2016/17 Phoenix Preseason

Jacko, the olden day equivalent of Manny Muscat. A good hard man in the midfield.

he was ten times the player that muscat is, covered heaps of yards, tackled (hard), ran, passed and scored goals

These 6pm pre-season games are annoying.

Can't leave work early enough to make them ... bring back the 7pm starts of pre-seasons past, pretty please!

Is it likely that Kosta or Finkler getting a run tonight?

Cmon Nix!

Starting line-up was something like

Moss

Fox, Durante, Liam Wood?, Doyle
Lia
A-Rod, Roly

Kosta, Gui, Katebian

6 or 7 nil at half time, twice off the crossbar. Not sure of the scorers. Definately one from Roly from distance, two penalties (one Gui one Kosta) from Kosta being brought down in the box twice. Miramar leftback will have nightmares for weeks. Gui may have scored twice.

Fenton in the midfield for Lia (A-rod to DM), Watson for Gui and someone replacing Kosta at halftime. Also Gulley at RB with Fox to CB. I left about 10 minutes later after about 6 of the academy players went on as I was freezing.

Jason Pine‏@pineyzb 2m2 minutes ago

FT: @WgtnPhoenixFC win 7-1 (@KostaBarb7 2, @Guifinkler 2, @RolyBonevacia Tom Doyle, Liam Hare) #NixPreseason

Must have been 6-0 at half time.

Miramar put out a 3rd string team, pritty disappointing for those who turned up in the cold expecting some sort of contest. Was over within 15mins. Really dissapointing from the club

6-0 after 36 minutes. Kosta and Finkler looked good. Slightly worried about the depth of those two are out, but plenty time to sign more players I guess. Both looked a class apart from the others, including Roly who seemed a bit rusty despite a nice goal.

I was sure Finkler laid it off for Doyle?

Was a good goal.

I had hoped to get down to watch but got held up, so followed on twitter.  Shame to hear Miramar couldn't/didn't put out a better side.

YF twitter feed mentioned Khouchaba and Katebian for Nix.  Anyone know who they are and any comment on how they looked?

Cherbal Khouchaba, as mentioned previously, is a lad from Stop Out who looks like Justin Gulley's twin (same beard). Plays up front.

Kasabian are an English rock band from Leicester.

Katebian is an ex-MV youth who was rated highly over there - lots wondered why he was let go

This guy http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/article/joey-katebian-to-depart-melbourne-victory/138cl6ugqyqug1t9xuqn78ylnr

Links are easier:

http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/article/joey-ka...

BTW, that looks like he has big raps from the melb guys. He might be decent. Hopefully not another Pavlovic.

other trialist is this guy ?

http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/33337677

Both are pretty young, bur if they're good enough, they're old enough.

thanks guys

So we are hitting up 20 year olds not from the Nix Academy 

I would have thought the Nix Academy players are on permanent trial

Was he centre forward first half?

It would be pretty narrow minded to only look at kids in the Nix academy

Seems interesting, knocking about Premier League and Championship teams youth systems, plays for Cyprus but is an Australian citizen. 

Not a whole lot of info about him though.

Also, not a defender.

Perhaps these "outsiders" might be better? Could be beneficial in 2 ways, we get better players and the academy guys realise this and raise their games up to the next level and compete.for the same starting positions.

keeping up with the Katebians 

If it means Kourtney makes an appearance in the Zone, I'm all for it.

I've just fainted.

He look lively, but I leave the final call to Ernie.

When I'm the Pope.

I see Greenie was taking the team. Was Ernie there as well? I guess there would be advantages for him just to be an observer.