Tommykins

Jenkinson appears a right prick already so I'm ready to die for him.

I understand the handball rule less and less every week.

Jesus, Jenkinson looked slow as a wet week on his first run there. Also I've seen enough of Tilio for today, he can get off.

I think Florin has been quite good today, which I suspect has more to do with Metcalfe being out holding midfielder and being a lot more dynamic than O'Neill typically is in that position.

Average everything there, O'Neill shaped up all wrong and Bos should have covered.

I think it was a horrifically formed sentence, he's been at Forrest for two years.

Yowser, couple of really nice first touches for Bos here. Hopefully this can be the start of something good for him.

Very tidy signing - he has fallen spectacularly out of favour with the Forrest hierarchy and hasn't been injured as far as I know. However he can definitely only play Right Back, so I'm a little confused as to the signing, because Galloway certainly hasn't been the player whose been causing us to have the issues we've had this year.

ALL IS FORGIVEN TOMMY.

Oof Tommy.

Adelaide have been absolute meataxes so far, need to be careful (looking at you, Jamo) not to get sucked in.

Interesting to see that we're top of the league of both expected goals for and against.

From our normal group of dorks we only have two going today, which I think might be the lowest number we've had ever.

Well that was an incredibly poor evening of football, though I'm tempted not to read too much into the result given how much training some players may or may not have had under their belt, however there were some absolutely baffling selection decisions and the team looks so lost without Macca up front (not because he's some superb target man, but the amount of times Tillio was nowhere near where he needed to be when someone got to the byline was upsetting). Felt like the perfect game to give Max Caputo a run out, but hard to know who was available. EDIT: Would happily trade the food options from Bentleigh though, superb as always.

There is an incredibly unfounded rumour on Twitter saying we're in for Aubameyang - been a while since we've been pointlessly linked with a big name that we have no chance of getting.

All but 5 of our squad had covid over the past weeks, apparently, from the pre-game with Paddy, yikes.

Jason Davidson suspended for this game too. They've looked tidy going forward but their defence should be ripe for the taking.

Very odd choice not to take Atkinson, as noted above, given the ability he has to cover a whole bunch of positions. But unfortunately there were two dumb bits of play on our behalf, firstly, the O'Neill yellow in the first half, which if he hadn't been on he definitely would have just sat Yengi down when he started moving with the ball for the first goal, and the mentioned ad naseum move by Bos, which was a brainfart for all involved.

Some information has started filtering through about our participation in the competition. Perhaps surprisingly (or not?) we might end up in Pot 4 (the lowest seeding group)

Najjarine looking very tidy for WSW, would really like to see the bloke out together a good season.

Macca played last night in the UAE - are we likely to see him on Friday?

For those of you who want to keep an eye out for players who are likely to be good for Souths. Harry Sawyer - He'll be the tallest barstad on the pitch by a long way, played a few times for the Jets and scores absolute bags of goals at lower levels as a general rule. Brad Norton - Longest serving current player for Souths, Left Back, Captain and is someone I was always a bit surprised didn't a look in at A-League level but always seems to be a very solid citizen for Souths. Gerrie Sylaidos - Ex City player who will likely come off the bench, I think, had a good start to the NPL campaign last year as an impact player. Souths were awful to start the NPL last year, so it'll be interesting to see what kind of shape they're in for this game.

A real shame to see Joe Palatsides turn up at Victory as Head of Academy. He was superb for us in this role.

10 play, I believe. https://10play.com.au/ffa-cup/articles/2021-ffa-cup-fixtures/tpa210805qknps

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/de-vanna-embroiled-in-football-australia-intimidation-row-20211101-p5951l.html It's going to be rather messy between now and when the current Matilda's drama comes to an end.