Mr MO
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Tilio and Galloway way too many turnovers in these first 30 minutes. Jeggo is looks very light for this DM role. If it wasn't for Leckie we would have not left our own half. Victory are setting up very well, we struggle to put some meaningfull passes together.
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4 hours ago, Torn Asunder said:
442, with JMac next to Caputo, or Leckie
By bringing an attacking player in the midfield could certainly help with tidying up our midfield.
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1 hour ago, belaguttman said:
What we aren't doing is a team-coordinated high press, and our movement off the ball after the press leaves few options other than a back pass if we do regain possession
That’s the onfield leadership we are talking about: being vocal and time the presses accordingly.
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38 minutes ago, NewConvert said:
No idea but The Age is reporting that he copped four weeks.
4 weeks for saying to the ref that it will be covered in the media that the referee isn’t doing his job.
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1 hour ago, Torn Asunder said:
Someone with some courage to look at a system that better suits JMAC
How do you see building a system around one player?
1 hour ago, Torn Asunder said:All this is compounded by Vidmar's negative style ... he clearly got the gig as he's mates with our recruiting manager.
I just think a coach who is more positive naturally, but still aggressive in their approach, would suit us better ... someone a little more adventurous and with something to prove. Look at what RZ has done with Brisbane in 2 weeks!
Someone with some courage to look at a system that better suits JMAC, someone who encourages the team and focuses on the positives, not berates the players for not trying ...
Also, our club culturally needs to do better when we go behind. That's a time for knuckling down and not conceding a 2nd, and building back into the game. We just have this approach of trying too hard to score too quickly which opens us up to conceding a 2nd, and then we fall apart ... we dont know how to re tempo a game ... When we dont have the ball, we are not comfortable as a team. Other teams park the pass and look fine for 90. We need that in our game as well, so after copping a goal, we can regroup without conceding
Also screams that we missing good leadership on the field, perhaps with Jamo he was talking and coordination more infield.
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2 hours ago, HughJass said:
That’s only a yellow card offense IMO.
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24 minutes ago, mattyh001 said:
starting with the keeping spot, others have covered it well. Young has always been signed as a short term option where there was probably not much better on offer (particularly from a domestic signing perspective).
on top of that we lost Bos (21) and Lam (30) last season and Atkinson (24) in December 2021. replacing quality (particularly youngsters in the form of Bos and Atkinson) from the youth academy is never easy. even signing them from another team's youth academy is no guarantee either - just look at Talbot (22). he is so inconsistent. plus the likes of Bos and Atkinson would have been cheap from a salary cap perspective, so it's not like our club can just throw money at it.
Lam is a rather frustrating one for me since he left so late into the post season. no issues with his reasons for leaving, just the timing. our club has tended to find some absolute gems (ie Arslan, Sahki) when they have the chance to do their due diligence. finding a like for like player with such a short turn around for ACL duties (where we had to sign within the registration deadline) was always going to be risky - hence the signing of Souprayen.
i'm not trying to justify how poor we've been; rather there's probably been a few mitigating events.
Lam departure was publicized straight after the GF, almost in the same articles as VdV. Are you saying the CFG didn’t have time and then signed Soups? I don’t have the calendars in front of me but it seemed there was plenty of time there.
Atkinson and Bos didn’t leave around the same time also they play on opposite wings, I’m failing to see the mitigation factor in the clubs favour here. However the signing of Behich was excellent I have no issues there.
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6 hours ago, NewConvert said:
For me the question is how did we end up with such an old backline? City has to honour the contract hence we have three players across the back whose contract comes to an end simultaneously. If none are renewed this means that entire backline has be put together. The mid-field someone thought that Ugarcovic was the answer. That is stupid.
On the backline, nobody forced us to sign Young, Behich and Soup. Talbot has gone backwards. Perhaps committing to Reis was one season too many. This is just complacency and under estimating the speed and strength of this league.
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3 hours ago, MCMLIII said:
I know John Didulica. He told me years ago when he was still at the club that they could get anything they wanted from the parent company. As long as they could justify the request it was approved. So how does a club with access to so much end up performing so poorly?
Perhaps this is related to facilities etc…
For players I understand that we run on a strict budge as you say anything more might not be justified. We are not always being the top spender in the competition as we have an internal cap on marquee players. Often we don’t even know who our marquee players are as they are all of similar quality as the capped designated players.
On the justification part, with a little more quality we could have easily earned some of the money back by progressing in the ACL.
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57 minutes ago, jw1739 said:
What we've been saying ever since the GF defeat last season.
On this, what does Caputo have to do to get more than 10 minutes? He'll just leave if he doesn't get match time.
In the glimpses we’ve seen he looks more comfortable on the ball, bigger frame to hold up play and good in the air. Not a finished product of course but it’s something we miss up front when the space isn’t there at times.
It’s an annoying and complex situation, your aging marquee captain not standing up when needed most and then out of contract.
We do have history of not taking JMAC despite being on one leg.
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4 minutes ago, fensaddler said:
That's a bloody awful website. Infested with pop ups.
That suits us.
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1 hour ago, NewConvert said:
As has been stated for several weeks, the backline is old and slow, the midfield, Arslan aside, is not effective, and JMac needs better support. Lopane is an enigma only as far as to why he keeps getting selected. Vidmar is proving inflexible and unimaginative. And list management, which cannot be placed at the feet of the coaches, has been poor.
