Melbourne vs Phoenix - Match thread

I'd like to see us try a diamond formation one day, whether away to Melbourne is a good idea - probably not, but some time would be nice.

                    Paston
Siggy - McKain - Durante - Lochhead
                       Lia
Bertos                                   Daniel
                      Diego
                  Ifill - Greenacre

I think used in this formation would suit Diego best, I am sure he is a central attacking midfielder, not a wide one as used so far which would hinder his performances.

Bertos and Siggy on the bench? Narf

+1

Caceres on the bench but will get a run, possibly for Daniel

+ another 1 providing Leo and Lochhead are 100% after Jordan game / trip.

they'll be still abit jet lagged from the wednesday game. they will play but they will only play half games whether they start or come off the bench.

If we push our guys too hard we will probably break them, I'd prefer to let them have lighter run this week and train hard for the Fury game.


smittyz112009-09-07 16:30:59

Yeah but I think Manny has to come back from Malta. That's even further. But I do get what you are saying. That's a lot of travel for the Kiwi lads, but at the same time Leo HAS to play. He's our best player and looks capable of producing things the whole match. But other than that, it could be a chance to shift the squad round a bit.

is there no away area at the end of the ground now? are we going to have to go in that bit to the side?

You've selected General Admission areas. Whitby boy2009-09-07 17:03:56

that chart shows both ends as home ends though?

But you don't want Home Supporter areas - right ?

But thos are three pairs of similar players and one from each would make an ideal A-League bench IMO. 1 Defensive midfielder, an attacking midfielder/winger and a striker.

There is two sets of Home Fans/Supporter Groups, one at each end that sing to each other.

It will make sense when you get there, but the away supporters are always in that little triangle on the corner.

North and south end.
I was at Sydney v Melbourne at etihad with the cove.
And it Sounded great.

North end start.
   We're north end, north end north end over here!
South reply.
   We're south end. South end south end over here!

Melbourne fans are very impressive. When the game was a bit dim and if the cove weren't singing, I watched them.

Sack Ricki.Stefan2009-09-08 13:07:44

At Olympic Park against the Knights in Season 2 the whole crowd got into it - North, East, South and West. Was pretty awesome.

I love Melbourne fans*

*lie. The only thing I like is their organisation

sack Ricki.Stefan2009-09-08 13:10:47

Just for Lols
http://www.youtube.com/gomvfc#play/uploads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2sybtWwFUg&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fuser%2Fgomvfc&feature=player_profilepage#t=30Stefan2009-09-08 18:10:44

No Danny Allsop - he's on his way to Qatar.

Fair enough.
31 years old, still enough time to make a name for himself overseas.

It seems to all be falling apart at melbourne, Celeski will be a big blow, I feel sorry for himStefan2009-09-08 20:40:20

Fixed
2ndBest2009-09-08 20:53:48

Sheik Danny Allsopp?

woohoo....no allsopp, no celeski, no muscat.. please god let us put them away this weekend.

Talk was Muscat might have been available last week, but they chose not to risk him so he may play, but I can't seem the dropping Leijer or Vargas and I'm not sure he has the legs for midfield anymore.  Maybe go with three and Kemp and Sukha get a more attacking brief.

Can't remember the stats now but Melb's win ratio without Muscat is pretty poor. I'd say it's near certain that Merrick will lever him into the starting line up somehow, even if it is in midfield and only for 65-70 minutes.

Rumours on Thompson to where? 

I have no idea if there is any substance in them but the rumours were about cashed up Middle East clubs looking at Thompson. What is he now? 30-31? About the same age as Allsop I think. Just the time to think about a big money contract too.

Fair enough stopout, understandable I guess.  It would be interesting to know whether these guys find that the grass isn't necessarily greener away from the A-League.  I know that a lot of the guys who headed to Asia (Korea, China and Japan) have moved on pretty quickly, you can have a pretty awesome lifestyle playing in the A-League which might be worth a bit in terms of the difference in salary james dean2009-09-09 01:32:10

hopefully this little distraction will put more media away from the fact that we are playing them this week and hopefully it will give us an edge. But with a few players here and there, I don't know if we have a really good chance?

i remember seeing Muscat for the first time that game and Allsopp just wiped the floor with him. I was like oh sh*t we are screwed lol

Laybutt?  Where's he these days.

Still cleaning up Durantes mess? Tegal2009-09-09 13:00:37

He got released by Noocastle.  Probably running around it the NSW state league..

imo we will have a very good chance. We have never performed well at the TD but Melbourne are in a bit of a spin at the moment - Hernandez will be tired, Allsopp gone, Archie and the like unsettled, Celeski - their only other consistantly good creative midfielder - gone for the season. Celeski being out means that Brebner is on the field - and he is about 2 years past his best.
valeo2009-09-09 13:21:12