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Being a referee (with state level qualifications) I would say the offside was benefit of the doubt. Was Berisha in a offside position? Yes. Was he involved in play? Yes. Was he between the ball and the defender (Muscat)? No. If the linesman gave it offside, Beath should agree with that decision without having to look at the big screen. If the linesman didn't put his flag up then the same goes, Beath should agree without having to look at the big screen. BUT. We should not be complaining about the offside. If we can't hold a lead for the last 15 minutes then whats the point of even turning up to play? Thats the real problem, not the refs.

Currently sitting in my backyard in a blowup pool drinking beers, eating cheezles and watching match day Saturday. I do not regret my decision not to go tonight.

Still think its offside. If you are forced into playing a ball to cover a player in an offside position then they are clearly interfering with play.

Yeah you know what? At least we looked a bit better. Jacobsen plays out the match and maybe we hang on. Anyway I'd given up on the season a month ago, just want the club to stop going backwards.

This is just a joke - beyond a joke!! Chris Beath is a disgrace. Two shocking decisions and now turned the game in to high farce. How the fuck do the FFA employ these muppets??

Agreed. And people are forgetting that these decisions sometimes go one way, sometimes the other. In recent derbies - Finkler's free-kick clearly crossed the line but the goal wasn't given, and in the first league derby this season Cahill was in an off-side position when Brattan scored and was IMO interfering with play. We've scored first in 15 out of 18 league matches this season if I've got the arithmetic correct. We knew we had an inadequate defence last season and did little to remedy it this season. Also add Cahill. We also play a high-press game that is bloody hard to play and last the distance in an Australian summer. Off the field there are also visible signs of poor management, so all-in-all IMO our disintegrating season is self-inflicted.

So CFG have listened. They haven't got a replacement song yet, so they just put winning on hold until they find one.

I hope we beat Victory in finals with a penalty that doesn't cross the line, yet is still given, with the penalty having been awarded for a tackle that wasn't a foul, on a player who was blatantly offside when receiving the ball.

Listen. It clearly says we are shit year on year.

I'm surprised the 'I want heart back' and 'I'm. Not emotionally attached to city' haven't started up again yet

Hahahaha what a legend Bouzanis!

Yeah was wondering what that was about, certainly looked like Bouzanis walked straight up to him, gave him a serve and stormed off.

Its Bouzanis Franjic. Malik. Jakobsen. Muscat Kilkenny Brattan. Caceras. Brandan. Fornaroli. Colazo

A well deserved suspension if he said what was rumoured to have been said

The difference is that Heart often exceeded (admittedly lower) expectations. City set high expectations and then underperform woefully. Failed at the sharp end last season, have failed ever since the cup win this season. Either way it's crap, but on balance I'd rather see sixth as an achievement for a small club than an abject capitulation from one that's all mouth and trousers.

I was having a discussion last night about our defence and comparing it to last year's Wilko, Kisnorbo, Sorensen combination and we were a bit unclear. It came up that Sorensen's experience and direction in defence was a major contribution to better defensive organisation, what do you guys think? Don't think there is a defence to a racist remark afaik.

5 year contract for Bouzanis for calling him a Gypsie Interesting that fornarolis goal was not shown on the score board but Victory second goal (offside) was shown multiple times.

Summary of our season is this.... Defences win championships. This is why we lose and will continue to lose.

I'd rather just see Bouzanis and Berisha punch on for 90 minutes honestly.

Looks like offside only applies to us

aw shiet

last week was the defining moment we could have caught Victory with a win this week I've seen this shit so often

TDDIM: NPL2: Football. Alcohol. Chevapi Rolls. Think I'll start going to more NPL2 games at Dandy Thunder and less City games. Added bonus is it's 5 minutes from Dandenong Pavilion and the best burgers around.

TTDIM: Getting smashed on a Friday night after a long arse week. Your all cunts but your alright. Tesla the know it all cunt is alright. Cadete knows his politcs so he's a cunt but he's alright. Strider is just a cunt flat out. And the rest of you cunts can get fucked. But your all alright.

TBH I'm at the point when I don't care too much who the new coach is. Just as long as it's somebody who does something different, says something different, and who will shake the club out of being totally bland and boring.

But Berisha is a gypsy so he will play next game. Next.

Professional, Determined and disciplined competitor after landing a punch to the jaw while the opponent is wavering doesn't turn around and walk off to their corner celebrating. Job is not done. You bloody keep punching until ref blows the final whistle. Instead we allow them 2 goals plus made roar's job easy next weekend what a disgraceful way to crumble to these animals.

I agree with you entirely here and as you pointed out there will be a few who will love him for what he said to Besart. I don't agree with it but in my honest opinion people will view him as a cult hero for it. But to be honest I suspect players on the pitch say alot worse just like sledging in cricket but this time he was caught out. I reckon besart won't be front and centre calling for suspension he seems the type who will say it's nothing personal it just what happens. Again not saying what he said was right because it wasn't

He's gone for sure. Minimum 3 weeks but could be 5 or more.

He will get weeks for that if it gets picked up by the FFA.

Well tell them to hurry tfu! I can't stand to watch this puppet Valkanis.

Be better than Mundine Green

We had these guys on the ropes after going 1 up but didn't have the killer instinct to finish them off, and it just sums up everything that's negative and timid about this club. We are doomed to finish outside the top 3 now and that's our season done because our best hope for finals was taking on victory in a derby semi final, now we will be lucky to make it out of week 1. as for the goal yes it's clearly offside, berisha is making a deep offside run and Muscat is tracking that illegal run, he is forced into a sliding attempt on the ball by an offside player, its interference and a terrible decision, worse yet the commentators seem oblivious to this fact. fornaroli having his foot stomped on in the box could have been penalty 1 geria charging into Brandon's back nowhere near the ball could have been penalty 2 of course neither was given. fuck this Mickey Mouse league seriously, can't wait until footy, npl etc starts,

Only on it to try and work out what the fuck was going through the refs mind

Will we have a crowd next week?

#yoof

That's what I mean. Surely this is rock bottom and with us probably needing to promote about four players from the youth team just to put a side on the park, there's no expectations now for next week. So what I'm saying is that hopefully the players and coaches finally realise just how bad this is, take a bloody look in the mirror and start working to turn this club around, because right now, we're in year three and Melbourne City is going nowhere fast.

It was a cockup by Beath who had a shit game. The Albanian was offside and got involved in trying to score. Muscat only did what a defender has to do in that moment, that's clearing the ball.

No it's not. As a club we don't have the grit and determination to hold a lead. Here we go again, leading with 5+5 minutes to go and then lose. Just go through this season and add up in how many league matches we've scored first. It's about 15 out of 18. Our win percentage in all our regular season A-League matches over seven seasons is now a miserable 31.6%.

FFA cup curse

Anyone see Bouzanis and I think it was Sorensen yelling at Valkanis post match?

Franjic has just said exactly the same. What I said at the time, interfering with play... And the mugging of Brandan in the first half which was a penalty all ends up. We got nothing tonight.

killer to rescue

If they play Caceres on the right wing Valkanis should be sacked at half time.

TTIM: Preseason friendlies on a 36 degree day. I have a newfound respect for A League players after today. Football is definitely not a summer sport.

Im not sure they set low performance standards but i do think that they dont change the squad enough to keep everyone on there toes. Brattan should have been dropped by now for example but he just strolls into midfield each week.

It's date day!

Tonight's derby will determine whether we have a realistic chance of making second, and next week against Brisbane will give an indication of where we might finish in the rest of the table.

This is actually pretty good from the club