cityfan101

Someone posted this on the City supporters Facebook page.. The words he used is promising "we will be back" But i'm not silly and understand its a business. Hopefully Nat stays another year and the next move is to a better league.

Pretty damning when Joel King lasted 120minutes at LB last night and Lachie barely 75 minutes and looked flat when it came to defending. It didn’t cost the game but surely Najjar or Najjarine would have been better suited to start, we at least know Najjar could create a goal for himself even if it’s not his suited position. Wales always looked the best coming on as a sub, and I shudder thinking back when Joyce played him as our striker.

Mendy confirmed 🤭🤭😁

Couldn't resist...

Agree. Even if McGree wasn’t fit enough to play 90 minutes. Surely a 3-5-2 like this would be better in terms of players strengths. Good was a spectator for a lot of the game because he was not in his normal position which meant it cost a lot of forward drive or ball recycling Needed to then put Wales into the game for the last 15/20 minutes to run at tired defenders and bring energy. Lachie was on the Left side wide last night, he has a weak left foot so is only options are to cut in or try and dribble around the baseline which he failed at most times. The attack was unbalanced all night they had, Harrison in behind Maclaren, Wales wide on the left which meant Berenguer was narrow on the right and DeLaet still struggling to get up and down the ground. Lost it in the tactics for mine, but I thought Harrison looks very promising, the only way they could stop him was by fouling him. The only hope now is to have a big run in the finals.

Wouldn’t matter where he plays right now. He seems timid and second guesses his decisions. Lacks the confidence to play positively and his touch especially first touch has been awful. The clearance last night sums up how he’s going. And for a young player he needs to adjust his attitude towards the refs got a yellow for a blow up his year and seems to blow up at them often. Disappointing when he and Arzani linked up so well last year. This year it looks like he’s never played with his team mates before.

Struggled last season with Troisi, George, Barbarouses around him in the front third for that team. No thanks.

As much as I don’t believe “skin folds” or fitness was the reason behind Bruno not playing, a guy like him should always be fit enough to play and it’s disappointing that he didn’t. But I disagree with you if you think that “skin folds” (fitness) doesn’t have an impact on the above attributes. Once fatigue sets in (when skin folds generally = fitness), most of these attributes you listed will be affected.

Imagine making Matt Simon the captain of your club... Hopefully Jameison and Vidosic are fit to start now. Play Wales as impact off the bench. The lack of drive from Delbridge at LB was frustrating. Game two of a long season, years gone by we lose 1-0 or even 2-1.

Both Kamau and Fitz both looked better coming off the bench than when they started. Good for impact, not as starters. Looks like O’Halloran hit 1 goal from outside the box in his highlights clip so that’s as good as signed based on previous players!

Adelaide just announced him...

The AAMI park pitch will be in great condition for this one....Storm played there last night, Rebels play there tonight then our game Saturday. I'm sure it was this time last year the turf was in terrible shape after so much use.

Anyone see the prematch on Foxsports? He basically said we play the way we do because it's how the organisation wants the team to play. He also said he believes in it. Sounded very much someone toeing the company line.

I think for the way that we play, Colazo would be more suited playing the LB than the LW role. Correct me if i'm wrong but i would say the majority of crosses last night were delivered by Franjic and Rose with the Franjic/Kamau interplay leading to a lot of crosses also for the night. In my opinion when Brandan comes back he goes to LW, Colazo to LB like the FA Cup final to utilise his crossing/delivery. and rose benched which is probably the strongest starting XI. Football isn't my number one sport so i'm not sure how close to the mark I am when it comes to tactics! Last night it looked like Bouzanis was much more conservative with his passing with only one flying over a players head on the sideline and took a more conservative approach when playing out so i wonder if that was a focus/deliberate ploy.

Isn't that they way they have been playing every week? 3-4-3 when we have the ball. Then into a 4-3-3 when we don't have the ball with Kilkenny dropping futher and into the back 4?

If Colazo was pushed up to LW, there's no reason why we can't have Kamau at RW and then why not Brandan in the middle with Bruno. In one of the earlier games this year when Cahill was subbed off, Brandan went to CAM and a winger was subbed on. Great spot for the team to be in when we have a guy like Colazo that can play LB/LM/LW at a high level.

Did anyone else notice what looked like complete confusion when Cahill was subbed on for Brandan?? It looked like for the next 5 minutes no one knew If there was formation changes and who would be where. I saw Kilkenny and Brattan trying to communicate with the bench when it happened looking as through they were confused. And not until Kamau came on for Bruno did they settle.

I've been lurking these forums for a while, thought I would chime in. I have a friend who is Argentinian and is involved in one of the professional teams in Argentina. Flicked him a message and asked if he had heard of Brandan. He said he is really really really fast and very skillful. But is a little bit dumb when he plays. Time will tell if they are attributes to suit the HAL. Hopefully he ends up more Fornaroli than Mifsud!