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What has annoyed me is that it was fine to bring in Gamerio and Aspro but after they have signed bring in two injury replacement players, people like Tasuku Sekiya, Themba Muata-Marlow, Liam Rose, Jacob Tratt, Jeremy Walker, Ross Archibald, Chris Oldfield, Michael Theo. We knew they were both out injured for most of the season so why didn't we do this?
I suspect they thought we'd be ok until they were ready. Not necessarily great but not the position we're in at the moment either.
Have absolutely no qualms about bringing in Corey and Aspro. They will be assets once fit (Aspro might figure already this weekend). Think defensively we would have been ok with a quality keeper who is well organized.
I can understand that but surely more options are better than less?
Not arguing with you there but it's a cost the club may not have wanted to incur. With the starting line ups we've seen and how Murray was used prior to the Nix game I can't see a Gameiro replacement getting much game time anyway. I don't know how he fits in to our pecking order up front once fit anyway. Aspro almost back as mentioned by localpom and they, like the rest of us, would have thought Cisse and Golec would get the job done anyway.
I do think we need to at least give Mulvey till at least the end of the season, we can't waiver from the leeway we gave Walmsley or we will scare good coaches off.
If every single other A-League club can afford to sign injury replacement players then I'm sorry but we can too. If we want to be successful in the only part of the club that really matters, the football part, then we need to do these things it's simply non-negotiable. In the last two seasons nearly every club has made the most of this rule, the fact that we haven't despite having numerous opportunities, where most of the time we would have gotten the insurance money for it back later anyway, shows that the balance sheet has become more important than the only thing that should actually matter, the football. We have suffered through austerity measures imposed by Charlesworth, measures that were always said to be temporary, for what? One season when Charlesworth could be actually bothered to slightly care about our performances on the pitch because it might be embarrassing after we got so much attention from Usain Bolt? So many A-League stars have started from these contracts that we are shooting ourselves in the foot by not using them! Mile Jedinak, Ivan Franjic, Joel Chianese, Vedran Janjetovic, Leigh Broxham are just some of the names that when they have got their foot in the door with this opportunity they have made the most of it. We need to do this if we ever want to be competitive again.
I`m with you JP.
Yeah youre probably right. It’s nearly hump day, it’s about time to start looking forward.
Wholeheartedly agree JP, especially factoring in the length of time when :
