Pre-Season 2018/19 - vs Victory

How much of an age gap is there between Rudan and Dura? Rudan would still be decent right?

I'd much prefer Flamini  - old gold

Rudan is about 6 years older.

Unless we sign someone tomorrow, Ben Waine will probably have to kit up and sit on the bench for Tuesdays game. Tratt, Wooding & De Jong will be cup-tied, so are ineligible to play even if signed.

2 days and counting. Very nervous..

being shown at Four Kings I believe

Urrgh its on a sky popup channel so if you have Fanpass like I do you wont get to watch it. 

Apparently live sport is less important than a show about rugby, a show about league, highlights of superbikes, AFL and the Volvo ocean race and an Australian talk show. 

its football, get sky for real and you'll have no issues.

Its also live sport, which you think should have preference over replays and sport talk shows.

Can't wait till sky finally dies off, what a cod of a company it is

Yes and no. Could mean a drop in production. Can't see websites stumping up for cameras and production. They aren't always great but multiple subscriptions to watch the sport I want doesn't seem like much progress 

Production is a fraction of the cost of what it was five years ago.

Still an investment, though..

It's also a glorified pre season tournament... does the average Joe Blogs outside of this forum even know about it, or would.

and yet noone in the current market place of NZ has managed to do it any justice bar sky.

If Nix loose the average Joe Blogs will know all about it on stuff on Wednesday.

I reckon you could out fit a production quality live broadcasting unit for under one hundred k, that's less than what a company like lightbox is paying for an engineer.

Christchurch based fans. We are trying to get the supporters group back up and running. The Horse and Jockey has kindly decided to stay open for us to show the game. (Won't serve after 11pm). Come join other fans based in Christchurch https://www.facebook.com/events/862748653921741/

Guessing we line up like this tomorrow night

                  Kurto

Lowry Taylor Durante Doyle

       Kopczyński Rufer

          Singh Nichols

  Burns                    Krishna

Bench: Sail Fox Cacace Fenton Williams

[Edit: sounds like Williams isn't fit, so swap him for Ben Waine]

Signed Rufer just in time then! I'm guessing we can't play players on trial.

Holy crap I can't wait for kick off     COYN!!

Game day, fire up!

Here we go here we go here we go

Anyone else in Melbourne attending the game tonight?

I'm not there but may pay to check this out https://www.facebook.com/events/433507863806699/

Comments from Rudan re: Kopy;

"He’s only been here for 10 days, and our league is very transitional. Against Roar he said he felt it was very tough."

Wonder how he'll go tonight? Obviously still settling in, but I feel like he's our most important signing so far. If he finds it tough, we will struggle this season.

I'm going with two mates - heading to the Crown Plaza Hotel before the game to meet up with the other fans and to get the bus

Most of the Polish national team that honked like a flock of geese at the WC in Russia were not home based, and Kopa is not even at that level.   In contrast, I expect to see a decent quality performance from Kurto.

Watching Kopczynski play would be a useful guide on the quality of a your average local player in Polish Ekstraklasa.

Fair, will be interesting. Let's hope for better than Paracki.

I've missed game days. Fire up! Really hope we win tonight, the more we win in the FFA Cup the more good quality sides we will face in pre-season, which I think is really key to a good start this season. Which is particularly important since we have a tough run home near the end of the season. 

I like to see some positive body language good and the desire to win no matter how ugly it get's.

I like to come on here and bitch the day after it all goes pear-shaped.

COYN

seriously? the coverage I've seen from these guys is poor at best.

What do we expect Kopy to say... its a sharke league?

Every player talks up the league they are in until they go to another one. Means nothing

Above average? I mean, he was the starting midfielder in a Championship winning side.