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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.

We're part of an organisation that has 689,345 scouts and vidmar is the best coach we can find. Fmd

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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.

Aiden ONeill been named captain of his team in Belguim https://x.com/ozhubfootball/status/1814925999970394508?t=6UgHUq4lE_GSr5hyB1Wnaw&s=19

Gone to Auckland. Hope he gets regular football there as I reckon we did him dirty.

Say whatever you want, but we've had to win the past three games and team has managed to do that.Yes, they haven't always been the prettiest of games, but the club has shown some character to win when its been absolutely needed. We're now in a position where we could end the tards season and even though we'll be heavy underdogs, you never know what can happen during finals! Go city

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.

Good servant of the club and must go with all good wishes from us. Faded a bit in 2022-23, but seemed, I think, to regain some form last season. Rumour has it that he was one of our highest paid, so IMO it was highly likely that he would depart.

Shit team. Shit coach. Shit penalties. We shouldn't have made the final. Piss-ant Club.

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!

I’m not saying that all this is right, but a promise is a promise and if the club has indeed backtracked I can sympathize a little. On the other hand the financial market for the league has changed. Like in the normal world, these situations are the order of the day. All speculation of course. MCFC aka Mutual Consent Football Club.

Could probably try snag Mbappe as he’s off contract at PSG

This game will tell us where we’re at

Mediocre City FC

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

As a latino the existing NSL clubs were very ethnically based and could not communicate nor relate to them. Then when I returned to live in Oz, my brother in his ever gentle ways put a gun to my head and said you are becoming a Heart member. So that was when I acquired a new way of living in pain. I did not mind when CFG took over. When the Essendon drug scandal became public I drifted away from AFL (I will probably go once a year these days) and started following football world wide. Will I go and see a second division team? Maybe.

Its taken me a while to get to the forum to post after this game ... but for context I attended every home game this season, and also watched every minute of all our away games (and was at this final). I also watched all of Vidmar's pressers. We got the result our season deserved. Not only that, the icing on the cake was the we provided the Tards with arguably their most famous Victory. My summation of the season is simple. Too many changes pre season, squad issues during the season (injuries and departures), and IMO probably the worst coach we've had. Vidmar is horribly negative and boring and brings nothing fresh to our club, and no doubt this negative style then influences the entire fabric of the club. I think we need some fresh blood in terms of recruitment, and we need the best coach in the league (whoever that is, I don't know, but for the love of all things sane, it should not be Vidmar or PK). Bring on 2025

For 85 minutes I thought we managed the game perfectly apart from putting a 2nd goal in. After that it was a fucking disgrace. Vidmar should be sacked on the spot for his ridiculous decision to take off anyone who is a penalty taker. You can't tell me Leckie couldn't have lasted 5 more minutes. People can blame the 3 who missed, but I would have no more confidence in the blokes who didnt take one Season over, it can get fucked

He's just a caretaker coach ... fuck him off and give someone else a crack. Jammo would do a better job

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!

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

I admire your optimism...

I have to think this thread played a substantial part in the clubs decision.

Couldn't agree more. He has a decent touch on the ball and a bit of pace, but his decision making is horrible. Yesterday he had a golden opportunity to cross the ball into the box and instead of doing that, dribbled the ball all the way up to the keeper, then ran out of bounds. Watching the replay of the game, we definitely have the quality. It's not a question of talent, but can rado get this team to gel? We showed flashes of what we could do, and a healthy leckie with aslan will be beautiful to watch. We've also had a large turnover of players this off-season, so I'm happy to give us the first month or two to see what rado can do. I would still say that this team needs an injection of youth. We look old as fuck out there (especially our cb pairning) do we not have at least one youth player who we could give a start to?

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...

A perfect addition for the Jonathan Germano Treatment Centre