malloy Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 17 hours ago, neio said: He needs to learn to slow himself down, he runs to quick for his brain and it makes him rush everything when alot of the time he doesn't need to He also probably isn't a starter at this point of his career Based on what I have heard, a slow walk would be too quick for his brain.. That being said I think (at this time) there is still a place for him in the squad. I don't mind having someone like him to sub on late in the game to just run at tiring full backs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewConvert Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 7 hours ago, jw1739 said: Agree. I like him - well worth a contract IMO. Exciting player, just the sort you want for the last 25 minutes when the defence is tiring. Every time he gets the ball you know something is going to happen. He'll get better if we keep him and develop him further. Optimistic. It does not matter that he can run into a tiring defence if he can't score. When he gets the ball I am confident that the ball will go directly at the opposition's goal and then the chance will be squandered. Can he develop? That is the question. And I am certain that the answer not much more, he is at his peak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, NewConvert said: Optimistic. It does not matter that he can run into a tiring defence if he can't score. When he gets the ball I am confident that the ball will go directly at the opposition's goal and then the chance will be squandered. Can he develop? That is the question. And I am certain that the answer not much more, he is at his peak. Agree with what you are saying. We have players on 3 times his wage and facing similar issues, slower and with less drive - that’s where your problems derive from not this kid. He’s a bench player and will not always carry starting game responsibility. He’s been refreshing coming of the bench. I wish this forum would be as critical on the senior players sometimes as they do with the kids. Edited January 12, 2020 by Mr MO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 9 minutes ago, Mr MO said: Agree with what are saying. We have players on 3 times his wage and facing the similar issues, slower and with less drive - that’s where your problems derive from not this kid. He’s a bench player and always carry this starting game responsibility. He’s been refreshing coming of the bench. I wish this forum would be as critical on the senior players sometimes as they do with the kids. Absolutely. Look at Berenguer - a so-called marquee player ambling about the field at half-pace and also can't put the ball in the net. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommykins Posted January 12, 2020 Report Share Posted January 12, 2020 I don't mind Wales - but I kinda preferred Fitzgerald (whose career has disappeared since he left us), whom he replaced in terms of what he brought to the team. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red or Dead Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 On 25/06/2018 at 7:17 AM, IssySG said: The best youth of Australia continue to flock to City Yeah, this guy's got nothing bar some fancy stepovers! I'd take Kuzmanovski's stepovers any day! After the Wellington match Colakovski should definitely start ahead of Wales! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 IMO the blowtorch should be applied first to the highly-paid players. They're the ones who should be stepping up every match, and especially in the key matches. It's fair to criticise all players, but let's get our priorities right. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k o Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 34 minutes ago, jw1739 said: IMO the blowtorch should be applied first to the highly-paid players. They're the ones who should be stepping up every match, and especially in the key matches. It's fair to criticise all players, but let's get our priorities right. He doesn't hold the most responsibility for the loss. Just to make that clear. However let's just talk about him though...  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayv36 Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 Wales is a reasonable a-league bench player. He can create havoc with his speed and looks to take players on but his end product is dreadful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IssySG Posted February 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 15 hours ago, Red or Dead said: Yeah, this guy's got nothing bar some fancy stepovers! I'd take Kuzmanovski's stepovers any day! After the Wellington match Colakovski should definitely start ahead of Wales! I mean yeah it's easy to take a cheap shot a year and a half later with the power of retrospect, but at the time he signed on he seemed like a really good young prospect. Obviously it's panned out differently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn Asunder Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 3 hours ago, rayv36 said: Wales is a reasonable a-league bench player. He can create havoc with his speed and looks to take players on but his end product is dreadful. Wales' most effective position for us would be if he played for another team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 43 minutes ago, Torn Asunder said: Wales' most effective position for us would be if he played for another overseas team FTFY. It is almost guaranteed that if he went to another A League club he would somehow learn to shoot and becone one of the top 5 wingers in the league. For no reason other than that we got rid of him.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityBoyz Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 51 minutes ago, malloy said: FTFY. It is almost guaranteed that if he went to another A League club he would somehow learn to shoot and becone one of the top 5 wingers in the league. For no reason other than that we got rid of him.. Not Sure about that he missed a Open goal from the centre of the box vs Sydney when he was at CCM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 40 minutes ago, CityBoyz said: Not Sure about that he missed a Open goal from the centre of the box vs Sydney when he was at CCM Aziz Behich did something similar too, if you recall.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rass Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 Still reckon Mauk v Man City was the best.. or worst, whichever way you look at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofhearts Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 I reckon if we give this guy one more season he'll turn good just you wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn Asunder Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 (edited) Can you teach what he has missing? Not sure ... what he lacks in finish and composure, you either have it, or your don't Edited February 18, 2020 by Torn Asunder 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartFc Posted February 18, 2020 Report Share Posted February 18, 2020 Poor kid but all is not lost. Once he gets deep into his dirty 30's that big night out with 'Swinging Sokhanya' will transfer into the wank bank and it'll be happy days.   