Heartman

I think you should take the $195 option, do everyone a favour.

Tbf the membership department has probably been the best performing area of the club since takeover, maybe the community work deserves a shout. I was a difficult sell especially last season.

Take Berenguer out of your thinking he is an outlier. Generally speaking Visa players are genuine starting players and the other 7 positions MUST be filled by local players. And my point is that these positions are mostly filled by senior journey men before youth players. If the visa player quota was changed IMO the situation with youth players would remain. The problem though of competing in ASIA would now be also affected, but in all honesty A League clubs have very little chance of competing anyway.

Disagree. The blokes preventing youth development are the 25+ Australian journeyman type players. Because clubs must play local players, and most teams are geared to 1 season cycles and results are fundamental a coach 9 times out of 10 is going to play a senior player over a youth. I believe if the quota changed the situation with youth players would be exactly tge same.

Ooh that Navy blue will rustle a few jimmies.

I think this is what is getting people pissed off. He was supposedly promised a better deal in his second year, but for me the fault lies without conditions. Had he performed and dominated no one would say boo and would applaud the club for good business but he stank last year and appears to being rewarded. Now what needs to be also taken into consideration is the way the club sticks to it's contracts and "promises". Selling a deal to a player to come to a 2nd rate league on the other side of the world isn't easy, then if you have a reputation of axing players half way through (insert several other A League clubs) long term it's going to be tough bringing in new quality visas. So all up the club fucked up with Berenguer but it is probably worse long term if he gets replaced. Hopefully he reaches a decent standard and the club won't be too embarrassed.

3rd. JVS and Koren.

Another good listen. Renny needs to lighten up a bit, its a long off season.

I agree with most regarding Florian and his standard, although he finished last season much better, his 2 games so far have been pretty much Meh and haven't done anything for me. Having said that if the other new visa players are guns I'll take it.

Lucky it wasn't an italian club, extramerda. Not the most inspiring club name.

Would roll better if was circular

Swept away?

The only good thing about that game was muddied towel.

Maybe, and could be close. What are people's opinion of Griffiths being more of a CB, maybe a 4th choice? Although he was basically playing against kids he surprised me and his composure.

Easy pal. Season hasn't started yet.

He was good in a tackle and turned a few players, he even put a player through. Potentially okay.

Thought the same, #36 I think. TBF in Joyce's first season i was optimistic at Christmas, results wise .

No no no no no no no no.

This discussion re inverted fullbacks is interesting, especially when you look at it with the balance of the team. If, and I still am not convinced totally it's how we are trying to play but if we are trying to play with inverted fullbacks that automatically then eliminates 2 holding midfielders. And therefore makes me think Brillante was brought into play that single #6 CDM role. As a result Berenguer must then become the more forward #8 or box to box type with either Metcalfe or Genreau partnering. Playing inverted fullbacks you must have 2 out and out traditional fast wingers, the chalk on your boot types, and on paper that looks like what we potentially have. 1 central mobile striker that is good in the air, can hold up play but most importantly can play on the shoulder of a defender and run into space and Maclaren is probably 100% this. So with 2 extra players pushing into midfield and in turn allowing the 2 8s to play more forward it creates the freedom of a #10 AM to play high up. Now all this is hugely reliant on the 2 inverted fullbacks being capable of firstly pushing into midfield, and more often than not with the ball, and secondly being able to play as essentially midfielders. Can Galloway and Jamieson do this? I am skeptical, everything else makes sense and potentially could be amazing but for me Jamieson and Galloway are traditional bog standard fullbacks and unfortunately not suited to this type of role. It will be interesting to see if what I have said eventuates and if so how long he will persist or if it evolves into something else. Fundamentally I like it, but think at the moment we are 2 inverted fullbacks short.

Disagree. We have had decent to very good keepers, and that's comparing to the rest of the League. Bolton was in the top 3 keepers in S1/2 and Sorensen also was in the top group and Galekovic last year was also IMO in the top 3 for the League. Bouzanis is good enough to be our starting keeper, I would have liked to see Birighitti but he lucked out. The fundamental problem we have had regarding long term players we haven't been that good so every 2 seasons we change Managers and obviously they want different players and as a result the player turnover is huge, hopefully this is the start of a 5 year spell of continuity and success and who knows Bouzanis may be our NO1 for that.

Too much.

Going a step further. We have 230k likes and average 10k at games. They have 8k likes so its fair to say they should be hitting averages of 347 every home game.

JVS was (flexible), just that he couldn't set up a team defensively.

Ahead of who?

I do care. If we have a player listed as a Marquee and he struggles to start, which on last years form is highly likely thats a major problem. Now going down the path who gets paid what is all speculation, but whoever gets named as a Marquee is clear and if he is not our best player or highest paid player then to me thats a massive problem.