Congratulations to him though. Maybe he can be our scout over in Malta.
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Congrats to Manny. Malta, of course, aren't going to go to the World Cup any time soon but it would be great to get experience against top teams like Sweden and Czech Rep.
a.haak
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Is subbuteo still the national sport of Malta?
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Regarding Manny does he take an import spot now that he is maltan?
malteser surely....lol
" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow
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Dodd trialling at the Jets
Newcastle Herald "Wellington Phoenix defender Karl Dodd and central midfielder Joseph Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to begin trialling with the Jets today."
Newcastle Herald "Wellington Phoenix defender Karl Dodd and central midfielder Joseph Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to begin trialling with the Jets today."
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Well done to manny. Great effort and well deserved.
Also great advertising for the club and the league alike.
Would be awesome if he could scout some talent for us haha
Also great advertising for the club and the league alike.
Would be awesome if he could scout some talent for us haha
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Dodd trialling at the JetsNewcastle Herald "Wellington Phoenix defender Karl Dodd and central midfielder Joseph
Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to
begin trialling with the Jets today."
Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to
begin trialling with the Jets today."
Oh wow!? I thought he chose to leave so he could push for Asia? Dunno if he'll get on with some of those players.. Just thinking about THAT red card
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Dodd trialling at the Jets
Newcastle Herald "Wellington Phoenix defender Karl Dodd and central midfielder Joseph Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to begin trialling with the Jets today."
Surely that's a wind-up...WTF??Newcastle Herald "Wellington Phoenix defender Karl Dodd and central midfielder Joseph Youssef, from Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne, are set to begin trialling with the Jets today."
You know we belong together...
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Maybe he wanted to be guaranteed a starting spot by us and we couldn't offer that so he left??
New Castle needs backs.
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Not really, the article reckons they need Midfielders. So they are looking at Doddy?? Hmmm.
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[/QUOTE] Surely that's a wind-up...WTF??[/QUOTE]
Why? The man's a professional footballer without a job... makes sense to me.
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His reason for leaving seems to be that we weren't competitive enough, and he wants ACL football, the latter I can understand (kind of).
You know we belong together...
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His reason for leaving seems to be that we weren't competitive enough, and he wants ACL football, the latter I can understand (kind of).
Maybe he can't handle playing for a club that finishes higher than last!!!
"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009
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Theory is he can play centre back and Ljubo can push into midfirld
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Any news on the latest trials that are happening?
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Wellington Phoenix
Re-signed: Tim Brown (2 years), Manny Muscat (1 year), Mark Paston (1 year), Tony Lochhead (2 years), Michael Ferrante (1 year), Daniel Cortes (2 years). Ben Sigmund (2 years),
In: Chris Greenacre (Tranmere Rovers - 2 years), Diego Walsh (Adelaide United, 2 years),
Out: Vaughan Coveny (retired), Karl Dodd (released), Greg Draper (released), Richard Johnson (retired), Glen Moss (Melbourne Victory), Shane Smeltz (Gold Coast United).
Does anyone else feel we have got worse than last season?
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NO, Leilei hasn't resigned for us!
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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NO, Leilei hasn't resigned for us!
Agreed 
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Wellington Phoenix
Re-signed: Tim Brown (2 years), Manny Muscat (1 year), Mark Paston (1 year), Tony Lochhead (2 years), Michael Ferrante (1 year), Daniel Cortes (2 years). Ben Sigmund (2 years),
In: Chris Greenacre (Tranmere Rovers - 2 years), Diego Walsh (Adelaide United, 2 years),
Out: Vaughan Coveny (retired), Karl Dodd (released), Greg Draper (released), Richard Johnson (retired), Glen Moss (Melbourne Victory), Shane Smeltz (Gold Coast United).
Does anyone else feel we have got worse than last season?With the exception of Smeltz and Moss I don't have any worries about the "Outs".
I think Paston is a very good keeper so as long as the back-up is also A-League standard then Moss's loss is manageable. The bigger worry is replacing Smeltz. Greenacre, for me, actually replaces Kwasnik (2nd striker running off target man) and we have yet to replace Shane in his target man role.
