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I’m worried about the depth now if we don’t sign anyone next week, we have let so many decent young fringe players go this window without finding any suitable replacements. This may come back to bite us in years to come. I hope I’m wrong
 
nplvic.insight said:
I’m worried about the depth now if we don’t sign anyone next week, we have let so many decent young fringe players go this window without finding any suitable replacements. This may come back to bite us in years to come. I hope I’m wrong
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Problem is they would remain at best fringe players at us (dovison is a good example of who i wouldve kept in place of lackay minimum), i can understand they would be looking for regular football and they wouldnt have broken into the first team, and i agree that our depth is seriously lacking but we are currently in need of ready players, our under 23s have sone serious talent that can fill the fringe need moving forward, this is why this window and the au champ one was so important.. we need a CB and a steiker none of those released cover those key needs imo...

Had we been having this convo npl/ofc start id be arguing same as you and more about need for those players..
 
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Didn't get to the game today as I was at the footy but glad I missed it. I don't understand meneleu played alright vs hume in the middle with Tommy at the back. Hume a team 2nd on the table yet now we have reverted to just pasquali in the middle. There is no presence and control teams cut us up. If meneleu is injured then pope should be starting pope played a big role on staving off relegation last year and deserves more of the chance he's been crucified this season with lack of opportunity. The other alternative being to give coveny or osullivan a go at centre back to move Tommy back to middle.

As mentioned sinisa looks defeated but it's looking more like its not his fault when he has to start a certain player. I was okay with him coming off the bench for 20 minutes or so but he can't be starting ffs. The only good thing he has is a good shot on him and half the time the ball gets stuck between his feet before he can shoot ffs.
 
hellas_johnny said:
The only good thing he has is a good shot on him and half the time the ball gets stuck between his feet before he can shoot ffs.
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He has a good shot off a set piece. I've never seen him strike a good ball in the npl in open play, he gets closed down quickly, ball gets stuck between his feet, then loses it and the opposition launch a scoring opportunity, meanwhile he doesnt run.

Its going to start getting toxic soon because he knows the supporters dont want him, and hes showing early signs of going into epifano mode with the crowd.

Its staggering that his dad is putting him in this position. Its not personal, hes just shit.

We are in a crisis and one president has planted his son in the first 11 whilst the other i think is in Greece living it up.
 
southmelb said:
Sinisa has pretty much lost me now. He looks disinterested, his starting lineups are stupid, our formation is disjointed, he takes too long to make subs when the games start getting away from us.

If you're being forced to play Messourouni hand in your resignation, nobody would hold it against him. This situation is only sabotaging his coaching career.
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Yep.. the minute he took the dirty plaster money is the minute all credibility went out the window. His handler says "play my son or else' and he does... so sad.
 
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SMFC1959 said:
Nothing today made sense. Was just an awful day at Lakeside. We look disjointed, slow and lacking any killer instinct.

I don’t know how we manage to make weaker opposition look so good. With Giannakopoulos moving back to defence meant we lost a bit of our midfield strength. Don’t understand why we didn’t start Menelaou or Leech to replace Giannakopoulos. Our midfield was practically nonexistent.

As for that certain player that was playing in attack, the sooner this ends the better. It does no good to that player or to the team if this continues. Perhaps a stint in the U23s for a game or two would help diffuse the situation.

Cocks and Mikkola were not great today. Worryingly, Mikkola had not been in form for a few matches.

If Bonada had scored one of his two big chances, then we could have been talking about a different scoreline. But maybe that would have papered over worrying cracks.

We desperately need 3 points against Dandy Thunder next week. I truly don’t know whether we’ll do that.
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I agree.. AS much as that nepo dipshit rightly gets canned by fans for being a waste of space, the rest of the squad wasn't stellar last night.. Lampard had a shocker, Painter Andrews looked like he wasnt really there... Yuki doesn belong centrally. Mikkola? Was he even on the field?

