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Week 22: Melbourne vs Brisbane Roar 2/3/12 - 8:00pm


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Melbourne Heart squad:

1.Clint Bolton (gk), 2.Michael Marrone, 3.Brendan Hamill, 4.Simon Colosimo, 5.Fred ©, 6.Matt Thompson, 7.Rutger Worm, 10.Wayne Srhoj, 11.Alex Terra, 13.Jonatan Germano, 15.David Williams, 16.Aziz Behich, 17.Jason Hoffman, 18.Curtis Good, 19.Eli Babalj, 23.Mate Dugandzic, 30.Sebastian Mattei

*two to be omitted*

My take:

----------------------------------------------------------------Eli Babalj----------------------------------------------------------------

Alex Terra-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mate Dugandzic

---------------------------------------Fred ©----------------------------------------------Matt Thompson--------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------Wayne Shroj---------------------------------------------------------------

Aziz Behich----------------------------Curtis Good--------------Simon Colosimo--------------------------Michael Marrone

------------------------------------------------------------Clint Bolton----------------------------------------------------------------

Subs -

Sebastian Mattei (GK)

Jonathan Germano

Rutger Worm

David Williams

Omitted - Brendan Hamill & Jason Hoffman

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God I love Bolton. :)

Warrior performance from us, shown we can beat the best (well take it up to them) anywhere.

Think we dominated 70% of that second half. Dugandzic and Behich and Fred in that period is what did it for us. Fred was unreal in that play maker role.

Eli missed a golden chance or two. Colossimo was sloppy a couple of times, brilliant the other times. Some of his challenges were fantastic.

Happy for Good for not only scoring the goal, but his work in keeping Berisha quiet.

Very proud tonight. Very proud. :wub:

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If we make the finals, we're maybe the only team that can match it with the top two. The problem is, we'll probably get knocked out by Perth or Wellington before we get that far.

Happy with the result. We're undefeated to the Roar for this season, which we can be really proud of. Three winnable games left should see us through.

Bolton is a legend.

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Full credit to those that made the trip. Good job.

Very happy with the point. Thought Colosimo was massive again, despite the penalty, and Dugandzic looked our most threatening, but clearly tired at the end.

I want to see it again, but Marrone's challenge near the end looked absolute world class.

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Bolton BEAUTIFUL professional footballer. Eli Babalj CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!! We can not do well in a season if we dont get a striker a real professional striker. Eli go and think of a job that you can do, dont be selfish and screw it up for the other ten players on the field!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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That was a Good game from us although a draw was probably a fair result both teams could feel a little unlucky. We seemed to play this game the opposite way to the last matchup in Brisbane, we sat (too) deep in the first half and counter-attacked and then pressed and sat higher up the park in the second half. This match was interesting because it really was our first 11 for the first time against Roar's first 11 (apart from Henrique) and it showed that we are nearly at their level. We are still a few players short of playing possession based football for 90 minutes but we are tactically more flexible and dangerous all over the park. When we are playing well we present difficult problems for opposing teams.

Conceding penalties in consecutive games is something to address, Bolton won't always be able to save them all although with Henrique out I felt confident last night that he would save that one and he did! was that marrone's second ever yellow card for us?

As a counterpoint to the Palmer circus, it was great to see such a high standard game in the HAL that we could only dream about 3 seasons ago.

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Your a tough task master mario. He is only 20years old remember and it's not like he has come thru a Man U or Barca youth academy.

Do agree we need someone experienced up front though for both the team and Eli's benefit.

NO Eli cant finish,when you are gifted goals and miss how are you going to finish the difficult tasks.There are much much better 20 year olds and you cant train HEART!

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NO Eli cant finish,when you are gifted goals and miss how are you going to finish the difficult tasks.There are much much better 20 year olds and you cant train HEART!

Heartily fed up with your continual carping on this subject. Instead of just moaning, put forward come constructive sugggestions - for example, names of 20-y-o players who might be prepared to come and play for Heart at a sensible wage.

Just watched the replay of the goal. How did we get that??? Every team has a player on each post in corners... But not Roar just then! Lucky!!!

Actually, we have made the same error as well. Not only was there no-one on the post, but Theoklitos' attempt to save Curtis Good's header was pathetic. Never mind, they all count!

A well-earned point for us, keeping us in the race. Bolton playing possibly his best football for us just now.

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