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bt50

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  1. I dont see the point of bringing someone new in before the season ends unless it gets totally beyond reproach, but id be very, very surprised if CFG were dumb enough to reappoint him at the same time.

    Get the wheels in motion now for a captains pick gaffer signing and hit the pre-season early and with momentum.

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  2. 6 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    @bt50 Do you think we lost money over Sakhi?

    Possibly on a transfer fee, but imo its more likely the option to male permanent was more about taking on the balance of a contract Auxerre wanted to offload.

    I cant see that he was so good wed have paid anything exorbitant as a transfer fee.

    A mutual termination renders the ongoing contract useless.

  3. 1 hour ago, Zanty said:

    Are we forgetting who our owners are?

    i think its kind of irrelevant to a degree. In an environment where clubs are losing money hand over fist each owner has an imperative to try to balance the books. Its all well and good to say look who owns us but at the end of the day if we are an investment then ownership are prob not going to throw good money after bad.

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  4. 19 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Anyone in contact with the Talking City boys? Like to know if any of the TC boys are on it.

    We may be misinterpreting the word "representative" of course. I'm guessing that City are using it in the sense of "representing a demographic cross section of the City supporter base" whereas it could be interpreted as "representative" in a democratic sense, that is how all supporters can get their views to the club.

    My guess is that it is the former, so from a City perspective there's no need to tell anyone else who's on it. The former is open to manipulation by the club, the latter is not.

    We have one representative on it that is reporting back to the group.

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  5. 1 hour ago, jw1739 said:

    I understood that Galloway has been injured.

    I agree that the injuries to Leckie and Nabbout don't help, but I think it's much deeper than that. The club needs to change it's attitude and style of play as @bt50 says. It's not pre-season as far as I am concerned - we're playing ACL football. What the club should aspire to and what I pay my membership for for 13 seasons. People keep referring to Warren Joyce and "Joyce-ball;" what we see now is "Rado-ball." To see Good and whoever it was in our half passing the ball backwards and forwards (literally) to each other over about 5 yards, and five forwards standing like traffic cones further upfield in our first ACL match on home soil - unbelievable. This game is won by scoring goals, not possession, and spectators go to be entertained, not bored shitless. Yes I'm pissed off and so I think are a lot of others - not one of our 8 gang members have committed to Sunday's FFA Cup semi-final so far.

    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.

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  6. 1 hour ago, jw1739 said:

    Our past four competitive matches - a thumping in the Grand Final, just getting over two NPL clubs in the FFA Cup, and last night's lacklustre draw with J2 club...

    We're going nowhere. I don't buy this pre-season stuff either. This is a professional club - staff, coaches, players. The coaches and players have been back since early July - and we should be better. Last night was woeful.

    It doesn't. It likely means that our ranking in the AFC will just keep going down.

    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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 21 hours ago, Le Hack said:

    Currently running 7th in J2. Looks a youngish side from the last lineup which they won 3-2, although both striker and AM are over 30. Only two non Japanese players played. At a guess probably a quick side. They're in the back end of their season so I reckon we might struggle with this game, a draw might be a reasonable result

    If we draw this game we prob don't deserve to get out of the group tbh. Easiest of the six fixtures, and a must win first up.

  10. 31 minutes ago, jw1739 said:

    Seriously, given that we've won three Premierships in a row, failure to perform in the Group will show just where the A-League is in terms of Asian and World Football.

    I don't particularly agree tbh, or at least not in such a black and white terms. The capped nature of the A League means that its particularly difficult for A League teams to keep their best players the following season and actually have a go at the champions league. Generally, the teams that go to champions league from Australia tumble down the table in that season they play in that comp, from a combination of travel, small squads and that their best players have just departed after winning a trophy.

    I do agree that the A League does get humbled a little bit in the ACL and shows where we sit relative, but i also think the A League is a deeper and more competitive league than most of the other Asian leagues, it just doesnt have the money-bags clubs that can spend to keep/obtain the very best players in the region, which are obviously what the rest of the teams in that comp are.

  11. 3 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said:

    So now that we have a few more signings then 4 or so weeks ago how do people see the best 11 shaping up?

     

                Leckie           Jmac           Jakolis/Nabbout?

        Arslan                                     Antonis/Lapone?

                                    Ugarkovic

    Galloway   Souprayen/Good?   Good/Nuno?   Talbot

                                  Young

    About right. I think we'll be still hoping to sign another mid, an 8 type to push Antonis and Lopane to the bench, and another CB or RB depending on what the view Souprayen as. The CB situation might be fairly fluid though,  depending on whether good is staying or reis is being considered as a starter. 

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