Herman Cain

Pretty funny to come on here after a long time away and see so much negativity towards PK. I assumed everyone would be delighted to be closing in on 2 titles in a row and looking good for qualification in the ACL - clearly not. ACL outlook looks pretty good to me if this is correct - four second place teams from other groups are already stuck on less than 12pts. Win and we finish 2nd on 12pts - Assured of qualification. Draw and we finish 2nd on 10pts (even if Jeongnam win both) - Good chance of qualification What's the problem?

Who knows what will or won't go ahead after this, but I know the club were planning a major upgrade of the facilities at Bundoora. This involved the demolition of the current buildings, and the development of multiple football pitches and a new multi-storey office building.

What's the maccas code? Need to fleece cfg and 'FAMILY' isn't working

Germano scored a penalty, into the last 8 with Avondale

He's actually surpassed my expectations, but only because they were so low based on his obvious lack of credentials for the job. I know it's cherry picking, but we're 3rd last on the table since round 4. That's about where I expected him to have us finishing.

Delbridge has a 3 year contract? Lol why would we ever offer that to such an unproven player?

Bart didn't get the ball. Winger toed it away first. He didn't complain.

What do you mean "the way it's going"? Was there more than one full review last night which took time? I only saw one and it resulted in an important correction to an incident the ref clearly missed. The slippery slope argument is a pretty lazy one. VAR can be used well and it can be used poorly. I don't see a major problem with how it was used last night.

Watching his press conference - this guy is so fuckin boring and sounds thick as a plank. He barely comprehends the questions. I find it really hard to imagine how he impressed enough in an interview to make up for his poor CV. But who knows, maybe that's what you need to succeed in the A-league. Hopefully our players respond well to that sort of thing.

Guy seems pretty dumb when he talks tbh. Hopefully he has some redeeming features that aren't yet apparent. I'm highly doubtful but we'll wait and see.

We've all seen this before..

We've never got anywhere close to that for a regular home game..

Stream on firstrow. Defence looking nice and dodgy.

We want consistently good performances. You can't just judge a performance on the result and I'm surprised you're implying we should. Next week we could play the same way and lose 2-0, because we looked disorganised and poor for most of the game. If JVS is happy with us playing like that then that's why he has his 33% record, thankfully it seems he admitted we weren't that great after the game.

Didn't the 2nd Wellington goal look very close to offside? Haven't seen a replay.

This is absolutely true and very well put. I like the guy as a presenter/commentator but he's often cringeworthy when he talks about football.

This really feels like one of those games that has the potential to go disastrously badly (or well if you want JVS gone). Where a perfect storm of factors (defensive injuries, away from home, low morale, confident in-form opposition) leads to an embarrassing defeat that finally reveals all the weaknesses in the team and coaching structure. Or we win 1-0 and JVS stays on.

Except that this is not a crisis or a dip in performance. It's a consistent run of terrible football paired with terrible results across 6 years.

It really doesn't show that.

He's obviously good enough to play for us. If this is true it seems more like we're just biding our time until we can loan him or use him as a guest player in the back end of the season (+finals?). Also gives Brattan a chance to impress over in England if he does well. I don't think there's any "trial" for Manchester going on.

Completely outplayed again. Think our couple of quick goals covered that up to an extent. Just got to hope these guys returning from injury make a huge difference or we're in trouble again. At least we have a fair bit of quality in the squad now to somewhat make up for our shit play, although that probably just means JVS will last longer.

Fair enough, but tbh we've seen these excuses (away from home, strong opposition, injuries) for poor performances in the past and I don't think it's really acceptable. I'll remain positive for now because I actually think our squad could be really good (when we get some of these guys back), but I'm not sure that'll be enough to be successful. The similarities to previous seasons are worrying, we have to give them more than one game but that was a poor performance imo.

A bit surprised at the positivity here, we were terrible for pretty much the entire 2nd half, very similar to previous seasons. Hopefully we can put that down to missing players but jesus if we play like that we won't be getting far this season.

Victory look good, Adelaide look pretty poor. Dugandzic is shit.

More importantly, can we add Glen Moss to our already record-breaking list of individual goalscorers for the season?