jw1739

Says it all really. Mediocrity City F.C. Really?

I'm commenting on my values. Not a player's values. And the values held by Melbourne City.

Perhaps it says more about someone's values than anything else. They differ from person to person. However, we have had rumours before from the same source that have not come to pass. So best to wait and see I think.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/yonatan-cohen/leistungsdaten/spieler/408026/plus/0?saison=2023 Waste of space as well as being a divisive signing - if it occurs - Melbourne City not "reading the room."

So far nothing has gone right for us. Squad is too old.

Black will be very suitable for what looks like a poor season ahead.

If anyone has the technical expertise to set up an alternative, then I would welcome that. Unfortunately I do not. The current owner no longer posts to the site, and doesn't respond to communications from the two remaining active Moderators. The two of us have to check the site several times a day for spammers, and any new site needs to have a better way of dealing with that problem - e.g. application for membership perhaps? There are far too many historical threads that need to be deleted, and IMO we need to start again from scratch. We're in your hands really. I'm getting on a bit now, and don't need the hassles, and both of us have a life to lead outside the Forum. Suggestions and initiatives welcome as far as I am concerned.

Not sure why you say this. Record isn't much to shout about. I'm not sure that this is a particularly good signing at this point in time.

I know that there are questions about going up against AFL and NRL finals series in terms of attendances, and ground condition/availability, but even if we are not going to increase the number of League matches then surely we could have a pre-season competition, perhaps a League Cup, so that the players could get match fitness? They must be bored stiff training day after day with no end product. The League just loses any momentum that it has, and has to re-invent itself every season with potential spectators.

I'm thinking of automatically suspending anyone who depresses me any further about our prospects for the coming season... Good signing by Sydney. I suppose he was automatically disqualified by City in that he'd never heard of Adelaide...Not surprising really. I remember Greek singer Melina Mercouri saying "I went to Adelaide once. But it was closed."

...and Jakolis gets two for Macarthur. More than he scored for us? Coaching...?? Team set-up? Wonder when we're going to play a pre-season match when we could go and see how the team is gelling...? How does the song go? "Dream the impossible dream?"

No interest now that we're not in it. I suspect we'll not see Asian Champions football again at City at the rate we're going. Waited all my life to see my club in an international competition and we blew it two seasons running.

Yes, I did go to several pre-season matches there. One hell of a hike from where I live. Got lost the first time and arrived desperate for a Jimmy Riddle only to find the toilets locked. People were using the bushes until someone found Scott Munn who had a key and unlocked same, Also went to the Veneto Club several times - another long drive - and Port Melbourne for pre-seasons. Regularly to John Cain (Northcote City) when the youth team played there but they were afternoon matches and it wasn't too bad. Local grounds that are easy for me are Bentleigh Greens and Oakleigh but again only by car because there is no proper PT. This problem is not unique to football of course. Accessing hospitals is very similar. Lousy PT and very limited parking. I cannot see a solution to the problem as far as City is concerned. With each season it seems we are just digging a deeper hole to get out of.

Well, in my view (and I accept that it isn't held by everyone) is that the move is already a disaster, and that it is at least part of the reason why we have seen staff and player - and Academy - departures., and a dwindling of the fan base because of uncertainty. City can do what they like of course. If they build a stadium there, then fine. But I fundamentally object to any taxpayer subsidy for the club when the Club's owners could buy and sell Australia many times over. I live in the so-called south-east, but it's a nasty, busy drive for me to get there and then where to park in Dandenong is a nightmare. PT - a roundabout route because of Melbourne's radial train transport system or an hour on the bloody bus going round the houses. City fans come from all over Melbourne and indeed some from country Victoria. Oh dear, someone forgot about them. As always, no consideration of supporters and fans whatsoever.

I think a lot will depend on how Vidmar sets up and the style that we use as a team. We need to play to our players' strengths and not try to shoe-horn them into a fixed style.

I guess I'd be feeing a lot better about the coming season if I could read that we were playing some pre-season matches.

Time to welcome the guy here, and trust that he can do a job for us. Left-footed, doesn't score very often, so I guess that we wait and see.

@Zanty Well, the same source gave me Andreas Kuen on Saturday...

From Melbourne City Supporters with Heart. Milan Iloski on one year loan deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Iloski Could be useful or could be another Jeggo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Matricciani

Raises a few questions doesn't it? I expect we did a global search. Only trouble is we went west instead of going east so never got any further than Adelaide...

@mjake1234Whilst that's a good idea in principle, who is actually going to go down there? Ideally, you want a drop-in centre, which has the opportunity to catch the passing trade so to speak. I think it was Elton John, when he owned Watford, who came up with the thought that the ground was used just once a week, and he got all sorts of activities going at their ground. Child-minding centre etc. so that the club-rooms were in use 7-days of the week, or something like that any way. Whether that continues I don't know, but IMO by moving to Casey Fields the club has cut itself off from those sorts of initiatives. I regularly walk past Linton Street Oval, St. KIlda's old ground. Yes, I know it's AFL, but there is a cafe/restaurant there that seems to be open most days and the car-park is full with patrons. The State Government continues to pour money into the facility, and there are new stands (I think the women play there). At Casey Fields we have no chance of ever getting that sort of patronage. I regularly meet various long-standing mates for coffee. But there's no chance I would take them all that way down to Cranbourne - just doesn't make sense. Dumb decision. Why? Because it didn't consider the fans. Which is where we started...

What they do all day, as in most administrations, is make something that is simple into something that is unnecessarily complicated. I am of the opinion that homo sapiens is the only species on the planet that spends most of its time inflicting pain on itself.

Dream on, dear boy, dream on. My conclusion is that CFG does not know how to relate to people. But then, look where the HQ is...

As it happens a mate of mine - Foundation Member - went down there today to look around. It was deserted. No-one there at all. No vehicles. The ground for the women's and Academy teams looks abandoned - not completed and the ground just a building site. I can't seem to post the pictures, but anyone can go and look for themselves.