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCiTyZeNXx Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 Wales has had 2 years to prove himself. I get the first season being lackluster but this is his third season and he has had easy opportunities to score and he misses almost every chance he has. He shouldn't even be on the bench, he should be in the NPL. This is the problem with the youth league, all these "potential" players are killing it against little 17 year old kids but why don't they put all these youth in the NPL and see how good they are. I ain't saying the NPL is good but what I am saying is if they can dominate in a state division then they are ready for the A-league and all these Aleague youth teams should properly be apart of the State leagues...or...help NPL teams out by signing players from there clubs if the players have shown to be dominating the State division season after season 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 1 hour ago, xXCiTyZeNXx said: Wales has had 2 years to prove himself. I get the first season being lackluster but this is his third season and he has had easy opportunities to score and he misses almost every chance he has. He shouldn't even be on the bench, he should be in the NPL. This is the problem with the youth league, all these "potential" players are killing it against little 17 year old kids but why don't they put all these youth in the NPL and see how good they are. I ain't saying the NPL is good but what I am saying is if they can dominate in a state division then they are ready for the A-league and all these Aleague youth teams should properly be apart of the State leagues...or...help NPL teams out by signing players from there clubs if the players have shown to be dominating the State division season after season Our youth teams do play in the NPL setup. As for signing NPL players, my understanding is that quite a few don't want to become full-time professional footballers. They would rather do a real job during normal business hours and then train and play football for a decent sum on top of that. The latter will finish most likely by the age of 35, whereas their day job/trade/profession will likely last for all their working life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rass Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, jw1739 said: Our youth teams do play in the NPL setup. As for signing NPL players, my understanding is that quite a few don't want to become full-time professional footballers. They would rather do a real job during normal business hours and then train and play football for a decent sum on top of that. The latter will finish most likely by the age of 35, whereas their day job/trade/profession will likely last for all their working life. Of course they would. Lots of money to go around for them, given the way those clubs subsidise it by still charging juniors through the nose for the 'privilege' to play for an NPL club... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCiTyZeNXx Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 (edited) What i am saying is the whole youth league needs to be scrapped and they all should be playing for the A League clubs NPL team or like again help our local clubs by signing the young players if they constantly dominating the NPL. I'm not a guy to start going on about the NSL or NPL but look at a lot of our decent Socceroos we have had Behich- started at green gully before Victory Ivan Franjic- started at Melbourne Knights and St Albans Mile Jedinak- Sydney United then when A-league started he went to CCM Matt Jurman- Sydney Olympic before Sydney FC Matt Leckie- Bulleen Lions before Adelaide Matt Ryan- Blacktown and Marconi before CCM Tom Rogic- ACT club before CCM  There are many more too. Don't get me wrong there are some who did tryouts for a league clubs as a kid and they became decent players like Taggart as an example but they didn't play for a crappy youth league full of kids who generally don't make the cut and get booted out of the club once they are past 18. Scrap this youth league and let them play with the men in the NPL and see how they hold up     This should probably be said in the Youth League thread but on the topic of Wales he isn't good enough for the A-league and we should have never got him in the first place because he did nothing at CCM. The kid should try to make a name for himself in the NPL including all the rest of the crappy youth players teams have mostly brought out from the crap youth team. I swear 1 in 50 youth league players r somewhat okay across the whole Aleague.  And if these players r generally becoming good like Arzani then they should stay in the Aleague and bloody prove themselves instead of getting big egos. Look at players like Mauk, Oar and Pasquale. They though they were hot shit without properly proving themselves here Edited February 19, 2020 by xXCiTyZeNXx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted February 19, 2020 Report Share Posted February 19, 2020 As I saw with the ACL game last night (Sydney v Yokohama) we need to be picking technical players over athletic ones, players like Wales are the wrong direction to playing better football, as athleticism can be improved much easier than ball skills. England has finally learnt this, about time we cottoned on to it as well. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric forman Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 Beyond Football is back again this week! Matt sits down one on one with Lachlan Wales,. Wales has had a tough 2019/2020 with trouble at an Olyroos camp seeing himself and others banned from the qualification decider as well as some tough runs of form for Melbourne City. Hear about how he bounces back from the tough times, the Olyroos qualification as well as his plans to rectify some form issues for City. https://media.acast.com/…/beyondfootball-lachlanw…/media.