Their crowds have dropped off this year but i thought tonight would have been huge being the first time they've played an A league team. Maybe it is the bad publicity.

Yep, not even all the seats are full. Probably about 3k there but they were expecting a full house.

Preston supporters think they're booing Vergos but they've got the wrong player lol

The Pan Macs going after maccas clifton hill is hilarious.

I think its pretty certain that we will never see another game between these 2 clubs with all spectators allowed. If we were drawn to meet in the championship it will be another 2005 game with all the ring ins from both sides that turn up.

How can they put up highlights and not have the open goal South missed in the 70th minute lol

I have no ill feeling towards Prestons good supporters, but as a club South should cut all its ties with that club and ends this friendship charade. If Preston try and turn this into a "South couldnt control our fans" argument then South must push hard for the absolute maximum punishments...

Target number 1 for our club is to hunt down anyone that says anything bad about the presidents and the son. Dont think they have the spine to go after Preston.

This has nothing to do with the provocation that followed once inside the ground. Has anyone watched the replay? The chants from PB are insane.

Someone has to watch it, cos you lot dont have anyone there.

Dont forget western united for a bit lol

I reckon you leave it as is until the investigation is complete. The cup game is tomorrow night.

What annoys me most is the Greek community suddenly realising we still exist after the weekends game. I despise these people as much as "preston boys" All these wannabee patriotic Greeks coming out of the woodwork yet they refuse to attend a game. If they really wanted to make a statement of...

To be honest apart from football bashing nobody cares about the ethnic stuff. Whats ultimately going to do Preston in is the shitstorm its already causing amongst women and feminist groups. If they actually thought it through they surely would have realised how messy things could get displaying...

big difference when you're trying to incite the opposition. The Aus championship final was carnival like, both sets of supporters mingling in the same grandstand. Nobody was burning Italian flags outside the ground and putting up banners to offend them. If the only thing those supporters did...

In the old days maybe but the way lakeside is configured now the opposing fans are simply too far away for anything to happen. You'd need people to run across the ground (victory incident) and i couldnt see that happening yesterday. Even the stadium evacuation is the same, when i left i didnt...

I think the fv will be under too much pressure to not come down with an enormous sanction. Its even been posted on the femicide watch instagram page so it goes beyond the usual ethnic stuff. This may explode in the media tomorrow, 6pm news etc.

Greek flag outside ground. I think they will cop more than -3.

Nonsense, South do not chant that dribble. All South chants are South related.

They were chanting hellas hellas turkiye and i'd rather be an abo than a Greek all game. They were trying to provoke a reaction.

They were the 2 banners, a Greek flag was burned outside the ground and a lot of the chanting was very deragotory and looking to provoke. In fairness it largely came from one section of the crowd known as "preston boys". Preston had actually banned them from home games so they were already a...

The board needs to pursue this. What do you want our fans to do cause a riot? We simply dont have the appetite for this crap. I watched maybe one of the best 0-0 games i've ever seen locally with the ball zipping from one end to the other in rapid time but the shit that was coming from the...

Preston president made a bad call by reversing the ban.

It would have been very interesting if he scored that header and his reaction. Thankfully he butchered it.

They also burnt a Greek flag outside the ground.

All their other strikers are shit. Of course he was gonna play. Direct your anger at the balcony for allowing this loan deal to go ahead.

What do those banners have to do with football? They are pure provocation. Im not a fan of poibts deductions as it affects the players and coaches but Preston boys need to go.

We can afford maybe one more slip up. The Oakleigh game isnt a decider. The games against Heidelberg, George Cross and Melb City will decide our fate, all 6 pointers.

A loss really wont make a difference, 1st spot is locked up.

Preston boys need to be banned 100%, the Preston president should have never allowed those dropkicks back into the club. Our club needs to grow a spine and tell the fv that if we are forced to move our Sunday fixture then we get to choose when its played day or night. Last years crowd was...

I think we can push you but you probably narrowly win.

Thought we played pretty well. As i predicted Juach will be an Aus championship signing, way underdone. Both keepers made some big saves. Painter Andrews missing an open goal was the miss of the match all by himself back post. Yuki a bit unlucky with the penalty claim, was contact but we will...

Not the game you want him to debut in.

Great the one position we cant cover.

A sell out is like 12k lol. Im thinking 2k max

Been any word on ticket sales?

Charlston is they key i think. If he cant be strong on set pieces and show some command we will be beaten by Bryce and Bozinovski. Both of them didnt play when we smashed them earlier in the season. We simply cant afford any howlers tomorrow.

