Will also depend on whether we lob the ball high to the forwards or we keep it low. I think he prefers the ball on the ground rather than coming overhead.

CFG and those companies that have sport as their core business may have a different business model. Probably more like the music industry was prior to the rise of Spotify. Record labels would sign heaps of contracts with bands or artists knowing full well that some will never sell a record but...

Tilio, Talbot, Lachlan Wales, Trewin, Schreiber all moved to MC and they got game time. I don't know why Lachlan Wales got game time but he did. I suspect that Badalato feels that he is good enough to get senior exposure and that MVC agreed to some minimum. But I do agree that some players are...

What does success mean in CFG books? And some people seem to have forgotten that MC did win both trophies in the last five years. Also there are other clubs in the CFG stable which are in bigger strife (Troyes). In any case football success comes in cycles unless you are in Scotland or England...

Fully agree with you. When Poppa made that statement, I thought it was a meh statement because which coach wouldn't say that? And of course his inconsistency has demonstrated that he does not believe that. Far more credible would be to say that he has a formation in mind and some players are...

Mariners so poor I decided not to watch the second half. Di Pizio? No awareness, continually loses the ball; Eames out of his depth; midfield are just a bunch of static cones watching the ball.

Just noticed that they are all on the old side. Surely retirement is not that far away for Duke and Deng.

Given that Macarthur has had three former players, including their former captain from last season, charged with game rigging plus having this season's captain walk out, I am surprised they are still competitive. I think that they need to use their bench more but I am not sure that they have the...

Valadon had senior starts for Melbourne City.

I was a kid when I went to Vic Park and it stayed with me. As far as Bogota is concerned, bullet proof car, 5 star hotel where you get checked continually, go out for dinner and you see sharp shooters on roof tops AND I was still followed. I often wondered whether it would have been better to...

Can we stop talking about players and just talk about Popa. Who knows, he may get injured and have to be replaced.

I wasn't even trying ;)

Just reading the posts above: 1. If the club does not release the player, then we can't hold the player responsible. 2. Official FIFA windows are the only times that players must be released by clubs if required to do national duties. 3. The comment about people management by FA needs to be...

It wasn't advertised, well at least I did not see anything promoting the game and it was late in the piece that 10Bold said that they would televise it.

Get them some Sumo training in there as well. And no I am not joking. One of the key skills in Sumo is maintaining balance so they actually have training exercises to do just that. So it would not matter so much physical weight but the ability to keep your balance during the charge. And believe...

Torn on Toure - when he plays he is great to watch but then there are times he just fades hardly knowing that he was playing.

Are you sure you got all the players that got minutes? I could have sworn that Randazzo had 30 minutes in the group stage. And there may be one more. Don't have the time to check.

ABC news online has a small article. ABC news radio at 6am had nothing. Cannot see it in The Age or The Guardian online either.

Bench Inserra, take Bennie back to RWB, make a change in the midfield. And Saudi have not let me down regarding their antics. Also at one stage Bennie was playing on the left and he looked lost.

Torn. As a rule I never watch Saudi teams because of their simulation. Can't stand it. BUT this may be the game that I could make an exception of.