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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

Great game by South Melbourne, played very well, truely impressive. Oakleigh we're eh, just average, just a very average 3 goals no big deal, nothing special... South Melbourne on the other hand, wow! 😍
 
Whilst Oakleigh were ordinary you have to factor in that its not easy rocking up to a game that you know isnt a proper match. Very rarely does a team know they've won the game before its started.
 
There’s not much point trying to discuss this match given South pretty much fielded a combination of our U20s/U23s today. The fact the kids were able to keep Oakleigh scoreless until the 5th minute of injury time in the first half is testament to the quality of these kids and the effort they put in.

The positive today is that we have a bunch of kids coming through the club’s youth program that are going to play senior football. We have some talented kids - not all will make it to the senior squad, but we can confident that we have kids who can step up and measure themselves against other opponents. They will be better for the experience today. The way the fans acknowledged and applauded their efforts will ensure they hold their heads up high.

That being said - a full strength South side would have won by a couple of goals today.
 
O'Sullivan is ready now to be part of the senior squad every week. Papadimitriou and Saristavros are the next ones most likely to make it.

Anyway you blood these kids in with the main team and that shows a lot more. Its hard to judge when they're all in at once and get physically beaten by bigger more experienced bodies.

If we had Lopez, Eliopoulos, Jankovic, Pasquali and Bonada in the 11 today like we did against Gully with the kids surrounding them we would have given them a lot of trouble.
 
Skapoulas dovison osullivan papadimitriou saristavros that's 5 who have shown they're up for it granted Skapoulas and dovison were in the senior squad last season. Credit to the work our club is doing in our youth set up. Yes we'd have liked some more senior players there but at least we know these kids won't embarass the club.

Moving forward if we can still be in the 6 or around it by end of ofc i can see us winning the league. First place we know means Jack shit and if we do get to he grand final guess what it's a free home grand final. Let's go Hellas
 
Lets not get carried away with today. These kids could easily cop 7+ against Heidelberg in a few weeks, especially if Bergers score early.

The key today was that we held them out. Lets not expect 3-0 with such a te every week. Its one thing to know you're gonna lose but the potential for huge defeats is worrying, our GD being massacred is like losing an extra point.
 
Oakleigh said:
Why wasn't your full squad played? I am currently away from Melbourne so not caught up to the details.
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South Melbourne had to field an understrength playing list because all our senior players are in Fiji for OFC Pro League where they played and lost against bottom-placed PNG Hekari instead of flying back to Melbourne at the conclusion of the Bula FC game midweek so they could be fully fit and firing for today's match against Oakleigh.
 
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