I'm very happy with picking up Diego and also think the better of Krishna & Corrales will be a useful addition - along with Kruse (assuming his head is in the right space).
I think it's far too early to be negative about the squad for next season - my view is the opposite - we have, by virtue of the players who have moved on, given ourselves the opportunity to really improve the squad.
Having said that if we fail to come up with a quality target man my optimism would dissipate quickly.
He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)
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I thought Greenacre looks very similar and possibly even better than Smeltz- though Shane has been in super form...Greenacre seems to be capable of things Shane isn't, but we will have to see what he produces...
Kwasnik didn't know what he was and didn't deliver anything...so anyone is an improvement on him.
Actually of them all the one I feel worst about is Dodd who gave us real depth and injury cover across the back 5. Our defence was a major positive for us last season.
Don't forget Lia is back from injury too...
waiting on the signings to come before judging, but the two main signings so far are good players for the positions we need filled..
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Not really, the article reckons they need Midfielders. So they are looking at Doddy?? Hmmm.
mate if they are looking at doddy as a midfielder then they are sh*t out of luck there
" If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail" - maslow
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I wonder if this might help the club?? Basesoccer
Click on "Clients" and then choose any club you want!!
Lonegunmen2009-05-14 10:52:24Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!
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Kruse at Newtown this morning:
Hard News2009-05-14 12:25:08
Hard News2009-05-14 12:25:08
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He was just having a look, not training.
A few missing. No Greenacre (obviously) , No Diego, no Dura, no Ferrante, no Brown... Playing 8 vs 8 with 7 triallists involved and Siggy doing fitness stuff way from the group.
A few missing. No Greenacre (obviously) , No Diego, no Dura, no Ferrante, no Brown... Playing 8 vs 8 with 7 triallists involved and Siggy doing fitness stuff way from the group.
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Kruse at Newtown this morning:
Ohh News is getting all anti! He must be gutted they didn't show his better half on tele last night (or something like that)...
Kruse- sign'em up!
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His reason for leaving seems to be that we weren't competitive enough, and he wants ACL football, the latter I can understand (kind of).
Maybe he can't handle playing for a club that finishes higher than last!!!
yes and he probably wanted more money than we had to give him I think. I imagine he would have been somewhat pissed off if Dura was on substantially more than him...
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Any news on how Krishna is going?
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He was just having a look, not training.
A few missing. No Greenacre (obviously) , No Diego, no Dura, no Ferrante, no Brown... Playing 8 vs 8 with 7 triallists involved and Siggy doing fitness stuff way from the group.
A few missing. No Greenacre (obviously) , No Diego, no Dura, no Ferrante, no Brown... Playing 8 vs 8 with 7 triallists involved and Siggy doing fitness stuff way from the group.
7 triallists? Who are they? I only know of Corrales, Krishna and whatsisname the keeper..
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Krishna, Corrales, ?Rojas?, Crowther, Kruse... any other keepers or centre backs there? Aaron Scott- is that one of the guys on radar?
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Krishna, Corrales, ?Rojas?, Crowther, Kruse... any other keepers or centre backs there? Aaron Scott- is that one of the guys on radar?
Crowther... thats the bloke. And Kruse isn't trialling.
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I think Andy Barron is one of the trialists...
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So Krishna, Corrales, Crowther, Barron, Scott...who are the other two then?
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I think I heard on the radio last weekend that James Bannatyne was going to be training with the Nix ahead of the Confed Cup to get up to speed.
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and number 7? Blackburn? Pevs?
You know we belong together...
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Having started the game with a predominantly young line-up, Sydney FC looked strong in the first half but was denied time and again by the Macarthur keeper, with New Zealand Under-23 National representative, Roy Bell pulling off a number of great saves to keep the home team in the contest.
if crowther doesnt make the cut, would be interesting to keep tabs on this guy. The name rings a bell (excuse the pun), maybe sat on the bench as reserve keeper for the knights once...?
if crowther doesnt make the cut, would be interesting to keep tabs on this guy. The name rings a bell (excuse the pun), maybe sat on the bench as reserve keeper for the knights once...?
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I hope so. Pevs is a jolly good player. Barron as well - everytime I've seen him play I've been more than impressed.
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