Why doea Sinisa even need to be there?

If we bring 7 back it will be enough for us to be competitive, Ethan O Sullivan and Dovison start. If we can get Lopez, Jankovic, Eliopoulos, Uchida, Tommy G, Pasquali and Bonada back we have a chance, ideally Lampard as well. Im just thinking why cant we have 2 outfielders on the bench like...

We should play same team as we did with Preston, if Mikkola doesnt come up bring back Cocks. The PNG game is irrelevant and the same team that played Auckland can play that one.

2nd half was a slog, even our best team cant handle the heat, lucky we did the damage in the 1st half and they missed that big chance in the 80th. Get our best 11 on a plane back to Melbourne asap. The last 2 are dead rubbers.

Thankfully unlike Sunday this ref allows players to tackle and win challenges. Hopefully we get a 3rd and kill this off with our tendency to fade out in these conditions.

I dont even think they were that bad in the championship, just a couple of bad late lapses, if they still had Auglah, Feutz etc absolutely no chance they are bottom.

Unless we are missing something no differerence between finishing 2nd or 3rd. Just win today.

If we win i think top 3 is guaranteed. Now that we know the points reset next month no point keeping the team there over the weekend. This is MUST win today.

I still maintain that if this thing was entirely played in Melbourne we would beat all these teams by 4-5 goals bar Auckland but i suspect we never factored in the weather conditions overseas and how much better these teams would be playing in climates that suit them. Having a game rained out...

If the dates are 6th, 9th and 12th of May our only guaranteed loss is against Heidelberg who we play on the 8th. Of all teams to have to lose to lol

Damn that means we have to send our best team over next month. Which means we have to give 3 points to teams like Heidelberg locally grrrr.

Damn Soloman Kings won

Where is our game being played tomorrow? The current Soloman kings v Vanuatu match is being played on a choppy cow paddock.

The turnaround between the Tahiti game to St Albans is very short. Anyone that plays Tahiti is unlikely to play St Albans on the Friday night. I suspect the senior team will return after PNG match if we win the 2 games.

Would be stupid if the points reset. If they dont we may be better off going all out in the next 3 games. Then we could potentially phone it in when we go to Auckland. That said Auckland is where i'd expect us to produce our best football as the weather wont kill us.

Vanuatu up 2-1 over solomans at HT, do we want them to win?

How we deal with the weekend will depend on our result with Bula. If we win midweek the team probably comes home for Oakleigh, if we lose we have to stay and scrap for the last 2 games. Probably a thought that the team that played Auckland could/should beat PNG on Saturday. 2 wins makes the...

I wonder who will coach the team against Oakleigh on Sunday? We play on Saturday but we remain in Fiji until next Tuesday. I cant imagine Sinisa coming back for Sunday then leaving to return to Fiji for the Tuesday game.

More for the Australia cup i'd say. You can make moves for the Aus championship in the off season like we did last season.

South was probably at 75% of that stat last Saturday😂

As time goes on it sounds like we arent a priority at all.

Probably athletics on or some event, doesnt take much to boot us out lol

Pasquali was just a one game suspension right? Send Pasquali, Uchida, Tommy G, Janko, Eliops and imo we are hard to beat with that spine. Javi isnt going obviously so we are prone to a keeper fuck up.

3rd choice isnt where you want to be. Seems like he is just being thrown on for the last 10 mins when they launch balls into the box.

Bula beat soloman kings 5-1, they're at home and will be perfectly suited to the conditions. Again this is one of those teams that we would beat by 5 goals in Melbourne but with weird conditions its difficult. Our best team needs to play them. I actually think Auckland struggled a bit with the...

Sawyer was starting for Macarthur but after they signed Mitch Duke he has been relegated to cameos off the bench. Im confident we will end up with either him or Aguek.

Anyone heard that rumour that it could be Aguek and Sawyer both returning? That would be nuts!

We have Bula, South Island United and Soloman kings on our tails now. We have to beat Bula midweek and its probably going to take something near our best team to win.

All in all good effort. We really needed the 3rd goal just before HT. Need to send best team over to clean this up. Not scared of Auckland. Our best team smashes all these tinpot teams.

This ref is a fkn joke

We've done ok, humidity affecting both teams

Conceeded from kick off lol The team we have on the field right now would get relegated from npl vic.

