Dylan Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Lol 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 As always, wait for the club to confirm signings. Neither of the Uruguayans has been confirmed yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imtellingyou Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Florin won't be on the bench. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 27 minutes ago, Imtellingyou said: Florin won't be on the bench. Get rid of him please, waste of a visa spot if he isn't good enough to make the starting eleven. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playmaker Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, bt50 said: CFG believe Melbourne has to be a viable business in its own right, i think that's quite clear. I think building the membership base would be a good start and it doesn't take a person with a high business acumen to realise that they have got it all wrong in every department for way too long.. Message to MCFC...... 'Keep It Simple Stupid' as this has been a successful formula for many many successful businesses. Edited June 28, 2019 by playmaker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 18 minutes ago, playmaker said: I think building the membership base would be a good start and it doesn't take a person with a high business acumen to realise that they have got it all wrong in every department for way too long.. Message to MCFC...... 'Keep It Simple Stupid' as this has been a successful formula for many many successful businesses. Agree. Start by discounting season ticket fees for existing or previous season ticket holders. Reduce entry prices for non-season ticket holders. Bums on seats + entertaining football Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 Please give us a break from the moaning about ticket prices. The club has made significant changes to the seating arrangements for certain categories, and has introduced discounts for Foundations Members and Seniors. There were already discounts for other categories, such as Juniors and Pension Card Holders. I believe there are others, but I don't know what they are. This will be my first season with a discounted membership. If I attend all 13 home matches next season it will cost me less than $13 per match, great seat high up at the Southern End, completely under cover. I can't ask for better than that. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, jw1739 said: Please give us a break from the moaning about ticket prices. The club has made significant changes to the seating arrangements for certain categories, and has introduced discounts for Foundations Members and Seniors. There were already discounts for other categories, such as Juniors and Pension Card Holders. I believe there are others, but I don't know what they are. This will be my first season with a discounted membership. If I attend all 13 home matches next season it will cost me less than $13 per match, great seat high up at the Southern End, completely under cover. I can't ask for better than that. I'm not moaning. I'm suggesting that the franchise does what any other business does if it wants to sell its product after it's lost market share, it improves value for money by increasing quality and decreasing prices. Isn't that the point of market competition? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k o Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 2 hours ago, Mr MO said: I knew you were going to jump onto this haha! The club just replaces Bart with another visa CB. Many on here have the opinion that we have enough quality in Australia for defenders (Bart discussion remember) and believe that the visa/marquee spots should all go to the forward line. A visa player in every line is my preference! Yeh I bit on purpose. I don't remember anyone saying visa players shouldn't be defenders. I remember a marquee defender as the discussion though. Bart was clearly asking too much, probably money needed to put him at marquee. I agree with the choice not to sign him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 28, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 37 minutes ago, belaguttman said: I'm not moaning. I'm suggesting that the franchise does what any other business does if it wants to sell its product after it's lost market share, it improves value for money by increasing quality and decreasing prices. Isn't that the point of market competition? I'm suggesting that the club has made changes to its pricing. At least for certain members. City Blue and GA are now a very large part of Level 1. I can't comment about walk-ups. The matter of entertaining football is another matter. I don't think the club can guarantee that, because it's in the eye of the beholder, but Mombaerts has already commented that it is what he intends to deliver and create a new identity for the club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 28 minutes ago, n i k o said: Yeh I bit on purpose. I don't remember anyone saying visa players shouldn't be defenders. I remember a marquee defender as the discussion though. Bart was clearly asking too much, probably money needed to put him at marquee. I agree with the choice not to sign him. From your own post; ''Australia's stock in defenders compared to strikers or top quality number 10? No comparison. Well documented even at NT level that we can't produce top strikers. Point here is we have many strong defenders to choose from'' My apologies but I read that you don't want any foreigners as a defender in our team as we stock enough strong defenders in Australia. As we don't have any marquee worthy Australian defenders around the globe in my opinion - I thought you refered to visa/marquee players. If we can't have Bart, I would have rather given this visa spot to another attacking player. Unless the club already knows that Good isn't