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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

hellas_johnny said:
One of things the club should have done is looked to sign the best 22 and under year old around Victoria to put on the ressie roster. At the same time the club also let go 2 perfectly good 20 year old in spink and khaddour who would have been perfect players for the u23 squad. I don't know their circumstances on why they left but being under 23 we could have had them in the ressies roster. Preston for example have Peios on the u23 list.

Van riet, osullivan papadimitriou dovison skapoulas saristavros all have showed they're good enough senior members but the drop off in the next tier with the agelatos etc is too big to fill a senior side.

We should look to sign lofthouse and acton to replace Singh and trenkov mourdaktis from auckland would be good defensive depth also. Javi is getting older so if he retired then Acton could take the reigns next season. Sprinkle in manny and you've got a winning team.
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Hey thats not bad.......

The one thing with Spink and Khadoor though is that they are getting senior NPL matchtime, I dont blame them for leaving to get minutes with another club...
 
southmelb said:
Spink and Khaddour would be in Auckland now if we still had them.

Spink 100% should have been retained.

Mourdakoutis would be good, i mean whats he gonna do after the ofc? Same goes for Acton and Lofthouse.

Problem is these guys will probably want to be starting 11 players week in week out and thats not going to happen.

Where as a Manny or Feutz drops Swibel to the bench straight away.
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exactly right.
 
southmelb said:
Spink and Khaddour would be in Auckland now if we still had them.

Spink 100% should have been retained.

Mourdakoutis would be good, i mean whats he gonna do after the ofc? Same goes for Acton and Lofthouse.

Problem is these guys will probably want to be starting 11 players week in week out and thats not going to happen.

Where as a Manny or Feutz drops Swibel to the bench straight away.
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Tass Mourdoukoutas would be a very good pick up as a Centre Back to complement Jankovic and Eliopoulos.

Lofthouse would be a great attacking option upfront. Plays that attacking forward role so well. Acton would not want to sit on the bench given we have Lopez. Unless the plan is to find a quality replacement for Lopez, so Acton could fill that void from 2027 onwards.

If it were not for the visa spot restrictions, I would also look at David Yoo from South Island and Liam Gillion from Auckland.

The addition of Mourdoukoutas, Lofthouse, and Feutz would give us quality and depth. Just need a decent midfielder and the squad becomes extremely strong. Don't forget, that these players are not cup tied, so they can play in the Australia Cup !

With the above in mind, you release Shalamanov-Trenkov and Singh. You loan out Lackay and Coveny.

That means Inglese, O'Sullivan, Burchmore-Gore, Menelaou, Leech, Pope, Dovison, and Mesourouni effectively become your bench players. That's a pretty strong bench to provide fresh legs and cover for any injuries and suspensions.
 
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Monoethnic Social Club said:
The one thing with Spink and Khadoor though is that they are getting senior NPL matchtime, I dont blame them for leaving to get minutes with another club...
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Spink left because of a lack of match time. He moved from the Gold Coast and was not getting much match time last season. No hard feelings there.

Khaddour only played 3 matches with us in the Australian Championship and was always away on international duty with Lebanon. It would not surprise me if the club was not fussed that he departed.
 
SMFC1959 said:
Spink left because of a lack of match time. He moved from the Gold Coast and was not getting much match time last season. No hard feelings there.
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Spink contonues to remind me every chance he is a second string player at best...
SMFC1959 said:
Khaddour only played 3 matches with us in the Australian Championship and was always away on international duty with Lebanon. It would not surprise me if the club was not fussed that he departed.
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KHaddour had his chance and couldnt break our staring 11... woulsnt leave abyone out for him imo. For me we are covered here...
SMFC1959 said:
Tass Mourdoukoutas would be a very good pick up as a Centre Back to complement Jankovic and Eliopoulos.
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I prefer the melb city giant easier to mould into a starter ...
SMFC1959 said:
Lofthouse would be a great attacking option upfront.
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100%
SMFC1959 said:
Plays that attacking forward role so well. Acton would not want to sit on the bench given we have Lopez. Unless the plan is to find a quality replacement for Lopez, so Acton could fill that void from 2027 onwards.
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Only if lopez is looking to move on amd even then id try for Hilton first as the most ideal replacement.
SMFC1959 said:
The addition of Mourdoukoutas, Lofthouse, and Feutz would give us quality and depth. Just need a decent midfielder and the squad becomes extremely strong. Don't forget, that these players are not cup tied, so they can play in the Australia Cup !
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Thats the advantage.. feutz would fit perfectly imo also..
SMFC1959 said:
With the above in mind, you release Shalamanov-Trenkov and Singh. You loan out Lackay and Coveny.
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Or keep just lackay so @Monoethnic Social Club doesnt blame me and my dislike of him...hahaha
SMFC1959 said:
That means Inglese, O'Sullivan, Burchmore-Gore, Menelaou, Leech, Pope, Dovison, and Mesourouni effectively become your bench players. That's a pretty strong bench to provide fresh legs and cover for any injuries and suspensions.
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Yep!
 
