we've let both Retre and Franjic go and I don't see their replacements, whether they're already here or still coming, as being significantly better. We need to stiffen the defence, but we haven't done it yet, because our back line was pretty ordinary last night against an NPL side - I hate to think what Perth, Victory or Sydney would do to us if we played them with last night's defensive line-up. If we're having to release players and sign cheaper ones because of salary cap problems then I'm not impressed, because that's what Petrillo is here for - to manage that. No blame can be attached to Warren Joyce because he wasn't even here. I'm afraid that none of what I'm seeing gives me confidence for the coming season. Maybe I'm alone in that feeling, but if so, so be it. Perhaps it's all being managed brilliantly out there at CFA and all I'm missing is the confirmatory announcements. But I'm not convinced about that. Sorry.

You mean charcoal grey or bright pink.

He's now liking Bruno's posts on Instagram now fwiw

I don't understand the sudden faith in Mauk's abilities. He was ok with us in his last half season but hadn't cemented a starting spot. Then he suddenly looked really good when he went to Adelaide. That was of course a championship winning team. Everyone knows that individuals look better when surrounded by a team that is clicking and working for each other. And then last year he tanked in Europe. If he joins us good, he clearly has potential. If not I couldn't care less, there should be similar quality we can source from somewhere (or through a visa spot). Troisi is twice the player Mauk is.

I was there. Final score was 2-0 to City, but I find it a difficult match to assess. We fielded very much what I'll call an "experimental" side. I was disappointed with all of the "senior" players except Kilkenny and perhaps Bruno and Fitzy. Galekovic didn't have a lot to do, but looked very competent as we would expect.The back line was very ordinary indeed - Muscat, Malik, Tongyik and Jamieson. Jamieson came off in what looked like a precaution - he may have suffered a minor strain. Malik was poor - the guy turns his back in the tackle, which I hate. If I was reffing I'd have the guy off the field pretty quickly. Brattan did not impress, and someone's asking what position we'd play Mauk in if we sign him, and there's my answer to to that - sign him instead of Brattan. The two youngsters Genreau and Najjarine - I take it that the latter was wearing 28? - worked hard. Genreau is bulkier and more effective at this stage. Najjarine is very light - good skills but easily knocked off the ball. We weren't as effective at moving the ball quickly as against Oakleigh, mainly because of Tongyik, Malik and Brattan. Cavallo, Crowley and a couple of other youngsters came on in the last 10 minutes- Bruno and Brattan went off - and only then did we really overrun Bentleigh with two goals to Fitzy in the final five minutes. We deliberately got there early, to have a good look at the warm-up. I'll say this. If we don't give the boot to the assistant coaches such as Valkanis and Montemurro then Wazza is going to have a hard time winning anything. These guys took the warm-up, and there's no discipline at all. No focus. Most of the shots at goal went high and wide or past the post, and these guys just stand there talking. So surprise, surprise, what does Brattan do during the match - as mentioned above puts the ball into the car-park. And doesn't care a fuck about it. Best thing was that in the end the youngsters stood up, ran like hell, chased back and tackled, cut the Bentleigh defence open and got us over the line. IMO Wazza will be pleased with that.

There are already too many sponsors on ALeague kits and now they make it even worse by adding Lid4 as another sponsor smh

This club will never learn. Sack Scott Munn

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C'mon never let facts get in the way of a good argument

Does He Prefer City Blue or Red & White?

Yeah but he wouldn't be as good as the player we'd be using the marquee spot on. I'd rather use an under the cap spot on a CB and marquee on a #10 than the other way around.

IMO Troisi has Carrusca covered in just about every respect.

I was just commenting on the posts above... Turmoil is also an overreaction