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I think it means that they focus on just giving positive vocal support to their club and players, and keep it simple so that they all are happy and keen to get involved, irrespective of age and gender. BTW they also are known for cleaning up their seating area after the match. These sorts of things are aspects of their culture that I can admire.

Connor Metcalfe showing disgusting disrespect to the match-ball...

This brings me back to a comment that was made when CFG first took over. 'We want to turn this club into an Asian powerhouse' *or words to that effect. At the time I said to do that they will need to heavily invest in coaching. We have a capped leauge so we can't just buy a team of superstars. We need to create a team of superstars. There is no cap on coaching. Why not a marquee manager? Other than the appointment Mombaerts I have seen no evidence to suggest CFG are remotely serious about bringing us to a level where we can compete with bigger Asian clubs. Our managerial investment was shown for what its been last night. Outplayed by a low level J2 club. What a joke

FWIW i dont even necessarily think we need to change our style of play per se, not in the entirety. But we need to have another string to our bow to throw in every five minutes or so, so that we're not so bloody predictable. Its way too easy to defend when you know what the opposition are going to do every single time.

Valon Berisha has left Reims and is without a club now. Thomas Lam is back at PEC Zwolle and playing in the Eredivisie. Richard van der Venne is with FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Super League and has been on the bench for all 6 matches, with a total of just 41 minutes on the field. I wonder whether they all left here because they were sick of Rado-ball?

Whilst i'm as down in the dumps about last night and some of the cup games as anyone, youve overlooked a relatively impressive win over Welly in the middle there. IMO we need to get out of this arrogant mentality that we can just 'be patient' and eventually the goal will open up for us. Its boring, and very easy for opposition teams to defend when we don't keep them guessing. No one wants to see Aloisi style long ball as a new game plan, but we need to pump a few through behind the lines just to keep opposition guessing a bit.

Looked like to me that our coaching group hasn't bothered to change our playing style since last season. Even with a settled team who had all gelled last year, that style was all too predictable by the end of it. Now we're trying to use the same tactics with an 80% new team. The only thing unpredictable about it tonight was watching players run into each other, have shit touches and turn the ball over at the slightest hint of pressure. Throw in no genuine skillful and direct players like Bos and Tilio who could at least drive into the box, what you have is a very stagnant and ponderous team. It may work against shit A-League teams but not against teams like tonight. We have a lot of work to do. Proves to me our league would be lucky to compare to a Japanese 3rd tier. But hey what do you expect when your football governing bodies and such are only concerned about how many brown paper bags they can receive off the privileged clubs instead of actually focusing on how to improve the sport for everyone in this country.

We're missing O'Neill so much. Also Nuno is past it. Aslan will be a baller.

Why not go straight back into work after the game? Much more efficient that way.

TTDIM: Champions League football in Melbourne

Don't underestimate Brisbane they actually looked alright

I decided to give it one more go and have bought my ticket. Being eligible for concession it's only $15. Unless you're fussy about precisely where you sit, having used your membership number to log-on it's cheaper to get a seat in "General Reserved" than it is in City Blue, and you can move from the seat that Ticketek offers you to any of the four "General Reserved" bays, and also buy other tickets (concession/adult/junior) as a bloc at the same time if you want to. Very few seats have been sold when I bought mine yesterday evening, so you can get a decent seat.

So I've been doing a bit of a deep dive on our leaked ALM kits this season and it's only now that I left the son with his grandparents that I can actually sit down and type something up. I think the general concensus is that they're...underwhelming. I'd love to know how these decisions are made; do Puma present the club with the shirt and that's it or do they give us some options? In my opinion, it's not hard to find vastly better options from within the Puma stable of clubs which makes me assume that the club gets basically no input. Home: There are six teams (that I can find) wearing a version of the template we have: Braga in Portugal, Heidenheim in Germany, Parma in Italy, Inverness in Scotland, Fleetwood Town in England and Apollon Limassol in Cyprus. As you can see in all of those kits, the printed design of diamonds/squares covers the entire length of the shirt and contrasts with the plain sleeves. In Fleetwood Town's kit the sleeves are even a different colour. Of those examples, all but Braga have a round neck. For me, the things in our design that ruin it are the fact that the sublimated white squares stop at around the armpits. This means there's no contrast with the sleeves which just makes it look a bit dull and uninteresting. The V neck doesn't do it for me either, seeing the round necks on the other kits makes me wonder why go with a V? Just because last season's kit had a round neck? So what should our kit look like? Probably Heidenheim's kit with two shades of blue (I know having a dark blue would be risky but it wouldn't be navy, just dark enough to contrast with city blue), city blue sleeves and a round, white neck. Away: There are three teams rocking the gradient sash template this season: Palermo in Italy, Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia and Ibiza in Spain. So ours is not much different to the template here, it's just in red while the rest are in blue. I think the Palermo one looks nice and goes well with their usual colour palette. The problem with ours is the light red just looks orange and the V neck looks out of place again. It just makes it all too angular for me... Options? Well what's wrong with a striped kit? Here are a few that I think would work: PSV (with red and white stripes obvs) Cracovia Sporting de Gijon Maritimo Lancaster City (red not blue) Rio Ave (red not green) Third: Well we haven't seen a third kit yet and this post has taken me an hour already so I'll make this quick. I'm over black/charcoal. Maybe you guys can have a trawl here and see what you'd like. https://www.footballkitarchive.com/puma-2023-24-kits/

Going to give this one a miss since members need to still pay for tickets. Even with the discount, looking at $75+ (incl parking), which tbh I would rather save for my weekly grocery shop.

