R4: Away to Smurf Village

[localpom]

Waste of time booing those guys...they were pivotal to our most successful time as a club and have to work.

 

[localpom]

BTW - Hutch seems set to play (article in the paper talking about him being keen to lead the side against Arnie), so I think it's unlikely we're playing Monty in the super-deep role. I reckon we'll be playing our normal shape, with:

----------------Reddy-------------
Roux-Anderson-Bosnar-Rose
--------------------Hutch---------
--------Monty---------------------
Fitz---------Trifiro--------Mane
---------------Duke----------------

Nice side but i'd like to see Caceres in there somewhere, but maybe off the bench. We need a side that is willing to work their socks off this weekend and stick to a plan and i think that side would.

 

[Capt. Awesome]

So a lot of chat from the Sydney FC team saying they will have the edge over us because Arnie knows how Moss will play. I think this goes both ways though. Who will come up with the best game plan?

 

[localpom]

I do expect us to park the bus; I also expect Matt Sim to be in the starting line-up and am fairly certain Kim will be too

Sim and Kim only go together in a rhyme. You could be right Roy but i hope not.....no problem with one playing as they can both add something.

 

[nebakke]

On Bernie and Hatman, I completely agree... Unless they outrigh shafted your team by, say taking advantage of a loophole to try and weasel out of their contract, I don't believe in booing past the season, if you know what i mean... And if Pedj hadn't left, we wouldn't have seen as much of Storm-boy, so there's definitely that.
Bernie, well that was circumstance. By all accounts, he wanted to stay up here, but Sydney had the money to pay out his contract etc etc... AND he's been courteous about it.

Arnie though... I'm entirely with rbaker, he got out on a friendly agreement with the club, looking for greener pastures... He grabbed two of our strongest resources and brought them with him. His failure in Japan, contributed to us completely losing McGlinchey and, when he got the job with the smurfs, by all accounts - he proceeded to use our club as a shopping window. Plus, he keeps going on about how glorious it is at the Smurfs, that's just stomach churning

But, on the other hand, he didn't have a whole lot of options re. where to go, either...

 

[dibo]

Except in this case the ex skipped off after renewing their vows, publicly declaring that they'd never go out with anyone in your family only to shack up a few months later with your sister who lives down the road after things went bad with the other woman. You might have found someone else, but the pain and problems that the ex caused by leaving are still present.

Is there any suggestion that we weren't compensated for the breaking of Arnie's contract in exactly the terms specified by same? No different to a player sale in that respect. He was always going to move on at some point, we had a replacement in the wings ready to go, we were hardly going to sack him so as to definitely not have to make a transition mid-season.

 

[sydmariner]

One of your worst posts yet.

Bojic there's no point - we're better off without him. He's now a hat salesman who miskicks a ball for money at the neighbours' place. Would you swap Roux for him? I wouldn't. Point and laugh, maybe. Boo? Nah.

With Arnie, why boo? He took another job when he was unemployed and ours was unavailable (unless you think we should've demoted Moss, which would have been an utter cock of a thing to do). That's like being pissed off at your ex for moving on when you're happily married. Did you think he was going to stay unemployed so he could say he never loved another club after ours? f**king hell, he's a coach, he will take coaching jobs when they're on offer. Still delivered our first Grand Final win. Want to see him lose three games a year against us, but other than that good luck to him.

Clarky: Same deal as for Arnie but more so. He played for us for years as well, he was a real favourite of mine, and a coastie to boot. We've got Tim Knight on board, and he's going well, so wish Clarky well for the future.

Ok plan B then GIVE EM SOME CHEEEEEZZZEEEE!!!!!!

 

[Wombat]

----------------Reddy-------------
Roux-Anderson-Bosnar-Rose
--------------------Monty---------
--------Caceres--------------------
Fitz---------Trifiro--------Mane
---------------Duke----------------[/QUOTE]


That's a decent looking side and would give us a very good chance of taking all the points. It's not my fav formation but it's spot on player wise atm.

 

[dibo]

I imagine that in practice it's a *long* way from your favourite formation because when we line up that way, it's to allow Monty to drop between Anderson and Bosnar, so in defence we form a 5-4-1 rather than the normal 4-4-2. Very negative setup, but gives us the most chance to soak and hit with pace on the counter.

