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One point I would like to add. Rado has done what very few football coaches and managers would do - step forward and say that he doesn't feel up to the job. I think that shows what a gentleman he is, and we should respect him for that.

See I told you he was coming, he was just stuck in transit.

I feel that it will definitively tell us where the team is at.

Our German/Turkish Aaron Mooy. What an absolute pleasure it is watching this guy. His vision is second to none in this league. He knows exactly where his team mates are around him before we even do. Deserved goal last night and player of the match. Hope he stays injury free and can continue to build on his performances.

I don't think it was a name that was ever on my list....

I don't care what anyone says. There is something fundamentally wrong at the club and has been since before the end of last season.

Big man’s decided to hang up his boots. Loved his time at the club. Double winner 🫶

The real winner here is the manager of Jakolis. The story of him finding out he is a long lost Aussie and wants to play for Socceroos in Asian cup and getting him to the most well resourced club in the country. For him to resemble a potato, he must be outstanding at his job

Aziz Behich confirmed this morning.

Lovely to see one of our own return towards the end of a great career. This does feel like a bit of genuine heritage.

Slightly off topic but had to come on for a vent.. this league is just proving how dead in the ass it is and how the league clearly is against fans and active support.. There were a group of kids. Yes that's right kids probably 6-8 years of age throwing red, white and blue balloons around near the active. Security just came in and told them to stop. Took the balloons and popped them all whist the other 2 security guards stood there laughing. I swear there is an agenda to completely kill this league off. It has been dead for a few seasons now but seeing this tonight just made me go wow.. what has this league come too?? When they should be encouraging fans to come, especially kids to games and you get in trouble for having a couple of fucking balloons.. I went to my first ever NBL game a few weeks ago.. it was loud.. they were handing out hand clappers and continually encouraging the whole crowd to make noise and in particular when the other team had the ball. The atmosphere was incredible and it made me look around going "wow the NBL knows how to put on a show" meanwhile the league is on it's knees, has security guards litteraly patrolling all areas and if you dare let out a fart you'll be kicked out.. end of my rant but I'm just getting fed up to be honest!

Fotmob has some interesting stat's for this season for City players. Jmac is third on expected goals at 11.2 and exp goals on target he leads at 13.7. However he also leads by a long shot on Chances missed at 16. Interestingly, Caputo leads the league on xG per 90 mins and expected assists per 90 mins and secobd on shots on target per 90. Jakolis is actually 3rd on expected Assists. Caputo is third on successful tackles per 90 as well. Reis is equal second on penalties conceded. Young is third with clean sheets. Good is second on accurate passes at 69% and Souprayen fifth at 66%. Simple conclusion is that it's Maclaren's poor season that has condemned us this year, that and the refusal to sub him with Caputo or try something different say like Leckie up front

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.

Well, it was a very pleasant afternoon of football that reminded me of the pleasures of football in bygone years. A small lunch, making our way to the ground as a couple of friends should, settling in to our seats, chocolate biscuits at half-time, and home again for tea. An idyllic Sunday afternoon at a small suburban ground basking in the chilly afternoon sunshine, a stadium that made me think that perhaps we could pay a little more attention to basic facilities such as main exit gates that could open at the conclusion of the match instead of keeping the crowd for 15 minutes penned behind fencing more suitable for Guantanamo Bay. And perhaps a public address system, although the silence was better for the ears than the incessant babbling at 100dB to be endured at AAMI Park. The match started as a Sunday afternoon match should, Curtis Good forgetting that he was not out for a leisurely stroll with his dog but playing a match in a competition the winner of which will play in the Asian Football Federation Cup next season. From the resulting corner Oakleigh were 1-0 up after just 32 seconds. Inability to get the ball away from set-pieces threatening the City goal was going to be a feature of the afternoon. Oakleigh defended well, broke quickly, and had the City defence in all sorts of bother all match. The centre pairing of Good and Reis looked in trouble for pace, but Hall and Talbot stood up well, the latter a continual threat down the left flank and getting plenty of rough handling, but seemingly the referee had jammed the zip on his yellow card back pocket. City gradually took control in midfield where Arslan stood out as did Jakolis on the right wing, but failed to really create a goal-scoring opportunity. Max Caputo was introduced for the second half and began to make his presence felt by the Oakleigh defence. An unmissable hand-ball in the area was a gift for City, and Arslan put the resulting penalty away neatly. The midfield was working hard but again the goal-scoring opportunities were not being created and eight minutes later Jamie Young and the City defence made a complete hash of a corner and Oakleigh were deservedly ahead again and City were staring down the barrel of an embarrassing defeat until another hand-ball in the box gave them a lifeline with a second penalty. After mind-games from the Oakleigh goalkeeper, only ended when a wet sponge from the Oakleigh trainer cured what seemed at first to be a career-ending leg injury, an unfazed Arslan put the penalty away even more emphatically than his first. With just seconds remaining in time-added, Terry Antonis finally found space on the left and crossed beautifully for Alessandro Lopane to put the ball into the roof of the net for City's winning goal. Daylight robbery if ever we were to see it. All that said, my take on the match: - Oakleigh did themselves proud; - Jamie Young is not the answer in goal; - Our defence needs stiffening because we could not deal properly with any dead-ball situation threatening our goal; - Our new recruits are solid, but we have to solve this problem of sterile possession and failure to create good goal-scoring opportunities; - It's polite to say that JMac was invisible during the first half. Caputo was more visible in the second, but no-one's going to score if we can't set up the ball properly for them. - Mathew Leckie doesn't have the close control necessary when the opposition plays a close-press game. Plenty of work for Vidosic to do before the next round, scheduled for 27-30 August. Quarter-Finals 16-17 September. If we make the QF how we're going to play then when our first ACL match 18-20 September is going to be a challenge!

