I think the reason the imports are catching heat is they needed support the squad couldn’t provide.
There are legitimate questions. Why sign Josh when he clearly can’t play out from the back? What due diligence was done? When he couldn’t do it why did we try? When did Chief realise?
Retre couldn’t do the running for Nagasawa or cover him so he could push forward. Conchie isn’t trusted and we lacked a Ryan Lowry to try for a couple of games.
Nagasawa’s best work has been interceptions up high up, holding up the ball on the cusp of the box to find the best option and getting on the end of a couple for goals. I don’t know if we will see his best, as Ishige and Kosta as a front two seems our strongest front two. I’m also suspicious of the end of year games that have less riding on them. I’m waiting to see next year’s derby!
Ball, Al-Taay and Van Hattum turned out to be wasted spots. While I was harsh on Colacovski, that was from someone who was expecting a challenge for the league. A couple more Colacovski-type signings in different positions should have seen us in the top 6, imo. We needed pros with a bit of experience and the ability to do the running in defense, understand instructions and pass the ball in attack.
I’ll be interested to see how we go replacing Wootton. I think he was fantastically reliable as a defender and leading a backline. However, I can see the argument that he couldn’t create play as well as might be liked from that position. Unfortunately a ball playing CB sounds pricey.
Anyway I’m excited to see next year. I probably shouldn’t be. There’s the usual criticism of us as too nice or whatever. I don’t want us to be Clive Palmer, or Wanderers or have a record of fan violence.
I think we’ve done bloody well overall. Look at the flip side. Every year we’re up against two Sydney sides and 3 Melbourne sides, plus 3 more NSW sides, Brisbane and Perth. They out spend us. Some of them rort the cap.
We’re not a Costa, Mata or Sakai type club these days. But we did have Old and Surman. Ligue One and marking Giroud in a tight battle this week.
That said, our team balance still needs to make more sense next season than it did this season! I think it can. I’m a glutton for punishment and also I don’t think anything can be as bad as this season in the future. The bad was worse or at a minimum equal to Darje days.
There are legitimate questions. Why sign Josh when he clearly can’t play out from the back? What due diligence was done? When he couldn’t do it why did we try? When did Chief realise?
Retre couldn’t do the running for Nagasawa or cover him so he could push forward. Conchie isn’t trusted and we lacked a Ryan Lowry to try for a couple of games.
Nagasawa’s best work has been interceptions up high up, holding up the ball on the cusp of the box to find the best option and getting on the end of a couple for goals. I don’t know if we will see his best, as Ishige and Kosta as a front two seems our strongest front two. I’m also suspicious of the end of year games that have less riding on them. I’m waiting to see next year’s derby!
Ball, Al-Taay and Van Hattum turned out to be wasted spots. While I was harsh on Colacovski, that was from someone who was expecting a challenge for the league. A couple more Colacovski-type signings in different positions should have seen us in the top 6, imo. We needed pros with a bit of experience and the ability to do the running in defense, understand instructions and pass the ball in attack.
I’ll be interested to see how we go replacing Wootton. I think he was fantastically reliable as a defender and leading a backline. However, I can see the argument that he couldn’t create play as well as might be liked from that position. Unfortunately a ball playing CB sounds pricey.
Anyway I’m excited to see next year. I probably shouldn’t be. There’s the usual criticism of us as too nice or whatever. I don’t want us to be Clive Palmer, or Wanderers or have a record of fan violence.
I think we’ve done bloody well overall. Look at the flip side. Every year we’re up against two Sydney sides and 3 Melbourne sides, plus 3 more NSW sides, Brisbane and Perth. They out spend us. Some of them rort the cap.
We’re not a Costa, Mata or Sakai type club these days. But we did have Old and Surman. Ligue One and marking Giroud in a tight battle this week.
That said, our team balance still needs to make more sense next season than it did this season! I think it can. I’m a glutton for punishment and also I don’t think anything can be as bad as this season in the future. The bad was worse or at a minimum equal to Darje days.