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  2. Sunday April 28th vs Nomad FC. 5:00pm KO

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    Posted

    50 minutes ago, jw1739 said:

    27th: Brisbane vs. Adelaide
    28th: Newcastle vs. Central Coast
              Wellington vs. Macarthur
              Victory vs. WSW
    29th: Sydney vs. Perth
              City vs Western

    Pretty sure Sydney will beat Perth. However, should WSW topple Victory we need to win to retain 6th place, because a draw won't be sufficient even though we have a superior goal difference as WSW will have 11 wins to our 10.

    WSW play first (which in my view should not happen for the final round of a season) which means we will know what we have to do.
     

    Oh yeah the odd change against the global standard rules of making wins more important than goal difference. 

  4. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

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    Posted

    1 hour ago, jw1739 said:

    What do we reckon about Jamie Young? No doubt that he's made some significant saves for us this season. Is he worth another season in the squad?

    He certainly has but has also cost us progression in the ACL. Distribution wise he is not a City goalkeeper, turn overrate from his long kicks is sitting over 90%. 

    I'm grateful for the saves but we need to refresh the squad so it's a No for me.

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  8. Melbourne City Fan Representative Group (FRG)

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    20 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it.

    One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time.

    Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly.

    Thank you.
    jw

    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.

  9. James jeggo

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    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.

  11. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

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    Posted

    4 hours ago, mattyh001 said:

    i'm not sure there is an easy, quick to fix answer here.  

    to highlight this, i'll start with our three "big" name attackers going into this season (MaClaren, Leckie and Nabbout). they were all signed to three year deals (from my understanding via the pinned current squad thread) when they were 27, 30 and 28 respectively (as signed in June - Sept 2021). 

    MaClaren was a Socceroo with little injury issues (or at least at the time from memory).  Leckie has been a star at a WC in the time since despite injury issues while Nabbout was a decent age. 

    also remember this also includes two league premierships in that time where those players have featured prominantly (even with Leckie and Nabbout being injured at times).  so i don't think the 3 year deals those players signed is all that bad. 

    three current defenders that were signed at the same time in mid 2021 was Good (3 year deal at age 28), Nuno Reis (3 year deal aged 30) and Galloway (aged 24 with a 4 year).  given that defenders tend to play better to an older age, i'd argue those deals have actually been fairly reasonable given the players in question and the success we have had over the last two seasons.

    the other risk i foresee here the the Richie Garcia dilemma.  you can offer shorter term deals (Garcia only had a one season deal given injury history) with the risk the player comes really good and then fucks off to a bigger deal.  so you're dammed if you do when Garcia leaves and you are dammed if you don't (ie Leckie) when the injuries get the better of them on a longer deal.

    and that doesnt even take into the Richard van der Venne / Thomas Lam fuck around.  you do your research, sign a quality player to a decent deal and get the goods during season one only for them to fuck off home sick.  you can probably add Sahki to that - was finally coming good so we buy out his deal only for some sort of bullshit to occur within two weeks later.

    secondly, (and i've said something elsewhere that) having a mass change over with a loss in culture and a head coach whose too laid back (didnt or couldnt set a high standard / level of responsibility) makes it hard to keep players accountable.  the club should have taken that into account with how we set up going into the season.  if Rado needed a couple of proper hard nose pricks on his coaching staff then that's what should have happened.

     

    edit: sorry for the long response; again no easy fix

    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.

     

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  12. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted · Edited by Mr MO

    1 hour ago, jw1739 said:

    IMO you must also look at established players who contracts expire this year, and look at performance rather than reputation. These players have also not delivered. Injuries - yes, but they still have not performed.

    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.

  13. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    3 hours ago, neio said:

    Before this season he has been nearly flawless in who he has got it, he deserves to try and fix it. If next year it's still no good, then by all means let's look elsewhere 

    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?

     

  14. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted · Edited by Mr MO

    5 hours ago, neio said:

    Petrillo gets one more go at it. I don't think the players we have brought in have been bad (Natel aside) I just don't think they all fit in together and is that a him issue or a coaching issue.

    Soup has been alright, Arslan is a baller, Sakhi was looking solid before he fucked off, I can see why Jakolis was worth a punt as a non visa player. 

    Before this season he has been nearly flawless in who he has got it, he deserves to try and fix it. If next year it's still no good, then by all means let's look elsewhere 

    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.

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  16. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    11 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Every club (and not only in our League) is following a lot of players at this time of a season - and indeed all the time. It's part of the job of a Director of Football or equivalent. Petrillo is on record as a saying this at least once. And James Poole is supposed to be doing that as well. With all the rules these days, not only caps but "fair play" rules, it's a very complex job. It's easy for someone like me to throw the criticisms around but these guys aren't being paid for nothing!

    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.

  18. Season 2023/24

    in Melbourne City

    Posted · Edited by Mr MO

    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! 

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  19. City vs Newcastle Jets, Saturday 30 March 2024, ko 5.30pm

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    21 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Awful game to watch. You certainly need a sense of humour to watch City games. Ugarkovic missed two guilt-edges chances, and Arslan three. Natel and Jakolis can't cross the ball, and so often they stop any forward momentum.. Jeggo is a weak player. A pointless substitution to replace Caputo with JMac - the latter is completely ineffective. Leckie didn't seem to make any difference. Even Antonis didn't seem to have any fire in him at all.

    One thing I noticed was how often we played so many back and sideways passes that by the time we made a forward pass every single Newcastle player was behind the ball. Don't we analyse games and learn from them?

    In the end it was really only a good save from Young that stopped Newcastle stealing the points.

    Couple of other things - do we have ballboys anymore? And what a hash the league is making with VAR. Nothing on the screen. Is there actually a Video Assisted Referee at the game?

    I don't know what's wrong at the club. But I don't resile from the view that there's something. Didn't see the incident with kids and balloons - sounds typical APL. How to kill the A-League in three easy seasons.

    Ho-hum.

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

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  21. Melbourne City Fan Representative Group (FRG)

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    13 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Paid-up City members may be interested in this.

    Some weeks ago I was asked via email, and I guess other members were too, whether I would like to submit a question to our FRG for consideration as a topic fir a forthcoming APL FRG group meeting.

    I asked, admittedly tongue in cheek, a couple of questions about our FRG Membership (i.e. who's on it), how the members were selected or elected, how often it had met, how might members make submission to it, what topics it had discussed, and which if any had so far been tabled with APL. I have received only a standard automatic reply to the effect that my question had been received. Absolutely nothing since.

    I am currently following this up. I can find out nothing about our FRG to date, except the names of a couple of members via the APL FRG minutes below.

    The APL FRG and the individual club ones, were to be set up after the 2023 Grand Final in Sydney debacle. I find it disturbing that City, one of whose Directors is also a Director of APL,  and therefore presumably approved of the request or requirement issued by APL to its constituent clubs, does not provide to its members any details concerning its Fan Representative Group, which seems to me to be deliberately against the spirit and intent of APL's request. Other clubs, Perth, Central Coast, Sydney, do not appear to have any problem to doing so, as below.

    https://perthglory.com.au/more/meet-the-frg-glory-10/
    https://perthglory.com.au/news/glory-10-frg-latest/

    https://ccmosc.com.au/our-fans/fan-representative-group-frg

    https://sydneyfc.com/news/sydney-fc-fan-representative-group/
    https://sydneyfc.com/fan-representative-group-minutes/

    Minutes of APL FRG meetings available here:
    https://aleagues.com.au/more/a-leagues-fan-representative-group-meeting-minutes/

    I will endeavour to keep members posted on my progress in posts to this topic.

    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.

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