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[Monoethnic Social Club]

Team selection integrity has been an issue for a number of years. Do we not forget putting the reserves in against Avondale in the Australia cup a few yrs back and found ourselves 3-0 down after 15 mins, i almost threw in the towel after that game. Remember the supporters charging towards the bench and Esteban saying "i didnt pick the team".

Our club is simply not trustworthy unfortunately.

The club is what WE allow it to be..... I dont really care about the slaughter last night but we have been making enough noise for this NSD and how massive a club we are for the past 20 years that IF (and sadly I expect to be massively disappointed) we fail to raise the needle if not on the pitch, at least off it, many will walk away for good....

And to all those arseholes who would welcome our demise, this would put an end to the "effnik clubz" as we know them... all of them once and for all.....

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

This ^^^^ and that's all that needs to be said! They lost me at the Hobart game when they couldn't even take a photo with the 50 odd fans, (not staff or connections to players) that forked out for a midweek interstate match! But guess what they found another balcony there too! Pretty pathetic after such a good turnout IMO and during such a shit year!

You have MY respect for travelling mate.... I know the lads on the pitch respect it too ....

 

[KostaV92]

Yeah I heard the same.... A CB and a DM for sure and #9 maybe....

I have a feeling who the 9 is but it’s a long shot

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

I have a feeling who the 9 is but it’s a long shot

Sharing is caring! Lol

 

[KostaV92]

Sharing is caring! Lol

Bruno Fornaroli

 

[southmelb]

Fornaroli would tip the crowd over the 5k mark for sydney olympic. We have never really lured a "name".

 

[Son of Sam]

Time for parasporos

Fornaroli would tip the crowd over the 5k mark for sydney olympic. We have never really lured a "name".

in the 20 years post NSL, who has been the biggest name we have signed, even for a one off match?

 

[Oakleigh]

Far out you guys got demolished! Now I'm worried you'll come out firing and destroy us this week

 

[SMH59]

Far out you guys got demolished! Now I'm worried you'll come out firing and destroy us this week

Read the room, don't think anyone cares now from board to us!

 

[smfc_hellas59]

We’ve had no ambition as a football club for 10 years. We can’t be taken seriously until we get Johnny A as coach which won’t happen as there close to re-signing Sini. Johnny A won’t take the job at the end of the championship 2 months out from the NPL season. Avondale and Bergers are miles ahead of us. What a sad state of affairs

 

[KostaV92]

Far out you guys got demolished! Now I'm worried you'll come out firing and destroy us this week

Probably not our season is finished

 

[KostaV92]

We’ve had no ambition as a football club for 10 years. We can’t be taken seriously until we get Johnny A as coach which won’t happen as there close to re-signing Sini. Johnny A won’t take the job at the end of the championship 2 months out from the NPL season. Avondale and Bergers are miles ahead of us. What a sad state of affairs

Would JA take the job with Heidelberg pretty much in the championship

 

[Oakleigh]

Probably not our season is finished

I'm hoping for a good game. Want us to win obviously for that home ground advantage, if they actually let us attend this time...

 

[SMH59]

To briefly summarise today's discussion based on last night's brothel:
-Spink, Menelaou, Dovison and Ren to stay.
-Sinisa will coach in Championship, but should be looking to poach JA. (Very unlikely to near impossible IMO but would love it if it happened).
-Board must do more evidentally on the pitch and off it. Us regulars who will stick through anything deserve more than what we've copped the last 10 years.
-Big name signing, preferably a number 9 that can help draw crowds and for October. Midfield reinforcements desperately needed.

Dont need to preach to anyone hear about sticking by the club, but through the good, bad, disrespect and ugly SOUTH MELBOURNE HELLAS FOREVER!

 

[SMH59]

To briefly summarise today's discussion based on last night's brothel:
-Spink, Menelaou, Dovison and Ren to stay.
-Sinisa will coach in Championship, but should be looking to poach JA. (Very unlikely to near impossible IMO but would love it if it happened).
-Board must do more evidentally on the pitch and off it. Us regulars who will stick through anything deserve more than what we've copped the last 10 years.
-Big name signing, preferably a number 9 that can help draw crowds and for October. Midfield reinforcements desperately needed.

