moops

Politidis looked great when he came on, he impresses me. Wowzers though, 7-0!

It's cooled down nicely, should make the game nice to play in and watch.

Jamie Young did the presser.

If we win this it gets us into the 6 by 1 point, they have been on a downward spiral of late so very winnable.

I think it's because of our slow backline, they sit back and it opens up space.

Good win for us, I didn't expect that at all.

A Super goal Delivery was great from Aslan.

Slow defence is a bit scary, Uga did well to get back when they countered. Yeah, maybe that through ball to Jakolis was the best chance near the end of the half.

We're making chances, so far so good.

Amazing header from Caputo, I didn't even think he would get to it.

Arslan makes such a huge difference

Well, here we go.

It may have to do with the wage cap, there is a minimum spend? CCM are the benchmark obviously, they had a rough period, but they keep churning out the yoof and they sold players nearly equal to us last year.

He is a party animal,

Maybe we do but there is a reluctance to play them? Politidis looks good when he comes on, Caputo can't get a sniff even with Macca off form, Hall is 25 and should be released, but he just hasn't had any time at all in the last 4 years and then there's yoof we let go who are carving it up for other teams.

Tilio has done his hamstring during training, will be out for at least 4 weeks and will miss the Olyroos. Lecks will be back starting.

Agree, also having our wide players on the opposite side the ball is being played are inside the halfway line, maybe due to the space. There's barely a press, we look static. I doubt Vidmar will be let go, same as Petrillo. Vidmar hasn't earned the right to continue though and Petrillo got this seasons recruiting all wrong, but he usually get's it so we are at least competitive, should he be let go?

Lopane is growing on me, I just think he is being utilised wrong and it's not helping him and can be frustrating to watch at times.

Sydney is starting to hit their straps, they looked impressive last night and were enjoyable to watch. I'm starting to feel sorry for that bloke that put money on us getting in the 6, it may not happen. We have a run of home games which we need to win, but our form is on par with the Jets atm.

I think every supporter hates when the manager keeps playing a player out of form, but if Macca rumours are true, why keep playing him?

Which exemplifies what I am saying, we were chucking ice in bins for ice baths as Heart, we didn't overperform at all. Chivas he did better as they are one of the better teams in the MX League. Twente he probably underperformed. Maybe it's adaptability, if you have lots of resources you can bring in players to suit what you want, but if not you have to be more adaptable with what you have, which suits a salary capped league as well imho.

All but one season iirc. If you look at his history on transfermarkt, he has been pretty poor until Greece and now Ajax. It seems he can do ok if he has access to top players for the level, but won't get poor teams playing above themselves. I think that's the kind of coach we need, like Montgomery for CCM, Italiano for Nix. I don't care if they are from the EPL, NPL or the Fiji tbh. If a coach can show they can get a small or middling team to punch above their weight, they have to have something about them.

True, there's probably a diamond in the NPL who hasn't got his chance yet.

In a salary cap league it makes the most impact to spend the most on the backroom imho, also developing players to sell on, more to spend on the marque. That we didn't have a GK coach for a while is pretty poor.

He's only new at the coaching gig, he probably doesn't have much of a say or done all his badges, he's the apprentice at the moment.