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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

SMFC1959 said:
Last night's match was just wild.

We literally nearly threw away a quarter final spot against a Fremantle City team that was just happy to make it to the Round of 16.

I thought we were pretty good for the first 30 minutes of the first half, and probably should have scored another goal as well. And then Charlston decided to have the worst match of his career by gifting Fremantle 3 goals. The first was a stupid and clumsy foul on the Fremantle player, the second he was caught in no mans land completely missed time his run out, and for the third goal he simply froze and didn't know whether to come out or stay back and literally allowed himself to be caught off his line.

The match should never have gone to extra time, as we had multiple scoring opportunities to win it within 90 minutes. The longer the match went on, the more confidence the Fremantle players had. They nearly even pinched it in the end as well.

Charlston then redeemed himself by pulling off 3 penalty saves. They were terrible penalty kicks, but that it did not matter. Just glad to get the win and move onto the quarter finals.
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Youve gotta stumble sometimes.. thats football. I think Freo played their way into the match just fine.. Their plan was fairly rudimentary but it caught us on the hop 3 times, and almost scored the same way twice in ET... I put it down to not being used to playign against teams that are willing to give up so much of the ball to us and JUST hit on the counter.

We were pretty unlucky too, so many chances that would have ordinarliy gone in.... Still the first 20-25 mins was dominating, rtuhless football by us... We are a joy to watch this year when its all working.
 
southmelb said:
No day timeslot available for this as both clubs play on the weekend. This isnt a football vic fixture so the no night time rule doesnt apply
southmelb said:
Guaranteed to be Tuesday or Wednesdsy night next week. No day timeslot available for this as both clubs play on the weekend. This isnt a football vic fixture so the no night time rule doesnt apply.
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Thought I read somewhere the quarter finals are between 2 - 20 September, could be wrong though..
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2,032 last nights crowd. All things considering with the weather and late start thats a good turnout.

We've had some terrible luck with home Australia cup games over the years, rainy against Edgeworth Eagles in 2017, delayed kick off against Sorrento same year, the wash out semi against sydney fc where Zappers on the sidelines got his umbrella and himself blown away lol, the big tie against melb city that got postponed cos of Covid and then became a covid restricted game, the 2 hour lightning delay against brisbane olympic, and then last night.
 
southmelb said:
2,032 last nights crowd. All things considering with the weather and late start thats a good turnout.

We've had some terrible luck with home Australia cup games over the years, rainy against Edgeworth Eagles in 2017, delayed kick off against Sorrento same year, the wash out semi against sydney fc where Zappers on the sidelines got his umbrella and himself blown away lol, the big tie against melb city that got postponed cos of Covid and then became a covid restricted game, the 2 hour lightning delay against brisbane olympic, and then last night.
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Hahaha I know every Big Aus Cup game get soemthing memroable.. That Brisbane Olympic one was wild...
 
southmelb said:
2,032 last nights crowd. All things considering with the weather and late start thats a good turnout.

We've had some terrible luck with home Australia cup games over the years, rainy against Edgeworth Eagles in 2017, delayed kick off against Sorrento same year, the wash out semi against sydney fc where Zappers on the sidelines got his umbrella and himself blown away lol, the big tie against melb city that got postponed cos of Covid and then became a covid restricted game, the 2 hour lightning delay against brisbane olympic, and then last night.
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Atmosphere was awesome I thought considering crowd/weather/timeslot
 
Souk said:
Atmosphere was awesome I thought considering crowd/weather/timeslot
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A massive congratulations to the loyal Freo fans that travelled. I gather, speaking to a few, that it was mainly friends and family but still, well don e to the travellers, safe flight home today knowing your lads put ona great show... All the best for the rest of the NPL finals..
 
southmelb said:
We've had some terrible luck with home Australia cup games over the years, rainy against Edgeworth Eagles in 2017, delayed kick off against Sorrento same year, the wash out semi against sydney fc where Zappers on the sidelines got his umbrella and himself blown away lol, the big tie against melb city that got postponed cos of Covid and then became a covid restricted game, the 2 hour lightning delay against brisbane olympic, and then last night.
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It has got to the point that any time we play in the Australia Cup, I now expect torrential rain or awful weather.

I would just love a sunny 25 degree afternoon where we can have a big crowd enjoying a big win.
 
SMFC1959 said:
It has got to the point that any time we play in the Australia Cup, I now expect torrential rain or awful weather.

I would just love a sunny 25 degree afternoon where we can have a big crowd enjoying a big win.
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We got a nice night against Adelaide but they decided to put it on the night where every club and junior and Melbourne is training.

All things considering i think last night was more succesful, i was expecting about half of what turned up.
 
I was genuinely surprised by the crowd attendance last night given the late and unattractive kick off time plus the weather as well. What was more positive was the number of younger faces attending. That next generation is hopefully starting to buy into South.

This is something we can build on if we can host a semi final. If we can get through Brunswick Juve/Preston and likely meet Melbourne City, then the club should aim for a crowd that is in excess of 7,000. It would be in September, so you would hope the weather would have improved by then.

Anyway, lets focus on Melbourne City Youth this weekend. Need the 3 points to further solidify our top 6 position.
 
SMFC1959 said:
I was genuinely surprised by the crowd attendance last night given the late and unattractive kick off time plus the weather as well. What was more positive was the number of younger faces attending. That next generation is hopefully starting to buy into South.

This is something we can build on if we can host a semi final. If we can get through Brunswick Juve/Preston and likely meet Melbourne City, then the club should aim for a crowd that is in excess of 7,000. It would be in September, so you would hope the weather would have improved by then.

Anyway, lets focus on Melbourne City Youth this weekend. Need the 3 points to further solidify our top 6 position.
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Not only were the young guys attending, but genuinely getting into it! Was awesome to see
 
southmelb said:
2,032 last nights crowd. All things considering with the weather and late start thats a good turnout.

We've had some terrible luck with home Australia cup games over the years, rainy against Edgeworth Eagles in 2017, delayed kick off against Sorrento same year, the wash out semi against sydney fc where Zappers on the sidelines got his umbrella and himself blown away lol, the big tie against melb city that got postponed cos of Covid and then became a covid restricted game, the 2 hour lightning delay against brisbane olympic, and then last night.
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I know it was away but wasn't that 2015 game soaking as well
 
There's been so many rain affected SMFC games that when I see you guys play in sunshine, it almost looks odd 😆

Your keeper did well to save two (or was it three) of the penalties with his legs. It's quite a hard skill to shift your posture mid-air to cushion and protect the ball... you see a lot of keepers allow those to bounce of their legs and trickle into the goal.
 
With 3 matches left in the home and away season, we need CS George Cross to defeat Avondale on Saturday evening to have any chance of finishing 3rd. However, its more likely we'll finish 4th.
 
We shouldn't have too many issues for Saturday's match given the players will have a 6 day break from the Fremantle City Australia Cup match.

I'm expecting an unchanged line up from Sunday's match. The possible changes could one of the injured players returning. If possible, we need to see Lopez and Lampard hopefully play some minutes this weekend in order to be ready for the Australia Cup quarter final.
 
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