Pass backwards. Always play backwards. No matter what

Your brother died since half time? Sorry for your loss.

Sneaky edit in there 👀

Did Jmac bang your missus or something? Is the greatest Aleague goal scorer ever not good enough for you?

The history of the A-League shows that club go through cycles - even MVC & SFC have fallen. This is a design feature (salary cap, squad size). The one variable the clubs can control is the coaching and scouting. And ultimately even successful coaches will go through a down period and it is time for them to go. Where City have let themselves down was in selecting coaches (no easy task) and getting the local scout network working properly. Another point would be that the fans have no idea why some players are seen as project players (Talbot) but others are not (Raphael/Cola). Is Vidmar a permanent coach in waiting? An improvement on Rado but I still can't see his man management working. The ACL forces players to be rested if the club is to succeed in both competitions, and he did not do that. Secondly, I still have no idea what Lopane is offering vs Raphael or Mezzio for that matter.

I'm going to get ready to duck for cover here, but Berisha is the best striker the league has seen. He did everything, and so many times put his team in his back and carried them. Maclaren is probably the best goal poacher the league has seen and works extremely well in the system that he has been deployed in and Bruno could be the most talented of the 3 and has the highlight reel but has also been shipped out of 2 clubs pretty swiftly. I'd say those 3 are pretty clear above everyone else

Coaching/managing requires thinking and evolution. For me he has never shown either of those qualities. Did he do well? Yes he did but as has been pointed out he inherited the team from Mombaerts. Just about anyone would have had the success that he did. In France he was found out. PK was better than Rado in that he was hard enough to push the players but Rado, intentionally or not, allowed the players to be more creative. With Vidmar is too early to tell and he has inherited a brand new team with players that are rapidly ageing at the back, and inconsistent from the middle onwards. What would PK bring to the club? Not much in my opinion.

It's criminal that Galloway hasn't been starting.

If it ends with another "pissant town" level press conference I'll be satisfied.

Hmm Just looking at Vidmar's record with Melbourne City so far. We haven't won a game under him so far which is very, very poor. I expect a significant improvement from the team or 2 weeks from now the knives will be out again. The Stig

Reasons he should be our new coach: -undefeated record -makes subs whenever he wants (fuck you I'll sub our best player off at half time, just try and stop me) -has big balls -beard game strong -would easily beat any other coach in the world in a fight - buff as fuck (benches 150kgs plus) All hail our new leader

It's rare that there is only one party at fault in situations like we had with Bruno, but nevertheless it should never have got out of hand the way it did, and I feel that our club senior management should have found a better way to resolve it than they did. Bruno was a fantastic player for us and such a fan favourite.

WHY DOESN'T MINE LOOK LIKE THAT?! Credit: @james_r_mcgarth on twitter

I think it’s no coincidence that now we are out (nobody cares about the 3rd place playoff), the negative reporting of football culture is the focus of the media. You go back and look at all the reports of support for our previous matches and you will find many photos of flares being ripped and not one of them will mention any concern about fan behaviour. Just back to regular programming now I’m afraid. I try to ignore it. The best thing we can do is capitalise on the wave of excitement and bring new people to the A-Leagues. I’ve already got a family of five keen to come to a game.

