Mr MO

- The absence of a another striker -Bruno was the main striker so the status quo hasn't changed there I say ''another striker'' we struggle to score remember, evidence of Bruno's poor form was evident last season and in preseason. (don't mention some top corner cup goals as he missed heaps next to penalties). - Getting a visa player out of the lower French leagues, the guy would struggle in an under 20s squad the way he plays. -Harry Novillo?? What does Harry have to do with it, look at the both their history as a footballer, I can't seen any similarities - Harry is a much better player. - Signing a decent goalkeeper and not play him, there would be cheaper keepers out there to sit on the bench. With the current salary cap you just pick your number 1 and use the money elsewhere. - combined salary or Birighitti/Galekovic compared to Sorenson/Bouzanis?? This has been fundamentally wrong from the start and proof is there with what has happened to Tommy. - Recruiting Baccus and putting hand picked Griffiths on the bench -Bacchus been our best utility and arguably most reliable so far. Correct, but you don't know that from the start, looking at the team on paper we didn't need him as we spend our money the highly rated Griffiths. Now Griffiths sits on the bench and we have no proper forwards/wingers. - Not replacing Halloran - Debatable choice being so early in the season We have no other forwards, again! Let's hope on some youth players, providing a spark! - The blind faith in an NPL level Delbridge (he wasn’t that bad last night to be fair) - Delbridge starting is questionable The tone of the season was set in the first half against victory when we couldn’t string 3 passes together. I can only complain at the moment as with the current squad I can’t see a way out.

Correct, even Wales isn’t a real winger

I concur with you on this one. The forum is split with some saying we have such a good squad. I’ve been very critical on our recruitment this year. I don’t see any logic in; - The absence of a another striker - Getting a visa player out of the lower French leagues, the guy would struggle in an under 20s squad the way he plays. - Signing a decent goalkeeper and not play him, there would be cheaper keepers out there to sit on the bench. With the current salary cap you just pick your number 1 and use the money elsewhere. - Recruiting Baccus and putting hand picked Griffiths on the bench - Not replacing Halloran. - The blind faith in an NPL level Delbridge (he wasn’t that bad last night to be fair) The tone of the season was set in the first half against victory when we couldn’t string 3 passes together. I can only complain at the moment as with the current squad I can’t see a way out.

We can’t even change to another system as we only have 1 striker and 29 midfielders.

I agree 100%, so spot on. I’ve mentioned this before. People keep going on about our side way ball movement but this is 90% of the problem. Bruno stands still waiting a with defender in his back, French, Wales and Vido all make little or mostly wrong inside runs.

Excuses....he doesn’t make the runs, stands around and looses the ball even with one defender behind him. Plus he keeps the ball with him way too long. We should stop comparing him to a squad player, he is our marquee on bigger money then everybody else so we expect more. I’m a Tuna fan but he starts to annoy me.

They sad thing is, that with this squad I can’t see how we are going to play any differently. Maybe some youth players might bring some sparks. Have we made a mistake by bringing in a marquee fullback? It certainly stops Atkinson’s development plus we seem to need this extra qualify elsewhere. Have we just signed De Leat because he was available just like Baccus without actually looking at what our really squad needs?

I’m sorry I’m slowly jumping off the Brunowagon. I honestly think his ball skill and first touches aren’t marquee worthy anymore. Yeah sure he gets less possesion but he has 50% turnover ratio when he does get the ball. Yeah sure it’s a team issue but we can’t keep protecting him forever.

I watched him closely tonight, stands around a lot and not coming into the ball enough, this is one of the main reasons we go side ways a lot. There is no movement up front.

Was there a reason to sing then?

We can only play 4-2-3-1 remember! There is only one striker in our squad and rest are midfielders, Wales and the working holiday Frenchman are technically midfielders. I loved the substitutions when chasing the game - 2 midfielders off and 2 midfielders on! But hey we got no other options as that is how our squad is assembled by our PE teacher. Boy we must be regretting now not having replaced Halloran.

I don’t understand why we keeping looking for excuses why Bruno is manhandled and should be awarded more fouls etc....the fact is he goes to ground way to easy and it cost our team. It just doesn’t work anymore. He needs to adapt like you said. Look at other strikers around us, their aim is break away from their markers and not wait for contact. Also like it or not but he doesn’t have or seems to have lost the technique to play in those tight spaces - this is purely based on the percentage based turnovers on his account.

It’s all in his own control, cut out the diving stay on your feet to start with. When’s the last time you’ve seen Bruno taken one touch or set up a one two? It seems always the same, not running away from your marker but hold him up and wait for him to run in your back. When played in, takes way too many touches. Bruno is also partly responsible for our poor forward slow play, players who play Bruno in, stop running as they very rarely get the one two back. Saying that it might also be that he just doesn’t trust his wingers.

But why the hell did we get Griffith then? Did we just get Baccus because he was available.

Maybe we have misread this article and it actually says he is paying to play?

I start to regret that we haven’t replaced ohalloran with another attacker. Sure Baccus is good but we have no attacking surprises. I have to admit when Vidosic came on the dynamic changed. couple of things, on Joyce; is he being conservative with Jamieson and Vidosic not starting due to last weeks issues? by not replacing Ohalloran, does he have that much faith in the youth wingers? if he can’t answer YES to both of these questions, then his tactics are completely rubbish and he should have stayed a youth coach.

I’m sure Wazza is thinking about it, trade him for another midfielder.

He is so out of form, can’t believe we only relying on him. It’s almost not marquee worthy anymore. I’m sorry, the diving, the missed chances. yes yes occasionally he curls ball in the top corner but it’s not consistent enough.

That’s flopperoli’s own fault, stay up your feet and pick your moments. Play acts just too much in other occasions

Did La Rocca put himself on the teamsheet?

Pretty sad that we are chasing the game and we are hoping for full back to come on! Haha.

We seem to have no understanding going forward, this was evident last week but now its so much more obvious. What do we do at training?

Yeah good call, I hope he doesn’t wait with subs until 65min

Do we have any cap space left?

Who can we bring on to put some fire in our forward line? I’m lost.