Nate

I don't think we can trust any articles or "sources" until Munn, Kewell and Melbourne Heart all confirm that the signing has taken place, too much media spin and too many fabricated stories going around at the moment.

I'd say he'd be on par with Heskey (not in real life of course) as the fantasy comp often underrates and overrates some players almost seemingly at random ahaha

This is kind of good news, at least we're actually negotiating with Norwich and Holt rather than drumming up another false story. ...wouldn't this be the moment where the FFA step in to assist with the cost?

I can't believe this... well I sort of can, but I still don't want to. If he was serious about signing for us, there's no way he would have pulled out of the confirmation interview 2 hours beforehand. ...once again, this reeks of the Lucas Neill situation

Karagounis is realistic, Ronaldinho is beyond our grasp and financial capabilities I would have thought. Still, Holt would be a fantastic signing and definitely worth 1 mil a season. Would score 20+, I'm sure.

Karagounis? LOL!!! Do we really want a 36 yr old who scored only 1 goal for Fulham playing for us? Came runner-up in their player of the season award to Berbatov after only playing half a season, he's quality.

I'd like to think he'd still play 1 or 2 good seasons with us. ...surely we'll qualify though, it'd be a disaster if we didn't.

I reckon that'd be great ahaha.

A lot of whingers this morning! Harry Kewell is an immense signing and if he's under the salary cap at the reported 48k, then what the hell do we have to lose? We'll still get our marquee, we have a bloke who will bring our crowds to at least 10k, increased media interest which will encourage more fans, more memberships, more shirt sales and most importantly; a hungry and supremely talented attacking player who is one of Australia's best of all time. Sure, we all bagged him out when he was at Victory as supporters do but if he joins with us then we should be supporters and support the bloke. Personally I don't have a problem with him having played for Victory seeing as though he was the one who walked away from them

So coming to Albury is a "useless community initiative"? As I said before, there is a massive football following here but many have not been exposed to the A-League before so explain to me how trying to capture that market isn't a smart idea? I think people are suggesting that it is a fair way to travel for people in Albury/Wodonga to make it to a Heart game live, where as it is 1 hour roughly from Geelong and Ballarat, This is in terms of building a supporter base. I realise that but that's kind of what I'm trying to say, if I lived in Geelong or Ballarat then I'd be able to go to every Melbourne Heart home game and I would think any passionate football fans from Geelong and Ballarat would too. But as I'm in Albury/Wodonga, I can't do that every week so by playing a game out here Heart is engaging a lot of football fans of which many don't yet follow an A-League club and this regional game might entice them to do so. Obviously the same could apply to Geelong and Ballarat but I just think reaching out to a largely ignored area where football is strong is a good move from Heart. You'd be surprised how many people do travel to Melbourne from Albury/Wodonga if they're given a reason to, it's not like we have a lot to do here ok good points made, i can see where it would be good for both cities and even so the one which may be further away I'm not trying to bitch and moan about how great Albury/Wodonga is because I'll be honest, as a place to live it kind of sucks There are advantages for Heart playing anywhere in regional cities I guess, the more people we get on board the better

Lavington Sports Ground (an AFL oval) has a capacity of 15,000 with around 1500 seated so that might be a viable option but otherwise nothing really springs to mind. What about John Howard Reserve? Whereabouts is that?

Lavington Sports Ground (an AFL oval) has a capacity of 15,000 with around 1500 seated so that might be a viable option but otherwise nothing really springs to mind.

So coming to Albury is a "useless community initiative"? As I said before, there is a massive football following here but many have not been exposed to the A-League before so explain to me how trying to capture that market isn't a smart idea? I think people are suggesting that it is a fair way to travel for people in Albury/Wodonga to make it to a Heart game live, where as it is 1 hour roughly from Geelong and Ballarat, This is in terms of building a supporter base. I realise that but that's kind of what I'm trying to say, if I lived in Geelong or Ballarat then I'd be able to go to every Melbourne Heart home game and I would think any passionate football fans from Geelong and Ballarat would too. But as I'm in Albury/Wodonga, I can't do that every week so by playing a game out here Heart is engaging a lot of football fans of which many don't yet follow an A-League club and this regional game might entice them to do so. Obviously the same could apply to Geelong and Ballarat but I just think reaching out to a largely ignored area where football is strong is a good move from Heart. You'd be surprised how many people do travel to Melbourne from Albury/Wodonga if they're given a reason to, it's not like we have a lot to do here

I live 5 minutes away from Albury so it works out for me Not exactly sure where they'd play it though, Albury doesn't really have any state of the art stadiums... FFS it takes even longer to get Albury by train from Melbourne than it does to get to Aberdeen from Glasgow. (4 hours insetead of 3 hours) You're telling me! Haha, plus the Melbourne to Albury line is more often than not delayed by up to an hour or more. Should get a solid crowd though and hopefully more members, I know a lot of people in the area who are big football fans but don't go to A-League games so hopefully this will help to convince them yeah they kept fucking up the track works. I hear trains have had to slow down again. Id say they would play at Latrobe Uni in Wodonga, they have purpose built facilities there for football. Its where they host the grandfinals Yeah, that was where they played the pre-season game a couple of years back when Heart won 3-0 That's Wodonga though, if it's in Albury then I can only really see Jelbart Park.

So coming to Albury is a "useless community initiative"? As I said before, there is a massive football following here but many have not been exposed to the A-League before so explain to me how trying to capture that market isn't a smart idea?

Jesus, a lot of Albury hate ahaha. Oh well, I'll be there and hopefully I can get some mates to come to some more Heart games in Melbourne.

Looking at the fixture, I'm going to guess that the confirmed regional games are Heart vs Glory at Albury, Brisbane vs Newcastle at Townsville and Central Coast vs Wellington at North Sydney with the other TBC's obviously yet to be confirmed.

Well firstly, Albury's closer to Melbourne than Sydney is by about 250km and secondly, Heart have been to the Albury/Wodonga region before and even played a pre-season game against the best players in the local league a couple of years ago so my bet would be us. It'd be the TBC game vs Perth, right?

I live 5 minutes away from Albury so it works out for me Not exactly sure where they'd play it though, Albury doesn't really have any state of the art stadiums... FFS it takes even longer to get Albury by train from Melbourne than it does to get to Aberdeen from Glasgow. (4 hours insetead of 3 hours) You're telling me! Haha, plus the Melbourne to Albury line is more often than not delayed by up to an hour or more. Should get a solid crowd though and hopefully more members, I know a lot of people in the area who are big football fans but don't go to A-League games so hopefully this will help to convince them

Bent would win the golden boot by about 10 goals providing our midfielders gave him enough service, such a good finisher! I don't reckon Schwarz would come here though, he's said time and time again he wants to keep proving himself at the top level which realistically is the EPL.

PLEASE be Karagounis, he's of the Ono ilk isn't he?!

I live 5 minutes away from Albury so it works out for me Not exactly sure where they'd play it though, Albury doesn't really have any state of the art stadiums...

Surely not. He better be signed to carry the drinks and nothing else I reckon he deserves a bit more respect than that, he's still got a bit to give but I do hope we don't sign him as a marquee if we do get him.

Solid player but still reckon we could do better.

He's played as more of a central defensive midfielder in recent times, I reckon he'd be a handy squad player but (hopefully) not in our first XI.