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  5. Australia Cup QF: Metrostars vs. City, Thursday 14th September 2023, 7.30 p.m. AEST

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    1 minute ago, Mr MO said:

    Boys look uncomfortable on what seams to be an AG.

    Best chance for Caputo open goal with awkward knee height ball from Arslan.

    Hall doesn’t look good tonight.

    Awful height with the layoff but should have scored.

    I'm sure the surface isn't helping, it's weird if you have to go from grass to artificial.

    He should have scored, open goal.

    Yeah Hall isn't a fullback and it shows, out of position a lot.

     

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  8. The "Where are they now?" thread

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    Posted · Edited by moops

    I think Tilio is still injured, should be back soon though, it'll probably be a month or 2 before he gets a chance if ever, we'll have to see what the coach does.

    I've just seen Abada is injured for up to 5 months, one of the players he would be competing against to play, it gives him more of a chance.

  15. Season 2023/24

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    1 hour ago, MHFC-FAN said:

    If we get flogged by mariners round 1 I'll be concerned. For now not worth getting stressed over...

    If we get flogged by Roar I'll be very worried, Mariners not so much. They look to have picked up where they left off and recruited well. They'll be our main competitors this season.

  18. Australia Cup 2023

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    3 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said:

    You could tell Nuno was past it last season, slow and making poor challenges to make up for his lack of pace.

    Galloway I believe is looking elsewhere to play from what I've  heard. Was not too pleased at all with the Aziz signing...

    Ah ok, I don't think he fit in sadly for Galloway, he has the talent.

    Yeah, it's not just his pace but his reactions as well, he seems to like the longball frustratingly as well more than not.

    Forgot about Aziz, so we'll probably not see the Talbot Hall thing again, I expect will Aziz start.

  19. Australia Cup 2023

    in Melbourne City

    Posted · Edited by moops

    Forgot all about this game, I just watched the replay and this is my take in no particular order, just as my thoughts come to me.

    Nuno has really declined, which is disappointing and will be the whipping boy this season again. Hopefully Souprayen will fill that void.

    Lopane looks like a DM playing the 8, Ugarkovic looks like an 8 playing the 6 and they should switch, Ugarkovic was one of the better players in the match but made some pretty poor defending errors.

    Arslan looks great.

    Jacko looks ok, did some nice things but his teammates don't understand him yet and weren't there at times to take advantage, he also needs to get used to the physicality of the league.

    Hall and Talbot did alright, it may take a whole season to get them used to their new positions, Talbot probably quicker. Hall was alright, but no where going forward except for the second pen, that will be his biggest thing to learn if we are going to persist. I'm not against it, but I have to  wonder about Galloway, is he not liked in the dressing room or something?

    Caputo looked ok and put himself about more than Macca, though those balls across the goal mouth would have been pounced on by Macca if he was still on the ground I feel. He had a bad miss, I reckon he was trying to curl it over the defenders leg, but didn't put any spin on the ball that he would have liked to make it dip enough, hitting it with the inside of his foot I'm sure that's what he was trying.

    Antonis looked good, would be a real game changer coming off the bench, able to play in the midfield or either wing, could be a good option to start but he had limited time.

    All our other players looked like they had just had 4 months off and pretty rusty, a bit more game time and they should be alright.

    We are still missing a creative force in the middle as good as Arslan looked, but he's not that type of player, could it be Ugarkovic or Antonis?

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  20. Season 2023/24

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    Posted · Edited by moops

    11 hours ago, Tommykins said:

    Care to expand on that? I can think of a lot of different reasons why the league has had problems, but hadn't really put the PFA in the frame.

    The thing is that a club is much more than players, it's coaches, support staff, youth set up, travel expenses etc.

    A club like CCM couldn't invest in youth and play most of them because of the spend, they had to rely on sponsors and the good will of their owner, but that would have been gobbled up by other expenses, as the player wages took most of the TV money.

    Other clubs were paying over inflated wages to players just to pad out the spend, see Hoffman as an example when he was with us. It's also ironic that the minimal wage wasn't risen and stayed around 40k, they could have risen that and just let the market decide what to pay the other players. It's why we see the same journeymen in our league, clubs aren't encouraged to play youth or a NPL prospect because clubs don't want to spend overs on prospects to make the spend.

    It left clubs walking a tight rope just to survive and the goodwill of the owners.

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  21. Season 2023/24

    in Melbourne City

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    10 hours ago, jw1739 said:

    Maybe so. But players are part of the supply chain, and any properly run business factors "supply costs" into its business plans, and as I've posted in the Perth thread, it's pretty obvious to me that APL (and FA) just doesn't have a sound business plan that examines worst-case scenarios.

    Seems to me it isn't just confined to football, or even sport; time after time government projects are over-reached, over-hyped and under-budgeted, cost and time blow-outs everywhere. Hello there Victoria.

    https://pfa.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Attachment-1-FACTS_BOOK.pdf

    Because the business couldn't contril their supply costs, it was mandated to them what that would be, the minimal spend was nearly all the TV money.

  22. Season 2023/24

    in Melbourne City

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    On 26/07/2023 at 7:40 PM, HughJass said:

    Interesting article on the state of the clubs finances https://www.ftbl.com.au/news/a-leagues-fault-lines-exposed-as-fiscal-woes-stalk-clubs-598454 

    The PFA is to blame, they got to greedy and didn't care about the game as a whole, leaving most clubs running on the smell of an oily rag. The league was in a good place at one stage, there's been a culmination of things that have contributed, but the PFA has been the most destructive imho.

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