Herman Cain
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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.
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What's the maccas code? Need to fleece cfg and 'FAMILY' isn't working
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Germano scored a penalty, into the last 8 with Avondale
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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.
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Delbridge has a 3 year contract? Lol why would we ever offer that to such an unproven player?
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Bart didn't get the ball. Winger toed it away first. He didn't complain.
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4 hours ago, jw1739 said:
Yes, it is. But not to re-referee the whole bloody match. The way it's going we'll have a break in play every two minutes while the VAR reviews that two minutes, various decisions are made or reversed, and then we'll play for another two minutes etc. etc.
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.
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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.
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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.
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We've all seen this before..
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43 minutes ago, Heart of Melbourne said:
Scum got 16k tonight. Holy shit if we match that tomorrow. How times are changing
We've never got anywhere close to that for a regular home game..
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Stream on firstrow.
Defence looking nice and dodgy.
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37 minutes ago, jw1739 said:
IMO Sorensen was under pressure only once - Holosko's header that grazed the outside of the post - the rest of the time he was doing what GKs are there to do - tidy up at the back, take the crosses etc. An easy shift for him. I too thought our defence was very good - people keep bagging Caceras, Malik and others, but the defenders chased, covered, hassled and harried all through the match. It's all about denying the opposition clear scoring opportunities - not about looking pretty-pretty. Don't know what people are complaining about. A 3-0 win dammit. What more do you want?
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.
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Didn't the 2nd Wellington goal look very close to offside? Haven't seen a replay.
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1 hour ago, belaguttman said:
sorry dr lime, but Gerard Wheatley, like most so-called sports reporters knows bugger all about football and even less than that about fan culture. He's a picket fence & white sliced bread footy-cricket-rugby-tennis-netball kinda sports reporter. He might report on football (soccer to him) but he has no understanding as your post points out.
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.
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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.
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14 minutes ago, benderz said:
Here is an interesting article based on stats regarding sacking a manager:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23724517
Tldr:"Changing a manager during a crisis in the season does improve the results in the short term," he says. "But this is a misleading statistic because not changing the manager would have had the same result."
I think some people overestimate how much difference Jvs actually makes.
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.
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Exactly. Just shows the lower level of importance that a keeper has on a match, even when it comes to not conceding a goal.
It really doesn't show that.
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I'm struggling to follow this. CFG taking a player to Manchester for an extended trial, then using Nottingham Forest or another Championship club (but certainly not a club in the City stable) to see whether an Australian player cuts the mustard well enough to be a player for Melbourne City?
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.
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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.
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Positive because we drew with the previous finalist at home when we had so many first choice players unavailable and as Murph said, the remained positive and didn't crumble into anxiety and panic after conceding. Good signs.
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.
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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.
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Victory look good, Adelaide look pretty poor. Dugandzic is shit.
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More importantly, can we add Glen Moss to our already record-breaking list of individual goalscorers for the season?
ACL Group G, Match 5. City v. BG Pathum, Wednesday 27th April 21.00 AEST
in Melbourne City
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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?