returning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 14 hours ago, jw1739 said: I'm suggesting that the club has made changes to its pricing. At least for certain members. City Blue and GA are now a very large part of Level 1. I can't comment about walk-ups. The matter of entertaining football is another matter. I don't think the club can guarantee that, because it's in the eye of the beholder, but Mombaerts has already commented that it is what he intends to deliver and create a new identity for the club. Sure, it needs to happen for walk-ups too. There are 3 groups to target: existing season ticket holders that need to be retained; lapsed season ticket holders that need to be enticed and convinced; finally, the one-offs or the uncommitted people that turn up for a single game. The last group has a much lower threshold for just not returning as they haven't invested financially or emotionally. They'll set the bar high with the current ticket prices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris p Posted June 29, 2019 Report Share Posted June 29, 2019 4 hours ago, belaguttman said: Sure, it needs to happen for walk-ups too. There are 3 groups to target: existing season ticket holders that need to be retained; lapsed season ticket holders that need to be enticed and convinced; finally, the one-offs or the uncommitted people that turn up for a single game. The last group has a much lower threshold for just not returning as they haven't invested financially or emotionally. They'll set the bar high with the current ticket prices Wrong topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neio Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 Denis Genreau was at our NPL game yesterday, ready to start pre season this week and all signs pointing towards thag he will stay here this season, which is fantastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 30, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 Reading the report, Metcalfe, Najjar and Najjarine all did well in a 5-1 win so things are looking good from the youth perspective. Mombaerts has already talked of our "fantastic youth players" so I hope we going to see them getting more minutes than Joyce was prepared to give them. With 9 scholarship places available my view is that the likes of Delianov, Cavallo and Pierias jumped the City ship a little too early. It's going to be interesting to see who does and who does not turn up for pre-season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 (edited) 24 minutes ago, jw1739 said: Reading the report, Metcalfe, Najjar and Najjarine all did well in a 5-1 win so things are looking good from the youth perspective. Mombaerts has already talked of our "fantastic youth players" so I hope we going to see them getting more minutes than Joyce was prepared to give them. With 9 scholarship places available my view is that the likes of Delianov, Cavallo and Pierias jumped the City ship a little too early. It's going to be interesting to see who does and who does not turn up for pre-season. I think for Delianov, 2 senior keepers being contracted was clear that he had to make a move. Same really for Pierias we contracted Galloway, the club must have showed little confidence in him. Edited June 30, 2019 by Mr MO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 We've got approaching half a dozen youngsters knocking on the first team door this season. Metcalf, Genreau, Abdulahi, Najjar and Najjarine to start with, are all there or thereabouts. I'm excited to see them, and excited to see what Le Patron can achieve with them. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommykins Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 18 hours ago, jw1739 said: Reading the report, Metcalfe, Najjar and Najjarine all did well in a 5-1 win so things are looking good from the youth perspective. Mombaerts has already talked of our "fantastic youth players" so I hope we going to see them getting more minutes than Joyce was prepared to give them. With 9 scholarship places available my view is that the likes of Delianov, Cavallo and Pierias jumped the City ship a little too early. It's going to be interesting to see who does and who does not turn up for pre-season. I think I'm more high on Najjar than most people, but he did some really good things on Saturday night, and continues to develop a little bit of a bastard streak which probably is coming from playing against men, rather than boys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt50 Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Clearing space to re-sign Brattan perhaps? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 23 minutes ago, bt50 said: Clearing space to re-sign Brattan perhaps? We don't seem be stuffing around - win win for the everybody. Fee for Baccus, frees up a DM position for Windbichler and we can use the money towards Bart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 32 minutes ago, bt50 said: Clearing space to re-sign Brattan perhaps? Metcalf 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playmaker Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 55 minutes ago, bt50 said: Clearing space to re-sign Brattan perhaps? Good. He was a wasted signing anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt50 Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 TBH i think Bart is long gone. I'd love to be wrong, but im pretty confident im not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Transfermarkt has Curtis Good contracted to us for another season. Did training start today? If so, a list of who turned up would be an indicator. I wouldn't be sorry if Baccus departs. I doubt that he's the sort of player Mombaerts would want, especially with our young brigade knocking on the first-team door. