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I don't know if it's cause of the movement of the game or what but I honestly don't feel anything that we lost. I was shattered when we lost the Sydney Gf, similar last year but I just don't have that at the moment. Clearly would have preferred to win, but we were horrible apart from a 10 minute patch after half time. The final 30 was Melbourne Heart stuff, it's as bad as I've seen in a city jersey

NZ journo who when it was announced, said that Sail was off to Perth, Lewis to Macarthur and Ugarkovic to City. The first 2 have been announced as correct, so every chance Ugarkovic one is true as well

Strong rumours he is heading to KVC Westerlo in Belgium. They are currently in a Europa Conference League Spot and their current LB is on loan from Club Brugge. Looks like a very good move if it eventuates, goes to a reasonable league to a team playing European football with a real good chance of getting starting minutes

2 Tilio 1 Reis

My immediate thought is meh he is bloody old, but the more I think about it if he is a 12-24 month stop gap until the kid starting with N is ready than maybe it will be fine. He is still one of the better keepers

2 Maclaren 1 Berenguer

Id try and be smart with team selection this week, and go back to full strength for the wsw game. I'd go something like. Glover - Galloway Reis Hall Bos - Best youth CDM Berisha Berenguer - Tilio Raph Nabbout I think that's still strong enough for a good performance, but gives some key players a week off

2 Glover 1 Berenguer

2 Nabbout 1 Tilio

Fantastic week, 6 points and 2 pretty good performances. Attack looked in sync today, best game Nabbout has played for a while. Can't really complain about too much from today

I wouldn't if I was you. After the 5 minute sermon about how Victory can still make finals, they went on for ages about how if the game was decided on xG that Victory would be in front. This was all while we were 2-0 up

I thought it was a very professional performance until the 89th minute. 3 points is what we needed, that's what we got and it was the best performance we have had in weeks. Apart from the shittu conceded goal at the end, can't complain too much about tonight

So the question is, is the one match the derby on Wednesday or will it be the Wellington game? It probably should be the Wellington game as Wednesday isn't a full game, but knowing this league it could be anything

Here we go again with the random position selections. Reis is at RB again, replacing Talbot who had his best game for club last week. Our back 4 has looked strongest with Talbot, Lam, Good, Bos but again we tinker with it for no apparent reason

Seems like it is next Wednesday night, if you have a mobile ticket from the game the date on it has been changed to April 5. So maybe we will be able to go if you had a ticket to the original game

2 Talbot 1 O'Neill

The most frustrating part at the moment is what I see square pegs into round holes lineups were going with. The system we have works, that's undeniable but at the moment we are trying people in unfamiliar roles and positions. The main example is Jamo as a 6, he hasn't done anything really wrong there but to get him there we have moved 3 players out of where they were most effective 12 weeks ago. If next game we still have the same injury problems and have roughly the same squad, it makes much more sense to me to play Jamo at LB, ONeill and Berisha in midfield with Tilio ahead of them and Bos on the wing which he has played many times during games this season. That system has 1 player in an unfamiliar role, not half the bloody team which is what I feel happens some games especially when subs are made.

Fuck weiss van der venne and Leckie, without those 2 everything just looks so difficult

Game has been moved back, now starts at 7pm

The week before Easter makes sense, as we play Easter Monday and they play Sunday. So we can fit in a midweek game without a team having a 2 day turn around

Have to give him this week against MacArthur off, I'd think that a front 3 of Flo, Nabbout and Tilio is enough to get past them. If we leave any longer to give him one off, he will be off to Socceroos camp and then a final month which includes games against Wellington, CCM and WSW

2 O'Neill 1 Berisha

Not sure how it took 4 months but anyway

If O'Neill goes then I think Ugarkovic is a pretty solid replacement. He was very good at Newcastle when he was allowed to play as a 6, WSW stuffed him around mainly cause they had 738 central mids and they tried to get them all on the pitch and he has been reasonable at Wellington. At the very least we are making some proactive moves to get the squad ready for next season nice and early

Adelaide 2 Berisha 1 Nabbout