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moops Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 I don't understand when people say moving away from home is tough, I moved out virtually on my 16th birthday (when I could get some government support), ended up finishing school, getting a job and buying a house when I was 22, I just don't understand it. As I say someone needs to teach these kids the fuck off mentality, I was playing senior cricket at fourteen, I was facing their main fast bowler and hit him for some leg glances that went for fours. He obviously got pissed off this little kid was scoring off him and the next two balls were bouncers as fast as he could bowl, I said fuck you and stepped towards the ball, either I was going to hit it or it would give me a shiner, I ended up scoring two fours and two sixes in that over. Another time I was put up in the batting order so wanted to play myself in, being cautious was terrible, it had me mentally thinking defensive and rather than naturally playing, I was trying to be to technical about it, sometimes you just have to back yourself and say fuck off. Same in football (i usually played fullback) the worst games were when I tried to play within myself, when I said fuck you and took players on I ended up frustrating the opposition, or getting a goal or assist. Yes he get's into good positions but he is probably thinking to much, he just needs that fuck off mentality and hit the thing. Not necessarily Wales, but in the A League there are so many shots that get skied, I think the mentality is the main thing causing this. Harper goes on about leaning back when striking the ball, but leaning back makes the ball dip, I learnt this at 12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Can we dress up Wales to look like Genreau and send him to Macarthur? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahanga Posted February 25, 2020 Report Share Posted February 25, 2020 Great interview with Lachie. Having been shocked by the transformation of D’Agostino and to a lesser extent Blackwood this season, I do wonder if Wales has the same potential in him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haz Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 7 hours ago, Shahanga said: Great interview with Lachie. Having been shocked by the transformation of D’Agostino and to a lesser extent Blackwood this season, I do wonder if Wales has the same potential in him. D'Agostino: 38 Games, 1900 Mins, 22 Years Old Blackwood: 73 Games, 5000 Mins, 22 Years Old Wales: 54 Games, 3400 Mins, 22 Years Old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 16 minutes ago, haz said: D'Agostino: 38 Games, 1900 Mins, 22 Years Old Blackwood: 73 Games, 5000 Mins, 22 Years Old Wales: 54 Games, 3400 Mins, 22 Years Old Late bloomer mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityBoyz Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 8 hours ago, Shahanga said: Great interview with Lachie. Having been shocked by the transformation of D’Agostino and to a lesser extent Blackwood this season, I do wonder if Wales has the same potential in him. Blackwood and D’Agostino are streets ahead of Wales they have somewhat of end product.. He’s been given more than enough game time to prove himself and tbh he hasn’t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahanga Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 16 minutes ago, CityBoyz said: Blackwood and D’Agostino are streets ahead of Wales they have somewhat of end product.. He’s been given more than enough game time to prove himself and tbh he hasn’t. 2 months ago you wouldn’t have said that. Both  couldnt hit the side of barn from a metre away. That was my point 48 minutes ago, haz said: D'Agostino: 38 Games, 1900 Mins, 22 Years Old Blackwood: 73 Games, 5000 Mins, 22 Years Old Wales: 54 Games, 3400 Mins, 22 Years Old So you agree with me then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 9 hours ago, Shahanga said: Great interview with Lachie. Having been shocked by the transformation of D’Agostino and to a lesser extent Blackwood this season, I do wonder if Wales has the same potential in him. Was a good interview. He’s a likeable young man, which took me by surprise. For whatever reason I thought he was going to be a bit arrogant but he comes across a nice, humble, dedicated kid. Just on his ability, I think he’s worth persisting with. Maybe just one more season, to see if he can’t get his shooting right. I remember watching him in the 1v1 finishing warm up drill before the derby and he was able to smash quite a few in the corner (as well as missing a few). As he says, he needs to focus on remaining composed and slowing himself down before and when he strikes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Hack Posted February 26, 2020 Report Share Posted February 26, 2020 Also think worth giving another season even though very frustrating at times. I keep coming back to us changing the team too much every season as one of the reasons we lack that mental strength from comradery that comes from a stable team 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Le Hack said: Also think worth giving another season even though very frustrating at times. I keep coming back to us changing the team too much every season as one of the reasons we lack that mental strength from comradery that comes from a stable team Changing the players who will constitute the starting 11 is an issue. Moving on bench players for better bench players is not.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CityBoyz Posted February 27, 2020 Report Share Posted February 27, 2020 4 hours ago, Le Hack said: Also think worth giving another season even though very frustrating at times. I keep coming back to us changing the team too much every season as one of the reasons we lack that mental strength from comradery that comes from a stable team Surely wouldn’t be an improved contract if he got one. Should be the same wage he gets which is around 70k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXCiTyZeNXx Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 I actually want to kick his head in even more because of that hairstyle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haz Posted July 30, 2020 Report Share Posted July 30, 2020 13 hours ago, xXCiTyZeNXx said: I actually want to kick his head in even more because of that hairstyle A blonde streak for every sitter he has missed 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citymad Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 Man this guy cops some bagging form some of you on here. And that is when he is a City Player! He will be in for a very hard time from you lot when he joins WU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 Leave him alone I say. I'm an oldie, and I just wish I still had the hair to have a style like that. You can bag him for his football if you must, but there are plenty worse hairstyles in the League. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrison Posted July 31, 2020 Report Share Posted July 31, 2020 He’s a likeable kid.  https://mobile.twitter.com/MelbourneCity/status/1286232082700673027 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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