If Bonada plays it shows our board are suckers for trusting Preston. Its funny how they dont stand up for the important matters but they start frothing at the thought of banning our supporters.

Does anyone gather from Roumeliotis post that we jumped the gun on Sinisa to get Diles but he ended up choosing Asia?

I've seen them play great league games and lose, ladder position is misleading.

On npl vic pod they said Bonada is free fo play, no clause in his contract that he cant play South.

The lack of care the Adelaide public have for anything other than Adelaide United really shows in these national competitions. Its not like AU actually ever win anything outside this tournament either.

As the reigning champions hopefully we are allowed to open the tournament again in a night game.

Its the main Greek newspaper for Sydney. Nobody there would give a shit.

If the A league is never mentioned again it would mean we went the rest of the season undefeated lol

It only exists when we lose. So we will know around 6pm Saturday.

Our fate will be determined long before that catch up game is played.

Heidelberg win 1-0, terrible loss for the women missing so many chances.

Its an open forum. They can read the posts they dont need them leaked lol Back to on field and our womens team has hit the post 3 times and missed sitters, bergers get 1 corner and score. 0-1 HT

Well Preston wont care as they would have already played their cup game lol. Just dont understand why it wouldnt be the night before.

I did say Thursday lol

Probably helps if its not scheduled to clash with the biggest Thursday night afl game of the season.

Why would they heavily promote an away match? Only we do that nonsense. Particularly when we go there or to Oakleigh. Preston smartly just heavily promotes its home games.

Yep, just adds extra tension to Saturdays game, and home games have already been super toxic lately.

You can say whatever you want as long as its not about the presidents and kids. This "journalist" himself has no problem hammering other players from the Balcony.

Are they really going to go after people? This is absurd!

It was only one person that had a go at Mesourouni at the last home game so who knows what bullshit hes cooking.

Meanwhile Roumeliotis is going to unmask the trouble makers tomorrow lol

Havent been there for 5 years...

Thats probably the least factor why the crowd will be shit. Track how many games are on Saturday at the same time. I know 5 guys whose kids play at state league clubs, they will obviously go watch their kids, i know a further 3 blokes who volunteer at state league clubs and got to travel to...

Will not get more than 1500. I know at least a dozen ppl that are out for one reason or another. Crowd will be 50/50 split.

Looking at Prestons remaining games, we are the last danger game for them, they will smash the teams they play in the remaining games after us, they could even push for top 3. They have Bentleigh, Gully, Thunder and Altona all at home. With just dandy city away who will be out of contention by...

At a minimum we need to beat one of either Preston or Oakleigh to stay in the hunt. 2 defeats would end it.

They play at home the same way South seems to play at Lakeside. Think they're in huge trouble now. Will be gutted for them if they dont get promoted.

Most keepers have a calamity in them but some worse than others. On this years form you wouldnt go near Sozer for eg. I agree that it needs to be a top shelf signing. We had a great run with Roganovic, Clarke was solid for us and Lopez was great. Hilton would be my personal pick but i cant...

Charlston did well but im not sure he will be able to handle real aerial bombardment. It just means we have to be more dominant in games. Next week will be very tricky with Bryce and Bozinovski coming up for corners/set pieces. We absolutely need to start thinking about a post Lopez world, a...

Did anyone else hear that the Lopez injury is around the 6 week mark?

Still think we are more likely to replace City if we get in.

He clearly isnt happy there. No Aus championship this yr and the club didnt invest to the same extent as what Preston and we did. Think the dockerty cup final is the last hurrah for silverware there.

Melb city and bergers draw good result for us.

Team was a lot better balanced tonight. Our away form is ridiculous. Now we need to put in a big one at Lakeside.

How would any A league defence handle Stamoulis, Messourouni and Papastergiadis in the same team? Give us the toilet seat now!

Nope.

Stamoulis will buy the license for South. All we have to do is play his son. We are use to these arrangements😂

Nth Sunshine have more fans than Thunder now. Thunder fans have vanished home and away.

Ofc all the way! Give me Soloman Kings, give me PNG, give me Tahiti! God bless fifa+!

I think we would have to win tonight to stay alive. Not even a draw helps us. Those altona and gully loses are so horrible to look back on.

Our run home is something like dandy city, preston, oakleigh, st albans, melb city, bergers and george cross. I see maybe 2 wins the rest of the way if we lose tonight. Preston have the easiest run home. Lakeside is their final away game.

The events of last week sucked the energy out of me. Im just not fussed about tonight. I'd be nervous if we were close to the bottom 3 but our run home is so difficult i dont see a way into the top 6. Our 2 short term objectives should be 1) dont get embarassed at home by Preston 2) Beat Adelaide.