Dont need to preach to anyone hear about sticking by the club, but through the good, bad, disrespect and ugly SOUTH MELBOURNE HELLAS FOREVER!

Adding to the off the park dilemma, I strongly believe our biggest issue is the younger generations support of the club. I'd honestly at this rate give us 10 years and yesterdays attendance could be the norm the way things are going. A strategy or plan to get more young people invested and throwing their support around the club is a must and we see this once or twice a year during our big games, but it never goes beyond that. Naturally this is a flow on effect of how the team is playing, however we need a strong core of next gen fans coming through that will stick around no matter what. Gonna be a very tough task but hope im proven wrong and this Championship can spark interest across all age groups and demographics.

 

[Oakleigh]

Adding to the off the park dilemma, I strongly believe our biggest issue is the younger generations support of the club. I'd honestly at this rate give us 10 years and yesterdays attendance could be the norm the way things are going. A strategy or plan to get more young people invested and throwing their support around the club is a must and we see this once or twice a year during our big games, but it never goes beyond that. Naturally this is a flow on effect of how the team is playing, however we need a strong core of next gen fans coming through that will stick around no matter what. Gonna be a very tough task but hope im proven wrong and this Championship can spark interest across all age groups and demographics.

This isn't just a South Melbourne problem, it's a football problem across the country. Not trying to be disrespectful but you guys play in the npl, not many know about you or anyone in the npl, even the a league is struggling, many younger kids prefer to follow the stars from overseas and the English Premier league.

I wish there was something we could do to make the npl more popular for the youths but im afraid we're going to lose this battle.

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

We’ve had no ambition as a football club for 10 years. We can’t be taken seriously until we get Johnny A as coach which won’t happen as there close to re-signing Sini. Johnny A won’t take the job at the end of the championship 2 months out from the NPL season. Avondale and Bergers are miles ahead of us. What a sad state of affairs

Not that i dont agree but on current form we look like we will finish one title more than the burgers this season and we had a shit one... τους πρωταθλητές της κλάψας!

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

We’ve had no ambition as a football club for 10 years. We can’t be taken seriously until we get Johnny A as coach which won’t happen as there close to re-signing Sini. Johnny A won’t take the job at the end of the championship 2 months out from the NPL season. Avondale and Bergers are miles ahead of us. What a sad state of affairs

Problem is he wont take it now either with bergers in there...so the only time that works is after the championship! Its a 2 way street though you get JohnnyA then or you go all out and get something better.

 

[Hellenic_blue&white]

Adding to the off the park dilemma, I strongly believe our biggest issue is the younger generations support of the club. I'd honestly at this rate give us 10 years and yesterdays attendance could be the norm the way things are going. A strategy or plan to get more young people invested and throwing their support around the club is a must and we see this once or twice a year during our big games, but it never goes beyond that. Naturally this is a flow on effect of how the team is playing, however we need a strong core of next gen fans coming through that will stick around no matter what. Gonna be a very tough task but hope im proven wrong and this Championship can spark interest across all age groups and demographics.

The last part of that is the essence.. its hard to engage ppl onto the NPL even when its competitive... the NST was always the avenue to redeem that support again or be killed off!

The campaign should be based on all thats already been said here smart steong signings will drive the match aspect and get bums in seats along with interest in seeing this product for the first time.. as a club they should do everything they can to engage old and new on that basis.

 

[southmelb]

A winning team that plays good football with good individual players on show would lift our crowds to the 1,000 mark give or take with significantly more interest in derbies on top of that. Unfortunately i dont see it, Avondale and Heidelberg are so far ahead of us it would be more them imploding rather than us catching them.

The championship and heidelbergs involvement in it makes the JA situation very difficult. We should have got him 2 years ago but chose to stick with the bloke that lost 2 grand finals 9-0.