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F Marinos appoint Kewell as their head coach! https://www.the-afc.com/en/club/afc_champions_league/news/f_marinos_appoint_kewell_as_head_coach.html

Yeah, or a second experienced striker to play beside like Colacovski has Taggart. His confidence would be hiding in his shoes atm.

Someone told me me the other day that they create a lot of scoring chances, up there at the top of the rankings, no idea if it's true or not, they just can't score. We know how profligate/prolific Wales is and Penha seems just as reliable. Aloisi will use the young striker as an excuse, or they won't be able to afford to sack him.

Instead of no coaches, he's probably working with three instead lol, but good on him, I hope he keeps the place.

Agree.

Idio- something in more cases than not. I think it was the compromise with Sydney to get finals back how it was, they had to do something in return for the cash. Is this home game the Sydney game thing then? It virtually makes it a home game for them.

I think they are missing Borrello big time, a good time to play them and at home should have a good chance for the 3. But as you say it depends on injuries, players were dropping like flies at the end of the last. Add Sakhi as well.

I'm got a bad case of man flue, or the plague, possibly both and I was able to watch the match today. Everything was pretty shit first half, except Jamie who made some great saves and even distributed well under pressure, or punching the ball clear. Second half- I thought Lopane had a good game, that position suits him more than out wide or attacking, he was good at using his body to protect the ball. Some great strikes for the goal. A lot of players improved and you have to put that down to the coach.

Natta is very much a ball playing CB, on the ball he is terrific, defending he is ok. Probably similar to Rowles, a bit better on the ball, but less physical, which could be more due to age than anything.

Ben Old for the Nix is a player, he's a talent above and will probably go soonish. Have to hand it to the Phoenix, they have churned out some good young talents in recent years.

Can't complain about an 8-1 Vidmar could be making the difference now he has had time on the training pitch.

I don't understand why he's getting so many starts, he does simple things ok, but he has little vision and isn't very technical. I've been saying Sakhi should be 6 and he looks good there, Uga did well as an 8 for the Nix. Refreshing isn't it? Suddenly we are looking to counter when we win the ball and Macca scores and we look better, it's great to see.

Yeah I think it should have stood, Broxham was going down early.

Summs it up nicely.

I'm happy to be corrected, thanks. Personally I don't have a problem with it, it's shrewd business and improves the league.

Teague was a brilliant pick up, was playing regularly in the Portuguese 2nd division last season and was a good player for the Aleague before he left. He's their O'Neil, goes about his work unassumingly, but is very effective. Izzo has been good for them, one of the standout keepers this year. Machach is a good foreigner, he has been doing bits. Overall they have done pretty well in recruiting over the last 2 years and have a good balance, attacking wings is their weakest with Folami, Velupilay and Ikon not being the best, or in Ikons case, eternally injured. Meanwhile we loose 3/4 of our squad and 2 coaches essentially, 3 if you count the assistant. We are in a rebuild period where they have gone through that in previous years and are more settled.

I guess one positive we are out of the ACL is that Vidmar can do some training work, he has pointed out many times that it has been hard to do much as a head coach because of this. Hopefully we will see an improvement and more cohesion. I think last game was the best we have looked in attack all season, with Vidmar able to better do his job, I expect an improvement. A derby get's players going, we could play a blinder and blast them out of the park, anything can happen.

They also changed the loan laws so that the loaned players wage at their parent club counts towards the cap, not what our club is paying. They brought it in because they were scared our club would bring in Man City youths on low wages or none at all, yet would be on decent wages for the parent club. A bit reductive, it could have improved the standard of the league pushing all teams to be better and find solutions, or as they would have been City youths, they may not have been that good anyway.

This game really highlighted our lack in pace, Souprayen gets away with it because of his good positioning and is growing on me. Jakolis is a strange one, he got a goal and assist, but otherwise was pretty ordinary. Arslan was frustrated by him and late in the game around the 60-70 min he didn't want to pass to him, but he does have a knack of producing something and not just back passing. Probably Natels best game to date, the jink and pass for the first goal was nice, onwards and upwards. I'd like to see that kid get more game time that came on for him. Caputo looked good when on and that's where he should be playing that false 9 position like I have said previously, I think he should start there before other players. I think Sakhi looked better as the 6 in previous games and suits him better, but it is a real problem position for us. Nice to see Lopane our Aussie 19 yr old get a goal. Galloway is a mystery, agree re Talbot, was at least partially at fault for the first and third goals against us. Agree on Sakhi, I'd like to see Caputo start in his place, or even Uga. When he filled in at 6 he did a fairly good job, he's probably our best option right now. Maybe Souprayen could do a job there and Hall or Politidis could be in CB and offer a bit more pace for us there. Souprayens positioning should offer a lot more cover with intercepts, it's maybe his passing that is the question mark.

Yeah sorry, just got onto past players, I was lazy and should have included more words.

Arzani had a good game as well, with Bruno on fire. Colacovski played pretty much a poacher, he did pretty good scoring a goal.

Same.