Melbourne A vs. Nix, Sunday 14th 5pm

whats the bet dmac will be shite?

So has it happened before? I'm sure I remember someone having their 30 day stand down wiped?

I think they found a loophole that meant if you didn't take the pitch you were fine.  That's why Clapham never came on against Sydney.

Tim brown must have given pav that picture of Ricki in a compromising position with a donkey (rumoured to be D-Mac),this got him the bizarre two year contract extension,and the ability to go do whatever he wants (mostly piss away his money at the TAB)

On other A league games perhaps. 

So according to Wikipedia Pav has been on loan to Sydney United, the Croatian team whose fans got in a brawl with WSW fans.

They came second in NSW Premier league, here is Pav with an assist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckmDFbgn7m8

Not looking too bad.

Agree .I cant recall him doing much for the nix apart from swinging on a pole and breaking his arm.

and a goal.

 or ( 2 )?

He got a double in a game against Newcastle. Which briefly reignited hopes that he might improve...

I agree, he was decent for us.  He's just so slow, in some games he gets away with it and in others it looks terrible

 Hopefully confronted with our new look side with an average age of 12 that will be the case this week.

Look at the makeup of our squad, there are at least 4 forwards ahead of him in the striker role and he'll clearly never play for the club again no matter what Ricki says about him being on his way back.  This is where we need Sam Worthington to earn his money and actually do some reporting

Hmm I thought it was NZF discretion??

I think 

Lyndsey, box, dura, Rowe

Smiff, moose, lia,

Iffy, waffle, Fenton 

Likely subs - Boyd, panamaniac

Judging that on them setting up at training 

Interesting, adding Lia into the midfield should stop us getting over run in the centre of the park. But I am surprised that we are changing from the 4-1-3-2 that we have played all pre-season. I guess it will be just for this game, to fill in the holes better.

 Nice insight from the Fever's chief scout.

If Lia is back will they not put him at RB and keep Lyndsey in the midfield? Or are they still too mentally scarred by Lia's attempts at RB last year?

25 yrs 5 months 14 days ... give or take ...

Have heard that RH wants to play more of a 4231 away from home to bulk up the mids which makes sense and this lineup from Feverish actually does work to our strengths for this game. Essentially you drop a striker and play an extra guy next to manny. I like it

which is why i dont see why we dont leave paston or moss and bertos and lochhead with the phoenix. keep the back four minus siggy and everything else stays the same apart from boyd for brockie. seems crazy to me that either paston or moss are going to sit on the bench for two internationals and i think hogg for lochhead is tit for tat. howieson for bertos. its not like bertos is settling the world alight on the flank internationally anymore

Ricki has selected a good experienced squad that did well in the last WCQ games, why should he change it? If Paston gets injured, as he did at the OFC Nations Cup, I would much rather have Moss than Gleeson (though was impressed with O'Keeffe at Olympics). 

I think he has kept his Phoenix hat on ever so slightly when selecting the All Whites squad with Boxall not being selected even though he was in the All Whites squad for the last two WCQ games. I would imagine that along with Sigmund; Vicelich and Keat are considered cover for CD.

If Lia comes in, hopefully he plays as well as he did against Heart as last season in Morwell. 

I like the 4-3-3 formation more, particularly with who is available. I think the team will be surprisingly competitive and should definitely be playing for the win rather than just a draw. It's a great opportunity for the young guys, hopefully they view it as one and are in the right frame of mind. Looking forward to it.

Looking forward to the game, if not for anything other than seeeing the young guys get a decent run in. Hopefully we'' surprise a few poeple and snatch a point.

Its a shame that if someone like Rowe has a blinder, not matter what he'll be dropped due to the contractual issues. I imagine that would be quite disheartning.

Dmac scores goals, not pretty one, but his ratio isn't too bad... and at the end of the day that is all that matters.

Audere est facere 

Nothing to lose, everything for the youngsters to prove. Take the opportunity. 

Smesh 'em!

i would think all the pressure will be on the heart .They are facing almost a B nix team ( more like an A- ) so pressure on for them to get goals and take all three points. Personally i hope we still smash em .

Would be good to see what the odds will be for this one especially after last weeks game