One other point I do want to make. I was in Section 2 right next to the Kofu active. That is the template for Active right there. Did not stop singing or banging their drums for the whole game. Really enjoyed what they bought to the game. By comparison our Active was about as interested in the game as our team.

The way we play just reminds me of how I view Rado. Dull and boring. Also, we only made 2 subs. The latter only occurring in the final minute.

I reckon ive been to over 150+ City/Heart games, and that one was definitely up there with the worst. Boring, stagnant football where we insisted on trying to walk the ball into the net, to not even get anywhere close i might add. You wouldn't find Harry Potter at AAMI Park last night, because Callum Talbot the Dementor sucked the life and enjoyment out of everything he touched and the tempo that came from the mids and wingers was utterly non-existent. Jamie Young literally the only player that can remotely hold himself high after that, and i would hope that there's serious alarm bells ringing internally. They were no good whatsoever imo, we made them look half decent with an almost impressively lazy performance at this level.

They are running rings around us. They are way too quick for us. Our team looks disjointed and rusty as hell. Very disappointing so far. We'll be lucky to escape with a draw at this rate.

We have no idea nor a real idea in these first 15 minutes. Technically the Japanese players are better.

He is actually the better coach of the two imo.

We knocked Victory out in the semi back in 2016 en route to lifting the FFA Cup. This article says 15,000 were in attendance: https://www.australiacup.com.au/news/city-outmuscle-victory-fiery-ffa-cup-semi-final-0

It’s just a warm up top I think

London Tavern is good for something a bit different.

I always liked Richie. Thought he was a little underrated by the fans whilst he was here tbh.

Sydney are going to put 5 past us, we can't defend for shit atm.

Interesting comment from Daniel Lévy on why he appointed Ange Postecoglou at Spurs "who understood our DNA, would play attacking football, that would give young players a chance, believe in the academy, would build a relationship with the fans and understand the resources that we have and don’t have as a club and be part of a team." Sounds exactly what we want from our coach, club and players

Full match, a goal and an assist for Conor Metcalfe for St. Pauli on 17th September in the 2 Bundesliga.

I know I'm just an old man shouting at the clouds, but I think, and always will, that we should play in our Foundation colours. The only concession I would make, under protest, would be to replace the white with City blue, pretty much like Crystal Palace wore last season but of course lighter blue. Changing the colours and/or design every season is just ripping money off supporters, and I'm surprised people fall for it. Back under my rock now.

Felt like I was watching a training drill at times, just passing the ball around with no intention to go forward. I know this is a new group and a bit of patience is probably needed but was hoping to see a bit quicker ball movement then we did. the best performance so far was against Wellington, need to get back to that level. Hopefully this is just pre season inconsistency and not what we will be seeing for the upcoming season

I could clearly hear what they were signing; ”where are your flares, we travelled for the flares”

Yes, mea culpa there @bt50. The third match I have seen was the Wellington match at Oakleigh. But I wasn't impressed there either, and I wouldn't have classed Wellington as a benchmark side.

What I noticed was that their chants were really simple, doesn't need to be some articulate lyrics. We could hum the happy birthday tune and it would still sound great with enough energy and drums.

We are terribly slow. It feels like we are now a very old team and that are youthfulness has left us.We need to find some speed and cohesion because tonight showed we are nowhere near our lofty standards.

There is no fire in this team, everybody plays a little meh.

Callum Talbot is fucking terrible, how Galloway isn't starting over him baffles me.

Concerning how his tall slowish striker just runs a away from him.

So we did! I wonder why I haven't got that on my spreadsheet? I'll add it. 15,791. Astonishingly it was Tuesday evening! Many thanks.

The second derby win in 10 days, beautiful time to be alive.

Keyhole surgery these days.

Yes I noticed he wasn't playing his usual free running down the wing. If they are telling him to hold back that would be disappointing...

Feel like his tenure coincided with peak Joyce-Ball (i.e. playing a full back up front), so probably more reflective of how despondent the fan base felt in general

I hear that they are still waiting for that ball to hit the ground

Yeah, hopefully it's at aami park.

Fingers crossed we draw melbourne Croatia today and have an easy run to the final.

I'm assuming that his loan was already underway to being formalised when Nabbout injured himself.

I'm not sure, but I suspect that he was going to be our 5th Visa before Nabbout was injured. Otherwise it's a pretty quick signing! I wonder how much we look at the NPL when assessing talent? Those two players from Metrostars - Ayoumi and the Japanese player - looked pretty good. Same goes for us looking in Asia.

The same sorts of comments were made when Adrian Luna came to us.

Souprayen looks old as fuck and should only be used in games where we are 5-0 up with 2-3 minutes remaining

Eh i think this is a perfectly reasonable punt type signing to take. I dont think we'd have a wealth of cap space left, so a loanee makes sense, and at very least at one point in the last 5 years he was highly rated enough by Corinthians to put him on exorbitant wages. Will either flop and cost us very little, in a place that we have decent depth in already, or he'll fire and be a gun. Can't lose on this one imo.

CF shouldn’t be captains.