Has Juach arrived? If he was here i think we would have got some footage/interview with j Him.

We will never challenge for the npl again as long as we are playing in the ofc. The points deductions to Preston and to a lesser extent dandy city is the only reason we are still in the hunt. We also won almost all our games when our senior team was here pre Auckland hub which is very...

His father was a good man. He though is an idiot. Was so delusional over his sons ability. He pretty much highlights why greek aussies are by far the worst of the diaspora. He could get the license and bring us back to the top flight and do something his father would be proud of. Instead we get...

Except he isnt a young kid. He is like 26. Older than Juach.

Anywhere else clubs remain open. Bergers make a killing off us when we play games there (grand finals, aus championship). Ridiculous we cant cash in at all.

I think so. How ridiculous we cant open the social club.

Being in a central location i imagine a lot of Greeks who dont really have any interest in the sport will rock up. Whether we like it or not its a political match up.

Short term Preston got the better end of the Bonada deal, he is fit and can contribute immediately. Who knows when Juach last played, he is more a signing for the championship imo. Will be interesting to see how the seating arrangements work for the dockerty cup. Im expecting both grandstands...

I've seen them a few times live and even in those games they looked incredible. No idea how 2nd last.

Preston very lucky to win that. Good performance from nth Sunshine.

They are booing one player, the player that doesnt belong in the squad. Fuck him off and everyone will shut up. We have to watch this shitcunt play whilst Bonada is already winning games for Preston.

He has lost the plot. He is obviously being directed from above to write this trash. Wouldnt surprise me if they are at the early stages of looking to ban supporters.

Im surprised they didnt schedule nth sunshine and preston for 3pm today!

Hes a player that should be getting 0 minutes. He wouldnt even make the bench for a vpl1 team.

$20 is about right. We need to remember that Collingwood v Geelong will be on at a packed MCG at the same time. We are in no position to be fleecing the public. Adding to that, a 3 week cup window and a day that doesnt clash with one of the biggest Thursday night afl games of the season couldnt...

Yeh start banning people idiots. Did they see what the crowd was on Sunday? At this point i wouldnt even care if they banned me. The place is run like a joke and if supporters dont have the right to express an opinion then its not worthy of anyones time. This guy Bill is a parasite. Its funny...

We gave away 5 games in total. Thats 15 points we didnt compete for. Fortunately we won the Altona and gully games with our B team so it could have been much worse.

Dandy city last 2 home games have been 4-1 win over bergers and 3-1 over Avondale. We are absolutely in strife this week and the weeks that follow. You cant even hang your hat on Lopez playing a blinder either. The 6 points dropped against altona and gully finished us. We would be equal points...

Some of these players are potentially physically and mentally drained. Lampard, Mikkola, Jankovic, Pasquali, TG, Uchida and JPA have played a staggering amount of football since the championship, lots of games overseas etc. Then they have to deal with the off field noise. Our Aus championship...

Can we produce medical certificates for our other keepers and bring someone in? Its a write off with Charlston.

Im beyond tolerating even 6 minutes of him. Yes we know Swibel is bad but he has at least scored a few goals and will be phased out of the 11 when Juach goes in. We cant be accepting that he gets even a small amount of game time just so the old man doesnt go psycho. The way the father conducted...

Adam Bavcar was atrocious today. Its funny how we got 5 minutes added time today, whilst last week it was 6 and Gully had the physio on the field every 5 mins. I saw nothing today to warrant more than 3 additional minutes.

I dont understand why Sinisa doesnt switch the wingers at all. Cocks would be so much better going around the outside on the right side.

I thought the new lads would get about 30 minutes today but they must be underdone. Wouldnt surprise me if Juach starts on the bench as well next week. One thing i've noticed is the progressive drop in crowd numbers. Against Altona it was a good 700-750, then last week it was about 500, today...

1st half of the season Maxi was incredible but he has tailed off since the injury he copped in the ofc. Then again none of our players look good now.

The only thing that might change in the coming weeks is that we wont be playing teams parking the bus. It might be why we've been much better away from home. We look completely clueless trying to play through a backline.

He dodged a massive bullet there. The 2-3 corners dandy had we struggled so bad to clear. We are just so poor in most areas. Yoo was trying to make things happen but everything is so static.

We will struggle until we fix our midfield. We are tragic in the middle of the park now.

The Altona and Gully performances looked decent compared to this...thats how bad it was. An extra 5 mins and we 100% would have conceeded with Lampard in goals. Aside from Bavcar being an idiot, it was a horrible watch, no fluidity to our play at all. Creatively only Yoo looked capable of...

