Phoenix Transfer Speculation 2012/13

And the official version was that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the JFK assasination...

I think Ricki only has himself to blame with the Stein situation, early season he looked dangerous, made intelligent runs and scored goals then out of nowhere he's benched - the guy was on form keep playing him. Instead he drops to the bench, doesn't get the minutes he needs to stay sharp and loses form - you have to wonder if something happened behind the scenes.

He got injured..

 Yes.  PROAK suggested he was benched for no reason though when there was a reason.  He was borked.

Yeah it was about 2 games and the 3rd and 4th game back he played about 10 mins?
In some respects, it could be similar to Ifill. Plays like ass 'Yeah I'm all good rock solid guys' and the next min its surgery and 4 weeks. Hard to tell because we have been spun 1 story already.

Either way, Stein is a quality footballer. The question really are 'Is he being used in the most effective manner' and 'Whats the most effective manner to use him within the game plan we want to play'

By playing balls to him like the one that was passed to Archie Thompson for his goal against Sydney. Direct down the middle instead of the get it wide and send in a hopefull cross.

Any more word on this Carlos story? All over twitter two days ago but nothing since.

http://nz.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=RBD.NZ

Restaurant Brand stock prices have gone down if anything, so the rumour has certainly softened. 

he does however want to return to the a league. he and his agent have stated that. his agent even approached several clubs. his contract finishes in april. he would be a great purchase for 2013/14 for us. although and i know I've mentiond it 1000 times but nicky carle. NICKY CARLE!!!!!!!

Liam Miller is also off contract at the end of the year I believe

 Jobe Wheelhouse is a free agent now...we could do a lot worse

How? Apart from Zadkovich or Me I can't think of many worse.

It pains me to say that Zadkovich has been quite decent this season. His unpunished flying two-footed tackles have been especially impressive.

A big no thanks to Wheelhouse.

Wheelhouse ?

First name 'Jobe' ?

A no on the name alone.....

Storm Roux - Kiwi at Perth Glory.

 I only have time to watch Nix games each week, so don't know much about other teams/players.

For those more knowledgeable than I, would Petar Franjic be a decent pickup ability- or position-wise?

Let go by the Tards to join Billy Mehmet at Bangkok Glass, but Phil Stubbins at BG wasn't overly impressed, and eventually gave last import spot to another Australian triallist, Goran Subara from the Singpore League. Not heard whether Franjic is trying his luck elsewhere in Thailand, or anything else.

Was pretty horrid at Melbourne - Ansell is far better. Even Broxham has played a lot better at CB.

Piney has just tweeted that Cernak has signed for Perth for next season. WTF!

We should be aspiring to better than Victory cast-offs.

Dont get it. Wots going on.  

So should we bother playing him then?

Don't think he's worth signing to a long-term deal so not that bothered.

Melbourne > Wellington > Perth...just like Ward.

I agree, if we weren't thinking about signing him loan term then why bring him on board. Surely we knew he was looking at Perth?

 Well he better still work his butt off for us this season.

We should be aspiring to better- but I think we should have tried to hold on to him. If we've got better we shouldn't have signed him.

exactly, if we thought we could get someone better than Cernak then we should have signed them instead of him,