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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

Spartan Warrior said:
2027 Australian F1 GP will be the 3rd race held on April 4th. Hopefully this will allow us to have more home games early on in the season and cash in on the warmer weather..
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I looked at the dates from the last 10 years. Mostly March, after some earlier April dates.

So hopefully we can get 3 home matches. Problem is that Athletics gets priority at this time.
 
Son of Sam said:
So hopefully we can get 3 home matches. Problem is that Athletics gets priority at this time.
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If track and field has priority for the entirety of that time period then we only get around nine home games at Lakeside all year and none altogether in the early part of the season as we'll have to either play on the road or at Home of the Matildas which isn't ideal for us.
 
hellas_johnny said:
Coveny pope and Leech all should play our 2nd strength need to get as much game time as possible considering they won't play much in the next part of ofc. Would have

Charleston O'Sullivan inglese coveny skapoulas meneleu Leech pope dovison Messarouni cocks with messa playing up front. This is the line up that vsed Brighton East Hampton last round.

You then have Lackey Singh Burchmore papadimitriou agelatos and trenkov on the bench unless you want seniors on the bench for break glass
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A variation on a theme.. sure, I guess one or a combination of these tonight...
 
southmelb said:
I'd go further and say no pure under 23s team can beat a senior npl side.

If we are talking the green gully and altona scenarios where we had the mix of fringe and a handful of seniors with the 23s thats different.

The kids that played Oakleigh cant beat anyone.
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I would agree. We defeated Green Gully and Altona Magic because we had enough senior first team and bench players. Against Altona Magic, we had Eliopoulos, Bonada, Inglese, Menelaou, Dovison, Leech, Pope, Gorr-Burchmore, Skapoulas and Singh. Against Green Gully, we had Lopez, Jankovic, Pasquali, Eliopoulos, Bonada, Dovison, Skapoulas and O'Sullivan. Compare those inclusions against the U23s team we fielded against Oakleigh. It was just Dovison, Skapoulas, O'Sullivan and then a bunch of talented youth players.

To face George Cross, we would require at a minimum of Pope, Singh, Dovison, O'Sullivan, Gorr-Burchmore, Skapoulas and Coveny,
 
Spartan Warrior said:
2027 Australian F1 GP will be the 3rd race held on April 4th. Hopefully this will allow us to have more home games early on in the season and cash in on the warmer weather..
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If we can squeeze in at least 2 home matches early on, we can take advantage of that warm weather and sell memberships/merchandise. We would need to work around Athletics' schedule given its their priority period.
 
southmelb said:
I'd go further and say no pure under 23s team can beat a senior npl side.

If we are talking the green gully and altona scenarios where we had the mix of fringe and a handful of seniors with the 23s thats different.

The kids that played Oakleigh cant beat anyone.
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SMFC1959 said:
I would agree. We defeated Green Gully and Altona Magic because we had enough senior first team and bench players. Against Altona Magic, we had Eliopoulos, Bonada, Inglese, Menelaou, Dovison, Leech, Pope, Gorr-Burchmore, Skapoulas and Singh. Against Green Gully, we had Lopez, Jankovic, Pasquali, Eliopoulos, Bonada, Dovison, Skapoulas and O'Sullivan. Compare those inclusions against the U23s team we fielded against Oakleigh. It was just Dovison, Skapoulas, O'Sullivan and then a bunch of talented youth players.

To face George Cross, we would require at a minimum of Pope, Singh, Dovison, O'Sullivan, Gorr-Burchmore, Skapoulas and Coveny,
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Just to be clear here.. We are NOT only playing a pure U23 in these three NPL matches.. at least I dont expect us too nor think that that is the plan. Sorry if I misunderstood what you were both getting at...
 
SMFC1959 said:
If we can squeeze in at least 2 home matches early on, we can take advantage of that warm weather and sell memberships/merchandise. We would need to work around Athletics' schedule given its their priority period.
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we could start off by having merchandise for sale (not just 3 tops) on our website (or anywhere online really)... you know, like state league clubs do?
 
Our lineup suggests we arent very keen on the dockerty cup. A chance for our backups to impress.
 
The scary thing is our team is going to be even weaker than this against bergers, george cross and avondale.
 
4-1 full time and a reality check for those who think double digits is not in play when the team heads to Auckland.
 
I will agree that it was a good opportunity to show hunger and take opportunities to step up... unfortunately it didnt happen... end of day its a dockerty cup with no ramifications on our AU Cup campaign.. to be fair given the amount of matches we are playing perhaps being knocked out is a blessing more than a curse... few less games to fit into our already almost impossible schedule...
 
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