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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

SMFC1959 said:
There is no point in trying to work out what a starting line up against Heidelberg might be.

There are so many factors at play that we could see a full strength team, U20s/23s combined team, or a full strength side in the first half and then the 5 substitutions early in the second half.

If Sinisa was thinking of resting players, then Retre and Pasquali would need to be rested. Especially Pasquali as he has not stopped running since the end of the OFC Pro League.

If Altona pulls off a miracle and takes points off Avondale, then we have to go out and get the 3 points against Heidelberg. Then we can we can start taking players off during the second half.
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Agree.. key players need to be rested here.. wed is all the money...we will atleast know result of altona game to see if we need to play stronger or lighter
 
Hellenic_blue&white said:
Agree.. key players need to be rested here.. wed is all the money...we will atleast know result of altona game to see if we need to play stronger or lighter
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I think our biggest concern is ensuring we dont swap spots with Preston, last thing we need is going there again a week and a bit later for an elimination final. I'd rather avoid them but if we get them at least it would be at home. Hopefully Dandy City do us a favour.
 
southmelb said:
I think our biggest concern is ensuring we dont swap spots with Preston, last thing we need is going there again a week and a bit later for an elimination final. I'd rather avoid them but if we get them at least it would be at home. Hopefully Dandy City do us a favour.
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Preston 0-0. That means if we win against Heidelberg we are guaranteed to finish at least fourth.

Third spot still remains a slim chance. We’ll need to win at CS George Cross and hope for Hume City to take points off Avondale. That way, we avoid Preston and Oakleigh until the grand final if we were to qualify.
 
SMFC1959 said:
Preston 0-0. That means if we win against Heidelberg we are guaranteed to finish at least fourth.

Third spot still remains a slim chance. We’ll need to win at CS George Cross and hope for Hume City to take points off Avondale. That way, we avoid Preston and Oakleigh until the grand final if we were to qualify.
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Definitely ideal. Hume playing avondale final day of season at home won't be an easy game for avondale
 
southmelb said:
We just need 1 point to secure 4th.
With the 3 games in a week it will be hard to win them all. I think Avondale will beat hume as hume have nothing to play for.

Barring an absurd sequence of results its a big show elimination final...hopefully at home.
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Just depends on if preston appeal the extra points deduction they have till Tuesday to appeal i believe it said in the press release
 
If we are to assume our engine room may need a break tomorrow, who comes in? I keep forgetting that we no longer have Pope, Leech etc anymore.

I did hear that Mikkola, Lampard and Eliopoulos may feature.
 
southmelb said:
We just need 1 point to secure 4th.
With the 3 games in a week it will be hard to win them all. I think Avondale will beat hume as hume have nothing to play for.

Barring an absurd sequence of results its a big show elimination final...hopefully at home.
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Hume will get the week off in any case, so they might play most of their first team starters. The Hume coach might rest some players if they are carrying any knocks.
 
southmelb said:
If we are to assume our engine room may need a break tomorrow, who comes in? I keep forgetting that we no longer have Pope, Leech etc anymore.

I did hear that Mikkola, Lampard and Eliopoulos may feature.
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This is the problem. By reducing the squad to reduce costs, we have unfortunately reduced options to rest players. Playing Leech and Pope against Heidelberg might have been a handy option.

To be honest, I don’t want to see Retre used at all against Heidelberg. He needs to be fresh for Preston.

If those rumours are true about Mikkola, Lampard and Eliopoulos, then you can rest 3 players at a minimum. More importantly, we’ll have 3 players fully rested and ready to go for NPL finals, potentially Australia Cup fixtures and the Australian Championship.
 
southmelb said:
Ideally i would have rested Pasquali, Gianokopoulos, Retre and Uchida but the majority of them will have to play due to lack of options.
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Agree... been busting my head as to what will limit risk in light of wednesday...in short we will need 2 of the returning 3 to start here (with messa, cox, nkomo in) so we dont ressurect the dead..
 
The only midfield option on the bench we have is Skapoulas. Surely he would start tomorrow. That could see Giannakopoulos and Pasquali play a half each.

If Sinisa goes down the path of rotating the squad, Nkwomo would surely start if Lampard doesn’t play, along with Mesorouni and Lackay. You would leave Uchida Juach, and Yoo on the bench. They would only come on if required.

We really need Eliopoulos, Lampard and Mikkola to play tomorrow.

Problem is that Heidelberg is going to go in hard given it is last chance saloon for them.
 
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