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I think Avondale will also beat Heidelberg next week as they cant score anymore.

I'd be happy with 4th and a home final. That said if we were to win all our remaining games we could finish a lot higher.

Keep in mind our goal difference kills us.
 
Even if we had just beaten Green Gully, we would have been on 38 points and within striking distance of second spot! I just get so annoyed at how many points we have thrown away this season.
 
This is where the injuries and lack of depth on the bench will hurt us for Sunday’s match against St Albans Dinamo.

We cannot start those two traditional substitutes against Dinamo. They would need to remain on the bench until 89th minute.

Skapoulas, Nkwomo, and Swibel will need to play against Dinamo. That’s 3 changes. It just means we’ll need Retre on Sunday to back it up with a 20 minute stint off the bench as I’m assuming he’ll me starting on Thursday. Anyone from the U23s that could step up and sit on the bench and contribute a 15 minute stint?

Ramazani, Jankovic, Charlston, Pasquali, Giannakopouls, Yoo, Uchida, Juach and Cocks will need to back it up for another 90 minutes. The good thing is they’ll have a break given there’s no NPL action the following week.
 
Hellenic_blue&white said:
Bc we just take what we are given!!
Most likely has to do with paramount coverage!
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We really need to start standing up for ourselves.

Thursday is a typical training night for local clubs and a huge afl game will be on at the G at the same time, thats without going into the avoidable short turnaround for the weekend.

We should have pushed hard for Wednesday night.

Every time we land ourselves in a big occasion something always has to go wrong, we lost the Aus championship final hosting at lakeside last yr cos of the athletics. We lost the blockbuster Preston game to a shitty saturday arvo timeslot, and now we get this. Feels like its never gonna click for us.

Ticket sales as of mid last week were going very poorly, hopefully the Oakleigh win sparks a late frenzy.
 
southmelb said:
We really need to start standing up for ourselves.

Thursday is a typical training night for local clubs and a huge afl game will be on at the G at the same time, thats without going into the avoidable short turnaround for the weekend.

We should have pushed hard for Wednesday night.

Every time we land ourselves in a big occasion something always has to go wrong, we lost the Aus championship final hosting at lakeside last yr cos of the athletics. We lost the blockbuster Preston game to a shitty saturday arvo timeslot, and now we get this. Feels like its never gonna click for us.

Ticket sales as of mid last week were going very poorly, hopefully the Oakleigh win sparks a late frenzy.
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In the football world, you cannot just dictate what day you want to play, this is not the eighties anymore. Football is now a seven day a week sport, and at the behest of the broadcasters.
 
SMFC1959 said:
Oakleigh is a very good team, but not untouchable. We go in and play our game plan. Keep it tight at the back and try and control the midfield battle. Both teams will have chances to score. We just need to ensure that we are up for it and neutralise Lebid. Take 3 points tonight and we make a big statement that we are in the hunt for silverware.

As Adrian told Rocky in the Rocky II movie - "WIN"
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Was bumming on the couch on Saturday late morning channel surfing and Rocky 2 was on....... stayed to watch the whole thing just because of this post and our win...
 
SMFC1959 said:
That was a big win tonight given the context of our season and strengthening our position in the top 6.

Oakleigh is a very good team. They started stronger in the first half and were more on top early on. We steadied things from the 20th-25th minute mark and finished stronger in that first half. Juach should have scored that one on one chance late in the first half. He’s clearly missing match fitness and that striker’s performance touch. He was much better today, and was involved in our first goal in the second half by heading the ball to Yoo for running into space and scoring a great goal.

Yoo had another great match. He was everywhere and involved in all build ups. His movement and forward drives caused all sorts of trouble for the Oakleigh defence. Yuki was also amazing and was running rings around the Oakleigh players. Retre continues to show why he’s been a great addition. Simply all class. Ramazani - not enough words can describe how great he was once again. Solid defensively again and has formed a great partnership with Jankovic.

I don’t understand why those late substitutions were made. You can’t risk matches against the likes of Oakleigh with players they won’t help. Lackay was tripping over himself. The other substitute nearly cost us an equaliser goal at the death. Just ridiculous stuff.

The injuries of Lampard, Mikkola and Menelaou has exposed our lack of depth on the bench. Apart from Nkwomo and Swibel, we had nothing. Players like Pope, Leech and Dovison should have retained for the bench.

One of the other benefits tonight was the draw between Heidelberg and CS George Cross. That means we jump over Heidelberg and create a 4 point gap from CS George George. Given Preston is facing an almost certain point deduction (they had a suspended -3 point deduction already), then South could aim to finish at least fourth. More importantly it gives us a little bit of breathing space as well.

On a side note, the new grandstand looked good. It’s probably big enough for their needs.
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It was a very interesting tactic to play 3 at the back and BOTH Cox and Painter-Andrews as wingbacks... I actually quite liked it because it gave Rama, Marko and Tommy ALL a cahnce to venture forward when presented with a chance and knowing there was plenty of coverage... Led to some interesting movement and showed that Pasuali and Retre can work very well together. Yoo was a great goal and Bul is getting pretty close to showing what he can do up top... We are not quite there yet but Friday night was finals football for me.. I havnet seen anyone else force Oakleigh into a low block at home.

Thursday is going to alot more fun than I thought it was going to be a week ago.
 
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