Mr MO

And what happened after the nominations, who selected the FRG? With my old brain I can't remember this email either but it's likely that it was sent out.

I have to admit I was initially excited but that faded pretty quickly in the first game already. Had never really focused on him playing and went of credentials just like Petrillo. Gets easily pushed over, comes out second best in most tackles. IMO he’s slow, timid and lacks strength for that DM position. Hard to believe DM is his natural position. We are stuck with him for several years. 32 and we put him on a 2.5 year deal.

I think Good’s wages were mostly out of the cap under the loyalty rules.

All the players you’ve mentioned are fair and reasonable in their contracts. I feel that’s the players around them which are us costing now. Lam and Soup are not a like for like, neither is Berisha, VDV with Urka and Lopane. With the latter being one of the most unexciting young players I’ve seen in a while after this much game time. Jeggo and Sakhi have nowhere near the grit Aidan brought. Where’s the salary cap money gone we had in midfield last season? Interestingly we’ve also let Behich go for money and we cashed in on some of the girls as well - this season wasn’t about getting the best results for the club on the field.

Yes that’s true. Hence I’ve mentioned it earlier, he’s in the midst of our our internal issues and contract talks - he’s Director of Football that goes further than only recruitment.

How long has Petrillo been with us? Wasn’t he also responsible for recruitment before our successful covid years? You could argue that we let several talented players go at an expensive of others. Repeated this before but I’m just extremely critical here knowing we were reportedly the only club who had financial power to keep the squad at reasonable strength in the past covid seasons. So I dare say perhaps he hasn’t really proven himself?

This is exactly what Petrillo would be thinking…hmmm the players aren’t that bad, it worked in the previous seasons, head scratch, head scratch. I understand that many fans think the same without looking into the details perhaps but essentially we are just looking for excuses. It’s complacency and being the oblivious/blind to the strength of your competition. Not making finals is just inexcusable. We’ve also missed out on some good money by not getting out of the CL group stage. Coaching certainly plays a factor but a big group (too many to compensate) of our players just miss top 4 quality in skills, strength and agility. Think about Talbot’s final ball, Urgakovic or Jakolis finishing, Jeggo tackles - that’s not recruitment? We can rave about Arslan all we want but he is limited in defensive capabilities, cannot run out games and needs a lot of defensive support - that’s not recruitment? This year with all the CFG tools available was the time to show your recruitment skills, some key players left and a stronger league but he failed. Yes we had injuries and player fall outs but not finishing in the top 6 without consequences, no I think it’s time for him to move on now.

Fully agreed.

Are we that impressed with Petrillo then? I’m still not convinced, I think he’s part of our problem and a key person within the issues behind the scenes. Winning trophies during covid times because we were the only team who could afford to keep a team together is hardly impressive from a recruitment point of view.

This is for the current season?

Remarkable by the girls if they can hold on. After a poor run mostly due to sale of players, dropping out of the top 2, results going our way in recent weeks - what a way to still win the title!

Is DM Jeggo’s natural position? Such timid player for that role, gets second to the ball often or is outmuscled.

Perhaps he can share that with Jakolis, picked the ball off an open and goal facing Arslan, 5 meters out of goal.

Thanks for following this up JW. I had already conceded that for our club the FRG members were hand picked by the club, for obvious reasons. Hence the silence around it.

I think most of us were just happy we finally got an email from the club!

Why? City didn’t get him the academy for I only suspect that he’s not of the required level. It’s an easy one for the lower quality football academies to approach the “brother off” I guess.

Where was this played?

Jokes aside, how long is he signed up for? And we all agree he should stay alittle longer?

I can’t see how Nisbet and Arslan can play together in midfield, aren’t we worried about the defensive needs? With all the praise for Arslan on the ball I’m not sure how many have noticed that his defensive efforts are extremely low, he’s missing the legs and engine for that.

Does this also apply to the bedroom? My wife doesn’t seem to think so.

I see many people being frustrated with Natel. How do people compare him to Nabbout? If you purely look at the results I feel that Natel is more effective compared to Nabbout.

3. Caputo 2. Arslan 1. Antonis

What a game! Can’t believe how much space they gave us, well executed lads. Good to see JMAC being back on the score sheet, as well as Caputo scoring and obviously some cracking goals!

I was going to say you are are right but it is not just talks, we play like it too. Its only playmaker who believes we are tactically changing this is up and than only against Victory.

Of course we have this wrong here. This approach only works when your players on the park are well truly able to execute this plan, this crop doesn’t have quality to afford to play like and behave like this. This is benchmark talk! This is the complacency I keep pointing out, during the covid seasons our squad was just better than the competition.