Mr MO

Yeah true but I still think that Luke had an outstanding game! The lovely opinion poll. My comment was more in response to MXG for voting Brattan as dud of the match.

He seems to be nervous on the ball and afraid to make a move. I start to think that Isaias and Carrusca made Mauk a better footballer at Adelaide, with more space and creativity around him.

Not really. Bart’s performance is becoming normal and he will no doubt win the polls by season’s end. Time to give some credit to other players once in a while. Brattan was the only creative outlet going forward in the second half albeit sometimes slow, his ball skills and passing seem to be well above the likes of Mauk, Budzinski and Malik. These 3 are main contributors to our bad and clueless forward game.

Or a coach who plays the best eleven. Football is won from within your midfield players like Mauk, Malik and Budzinski just don’t have it.

Wrong substitution to keep Budzinski on the pitch.

We can 100% blame the VAR, this refereee still makes the call in the end. Why got a pen out of it last week. The VAR shouldn’t be used in this scenario. The referee had clear sight and called a goal kick then the VAR should not over rule.

You could tell by the opening minutes that Malik is back to his normal level of zero ball control and hack tackles. Yet Joyce seems to be blind. Opponent’s plan week after week is the same, put pressure on Malik or Mauk when they are played in. Budzinski shouldn’t be on the pitch if he doesn’t want to be here.

Yep, the first half of the season with zero wins in the first 8 rounds. Malik had zero impact on the title he was injured and played poorly when available - moving him on was a master stroke from Amor I thought.

Really, when? I thought Malik was playing for us when Adelaide won their recent title, with Kamau in the line up.

Nobody will ever win the league with Malik, Kamau in the line up. The better teams around the world have put good defending midfielders as centre backs to add creativity, we put one of our best CB’s as a midfielder next to a lanky unskillful Malik and wonder why we are boring to watch? We can’t string 4 passes together because football is won in midfield. Teams winning Leicester style football are an exception, once in 10 years - is that what we want?

Withdrawn? Pretty clear you voted for him geeeeezzzzzzzzzzzz. I will Embee - I'm might have to leave this forum soon, no joy left - it's better off without me anyway. This forum turned into club's propaganda site for a while now, no proper discussions allowed anymore. Less and less people are posting because every form of criticism is being suppressed or aggressively countered by the same posters. Good luck with your show, thank fuck you have thisphantom next to you to keep the football knowledge and quality up!

Haha yeah I will work on my skills a bit more. But even in that game he was really average, I disagreed (without insulting people). I will go back in my hole now, and discuss football with myself so I can have an opinion. Keep up the good work Embee!

Yeah fair point, I'm immigrant with limited English but I'm improving day by day! I'm learning. I'm a little unsure why you feel you need to insult me. I only pointed out that you boys rated Malik really highly not long ago. And I had a discussion with BT about it.

Twice your age, come on mate.

Put out all your money in your first eleven and hope nobody gets injured. People keep raving about Sydney but they had zero injuries last season, made the same subs with Simon and Ibini every game. Only replaced Brilliante for suspensions. No bullshit about developing youth or squad depth for Arnie, play the players who win you games. It worked for them.

I'm not kidding haha, have you forgotten who the talking city boys and guest voted man of the match not long ago?

Yes he is from Poland and managed to get a visa.

Malik looks excellent so far, lots of slow turns, bad controls and turn overs. It's what most of us know but still some refuse to see or admit.

We look like an NPL side at the moment

Sydney continues in the same way, both marquees on the pitch and the best eleven - it's almost like that's the way to win games in this country.

Interesting line up but no serious tittle contender will start with Malik and Kamau, so it looks like an experiment.

Source?

Plus Cahill isn't 25 anymore and has Socceroo duties coming up. Didn't we get this Miller in guy some years ago as an International dury replacement?

Thank you. At least shall we agree on the real facts that we haven't made any signings to complete the squad with an adequate second marquee.

I've never said that mate to be precise, I said - any signing would be better than no signing at all. But let's not argue over my badly worded language on this forum please.