Alot of this comes down to budget. If we win the OFC Pro League, then invest some of that into signing better players.

However, the majority of that money should be locked away in the bank and not touched! I might be old school, but cash is king !
 
Hilton who is currently on Auckland’s bench ( A league team) would be a good choice for a keeper if he doesn’t sign on not sure if the Striker from Melbourne city who scored 4 on Bentleigh would be a good pick up he probably has a A league contract not sure I don’t watch much A league

Also we need to start keeping an eye on released A league players
 
KostaV92 said:
Hilton who is currently on Auckland’s bench ( A league team) would be a good choice for a keeper if he doesn’t sign on not sure if the Striker from Melbourne city who scored 4 on Bentleigh would be a good pick up he probably has a A league contract not sure I don’t watch much A league

Also we need to start keeping an eye on released A league players
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Reckon you are right on the money here!
 
If Sydney beat newcastle tomorrow could we end up being part of a double header grand final in Auckland?
 
southmelb said:
If Sydney beat newcastle tomorrow could we end up being part of a double header grand final in Auckland?
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There won't be a double header for the OFC Pro League and A-League Men grand finals because the OFC Pro League grand final has been confirmed for Eden Park whilst Auckland FC would be playing at Mount Smart Stadium should they get hosting rights.
 
Good to see Heidelberg and Oakleigh drew last night. That minimises the damage slightly during our focus on OFC Pro League.

I’m hoping the Hume vs Avondale match ends in a draw as well.

I’m going to say something that everyone will think I’m nuts. We need the U23s to grind out a 1-0 win over CS George Cross. It’s very unlikely, but the kids need to believe in themselves and give it a good go.

If everything goes our way, we could be only 1 win off top spot. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking.
 
I think Monday might go close to our heaviest defeat, George Cross are not a ball playing team, they're physical and rough and play heavily for set pieces, our kids are very undersized, this wont be a team moving the ball side to side, they will be pumping it into our box and sadly that style of play is very confronting for a team of youth. I hope im horribly off the mark here but i suspect it will play out like that.

You could put together an all star team of under 23s from every club and they'd still lose to green gully.
 
southmelb said:
I think Monday might go close to our heaviest defeat, George Cross are not a ball playing team, they're physical and rough and play heavily for set pieces, our kids are very undersized, this wont be a team moving the ball side to side, they will be pumping it into our box and sadly that style of play is very confronting for a team of youth. I hope im horribly off the mark here but i suspect it will play out like that.

You could put together an all star team of under 23s from every club and they'd still lose to green gully.
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You’re right. That’s the part that makes me nervous about CS George Cross - the physicality. If we were at full strength, we would have smashed them 4-0.

They will go hard into tackles, intimidate the kids with their hack tactics, and try and pinch a goal from a set piece. The U23s will need to move the ball quickly to put CS George Cross under real pressure. It will take a moment of brilliance to win it. We just need Van Riet, Saristavros, Dovison, Durso, and the Angelatos brothers to play the match of their lives on Monday night. Get a win here and that undoes the Melbourne City Yth loss. Still annoyed they took Pope, O’Sullivan, Mesourouni, Singh and Leech to Auckland. They would have created a spine to build around.
 
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