The new players probably arent match fit. If you expect miracles from Juach keep waiting because he arrives this week and probably hasnt played for ages. In any case the off field stuff is threatening to boil over and we look completely fractured. Season is a complete write off.

I rate Ivanovic over Souttar. We would have gone to France 98 if he played.

That will be our last win of the season, we are woeful. Only entertaining thing was that bloke who was losing his mind in the grandstand.

Shame Juach isnt playing today, would have created a bit of a buzz. Atmosphere will be toxic if Messourouni is starting.

In what way? We arent going down.

He is better in the air and thats about it. Neill was technically better, bloke played almost 300 epl games.

Preston and melb city both win. Our margin for error is now 0. Not sure where the ref plucked 9 mins from in preston game. Last week we got 6 when the gully physio was on the field for most of the 2nd half.

It still feels crazy that we gave him away to a team thats likely going to knock us out of the top 6

In regards to the shoot out, we get the advantage of going first. Surely you give the 1st pen to Hrustic who converted one in a Europa league final.

Extending Popa was a huge mistake. Give us Milligan!

My biggest red flag is that the club doesnt appear equipped to be able to handle the amount of football we play. As long as we are playing ofc pro league we will never win the npl imo. The erratic behaviour of the co presidents makes every comp, every trop overseas etc a ticking time bomb.

Egypt is the only one up for debate. Even more so cos we got an injured Salah. The composure Paraguay played with against Germany and how they handled extra time and penalties is on another level to what we are capable of. Saying they are lucky we have Popa is like telling Turkey lucky we had...

It was Japans B team! Egypt, Paraguay and USA all went further than us. They are absolutely better teams Today we couldnt capitalise on Salah being on one leg.

Wasnt Beach in a lenghty penalty shootout for melb city recently and pretty much got nowhere near them? I think they both struggle but you gotta keep the bloke in thats got form and confidence. Beach will never forgive Poppa for that.

I never said we dominate the region, just that our physical strengths are enough to get us in with the amount of spots Asia has and we appear happy to rest on that. I cant say i enjoyed many of our qualifying games either. The one we beat Japan 1-0 with Behich at the end we pretty much never...

I think playing in Asia is detrimental to our development in terms of us not progressing our style of play as we just bully those teams and monster them on set pieces, its enough to get us to world cups but its never going to be enough to take the next true step.

Were our attacking players too scared to take pens? Ryan was never going to save anything. I have no idea why we even played for penalties, not going for it in extra time is unforgiveable. We will never get a better chance to win a knock out game but we stopped playing around the 85th.

We desperately need a set piece or two. We fell apart in added time, we cant do that for 30 mins, way too deep.

Scored some big goals late last season in the survival push, and was a good scorer when we had Sawyer. I think he is a player we can move on from now but he is someone i find very difficult to dislike, the fact he wont play against us sits well with me. Onto Sunday now where we can draw within...

I'll always respect Bonada for giving 110% every time he put on the South shirt. Particularly the day he killed himself at Hume the day after Sinisa was sacked. I'd back him in over the idiots running the club.

Ramazani is here for the Aus championship as well, then back to Vanuatu for ofc in January.

If we didnt sign Juach this transfer window would have been considered a disaster, but we've nailed a key piece that many other teams dont have.

Take out 2 players for Messourouni and Lackey sadly.

Bonada will never play for us again so the loan deal hints that we were just as desperate to offload him on the final day as what Preston were to get someone in. Eggs on our faces now that we know Preston didnt pay a transfer. Its a free hit to take a look at him for 6 months, if hes a hit they...

Hes a left back as well. So in the end we did get cover for all our defenders.

I think the club wanted to loan most of these players out and Sam Poutakidis had mentioned it on 3xy but it looks like we pissed the youngsters off and they all wanted to outright leave. In the end we end up loaning out Bonada which absolutely reeks for sure, a team thats literally just above...

I'll give Mikkola one last chance this weekend. I think his knee has been cooked since he got butchered in the Fiji hub. Again if you drop him you get another quality player off the bench. We have enough now that messourouni and lackey should never see the field again.

Come back with a new username. Nobody wants to see Andrico on here!

Correct, so without influence no more Messourounis, no more Lackeys. You can bring on players that can actually do something off the bench. I've just basically turned a rubbish bench into one of the better ones in Victoria.

We dont need anyone from Bergers, they're a system based team and players look better cos of the coach. What we need to do imo is play Retre at RB where Sydney fc often used him, Painter Andrews with his speed can be one of your off the bench impact players, he can also play on the wing where i...

