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Round 5: City V Brisbane Meow @ Suncorp 24 Nov 7:50pm


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35 minutes ago, haz said:

Im going to be entertained reading this forum for the next few days if we lose.

 

On the other hand, if we play our best game of the season so far and win comfortably, im sure we will be hearing no compliments of Joyce from here.

Why compliment him? He recruited a squad around one striker, doesn’t have a back up and now drops him. Bruno is hopelessly out of form and certainly deserves to have a rest. But to me Joyce seems lost regardless of the result.

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11 minutes ago, Inchcolm said:

Hearing Bruno failed to achieve numbers in training and that's why he was left out. Can anyone explain what Joyce's training numbers are?

Dont know why people would be annoyed by this. If you dont perform in training, you wont be picked. Happened to Brattan last week.

People were complaining last season about 'favourites' getting picked, and now people complain about players getting dropped due to not performing.

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Just now, haz said:

Dont know why people would be annoyed by this. If you dont perform in training, you wont be picked. Happened to Brattan last week.

People were complaining last season about 'favourites' getting picked, and now people complain about players getting dropped due to not performing.

It's still a big call to drop a player on $1m per season. If it works there won't be many complaints, if it doesn't then Joyce can expect to get a barrage of criticism. It's not as if City is a popular or well-supported club.

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Fuck I hate Nick Meredith

Just now, jw1739 said:

It's still a big call to drop a player on $1m per season. If it works there won't be many complaints, if it doesn't then Joyce can expect to get a barrage of criticism. It's not as if City is a popular or well-supported club.

Yea its all part of football. But I sure will have the popcorn ready if we lose this game

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It wouldn't make any difference if Bruno was there, the service to him has been so bad, it's likely to have continued to be bad tonight. We're certainly missing O'Halloran, but, really, we don't have a creative number 10, and our defensive positioning and shape in defensive transition is poor and has been poor all season

1 minute ago, neio said:

Put on Najjarine, give us something exciting to look at

He should have started.

I can see a 3-0 or 3-1 loss

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1 minute ago, belaguttman said:

It wouldn't make any difference if Bruno was there, the service to him has been so bad, it's likely to have continued to be bad tonight. We're certainly missing O'Halloran, but, really, we don't have a creative number 10, and our defensive positioning and shape in defensive transition is poor and has been poor all season

Thank you

Huh Meredith actually talking sense for once

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one of the worst pound for pound squads ever put together in this league?

With our resources, to put this bunch of blokes together with no creativity is just diabolical.

not even sure how long I will stay invested this season, boring and horrible to watch with no prospects of success at all. just scoring is a win for us.

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Just now, CityHeart said:

one of the worst pound for pound squads ever put together in this league?

With our resources, to put this bunch of blokes together with no creativity is just diabolical.

not even sure how long I will stay invested this season, boring and horrible to watch with no prospects of success at all. just scoring is a win for us.

The lack of creativity is not down to the squad, it's the style, the tactics and the coaching

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16 minutes ago, haz said:

The bigger question about Bruno getting dropped is how did Brattan get back into the team?

You can’t drop everybody at the same time. Saying that Baccus is starting to show cracks going back backwards with forward movement, better put Brattan back in his spot.

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6 minutes ago, neio said:

Should we be concerned that our most likely scorer is playing at right back 

No we should be concerned that our players are playing out of position and our Marquee striker is not in Brisbane  , Wales is not a ST , McGree is not a Winger and Berenguer is not a Central Attacking Midfielder 

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13 minutes ago, belaguttman said:

It wouldn't make any difference if Bruno was there, the service to him has been so bad, it's likely to have continued to be bad tonight. We're certainly missing O'Halloran, but, really, we don't have a creative number 10, and our defensive positioning and shape in defensive transition is poor and has been poor all season

He should have started.

I can see a 3-0 or 3-1 loss

We have a number 10, he is playing on the left wing for some reason.

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Just now, belaguttman said:

Yes, but, again, lack of service.

as usual, ball movement is slow and movement off the ball in the front third is not opening any space or offering any runs.

Meredith did make a good point (also applies to Bruno when he plays), that our attackers dont get the ball facing the goal. Wales, McGree, Najjarine and Bruno can all take on their man. But getting the ball with their back to goal won't benefit the attack at all.

This happens due to the tactics of not playing direct, rather just passing it around.

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