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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

southmelb said:
Sinisa has pretty much lost me now. He looks disinterested, his starting lineups are stupid, our formation is disjointed, he takes too long to make subs when the games start getting away from us.

If you're being forced to play Messourouni hand in your resignation, nobody would hold it against him. This situation is only sabotaging his coaching career.
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Yep.. the minute he took the dirty plaster money is the minute all credibility went out the window. His handler says "play my son or else' and he does... so sad.
 
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SMFC1959 said:
Nothing today made sense. Was just an awful day at Lakeside. We look disjointed, slow and lacking any killer instinct.

I don’t know how we manage to make weaker opposition look so good. With Giannakopoulos moving back to defence meant we lost a bit of our midfield strength. Don’t understand why we didn’t start Menelaou or Leech to replace Giannakopoulos. Our midfield was practically nonexistent.

As for that certain player that was playing in attack, the sooner this ends the better. It does no good to that player or to the team if this continues. Perhaps a stint in the U23s for a game or two would help diffuse the situation.

Cocks and Mikkola were not great today. Worryingly, Mikkola had not been in form for a few matches.

If Bonada had scored one of his two big chances, then we could have been talking about a different scoreline. But maybe that would have papered over worrying cracks.

We desperately need 3 points against Dandy Thunder next week. I truly don’t know whether we’ll do that.
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I agree.. AS much as that nepo dipshit rightly gets canned by fans for being a waste of space, the rest of the squad wasn't stellar last night.. Lampard had a shocker, Painter Andrews looked like he wasnt really there... Yuki doesn belong centrally. Mikkola? Was he even on the field?

I saw a lot of heads down from coaching staff AND players... only one animated was the bearded burbler on the balcony responding to jeers at his son... The NPL season is over... we wont go down but wont play finals for two years in a row....

Fucking crying shame.
 
southmelb said:
I find it hard to believe a club of our stature cant sign players. Its clear they dont want to spend. Even Dandy City getting Dekker and Courtney Perkins, those would be good signings. We cant find solid npl players at all?

This whole thing of not wanting to bring "just anyone in" is also an excuse to justify us not doing anything.

Maybe its all being done on purpose so Messourouni keeps playing, who knows.

Inglese should have been kept until at least the end of the transfer window, why is Ethan O Sullivan not even on the bench when Painter Andrews is arguably the worst rb in the league?(defending). Is Menelaou injured? Again baffling.

This club owes us big time, they've subjected us to having to watch our team play overseas for months, made us sit through countless games where we were either understrength or outright uncompetitve with kids, and now they wanna throw in the towel?

Now the signs suggest that we wont take anything seriously until the Aus championship in October? I meam wtf was my membership for.
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Would you sign for a club that sacks their most successful coach in years and then 2 days latter re-signs him?
 
SMFC1959 said:
I don’t understand why we threw away and self sabotaged our NPL season.

That month of May where the club made that ridiculous decision to play the U20s/U23s was a sign that the club had not taken the NPL seriously enough. We have dropped so many points this season.

We have not won the NPL Victoria title since 2016. This was the year meant to change that - we have just absolutely stuffed this up.
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Why? Because the people who have the time and finances to chair our club only do it for their own glorification.

I dont mind if we try new things, yes even Oceania although it was a flop. I mind that personal ego is getting in the way of a decent squad being able to do a decent job... JUST PUT THE BEST 11 ON THE FIELD every week and let the managers do their job... it not hard.

Even with no new signings this window we are a top 4 side... its undeniable... The balcony cunts just need to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up........
 
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southmelb said:
He has a good shot off a set piece. I've never seen him strike a good ball in the npl in open play, he gets closed down quickly, ball gets stuck between his feet, then loses it and the opposition launch a scoring opportunity, meanwhile he doesnt run.

Its going to start getting toxic soon because he knows the supporters dont want him, and hes showing early signs of going into epifano mode with the crowd.

Its staggering that his dad is putting him in this position. Its not personal, hes just shit.

We are in a crisis and one president has planted his son in the first 11 whilst the other i think is in Greece living it up.
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That was our conversation yesterday too.

"Its staggering that his dad is putting him in this position. Its not personal, hes just shit."

I get a dad wanting to do whatever he can for his son.. shit most of us with kids have turned a blind eye to their failings at one point or another, but what sort of a shit parent puts his son in the situation he is in now? The kid isn't a bad bloke, he is just being made the scapegoat because he isnt talented enough to play first. team.
 
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Think we are also seeing the cracks emerge in Sinisas coaching. It really gets ugly for us when we fall behind, plan B seems to be just lump it forward and try get on the end of scraps, except we are no longer a tall team.

Its becoming a concerning trend that if we fall a goal down we have no real response.
 
southmelb said:
Think we are also seeing the cracks emerge in Sinisas coaching. It really gets ugly for us when we fall behind, plan B seems to be just lump it forward and try get on the end of scraps, except we are no longer a tall team.

Its becoming a concerning trend that if we fall a goal down we have no real response.
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Aside from that the need for a quuck response isnt even instinctive imo...we didnt wake up after the 1st goal or reacted qith any kind of urgency.. i get stick to the gameplan mentality but shouldnt there be a bit of a gameplan to begin with?
 
Preston and Avondale are driving wages to levels we cant compete with.

That said how we didnt swoop on the dandenong thunder firesale is mind boggling. Even the players Sydney Olympic are getting, Armenakos, Zoricich etc would have been huge.

I dont think anyone wants to come. We keep talking about building for the Aus championship but it wouldnt surprise me if we actually end up shedding some of the names we picked up last year.

It didnt have to be this way.
 
southmelb said:
Preston and Avondale are driving wages to levels we cant compete with.

That said how we didnt swoop on the dandenong thunder firesale is mind boggling. Even the players Sydney Olympic are getting, Armenakos, Zoricich etc would have been huge.

I dont think anyone wants to come. We keep talking about building for the Aus championship but it wouldnt surprise me if we actually end up shedding some of the names we picked up last year.

It didnt have to be this way.
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Tbh the only players from the Thunder fire sale that interested me are Jalloh and Courtney-Perkins
 
I dont consider shedding a bad thing, infact given performances of some, i wouldve argued that it was infact a necessity in our situation post ofc, we needed a damn plan for how to correctly have done this though, and the right players shed, it always needed to be based on upgrading stocks.

Im not convinced that signings for the sake of signings will save our year atm either, we have real problem areas that need addressing on the field and 2 more ins at this stage may not fix that.

It pains me that others had the foresight to pick the thunder carcass early and we didnt even seem to have a look in..not saying that it was the answer to our proboems but wasting time on players that want to play OS seems not to be the answer either.

Our biggest sore point is the CB ... that we cant find anyone capable of filling that need is dumbfounding!
 
southmelb said:
Preston and Avondale are driving wages to levels we cant compete with.

That said how we didnt swoop on the dandenong thunder firesale is mind boggling. Even the players Sydney Olympic are getting, Armenakos, Zoricich etc would have been huge.

I dont think anyone wants to come. We keep talking about building for the Aus championship but it wouldnt surprise me if we actually end up shedding some of the names we picked up last year.

It didnt have to be this way.
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Take it easy mate they aren't Real Madrid... Paying overs for ex Aleague bums isnt that out of reach.
 
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