We actually dont know what VAR is for because they're completely selective based on this tournaments evidence. Was VAR not watching the game when Messi did his thing?

The ref initially gave a yellow so the contact was deemed excessive enough prior to going to var in real time. Todays one wasnt even given as a free kick. It had to be completely slowed down and shown multiple angles, those types of ones have not been resulting in reds at this world cup.

I reckon Retre will play RB.

Messi was intentional. You look at the Balogun one in real time and not slow motion and you can see its a complete accident.

If thats a red we should have seen a further 5-6 reds through out the tournament including Messi. Yet that was the 1st red since the opening day of the world cup i think. Completely inconsistent

Unforgivable 6 points dropped. We would be ahead of heidelberg now. We've picked up almost all our points away from home!

I just realised how tough our fixture is. We dont have much margin for error now.

Lets hope his finishing is bad as it was on Sunday.

It would have been announced as a loan if it was.

Im gutted we didnt get him across to Brunswick.

Whoever he wants. Certain people have runs on the board and you just back them in. My concern with Sinisa is that his style is such an all action pressing style type of game that perhaps its not suited for a full season of play. I dont see a lot of control in our play and with the players we...

Manny being in Melbourne worries me that another team picked him up.

The announcement will be the vanuatu guy.

Terrible decision based on whats been let go throughout the tournament. Clearly no intent he isnt even looking at the player, pure accident that looks horrible on slow mo. Balogun suspended makss Belgium favourites for next round imo, he was in sensational form huge threat.

Your attack has been a bit lazy this season. This guy just runs non stop and harasses defenders, he is very good with his back to goal. You can play him out wide but i think you have better wingers. Im assuming he will come in up top, he can be a bit streaky with goals and then misses. Last...

Cocks, Yuki and Yoo can all play wide. One more would be good to phase out Lackey but i wouldnt say its an urgent need. Full back positions are a problem area with depth.

Ethan is a big loss. Especially as Painter Andrews should be under a shitload of pressure with his recent crap defensive efforts.

From a wage point of view hes probably gonna be fleecing them as well, when you're desperate you pay overs. Bonada plays with passion but he is openly money hungry. In any case he is 30 and Juach is 25, i think we got the better end of this.

We have been paid transfer fees for both Inglese and Bonada. Preston were desperate so can only imagine what they paid for Bonada. Juve were gonna give us $30,000 for him. We will see today what the full list of exits are.

We have offloaded a shit load of wages from our squad and Bonadas

His relationship with the presidents was beyond repair. Only thing that changed was he was meant to go to Brunswick, Preston got desperate when they missed on Juach and made the offer.

If Swibel stays i doubt we sign another attacker.

Retre will be competing with Tommy G for DM i think.

Gosh we gotta hang onto Swibel for one more week unless Manny comes in. If Swibel goes its Messourouni up front, borderline makes Thunder favourites lol All good and well signing Juach but you need another striker on your books as well. Both Bonada and Swibel going is too much unless another...

Hopefully he is fit and ready to go the week after. Swibel should get the start on Sunday.

Manny would be incredible, if still here hope he doesnt land elsewhere

Hopefully we arent completely done and bring 1 more in.

Yep, a fair few he won himself. He also missed a few penalties as well, the most notable against us in the championship semi.

Juach 29 goals in 40 games for Heidelberg last season. The year before 14 goals in 26 games for a barely mid table Altona. This guy is prolific.

The other thing is none of our signings are cup tied. Bonada wont be able to play in the dockerty cup final (if they make it) nor the Australia cup.

He will give them a lot of pressing in the final third but probably wont score a heap. Is effective if used corectly but they would have preffered Juach for sure.

Im pretty happy with what we've done. Bonada was never gonna play in front of Juach and we have no shortage of wide players. Again this all works provided Mesourouni isnt squeezed into the team. Retre bolsts our midfield and Ramazani gives us good cover with Eliopoulos about 2 weeks away. We've...

Where did Bonada go?

Toby makes sense. Heidelberg desperate for a left back.

Yoo or Uchida can play as 10s. Its just a matter of getting Messourouni out of the team.

Big signing. Now it makes sense why we've cleaned out so many players to free up wages.

Has anyone heard that we havent received any prize money from the ofc nor government money yet?

Not that its saying much but i think our crowds apart from those 2 Monday night games have been bigger this season. But last years Preston game was huge and you wont get that on a Saturday arvo.

More than 300. You will see on the day and compare it to last years game.

Terrible result for our club and dissapointing we havent pushed back on it.