 

[Gratis]

sky poos guys

carry on

 

[rbakersmith]

The squad, from Twitter:

Nash, Roux, Rose, Poscoliero, Anderson, Hutchinson, Montgomery, Duke, Caceres, Fitzgerald, Reddy, Mané, Sim, Trifiro, Simon, Cernak, Bosnar, Kim *two to be omitted*

 

[UnitedsNo9]

I'm not about to boo Arnie, Bernie, or Clarky. All served us so well and often in difficult times. Ended up getting the Championship that had eluded us. People move on, clubs move on. Provided they still show respect to our club I am happy for their new career paths.

Same goes for weemac. I don't pretend to know the inner workings of contract dealings so I can't comment. But I have read a few articles where Mikey has been very diplomatic and praised our club as well. So good luck to them all.

 

[sydmariner]

The squad, from Twitter:

Nash, Roux, Rose, Poscoliero, Anderson, Hutchinson, Montgomery, Duke, Caceres, Fitzgerald, Reddy, Mané, Sim, Trifiro, Simon, Cernak, Bosnar, Kim *two to be omitted*

Good to see that simon is back

 

[localpom]

Good to see that simon is back

For once Sydmariner....i am in total agreement with you.

 

[Roy Law]

The squad, from Twitter:

Nash, Roux, Rose, Poscoliero, Anderson, Hutchinson, Montgomery, Duke, Caceres, Fitzgerald, Reddy, Mané, Sim, Trifiro, Simon, Cernak, Bosnar, Kim *two to be omitted*

Welcome back Mat Simon. I wonder what has happened with Richie Vernes?

 

[kevrenor]

Sunday, 2 November 2014

Sydney FC v Central Coast Mariners FC

Allianz Stadium, Sydney
Kick-Off:5:00 PM (Local) (5:00 PM AEDT)

Referee: Strebre Delovski
Assistant Referee 1: Sarah Ho
Assistant Referee 2: Ryan Gallagher
Fourth Official: Stephen Lucas

TV Broadcast:Live and exclusive coverage onFOX SPORTS 1HD & 1from 4.30pm (AEDT) and Sky Sport 4 (New Zealand)

Radio Broadcast:Full coverage Grandstand Digital Sydney, ABC Grandstand Online/ABC Radio phone app. Second half coverage 702 ABC Sydney, 92.5 ABC Central Coast, Local Radio NSW. Coast FM 96.3

Join the conversation on Twitter using the hash-tag#SYDvCCM

Sydney FC squad: 1.Ivan NECEVSKI (RGK), 2.Sebastian RYALL, 3.Sasa OGNENOVSKI, 4.Pedj BOJIC, 6.Nikola PETKOVIC, 7.Corey GAMEIRO, 8.Milos DIMITRIJEVIC, 9.Shane SMELTZ, 11.Bernie IBINI, 12.Hagi GLIGOR, 13.Christopher NAUMOFF 14.Alex BROSQUE (c), 16.Alex GERSBACH, 17.Terry ANTONIS, 19.Nick CARLE, 20.Vedran JANJETOVIC (GK), 21.Mark JANKO, 22.Ali ABBAS
***two to be omitted***

Ins:6.Nikola PETKOVIC (return from suspension), 9.Shane SMELTZ (return from injury), 19.Nick CARLE (promoted)
Outs:25.Aaron CALVER (omitted)
Unavailable:23.Rhyan GRANT (knee – 1 week), 5.Matthew JURMAN (knee)

Central Coast Mariners squad: 1.Matt NASH (rgk), 2.Storm ROUX, 3.Josh ROSE, 4.Jacob POSCOLIERO, 5.Zac ANDERSON, 7.John HUTCHINSON (c), 8.Nick MONTGOMERY, 9.Mitchell DUKE, 10.Anthony CACERES, 11.Nick FITZGERALD, 12.Liam REDDY (gk), 14.Malick MANÉ, 15.Matthew SIM, 18.Glen TRIFIRO, 19.Matt SIMON, 23.Isaka CERNAK, 25.Eddy BOSNAR, 26.KIM Seung-yong
***two to be omitted***

Ins:19.Matt SIMON (promoted), 23.Isaka CERNAK (promoted)
Outs:Nil
Unavailable:6.Brent GRIFFITHS (injury – 4 weeks)

 

[dibo]

Welcome back Mat Simon. I wonder what has happened with Richie Vernes?

Is probably going to have to show a bit to be selected.

 

[shipwreck]

So he isn't out or unavailable because he has never been selected? Vernes that is

 

[dibo]

Yep

 

[Capt. Awesome]

Miss said in an interview this week he is still not match fit. Re:Vernes