My favourite bits of commentary last night
- when they tried telling us the flight from Melbourne was 8.5 hours
- Kenny Lowe drunkenly telling us that Perth were dominating the game with 10 men about 3 minutes after they had the red card
- but my favourite for the night by far, when they said Leckie wasn't contributing much to the win. He had a goal, an assist and won the penalty
Good teams win those games and we got the job done despite being down to 10 men all night ( I hardly sighted J Mac) + a typical egregious Glover error and one luckily not given against him as well. Mixed bag of a game but we move on. Overall well done lads!
JMAC zero touches, better score the winner.
He did take his run too far at one stage, failed to play JMAC one on one with the keeper. Would you like to see a little more balance, with shorter runs and then a good pass (like last week).
It's been a privilege watching Bos play tonight. He's the only shining light out there.
Awful slow pitch and even more awful Teo babbling away making this a real hard watch atm.
it's easy to say that now, but can you really blame the FFA from be pragmatic?
i think that proves the point if nothing else. before what we did (which screwed the pooch), clubs could could get away with it. are people really getting upset by this???
What I meant was that it was known that there were loan players in our League where only a portion of their remuneration was counted in the cap, and this was obviously tolerated by FFA. But no club was over-using that tolerance - for example no club had several such loan players at the same time. Well, I don't think so.
Those are normal loan deals and their full wages counted towards the cap, normal business. Unless marquee players of course.
The Victory players mentioned weren’t marquee and 90% of their wage was paid outside the cap by their owners. That’s the loop which was close now, you play here and it will be accounted here.
Its not the same.
Sydney and Victory were doing that for years for example with Rogic and Trioisi. It was only when City started looking, both clubs felt threatened and formally complained to the FFA as CFG was going to take advantage of it even more.
But those club didn’t know we were going to be strict with our budgets and it was going to mean very little.
fun fact; tonight is MacLaren's 100th league game for us if he starts / plays and will be against the team where he made his A League debut.
coincidently, his first ever goal in the A League for Glory was actually against us in October 2013.
Very much a puff piece from the Herald Scum.
Nothing wrong with the Mooy transfer.
Caceres' transfer was dodgy on the surface, but really it was just a domestic transfer fee (i'm sure CCM were thrilled that it was not a mutual termination). Either way, rules were put in place afterwards to prevent it happening again.