Excellent summary, fully aligned mostly.
The only thing I can’t find myself in is that we keep saying JMAC needs more support; also last night he got his opportunities he just doesn’t put them away. I know he can’t do anything wrong for many but have our marquee expectations dropped so low we only want him to walk the ball into the goal? He’s is just out of form, this is costly for the team if you can’t contribute in open play much.
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Comments on last night match below. Vidmar concluded that the team wasn’t competitive!
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3 hours ago, MHFC-FAN said:
You do realise we lost an incredible amount of talent in one off season, and have been hampered by injuries to what's left of our talent.
Correct and the core players who do play are past their best but we still see wrong comments that our list is the best in the league so it must be our coach or some other factor with the team.
The only thing you can be really critical on is the recruitment, transfer strategy and youth development - perhaps one should be tougher to Petrillo.
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2 hours ago, jw1739 said:
Agree. When he joined he said his first priority was to restore some pride into the squad. It hasn't happened. There have been departures other than just players and the problems are way deeper than Vidmar. Natel, Jeggo, Fernandez - all panic signings IMO. There's a crock of shit in the club somewhere.
Maybe we are just spoiled and have over performed looking at our budget restrictions and sustainability rules as set out by the CFG. Through covid times we managed to keep a decent squad together, a good mix between young and old, at a good age. Whilst other teams could not do this, it resulted in City becoming a the dominant benchmark. Now time and age as well as the league has caught up with us. I’m afraid real change will only come when players like Good, Maclaren, Leckie, Nabbout etc and this whole bunch of older players have departed.
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3 minutes ago, belaguttman said:
I think that the problem is that PK was such a dominating control freak that he inadvertently created a very dependent group. Radio recognised this and asked the players to be more creative, but the playing group itself hasn’t found a way to accept responsibility as a cohesive group; nobody takes responsibility.
The league was a lot weaker and our squad younger, it’s hard to draw comparisons.
3 minutes ago, belaguttman said:Wow, Roar had an attack and didn’t score!
Because last season, we didn’t play them. What does Caputo need to do to get on before 80 minutes?
I agree I don’t know what’s going. JMAC playing guarantee in the contract? Perhaps Vidmar doesn’t want to escalate things further.
12 minutes ago, belaguttman said:Most players at this level will get a shot on target with no pressure
Then you haven’t watch Nabbout often enough.
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17 minutes ago, jw1739 said:
I don't care what anyone says. There is something fundamentally wrong at the club and has been since before the end of last season.
It’s a bit of both, trouble at the club is just a consequence. We are just stuck in the past, complacent with historical achievements without recognizing what’s happening around us. Our core players are all in their 30s with the youth players not be being at the level you see at other clubs.
6 minutes ago, belaguttman said:It’s much easier to convert when there’s no pressure on you at all. Most players at this level will get a shot on target with no pressure
There was no pressure on them home game either, they just missed and were unlucky perhaps. we were lethal then now it’s the other way around. The balance is restored.
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4 minutes ago, fensaddler said:
Every player on the pitch has forgotten how to play and no one knows each other.
Well it makes a little sense. New midfield, don’t think these guys have ever played together. Three of the back players have not been regular starters. JMAC is not an option in build play. Nabbout and Natel try to cross to imaginary players in the box and no other options going forward.
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1 minute ago, Nate said:
holy fuck, how is this possible??
I haven't been able to watch - what the fuck is happening???
The same as in the home game against them except this time they converted pretty much everything - every ball just flies in.
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4 minutes ago, fensaddler said:
Arslan has likely been papering over the cracks. By far our best and most consistent player this season. Now we've lost him the wheels have absolutely come off.
We also play with a player less in attacking possession, just makes everything very hard if a little bit of quality and composure is required.
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Are we sure Lopane is a young player? Not just this game but he really plays like a 35yo, passenger, no agility, no speed and no enthusiasm you often see with youngsters.
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1 hour ago, haz said:
Honestly, the team is getting ridiculously strong (on paper at least).
We are old and slow, most our opponents have younger, fitter and quicker squads. The word is, our squad is experienced. Not strong, not when your core as way past it in your 30s.
Brisbane had the same amount of chances in the 8-1 thrashing, they just don’t convert then.
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4 hours ago, citypool said:
This weekend Melbourne city kick off the VPL season which is the division below the NPL.
We're got rivals western united and victory in and diamanti as head coach. To me this competition is a bit of a hidden gem there's a chance for some good action so might be worth getting behind the lads this season.
Fixtures: https://websites.mygameday.app/comp_info.cgi?c=0-10178-0-633998-0&pool=1&round=1&a=ROUND
Is this the former NPL2?
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17 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said:
Any idea what the girls transfer fees were worth?
Worth enough to potentially let the title slip. Star player out with ACL, several key players away for internal duties for over a month and now two more starters gone on permanent transfers.
Such a turbulent odd season for both male and female this year.
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Season 23/24 - Round 17 -Melbourne vs Visitors 17th Feb - 7:30pm
in Melbourne City
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If you mean JMAC, we would have a couple more looks on the break with a little better ball control.