fensaddler
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22 hours ago, NewConvert said:
After watching the last 25 minutes, PG are woeful at the back and middle. Who knew that Ollie Sail was holding Wellington back?
And yet they still have the likely golden boot winner. How bad have the rest been?
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I got the sense that we had a clear succession plan in keeping Nieuwenhuizen and signing Beach. Young may do another season to bridge until they are ready or maybe they are ready and we're just waiting for Nieuwenhuizen's fitness.
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Never mind the quality, feel the width. In our own hands. Thought it was gone. Let's pack the place out next week and make some noise. Bonus is a chance to thrash the green filth.
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3 minutes ago, mattyh001 said:
Fortunate small deflection there but Natel finally finding form
And Jakolis can fuck off too
Now he's got one...
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1 hour ago, jw1739 said:
Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it.
One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time.
Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly.
Thank you.
jwI remember getting something about it. Thought about putting up for it but decided not to.
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1 hour ago, Le Hack said:
Will Talbot and Beach be back. I'd probably prefer Ugarkovic to remain at full back and Lecks in midfield than have Talbot back doing his usual
Yes, I quite liked Ugarkovic playing full back. He's solid there and it frees up space in midfield for more creative options.
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1 hour ago, MHFC-FAN said:
You are allowed to disagree of course. I just find us way too hot and cold. Today as an example. We belt the weak teams then lose against teams we should be able to beat. Whole season has been frustrating at best!
Interesting. Certainly we're inconsistent but neither Brisbane nor WSW are weak sides, Brisbane latterly but not so much at the time we beat them. And we beat Wellington only a few weeks ago. We're just plain inconsistent. Capable of being good one week and bloody useless by comparison only days later.
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Sydney have just done us a huge favour... Fat lady was definitely about to start warbling... Talk about late winners.
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Always there when I can. And I'm aiming to be at this one and the WU match in two weeks. Then start planning for next season.
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On this one, I suspect we have to accept the same medical or contractual confidentiality as we'd want for ourselves. On this one I'm happy to accept that it's none of my business. Though On a personal level I'd wish him a swift recovery from whatever ails him.
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1 hour ago, MHFC-FAN said:
Bit of a shame, I'd have considered Good for one more season...
Me too. He'll leave as one of our best. Does flag a significant changing of the guard though. May be the good sort of change. Can only hope.
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Some thoughtful and well argued stuff here. Thank you. I suppose the problems we've had (apart from a behind the scenes cultural one which we can only guess at) have been that we built a team with some young players who were very good, and then left all at once, and that we had an issue with good overseas players leaving before their contracts were up (and Van der Venne, Lam and Sakhi feels more than a coincidence, even if it could have been one, overseas players do fail to settle). Difficult reliably to sign younger players who are good enough, but not good enough to leave for better options overseas. But this season we've definitely struggled with signing several sub par players, and with an ageing squad that definitely all looks a year too old all at once. Could we have foreseen the latter? Maybe not. But we've often been too slow to give experience to younger players who might cover for them.
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This feels like a longer run thing than one season. We've made mistakes over a number of seasons that have left us with an ageing squad vulnerable to injuries. That's been compounded by the losses of good younger players last season. But we surely plan this with a forward view over several seasons, so the fact that we haven't done so well enough is a failure that has been building for several seasons.
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That's our season officially over.
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Not a penalty in a million years. Fernandez barged over. Just a joke.
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2 hours ago, citypool said:
Can we acknowledge our women's team?
Champions ole ole champions
Absolutely. A week ago this looked impossible. A brilliant and unexpected outcome.
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10 hours ago, jw1739 said:
I was sitting in Bay 20 for the first half and went up to join the Gang towards the top of Section 19 for the second. I wasn't feeling that generous to either club or League when I got home, and then reading your post just made me feel ill.
A mate reminded me this week that "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!" but boy oh boy those days of anticipation, joy, and excitement of a few seasons ago seem a long way away now.
I notice the balloon incident was discussed in the Talking City game summary as one of their three talking points. I hope this one isn't going away without an almighty fuss.
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12 minutes ago, jw1739 said:
Awful game to watch. You certainly need a sense of humour to watch City games. Ugarkovic missed two guilt-edges chances, and Arslan three. Natel and Jakolis can't cross the ball, and so often they stop any forward momentum.. Jeggo is a weak player. A pointless substitution to replace Caputo with JMac - the latter is completely ineffective. Leckie didn't seem to make any difference. Even Antonis didn't seem to have any fire in him at all.
One thing I noticed was how often we played so many back and sideways passes that by the time we made a forward pass every single Newcastle player was behind the ball. Don't we analyse games and learn from them?
In the end it was really only a good save from Young that stopped Newcastle stealing the points.
Couple of other things - do we have ballboys anymore? And what a hash the league is making with VAR. Nothing on the screen. Is there actually a Video Assisted Referee at the game?
I don't know what's wrong at the club. But I don't resile from the view that there's something. Didn't see the incident with kids and balloons - sounds typical APL. How to kill the A-League in three easy seasons.
Ho-hum.
Balloons was towards the front of Bay 16. In front of me. Seemed to sum up everything that is wrong with the grim, joyless A League at the moment.
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Officials have now lost control of this.
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We've got another arse for a referee today.
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Have officially reported to the club via membership@. Suggest anyone else who saw it does the same.
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22 minutes ago, heart1011 said:
Slightly off topic but had to come on for a vent.. this league is just proving how dead in the ass it is and how the league clearly is against fans and active support..
There were a group of kids. Yes that's right kids probably 6-8 years of age throwing red, white and blue balloons around near the active. Security just came in and told them to stop. Took the balloons and popped them all whist the other 2 security guards stood there laughing. I swear there is an agenda to completely kill this league off. It has been dead for a few seasons now but seeing this tonight just made me go wow.. what has this league come too?? When they should be encouraging fans to come, especially kids to games and you get in trouble for having a couple of fucking balloons.. I went to my first ever NBL game a few weeks ago.. it was loud.. they were handing out hand clappers and continually encouraging the whole crowd to make noise and in particular when the other team had the ball. The atmosphere was incredible and it made me look around going "wow the NBL knows how to put on a show" meanwhile the league is on it's knees, has security guards litteraly patrolling all areas and if you dare let out a fart you'll be kicked out.. end of my rant but I'm just getting fed up to be honest!
Saw this. Security were utter arseholes. And the rest of them laughing while it happened. Those kids might not come again. It's these fuckwits who are killing the game. Adult that was with the kids was I think filming it all on his phone. Hopefully results in a complaint and a few sackings.
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Maclaren's recent comments suggest an expectation that Caputo will be leading the line much more regularly next year. Suspect we'll see more of Mazzeo too. Plus we've had a gun young striker sidelined all season that I'm keen to see. Be interesting to see how this all pans out in the next couple of months. We'll need to thread the needle in keeping some experience and continuity, but also doing better than we sometimes have in promoting youth.