They did but thats a crazy scoreline. Tahiti are one of the teams we would expect to beat. Hopefully they havent improved the same way Vanuatu have.

Its going to be a top of the table clash and might actually be a decent crowd. If they beat us we will stay top but will be 1 point the difference, if we beat them its 7 points and suddenly we have lots of breathing space which would be crucial come May.

It comes together perfectly when they're all in. Usually if one of the centre backs is out you get Giannokopoulos going into defence and it throws us off a bit. The wide positions and up front we seem to be able to get away with when those names are all playing. We lost nothing with Bonada up...

Didnt think Preston would fall away so badly in the 2nd half. Not sure how Zoki figures this out because Bryce is still out for a while and the backline looks very gettable. I think our spine of Eliopoulos, Jankovic, Giannokopoulos. Pasquali and Uchida is the best in the league.

Its interesting then if we dont care about the npl why isnt our best team playing Auckland on Sunday? I get the financial incentives but the reality is the npl is our week in week out bread and butter. If a weak South team loses 5-0 at lakeside to oakleigh next week it may not bother the...

You'd hope so. Sending over Marko to play with allongside our scrubs wouldnt make much of a difference on Sunday

Hope that doesnt mean he isnt playing tomorrow

Which affects us most behind the goals. Preston supporters will huddle under stand. 1500-2,000 max crowd.

It will be our lowest turnout at Preston by far on Saturday. Dont see more than 200 of us being there. The previous 2 games there we were at 1,000+. Crowds will be low across the board on Saturday.

Historically going back to the nsl days Sunday was the day for the majority of games. 3pm when it was a winter league, then kick offs were later when it switched to summer. Im pretty sure Sydney was the same as Melbourne in that respect.

Also congrats to the girls on the 1-0 win over top of the table Boorondara, dominated from start to finish and should have won by more. Our lakeside issues affect many arms of the club and our womens team finally played there 1st match at Lakeside tonight. Hopefully they kick on with more...

Even if its lakeside the team we put on the park in the last round would find it tough going against Bulleen. Im not entirely convinced the club views this years edition as a priority. That said we have an opportunity here to quietly sneak through the rounds. Looking at the other fixtures...

We were drawn first so im pretty sure its at Lakeside. In fact home both rounds according to the draw.

Saturday 3pm is the worst cos it goes head to head with all the state leagues. This week its worse cos of Easter. Sunday 3pm is the best post daylight savings.

Will be a shortage from the northern suburbs as well, a lot of games on at the same time and its Easter. Monday night is a clean slate and any other year it likely gets that slot. In any case its not our home game. We gotta somehow get ppl to lakeside the following sunday.

Monday night would have been huge. South v dandy city in the city is in no way comparable to preston v south.

I think this is where we miscalculated last time. We chucked in the Hume game with a weak lineup and failed to beat Auckland 2 days later anyway. Same mistake cant be repeated. Auckland wins Sunday, we have to beat PNG and Tahiti, 2 wins from Fiji is enough. In league play we need to come away...

Monday night was the obvious play here. Would have been a monster crowd but again the fv policy of no night games for high risk games puts thats to bed. Lets not talk about the comical preston v bergers going directly head to head with the f1 grand prix...because high risk must be 3pm! Oh well...

Nsw crowds will likely eclipse Victoria as football vic has its stupid "high risk games cant be played at night" policy. So this weekend Preston v SM goes head to head with another 100 games in Melbourne and irrespective what Preston announce it will be the lowest crowd the 2 teams have had in...

Bryce is out for Preston but they get Jamal Ali back and likely Bozinovski. Defensively they were a joke against Hume but 2 returning players will make a difference, Kubilay is also expected to return. We will need to be clinical. Our chance to conversion ratio has been poor so far. Assuming...

Kitchen sink has to be thrown at Preston game. The reality is our strongest team could only draw against Auckland last time so sending over 2-3 key players wont make a difference, we are losing that game 100% Priority is Preston and then after that we can send a few over to Fiji to hopefully...

This looks like a top 5 lowest crowd for MV (outside Covid). Crazy because if they win this match they have a shot at top spot.

Anyone else concerned this is close to the team that will have to play Auckland on Sunday? I cant picture this team getting any results in ofc.

I've heard way worse and those coaches went for like 1-2 weeks. Also someone within the club has done him in as the only footage that exists is from the club and they obviously leaked it.