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He was in China, but has been in London for months now.

He is actually the better coach of the two imo.

He was a good player, but he did at times come across as if he wasn't taking it serious enough (e.g. few times he would try for nut megs playing out from full back where even if he pulled it off, he would run into trouble quickly).

You and me both haha

Did we receive an email with our code to buy tickets?

Not so much our signings, but rather our squad management. We potentially shouod have moved Reis on this preseason.

I thought it was the club for a second too haha

Definitely the Christmas derby. This game has always felt special to me.

Is it injury related? Or maybe a move to an English club is on the cards? their league tends to go long enough that players can't really do the annual league hop.

Probably Andrew McKenzie... but the purchaser could just pretend its Aaron Mooy

Matty said 18 come Tillio, VDV and AO...

Combination of bandwagoning, but also that there is an emotional attachment to any Australian national team for the majority of the population. Very few of them will have an emotional attachment to any league team.

I am not a fan of Bereneguer(sic), but I do hope he gets a positive reception at AAMI park (if he lines up against us) for what he has contributed to the club.

At Victory?

Only so many times we can say "O'neill is the GOAT"

I ummed and ahhedd over those two, but probably could bring them in. It is a bit subjective as to what a top league is. I think I excluded one or two who came from either Norway or Denmark which both have higher association coefficients than Croatia, with Croatia not much higher than Poland. Then we can start getting into nuiances, would Eli Babalj count on (second stint for us), coming back from Red Star Belgrade after 6 months, having played a time adjusted equivalent number of games to Tadic for their previous team, but in a higher ranked league. Some other names I think might have slipped through cracks, Colazo, Josh Kennedy, potentially Cahill (is China a top league?), Carbrera and a very obvious one (apologies if mentioned earlier), Leckie.

Rutger Wurm - Eredivisie David Villa 😁 - La Liga Skoko - Croatian First League Garcia - Championship Grella* - Premier League Meeuwis - Eredivisie Weilart - Eredivisie Engelaart - Eredivisie Duff - Premier League (Arguably championship as filham were relegated in his last season iirc). Koren - Premier League Kilkenny - Championship Schenkeveld - Eredivisie Hendry* - Scottish Premier League Hughes - Championship.

At least over there he gets on the team sheet, he wouldn't have for us.. So why not move...

Not sure why he is being ripped on for what I think is a quite reasonable move. He definitely isn't a starter, but think he is good enough to be a back uo keeper. He was surely going to be third in our pecking order next season.

It is ridiculous.

Surely Young is a bit of a stop gap whilst Nieuwenhuizen is blooded into the team.

A fun fact, there is an ex-Yarraside terrace member in the WU women's team....

This "government entity" is more like a private group, hence why its not failing

Next game will tell us where we are at.

Young tends to be good at pulling off those unexpected saves, which as you said, if we have competent defence in front of him i would expect him to do well on the basis that alot of our oppositions shots on goal will be from the unexpected or undefendable.