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Anybody get the feeling that we have people in charge who finally understand? This season I think at very least we may enjoy ourselves. We may not win anything, but we'll have an honest crack, and we'll see the youngsters develop. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Just now, fensaddler said: Anybody get the feeling that we have people in charge who finally understand? This season I think at very least we may enjoy ourselves. We may not win anything, but we'll have an honest crack, and we'll see the youngsters develop. Yes, well I do for one. And IMO the appointment of Brad Rowse as CEO could have quite a lot to do with it. Despite what @Dylan says, I have never met the bloke, so I'm not pushing his barrow for him, but it seems to me that since he became CEO we have made and are making changes that reflect at least some of what City and old Heart fans have been asking for. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, fensaddler said: Anybody get the feeling that we have people in charge who finally understand? This season I think at very least we may enjoy ourselves. We may not win anything, but we'll have an honest crack, and we'll see the youngsters develop. Yes! Especially if smaller details as the colour red on the training and game kits are confirmed. Embrace the past and build the future. This season feels different, with the changes to membership seating and early player signings. Edited July 1, 2019 by Mr MO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSK_47 Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, fensaddler said: Anybody get the feeling that we have people in charge who finally understand? This season I think at very least we may enjoy ourselves. We may not win anything, but we'll have an honest crack, and we'll see the youngsters develop. It certainly sounds that way but I have heard a lot of things over the years. I will remain dubious until I actually see it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, jw1739 said: Yes, well I do for one. And IMO the appointment of Brad Rowse as CEO could have quite a lot to do with it. Despite what @Dylan says, I have never met the bloke, so I'm not pushing his barrow for him, but it seems to me that since he became CEO we have made and are making changes that reflect at least some of what City and old Heart fans have been asking for. Bob Latchford = Brad Rowse 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haz Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 1 hour ago, jw1739 said: Yes, well I do for one. And IMO the appointment of Brad Rowse as CEO could have quite a lot to do with it. Despite what @Dylan says, I have never met the bloke, so I'm not pushing his barrow for him, but it seems to me that since he became CEO we have made and are making changes that reflect at least some of what City and old Heart fans have been asking for. If that's the case, why was Munn was out of it then? Was he bad at his job? Was he too soft and never stood up for his decisions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playmaker Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 7 minutes ago, haz said: If that's the case, why was Munn was out of it then? Was he bad at his job? Was he too soft and never stood up for his decisions? He was off in fairy land and too busy with all his other crap. He should have gone when CFG took over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted July 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Screenshot from today at CFA Melbourne. Left to right: Delbridge, Mombaerts, is that Brattan?, Jamieson and Maclaren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k o Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 Am I completely out of the loop or no one has noticed our coach talking to Bouzanis at City HQ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt50 Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 10 minutes ago, jw1739 said: Screenshot from today at CFA Melbourne. Left to right: Delbridge, Mombaerts, is that Brattan?, Jamieson and Maclaren. Thats Windbichler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuggetsMcGreggor Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 9 minutes ago, jw1739 said: is that Brattan? it's Windbichler 3 minutes ago, n i k o said: Am I completely out of the loop or no one has noticed our coach talking to Bouzanis at City HQ??? someone on here mentioned that he'd posted on insta about being back in melbourne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afif Adam Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 BO BO BO ZA NI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 https://www.a-league.com.au/news/we-want-win-style-mombaerts-unveils-his-plans-his-city-transformation Still bringing in a wide player and a creative midfielder. Presumably the two Uruguayans are those two players. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt50 Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 20 minutes ago, Harrison said: https://www.a-league.com.au/news/we-want-win-style-mombaerts-unveils-his-plans-his-city-transformation Still bringing in a wide player and a creative midfielder. Presumably the two Uruguayans are those two players. Yep. i reckon we are signing Luna with the view to playing him as the 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted July 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 The cap must have already been removed...even if only in the "Harbour City." Sydney have signed Baumjohann. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt50 Posted July 2, 2019 Report Share Posted July 2, 2019 7 minutes ago, jw1739 said: The cap must have already been removed...even if only in the "Harbour City." Sydney have signed Baumjohann. Not sure about that. They've opened up a reasonable amount of cap space tbf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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