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Call a vote? Step down? Spare me the heroics. The amount of time you dedicate to this forum; fk me i wouldn't be so cruel to even try and take that away from you. This forum will miss you way more than it would me if it ever got to that. Yes, we get you're foundation and you go to all the matches and all that.. and yes a forum is a place for opinions... .. but that also gives me the right to question when i think your opinions are no longer objective and now purely driven on some long standing disillusionment with the club. To the point where reading your posts (and there are many) has become quite depressing for me. ..and that's the point of my rant. The 1st home ACL game against the Japanese side - shocking. The CCM GF - extremely disappointing capitulation. The Adelaide game last week - totally disgusting. Pre-season games - couldn't care less. Club's reaction to 1st games - refreshingly swift and warranted. Last night's game: was it perfect - of course not. Was there improvement - absolutely in both attitude, intensity and game style. From the start it was obvious ugarkovic in particular was driving forward more. Calling out Good's miss - yeah maybe but ffs he started that play and 7f he had scored, would've been goal of the year. Was amazing. And a nice thing too was seeing the players engage with the fans again after the match. My son even took picks with the players which is something that hasn't happened in ages. So just some objectivity please.. because one thing last night wasn't is shocking and voting for the sake of picking the least shit player is bullshit talk - and I'll call that out.

I thought it was a good win. We started seemingly trying to make things happen and it wasn’t quite working but the energy was there. As the game went on those things started to work- quick touches found the mark - we had several really nice passages of passing in attack. Much better than last week. Nice to get off the bottom too.

my thoughts last night massively needed win that hopefully puts the start to the league and the last week from hell behind us similar to others, we have been playing with low confidence and lots of uncertainty. this result will go a long way to restoring some self belief we were lucky that Sydney have been as shite themselves - we should have never kept the clean sheet but will take it our structure and pressing is starting to gel. with the turn over of players from last season and no Leckie and Nabbout, there was a strong risk of things taking a while to gel we still take too long to settle into our grove. that said i feel we have dominated the second halves of both home games. hopefully that means we really start smashing teams once things are clicking better our midfield is starting to look much better from a transition point of view. it was missing in the game against Western Utd and looked worse against Adelaide. again, fingers crossed this is a positive sign going forward we got a great reaction from the squad to a shite week. Natel is constantly improving. happy days.

We've made 4 straight grand finals (winning 1), won the premiership 3 years straight and participated in the Asian championship league twice. This coming from a club that I believe, still to this date, holds the Australian sports record of most games without winning (26-27 I believe?) We have had more then our fair share of success over the past couple of years, and whilst yes, the first two games of the regular season have been shit, I think it's very important that we remember how bad things were and have some perspective. Like ffs, we still made the semi's of the ffa cup, and are undefeated in the acl league. Doesn't mean that its all been bad. We must be critical when it's reasonable, and equally shower the team with praise when it's deserved. Anyway onto the game, I think last night was the first signs of life for the season, and I have to give a lot of credit to ugarkovic. I thought his work rate was a lot better last night, capping off his night with a pretty good goal. I still think this team has another gear to shift up to, when leckie comes back and pairs with aslan, watch out league.

My take for what it's worth. Two teams in desperate need of a win and low on confidence, but would always have preferred to be us, at home with a new manager, and the cultural issues hopefully on their way to being addressed. The first half was mostly what you'd expect, an anxious and not very pretty arm wrestle. We got better as it went on, Good nearly got one, and a moment of real quality broke the deadlock. Then the early goal in the second half, you could see confidence and fluidity rush back into the team and for a period we played really good football. We're not there yet by a long way, there is still a lot of building and organising to do, but that was far better. Largely the difference was confidence, but having Arslan and Good back clearly helped as well. Now Vidmar can get to work knocking this team into better shape. For me, I've spent most of my life supporting a small, unsuccessful team in League 1 and 2 in England, and then started with Heart. I know football is about taking the crunchy with the smooth, and smiling and bantering through the tough times and the bad games. It's about being there for your club, with your mates. It's not always going to be success (Kipling's imposter), in fact it rarely is. The measure of us as supporters is how we deal with the hard years. I enjoyed last night, because we pulled together and showed up for our team, and I had some time with a few mates.

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Pretty happy with that. A few little things we still need to work on, but considering vids has only had a few days to work with the players I can't really expect a huge transformation at this stage

I honestly don't know why you bother posting the rubbish you do now JW. Sadly the once insightful and fair commentary you were so well regarded for has long departed this forum, replaced with this continual whinging to the point i have to question if you actually watch any of the games anymore. It's suffocating reading your posts and I'd bet a huge reason why there's only about 10 people left on this forum. Sorry, had to say it, but calling that match dreadful is just pure crap.

Wow. I'm actually pretty shocked at the negative opinions of the game on here. Not sure where to start tbh.

Lately? 3 - Ugarkovic 2 - Reis 1 - Jakolis Don't think anyone was poor particularly, a lot of solid 7/10 performances.

He came on as substitute for Ugarkovic last night so probably yes.

Would you find a reason to complain if you won the lotto too? You seem to be very pessimistic lately JW...

Exactly, this was very needed and I don’t really care how. Looking forward to next couple of games to see if he’ll make any noticeable adjustments.

Lids off. Watch out league We're back

Alright lets just aim for less than a 6-0 loss and I'm in.

I will rally up the other 6 of us that use this form and we will fight for you.