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Gatt seems completely out of line with every other source?

Quite right. They are both prongs.

Always been so. Friends in high places. The club that the FFA senior staff support.

Is it just perception, or does this stuff only happen to us...?

Surely not because he's too good, or surely not because he's awful?

I was talking to a Perth supporting workmate today, and we ended up trying to find out the number of visa and marquee players each club actually has. It's slightly out of date but this site https://www.goal.com/en-au/lists/a-league-2018-19-marquees-foreign-and-visa-player-list/1xblk54wj63i01dixgy2pw1owj seems to be pretty accurate. What is striking is that apart from ourselves (not so now, as MOH has departed), only Victory have their full complement, and of the others, only Sydney have two marquees. Perth are presently top of the league with only one marquee and two other visa players. I guess we can see this in a number of ways. Firstly, there is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth on here about us not having, or failing to use, our full quota. But we are nominally better off than most clubs. I suppose second, it's concerning that despite using most or all of our quota, we're still only fourth, and could easily finish lower. And the number of marquees and visas does not appear to correlate strongly with success.

He might get one with his boots yet. He has got a strong shot on him too...

West Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth? I've always thought the former was an obvious move with his family settled. Exactly the sort of big name a new club needs too.

Agreed, one of those matches where in the end we deserved something but got nothing.

We are better but I'm still not optimistic.

Offside as a very offside thing. No goal. Thought you were talking about the offside before the goal, but as you say, take your pick. However, on the balance of play, Nix deserve their lead.

And Bart's yellow card which wasn't even a foul.

IMHO we're getting nothing out of this.

In the team for Sydney, or a home debut vs Adelaide??

That certainly won't have helped. He's best playing centrally.

Yes, he's been a bit part player this season when we needed him as cover for the no 9 spot. Appears to be struggling with injury at just the wrong time. Which was fabulous. But there hasn't been enough of that this season.

Fascinated that we are looking seriously for two additions, not just one.

Nice bloke, been a good player, especially last season. He goes with my best wishes, and I hope it will do wonders for his retirement fund. Someone Wazza got the best out of, by the simple expedient of trusting him and playing him in his natural position. And I think we can now assume incoming.

Marginal I'd say, but with Malik presumably gone, and the need to have each position covered, that means the ideal would be four centre backs. So Bart, Delbo, Good and La Rocca. We could muddle through without La Rocca, but it would only take one to go down and we'd be relying on kids. We also want cover if we go three at the back.

Last Wazza press conference indicated he was fit. So yes, I suspect that he is moving on. An area of the pitch where we've probably got too many options, so don't see this as a problem. Though I thought a couple of weeks ago that is might be Rostyn who was moved on.

This has been the most legit rumour for weeks, and this all looks solid and credible.

Duke??

Their results have been poor. Their performances haven't.

Given the fabulous entertainment last night, a lot of the comments on here are incredibly negative. It seems a lot of people forget that WSW's results have been a lot worse than their recent performances. This was a team that was deservedly 3-1 up against Perth with only minutes to go last week. They had pace to burn and caused our previously rock solid defence a lot of problems. Meanwhile, apparently, our system doesn't work offensively but we scored four goals. Go figure. Folks, we'll finish fourth, we won't win the Toilet Seat, but I'd rather get there with a few more games like that. Last night was a proper, entertaining contest and I'm bloody glad I went.