MHFC-FAN Posted August 20, 2023 Report Share Posted August 20, 2023 Swear this draw is rigged getting these guys for a 3rd straight season. Obviously been our bogie team in the cup eliminating us the past 2 years... A win is a non negotiable. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IssySG Posted August 21, 2023 Report Share Posted August 21, 2023 People planning to get down to this one? I'm looking forward to it after our game against Oakleigh was such a nice day out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2023 10 minutes ago, IssySG said: People planning to get down to this one? I'm looking forward to it after our game against Oakleigh was such a nice day out. Yeah I'm keen! Missed the round of 32 but want to make this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted August 21, 2023 Report Share Posted August 21, 2023 On 20/08/2023 at 11:54 AM, MHFC-FAN said: Swear this draw is rigged getting these guys for a 3rd straight season. Obviously been our bogie team in the cup eliminating us the past 2 years... A win is a non negotiable. Of course it's rigged. We're the nearest club to Wellington so FA save on airfares for Phoenix... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citypool Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 Has anyone managed to get someone who followed the wwc to an match? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 (edited) 39 minutes ago, citypool said: Has anyone managed to get someone who followed the wwc to an match? I don't know anyone who followed the WWC. A mate and I went to the Morocco-Germany match, but we left at 4-0 once the wave started (a sure sign of total boredom) to catch an early train home before the rush. Perhaps it's the nature of Australian media, or media everywhere?, but there's a fine line between extensive coverage and over-saturation, and when the latter occurs people simply don't hear it anymore or turn off completely. A bit like the TV in the medical waiting room with some sort of nauseous day-time chat show, or 24-hour news, builder's radio etc. Even the AFL has done that to me now - so much coverage and a public holiday that whereas I was once interested in at least the finals I couldn't tell you who won the Premiership last season. It's not confined to the media, or sport, either. Do you remember HazChem signs and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in workplaces? It seemed like every gate in Melbourne had a HazChem sign on it (in fact some wag even suggested that the city had been renamed "HazChem") and every chemical on the premises had to have an MSDS and we all had to be trained in their use (even the cleaner had to be trained on how to use Harpic and Ajax)? Well a lot of the signs are still there (although probably no-one knows where the MSDS are kept), but even though you "see" them every day you don't have any consciousness of doing so. BTW Melbourne is called Naarm now... Edited August 22, 2023 by jw1739 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjake1234 Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 36 minutes ago, citypool said: Has anyone managed to get someone who followed the wwc to an match? Agreed. Would be a great way to acknowledge what the girls have done for women's football and football in general to have whoever is available from the Matildas squad do a circuit before the game in an open vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 Pretty much all my crowd from City matches followed the WWC, and one made both the AusEng semi and the final. Was a constant source of conversation in my office and several colleagues also attending matches. I got tickets for one and would have gone to more if I could have got more tickets. And I'm always selling the idea of going to watch City to friends and colleagues. WWC is just one more point of contact. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citypool Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 6 hours ago, jw1739 said: I don't know anyone who followed the WWC. A mate and I went to the Morocco-Germany match, but we left at 4-0 once the wave started (a sure sign of total boredom) to catch an early train home before the rush. Perhaps it's the nature of Australian media, or media everywhere?, but there's a fine line between extensive coverage and over-saturation, and when the latter occurs people simply don't hear it anymore or turn off completely. A bit like the TV in the medical waiting room with some sort of nauseous day-time chat show, or 24-hour news, builder's radio etc. Even the AFL has done that to me now - so much coverage and a public holiday that whereas I was once interested in at least the finals I couldn't tell you who won the Premiership last season. It's not confined to the media, or sport, either. Do you remember HazChem signs and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) in workplaces? It seemed like every gate in Melbourne had a HazChem sign on it (in fact some wag even suggested that the city had been renamed "HazChem") and every chemical on the premises had to have an MSDS and we all had to be trained in their use (even the cleaner had to be trained on how to use Harpic and Ajax)? Well a lot of the signs are still there (although probably no-one knows where the MSDS are kept), but even though you "see" them every day you don't have any consciousness of doing so. BTW Melbourne is called Naarm now... I think you're sick of Melbourne in general 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted August 22, 2023 Report Share Posted August 22, 2023 1 hour ago, citypool said: I think you're sick of Melbourne in general Quite right. I am. I was transferred here in 1991 from Hobart, and since then the population of metro Melbourne has grown by just over 2 million to the 5.2m that it is today. We are choking ourselves with our ever-expanding suburbs and inability to provide infrastructure to support the expansion. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IssySG Posted August 23, 2023 Report Share Posted August 23, 2023 Just got emailed my ticket for Sunday from the club. Bring on the battering 🥰 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted August 24, 2023 Report Share Posted August 24, 2023 I received my email too, and have downloaded and printed the ticket, but my wife didn't. I'll try her membership number later on to see whether it let's me in to buy her ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommykins Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 If Alex Paulsen turns into a brick wall again I swear to god. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Strongest line-up we've fielded so far this off season! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Looking much more assured and a lot less rusty than the previous round. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 1-0 up, nice goal from Ugarkivoc, but it will be given to Jakolis I think with the deflection. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 5 minutes ago, moops said: 1-0 up, nice goal from Ugarkivoc, but it will be given to Jakolis I think with the deflection. Doesn't really matter, what counts is we're up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommykins Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Talbot is cooked, couldn't warm back up and won't be back on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 16 minutes ago, Tommykins said: Talbot is cooked, couldn't warm back up and won't be back on. Caught a heavy tackle in the first half. Looked like he'd been hurt at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Sakhi looked good on debut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Such a good chance, Macca did really well there to pinch the ball and cut back These commentators have less life in them than my socks after a 12 hr shift. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Nice team goal that, Macca scores And another, nice strike from Macca. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 13 minutes ago, moops said: Sakhi looked good on debut. Reckon all the visas so far are looking solid!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Lovely pass from Antonis to make the second goal. From what we've seen so far he's been a really canny pick up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 2 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said: Reckon all the visas so far are looking solid!! Agree, even Souprayen looks quite good, handy on the ball as well. 6 minutes ago, fensaddler said: Lovely pass from Antonis to make the second goal. From what we've seen so far he's been a really canny pick up. Agree again, he's looking really good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 (edited) 25 minutes ago, moops said: Such a good chance, Macca did really well there to pinch the ball and cut back These commentators have less life in them than my socks after a 12 hr shift. Did everything well except the layoff, outside right bobling ball. Edited August 27, 2023 by Mr MO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Looking like a good squad. Some central defensive reinforcement and we look set. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Solid second half Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citypool Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Quarter finals!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 22 minutes ago, fensaddler said: Lovely pass from Antonis to make the second goal. From what we've seen so far he's been a really canny pick up. He's going to be a real asset coming off the bench! Will still get starts with ACL coming up... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofhearts Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 What's with all the positivity today. Is everyone alright 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, kingofhearts said: What's with all the positivity today. Is everyone alright Well we finally beat the sheep shaggers in the round of 16. Let us be happy for now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marn11 Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 Very impressed with Ugarkovic. Think he's going to thrive in our system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommykins Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 So I think that was quite good overall, some observations, most of them good. The midfield duo of Arslan and Sakhi will be very good going forward, but lacked a lot of positional discipline when we were defending, entirely reasonable as Sakhi has only played his first game, Macca has his critiques but the bloke gets through an absolute power of work in terms of stopping simple balls out for defenders and that was lacking from the two midfielders behind him. They were both excellent on the ball and Antonis will provide good cover for when we need to shut games down a bit. Jakolis and Leckie are going to do absolutely polar opposite things on the wing, with Jakolis spending a lot of time absolutely pinned to the touchline, which will be very different to what our wingers have offered in the past few years. Leckie + Behich makes me very happy as a left hand side combination, they're going to cause absolute havoc to a lot of teams this year. Nuno is still not a right back, and Souprayen looked very unsure on the ball - he and Young are going to give us more than one heart attack moment throughout the year. Ugarkovic is probably as close to a Neill lite as we could have got. Zane Schreiber has very impressive hair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 7 minutes ago, marn11 said: Very impressed with Ugarkovic. Think he's going to thrive in our system. He's about as good as we were going to get when trying to replace