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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

LD_Hellas said:
We were so far off it. Recruitment post Championship has been in my opinion all wrong bar Eliopolis, and even then he had question marks with his injury record.
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To make matters worse we may also be losing Eliopoulos for the year given how serious the injury looked which doesn't bode well for us heading into the second half of the NPL Victoria season where we have to bounce back after dropping so many points as well as the Hahn Australia Cup competition proper and Australian Championship.
 
When you factor in the amount of football these players have played and the psychological blow of losing this final, its going to be hard to come back from this i think.

Inglese/Jankovic is not a top tier central pairing and Swibel has simply not fired a shot whenever we've played a half decent team.

The morale is going to further drop after what Avondsle do to our kids tomorrow night. Then we dont even know if the club is considering giving these players an extended break.

Sadly we probably arent winning anything this year.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Swibel will likely be given extra training or be relegated to the reserves for a bit but we'd expect players like Lackay and Singh to be delisted altogether now that we don't need them along with other players who are considered surplus to requirements at the conclusion of OFC Pro League.
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cant turn swibel into a proper player.. no matter the amount of training... that we thought he and singh would pull this off is dumbfounding to say thw least...
 
southmelb said:
When you factor in the amount of football these players have played and the psychological blow of losing this final, its going to be hard to come back from this i think.
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100% but lets see if there is a smlim chance they make the right moves to bring the train back on the rails.
southmelb said:
Inglese/Jankovic is not a top tier central pairing and Swibel has simply not fired a shot whenever we've played a half decent team.
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Ive said it before but inglese is a liability on his own.. and a comedy of errors when those 2 play together...
southmelb said:
The morale is going to further drop after what Avondsle do to our kids tomorrow night. Then we dont even know if the club is considering giving these players an extended break.
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i would argue that performance was break eneough!
southmelb said:
Sadly we probably arent winning anything this year.
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Thats what i see also... not without some serious changes...
 
southmelb said:
I dont get why Sinisa gave up on the game so quickly with those subs at 2-0. Its not like any of them are gonna play tomorrow night.
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Im still working on figuring out why he didnt move bonada to 9 instead of taking him off wgen cox came on and have taken swibbel off??
 
Hellenic_blue&white said:
To be fair though today imo at no point did we look lile we would win this!
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The set pieces from Lampard and Uchida were horrible today. The only way we looked likely is if we could bundle the ball over the line from a set piece. Nowhere near it in general play.

This is where Swibel kills you. He is slow. He cant press, you can forget about him making an intelligent run in behind a defence. The obvious play was get him off. Get Bonada to 9 and tell him to chase down every ball and harass the Auckland backline, like we saw against Preston. Very poorly coached.
 
Is South paying a full time wage this year? Surely gotta be some players in the squad that can't work remote off a laptop via Auckland for a month, or do those lads just get left behind to play npl
 
Hellenic_blue&white said:
Anyone else thinking Zoricich could be a good fit?
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They have 4-5 that would be a good fit but they're young and will almost certainly be part of the senior setup. I dont think any Auckland players are gettable.

The 2 South Island lads would be gettable, and they defended way better in the semi than what we did today.
 
Any particular reason why Menelaou, OSullivan, Leech, Pope, Bonada, Singh, Coveny etc cant line up tomorrow night? Bonada played a half, the ones that came on much less, and others werent used at all.

We would still lose with those players but we have to try save our goal difference a bit.
 
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