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  1. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    Just now, jw1739 said:

    No. Discussion should really be in the Manager and Coaches thread. Perhaps I should suspend myself for 48 hours? My wife thinks I spend far too much time on football...she doesn't understand that it's my religion.

    All good my only thoughts on the transfer market ATM the outs are good and I'm happy to follow any Aussie playing abroad but the ins are pretty dull hopefully all teams get some good transfers in because the a league needs to bring more people in 

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  4. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

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    3 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    We're going to get this in such a small league and no other league anywhere near us geographically. It's a pity because it doesn't add anything to the league in general or make the individual clubs attractive. That's how I feel with, for example, Jamie Young and Terry Antonis, although it's clear in those cases that they are stopgaps for one year only.

    But what's the alternative? In some cases you can bring in an exciting player from overseas, for example Adrian Luna, and then, thank you, the Department of Home Affairs Immigration Section doesn't allow his family to come with him. Or you risk bringing in an unproven young player from a lesser AFC country? And so with all our clubs bar City struggling with finances we are going to get recycled A-League players.

    They could at least try not to get victory or western players. Like the odd one is fine but it's start to feel like aflx or big bash 

  6. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, moops said:

    I'd still like us to sign Angus Thurgate, at 23 he was the Jets best player by far, he lead their key passes and chances created stats I heard whilst being defensively sound and is out of contract in a couple of weeks, so far I haven't heard of him signing a new contract.

    His at western united 

  7. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    4 hours ago, MHFC-FAN said:

    Bit rough. 

    The way I see it and you don't have to agree but...

    Jamie Young was pretty much the best A-league keeper available and is not washed up.

    Ugarkovic pretty much the same boat as Young. Not quite at O'neils level but should hold his own in the CDM role.

    Arslan is coming straight from Serie A and featured in pretty much every game last season and looks like a solid signing. 

    Antonis I would imagine is on a cheap contract and is hopefully going to be the main bench midfielder. Likely replacing the much older Berenguer as it seems unlikely we will retain him at this stage. 

    The young trio are all unkown talents presently. 

    Still believe we will add some more starting 11 players to the squad. Hopefully another 3 good quality visa signings to come!

    Look I know I come off a bit disillusional

    But I can't get excited about journeyman 

    Young is a Brisbane legend he means nothing to us 

    Antonis and uga played at victory and western 

    These aren't the signings that will increase our fanbase 

    I really want players we can feel proud of 

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  10. Australia Cup 2023

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    The Australia Cup 2023 Round of 32 Live Draw will be conducted on Wednesday, 28 June 2023 at 7.00pm AEST and streamed LIVE on 10 Play plus streamed via official Australia Cup Facebook and Football Australia YouTube accounts

    Games to be played in August.

     

    Who do we want to draw against? 

  19. Transfer Talk, Rumours and Speculation

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, jw1739 said:

    I really hope that we are going to see more minutes from our up-and-coming players this coming season (provided results can warrant that). As for imports I'd rather see one of of good quality rather than two who really don't add anything over and above what a local player can.

    We'll know the ACL Group draw in August and IMO we need to do well in that competition to lift the club and get the fans excited about something.

    I'm keen for the champions league. We really should be aiming to qualify 

  20. U-23 Squad 2023 - NPL(Vic) 2

    in Youth Teams

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    1 hour ago, jw1739 said:

    @citypoolI don't I'm afraid. For some reason I find it difficult to find when and where the matches are on. I think we seem to play most of our "home" matches at Parade College, wherever that is. I think @fensaddler sent me a link at one time where I could find all the NPL results and tables etc. The club website carries reports and videos? I started out trying to list squad members but haven't been diligent enough to keep it up to scratch so apologies for that.

    There's talk of resurrecting the National Youth League, which ran concurrently with the A-League. Over-age players could play in that so it was a good way back to match fitness for any injured seniors. I used to watch the NYL quite often in the Heart days.

    TBH I don't think that I have enough interest in the club anymore to bother with the youth teams or particularly the women. I'll probably get called misogynistic, or worse, for the latter. The women's team was really something when we had Fishlock, Little, Beattie and De Vanna playing, but not now.

    I'm surprised the club doesn't promote the npl side more I'd be keen to check out a match 

  24. The Grand Final. Western Sydney away.

    in Melbourne City

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    16 minutes ago, jw1739 said:

    Fellas, for me it just gets worse by the day, and could kill off my interest in football if it continues.

    There cannot be a "neutral venue" in Australia because of our geography and population distribution, and because football is a minority interest sport. Unless you play somewhere in the outback, which clearly does not make sense financially. In countries where such big matches are played at neutral venues there is a much larger fan base, and IIRC from my England days the competing clubs receive equal ticket allocations. Of course playing in Sydney we could have received an equal ticket allocation to that of the Mariners, but again that would not have made sense financially because most of City's allocation would not be taken up because of cost and inconvenience.

    The GF in Sydney decision blatantly favours the five New South Wales clubs.

    As for "repairing the relationship" - a bit late for that I'd say. Bit like hitting a guy and then while he's still lying on the floor saying "Can we talk about our relationship?"

    The simple solution for me is not to worry about the grand final.

     

    We still have the league, Australian cup and Asian champions league. 

  25. Memberships/Season Tickets

    in Melbourne City

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Heart Inaugural said:

    We've signed up for a 14th season.

    Hoping for some red and white again in one of the kits this year. Excited for the ACL finally being on home soil! 

    Is it weird acl isn't mentioned in the membership pack? It's more games so definitely more value with the membership 

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