I saw a lot of heads down from coaching staff AND players... only one animated was the bearded burbler on the balcony responding to jeers at his son... The NPL season is over... we wont go down but wont play finals for two years in a row....

Fucking crying shame.
 
southmelb said:
I find it hard to believe a club of our stature cant sign players. Its clear they dont want to spend. Even Dandy City getting Dekker and Courtney Perkins, those would be good signings. We cant find solid npl players at all?

This whole thing of not wanting to bring "just anyone in" is also an excuse to justify us not doing anything.

Maybe its all being done on purpose so Messourouni keeps playing, who knows.

Inglese should have been kept until at least the end of the transfer window, why is Ethan O Sullivan not even on the bench when Painter Andrews is arguably the worst rb in the league?(defending). Is Menelaou injured? Again baffling.

This club owes us big time, they've subjected us to having to watch our team play overseas for months, made us sit through countless games where we were either understrength or outright uncompetitve with kids, and now they wanna throw in the towel?

Now the signs suggest that we wont take anything seriously until the Aus championship in October? I meam wtf was my membership for.
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Would you sign for a club that sacks their most successful coach in years and then 2 days latter re-signs him?
 
SMFC1959 said:
I don’t understand why we threw away and self sabotaged our NPL season.

That month of May where the club made that ridiculous decision to play the U20s/U23s was a sign that the club had not taken the NPL seriously enough. We have dropped so many points this season.

We have not won the NPL Victoria title since 2016. This was the year meant to change that - we have just absolutely stuffed this up.
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Why? Because the people who have the time and finances to chair our club only do it for their own glorification.

I dont mind if we try new things, yes even Oceania although it was a flop. I mind that personal ego is getting in the way of a decent squad being able to do a decent job... JUST PUT THE BEST 11 ON THE FIELD every week and let the managers do their job... it not hard.

Even with no new signings this window we are a top 4 side... its undeniable... The balcony cunts just need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up........
 
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southmelb said:
He has a good shot off a set piece. I've never seen him strike a good ball in the npl in open play, he gets closed down quickly, ball gets stuck between his feet, then loses it and the opposition launch a scoring opportunity, meanwhile he doesnt run.

Its going to start getting toxic soon because he knows the supporters dont want him, and hes showing early signs of going into epifano mode with the crowd.

Its staggering that his dad is putting him in this position. Its not personal, hes just shit.

We are in a crisis and one president has planted his son in the first 11 whilst the other i think is in Greece living it up.
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That was our conversation yesterday too.

"Its staggering that his dad is putting him in this position. Its not personal, hes just shit."

I get a dad wanting to do whatever he can for his son.. shit most of us with kids have turned a blind eye to their failings at one point or another, but what sort of a shit parent puts his son in the situation he is in now? The kid isn't a bad bloke, he is just being made the scapegoat because he isnt talented enough to play first. team.
 
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Think we are also seeing the cracks emerge in Sinisas coaching. It really gets ugly for us when we fall behind, plan B seems to be just lump it forward and try get on the end of scraps, except we are no longer a tall team.

Its becoming a concerning trend that if we fall a goal down we have no real response.
 
southmelb said:
Think we are also seeing the cracks emerge in Sinisas coaching. It really gets ugly for us when we fall behind, plan B seems to be just lump it forward and try get on the end of scraps, except we are no longer a tall team.

Its becoming a concerning trend that if we fall a goal down we have no real response.
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Aside from that the need for a quuck response isnt even instinctive imo...we didnt wake up after the 1st goal or reacted qith any kind of urgency.. i get stick to the gameplan mentality but shouldnt there be a bit of a gameplan to begin with?
 
Preston and Avondale are driving wages to levels we cant compete with.

That said how we didnt swoop on the dandenong thunder firesale is mind boggling. Even the players Sydney Olympic are getting, Armenakos, Zoricich etc would have been huge.

I dont think anyone wants to come. We keep talking about building for the Aus championship but it wouldnt surprise me if we actually end up shedding some of the names we picked up last year.

It didnt have to be this way.
 
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