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I will never understand why we see Curtis Edward Good get his full name on these things, but no other player. Absolute fucking cow paddock of a pitch, too. Hopefully this is the game which allows Caputo to get more game time because we need another finisher up top and he's doing the business consistently now.

Amazingly it wasn't from a Sydney defender, it was from Patrick Wood, a Striker. One of the more bizzare ones I've seen.

Good fucking lord that was average everywhere. We're going to get smoked if that's considered anything outside of a bad performance.

Entirely don't know, but I imagine Munn has a very good working knowledge of the CFG model and some of the things it's done very well and was seen as a rising star of the group, so I imagine it was just a matter of making sure every t was crossed and every i was dotted on the way out so both parties were satisfied.

Chief Football Officer - I would be very surprised if Munn was not a massive advocate for Ange in the process, but it's hard to tell if he would have had any capacity to work on that role (though reading between the lines, Munn had an absolutely torrid time trying to get out of the CFG, I imagine they really wanted to keep him and saw him as hugely valuable, quite different to how he was seen by a lot of people on this forum!) https://theathletic.com/4884888/2023/09/21/scott-munn-tottenham-football-officer/

Looks great you lucky barstads. I've managed to tear my ACL, on the night we're playing in the ACL.

Strangely, Richie De Laet is going to make his Champions League debut soon.

Nabbout officially gone for the season and the club teasing Leo's signing right now - will be interesting to see how quickly it takes him to get up to speed.

Yes, given Petrillo is from Adelaide you'd have to think it was some fairly average behaviour that meant the club wouldn't hang around. City has always been very good at this kind of stuff, the bloke who runs the socials for Metrostars is currently doing his best to dig himself a deep hole on Twitter.

Tilio excluded from Celtics Champions League Squad, might have been best hanging around for another year if he's not going to be in the top 25 players at the club.

Big fucking oof to the amount of people they're expecting.

My email came through 17 minutes ago, everyone go outside for a bit and relax, they'll be with you soon.

43 year old Captain playing centre half, too. Gives me hope I can still play Asian Champions League.

A Division 2 Japanese side as they won the cup. I have no idea if this should be straightforward or not.

Apparently we're in for the winger Leo Natal - looks like we might get our wish for another winger!

So I think that was quite good overall, some observations, most of them good. The midfield duo of Arslan and Sakhi will be very good going forward, but lacked a lot of positional discipline when we were defending, entirely reasonable as Sakhi has only played his first game, Macca has his critiques but the bloke gets through an absolute power of work in terms of stopping simple balls out for defenders and that was lacking from the two midfielders behind him. They were both excellent on the ball and Antonis will provide good cover for when we need to shut games down a bit. Jakolis and Leckie are going to do absolutely polar opposite things on the wing, with Jakolis spending a lot of time absolutely pinned to the touchline, which will be very different to what our wingers have offered in the past few years. Leckie + Behich makes me very happy as a left hand side combination, they're going to cause absolute havoc to a lot of teams this year. Nuno is still not a right back, and Souprayen looked very unsure on the ball - he and Young are going to give us more than one heart attack moment throughout the year. Ugarkovic is probably as close to a Neill lite as we could have got. Zane Schreiber has very impressive hair.

Talbot is cooked, couldn't warm back up and won't be back on.

If Alex Paulsen turns into a brick wall again I swear to god.

Final drawings, have a play with this https://footyrankings.com/draws/ and see how miserable you can make yourself when somehow we don't get out of the group again, though wouldn't mind an opportunity to absolutely give it to Muscat if we draw Yokohama.

The amount you all are capable of reading into squad depth and strength early in what is our pre-season is very impressive.

Green Gully presumably. https://www.footballscotland.co.uk/spfl/scottish-championship/aziz-behich-set-dundee-united-27454770?fbclid=IwAR2m_RGRPjSGBOoghrCIrEer7yh3PTpKKNNOl5NMPbTpnE6jsfPisKcLcx4 Looks like it might be on.

Care to expand on that? I can think of a lot of different reasons why the league has had problems, but hadn't really put the PFA in the frame.

Expanded World Cup has meant that you're going to get smaller teams in, some will be good (Haiti vs England), some will be not so good, as Morocco was last night.

So with 4 games to go we're vaguely in with a shot of coming 2nd or 3rd in NPL2 - our next three games are against teams below us on the ladder and our final game is against Kingston whose been the best team of the comp, if we win all four I think we'd finish top 3, with only the top two being promoted. Fingers crossed!

Ta muchly for this!