That's not Good

I agree with you to some degree. Success is never given and I would not feel comfortable with supporters who felt entitled to success. Partly this is about the scale of our collapse, and the sense of the shambolic and ill judged which surrounds it. This happens to the best of clubs and the best of supporters, so it's not existential if the club takes the right steps and recognises the root of the issues. More than the poor results, the poor structure on the field or the revolving door selections, what flags to me that all is not right is the number of players who have just decided to up and leave (Hamza Sakhi being just the latest), the apparent tensions reported in the dressing room, and the stumbling development of the latest graduates of our youth program. All of this can be fixed if the root causes are honestly recognised. Then the club needs to address its long term weakness, the engagement of its fans and the clubs identity. I won't resile from the fact that CFG made some fucking stupid, arrogant decisions when they first took over, with our colours and name, and we're still paying the price for that. This was particularly a problem for many UK heritage supporters who had no love for, or an actual visceral loathing for, Manchester City. Some of us stayed, some didn't. But it did break some of my instinctive connection with the club. I chose Heart because its colours were the same as my home town club. Beyond that, I want us to try and rebuild that connection and identity. I've got no magic wand solution, but connection to players, especially our home grown talent, is important. I'd rather be fighting to get in the six with a group of committed home grown youngsters than being where we are with a bunch of players we barely know, or who appear not to care. It's been a crap season. That's OK. I've seen plenty of those supporting Walsall. What we do now, how the problems are addressed and fixed, will be what matters.

Terry always seems to score.

Can't say I am the biggest fan of him purely because of his antics when he first started for us but he has since stopped that and has become one of our most influential players and that player is Jakolis. We are really missing him out there tonight!

Aurelio is growing on me. Watched a few of his presses and impressed me with his honesty and knowledge and his willingness to give players praise and also a kick when they deserve it. Also seen a couple of his pre game addresses to the players and they do give you a sense of him geeing up the players. I reckon his half time address on Sunday would have seen some players cop an earful. Also like that he's not micromanaging the game but also says a bit during the game. I'm thinking he's the middle ground between Rado who was too laid back and PK who was too intense

sweet jesus that was the most legitimate goal that just shouldn't have been disallowed I've watched the replay a dozen times now and the contact from Maclaren is negligible by regular standard, let alone in a derby with the precedent of Faghani's leniency all god damn game

Hell yeah. Hop on the bandwagon early. This guy is shit

This is such a small thing but very telling IMO. Was watching old eps of access all areas. When paddy was I. Charge his message to the players as they were heading onto the pitch was "unleash hell". A few eps later when Rado is in charge he says to players as they are going on tbe field "good luck" To me it really highlights the change in mentality. We went through this period where we seemed to embrace that inner cunt that's we have been missing for so many years and was exciting to see us heading in that "anyone. Anywhere, any time" direction. Now it's "good luck" and really feels like we have gone back to that "if we win, we win" mentality

I reckon this is crap JW. Feels to me like you're at a point with this club that even if we won 10-1 tonight, you'd still find criticism. Wasn't the best display but f me it was panels better than that awful ACL night and i for one can see improvement.

Especially in the A-League where the squads are small, and the need to try minimise injuries to the best 11 players is a big concern! Also you can't develop many of the fringe players when they never get on the pitch...

Also on the Europa League, Bart Schenkaveld's Panathinaikos are sitting top of their group with Villarreal, Rennes, Maccabi Haifa. Man has played every minute of the campaign thus far - good to see him doing well at a level he absolutely deserves to play at!

Good to see Caputo scoring. I really rate the kid, I hope he can become a consistent starter as the year goes on.

Absolutely never in doubt, not sure what everyone was worried about

A perfect addition for the Jonathan Germano Treatment Centre

The game will probably be played in Sydney😂

Not too many downsides with this bloke. Not taking up a visa. 1 year loan so no risk if he doesn't work out. Looks like he will be a good addition upfront and lastly he will be trying hard to impress to try and get a look in for the national team...

Agreed. The irony is that he never won anything with us, but, as a fan of the club, the Mooy seasons were just about the best in terms of being there at AAMI.

I hope Miranda stays at MV. We've got to show ambition - we've shown it with Arslan, and we need to continue it. Every player we sign doesn't have to come direct from Serie A - that would be an absurd expectation, but our signings need to reflect an ambitious intent. Manchester City wouldn't accept a top-7 finish in the EPL after winning several titles in a row, so neither should we accept a top-4 finish next season's A-League.

Some of us don't roll over so easily.

Going well

Glover man of the match already

They're force feeding him. He'll soon be foie gras.