O'Neil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 (edited) 40 minutes ago, MHFC-FAN said: He's about as good as we were going to get when trying to replace O'Neil. I remember playing WSW a while back and Urgakovic gave us issues with distribution but we also struggled to get the ball off him. Like a lot of midfielders, unrated by many. Perhaps he’s never had the team around him for fully shine. Knowing what I’ve seen from him in the past I was never really concerned but the O’Neill bar is quite high, not sure if he will go that level. With O’neill it took ages for some of our fans to realize how influential Aidan was, even in earlier seasons. Another one was McGree, there was people saying how poor he was. Edited August 27, 2023 by Mr MO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 (edited) Not being a particularly noted analyst I had a somewhat different assessment of today's match. I was at the match and the low seating will give a different perspective on the match from that seen on TV. I didn't think Wellington had much to offer at all, certainly less than Oakleigh had, except for height in the box; this I feel is going to trouble us all season both going forward and at the back. I thought that our defence was a lot sharper than it had been before. Aziz looked as though he'd never left us. Reis seems to be copping some criticism but I don't see why - he seems to have lost a lot of bulk and is paring well with Good. Souprayen looked very assured to me in his first appearance, and Young looked sharp enough to me. The team loses nothing when Hall comes on a substitute too. The midfield of Ugarkovic/Antonis, Sakhi and Arslan looks good to me; if we were voting I'd give Sakhi three points. JMac was a different man from what he was two weeks ago, and as already mentioned he chased hard and to much better effect than before - one point to him for the two well-taken and deserved goals. On the wings I'm still not sure that we've quite got it all together yet - the crosses aren't effective enough. There's still some woeful shooting too - evidenced in the warm-up drill as well as in the match. My two points would go to Good for holding the defence together pretty well all match. The first goal seems to be being credited to Steven Ugarkovic (except on the Football Australia website https://www.australiacup.com.au/match/melbourne-city-fc-v-wellington-phoenix-australia-cup-28-08-2023/22278552) even though it clearly took a deflection from Arslan. I estimate the crowd to be somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 but I will post a figure when I see one. Edited August 27, 2023 by jw1739 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 1 hour ago, jw1739 said: Not being a particularly noted analyst I had a somewhat different assessment of today's match. I was at the match and the low seating will give a different perspective on the match from that seen on TV. I didn't think Wellington had much to offer at all, certainly less than Oakleigh had, except for height in the box; this I feel is going to trouble us all season both going forward and at the back. I thought that our defence was a lot sharper than it had been before. Aziz looked as though he'd never left us. Reis seems to be copping some criticism but I don't see why - he seems to have lost a lot of bulk and is paring well with Good. Souprayen looked very assured to me in his first appearance, and Young looked sharp enough to me. The team loses nothing when Hall comes on a substitute too. The midfield of Ugarkovic/Antonis, Sakhi and Arslan looks good to me; if we were voting I'd give Sakhi three points. JMac was a different man from what he was two weeks ago, and as already mentioned he chased hard and to much better effect than before - one point to him for the two well-taken and deserved goals. On the wings I'm still not sure that we've quite got it all together yet - the crosses aren't effective enough. There's still some woeful shooting too - evidenced in the warm-up drill as well as in the match. My two points would go to Good for holding the defence together pretty well all match. The first goal seems to be being credited to Steven Ugarkovic (except on the Football Australia website https://www.australiacup.com.au/match/melbourne-city-fc-v-wellington-phoenix-australia-cup-28-08-2023/22278552) even though it clearly took a deflection from Arslan. I estimate the crowd to be somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 but I will post a figure when I see one. I watched on TV and I would struggle to disagree with much of that. We were much sharper all over the pitch. None of the rusty doziness from the Oakleigh game. Us much better or Wellington worse? I'd give us a lot of credit TBH. The defence looked way sounder and the midfield is beginning to click. McLaren was simply a different player. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icantthinkofacoolname Posted August 27, 2023 Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 I quite like the ground in Oakleigh for when we can't play at AAMI. Still technically South-East since that's what the clubs been wanting lately, but sooo much easier than going all the way to bloody Cranbourne and actually a nice place to hang out and get a meal and a beer before/after the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHFC-FAN Posted August 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2023 11 minutes ago, icantthinkofacoolname said: I quite like the ground in Oakleigh for when we can't play at AAMI. Still technically South-East since that's what the clubs been wanting lately, but sooo much easier than going all the way to bloody Cranbourne and actually a nice place to hang out and get a meal and a beer before/after the game. Plus the pitch looked decent quality, well at least on TV it did... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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