R25 vs Melbourne City | Mon 28th Mar | 9:30pm | SS4

Doyle out suspended. Injury cloud over Durante,

Mooy and Wilkinson out on international duty.

International duty, what's that?

Oh, is it that that thing where you assemble the best players from one country and play the best players from another (just for arguments sake let's call this other country "Russia")? And you play at set times of the year (again for illustrative purposes I'll call these allotted time periods "windows"), and those times of the year don't change much and are known well in advance so you have plenty of time to organise a game?

Is it that thing?

What a novel concept.

wait sooo, other teams dont make half their squad 18 year olds that struggle in the ASB prem?

The best players of other countries are actually interested in participating in these games, and are never on holiday or injured exclusively during such windows?

I hope we win

...or have an interest in playing for a Mickey Mouse coach and organisation.

... and they are eligible to play???

Good news for the Nix though. For once it's our opposition missing key players in an international window. 

Perhaps, but they are not a two man side.

I'd still rather play City without Mooy than City with Mooy

Who will likely fill in for Doyle? Would Danaskos play?

This will be a good check on our prospective cover for left fullback next season.

If Danaskos does not get a contract, I am not sure of another player likely to cover for Doyle.

Sure, but this is the game where I would not play Manny at LB, if you see my point.

Manny's a pro

edit: grr phone typing

It's not even an issue of Manny playing against his future club and potentially pulling his punches.

It is more about needing to rehearse a backup left fullback for next season covering for Doyle.

Manny will have a stormer trying to impress his future club

i see a red for us somewhere along the line .Possibly siggy :(

Maybe they will go easy on him, not wanting to injure their new star signing.

I'm picking 7-2 to the Nix.

Perth Melbourne City gets a fluke in the first minute where it bounces off the back of two of their players heads and slips in the top right, and a late consolation goal 1 minute into injury time.

McGlinchy will make all the haters flinch with 6 fantastic goals, and just for fun Roly strikes from just in front of the 50m mark to score the goal of the league.

EDIT: Can't spell Melbourne.

Also can't spell McGlinchey... ;)

Either way, let's hope that next season we can McClinch(ey) the title!

To his mates he's McGlinchy.  I'm sure he'll let you call him it one day.

But seriously damn I got away with it the other two times.  What are the odds I forget to correct it next week?

Also can't spell "Watson"  :-)

Made me chuckle but wrong.  The 7th goal will be Roly.  You watch.

Orrright, you're on!  :-)

Ahha grammar police . where would we be without you

shortly to be a go pro

Krishna in provisional squad, no Danaskos as Doyle replacement with Gulley coming in.

Wellington Phoenix squad: 1.Glen MOSS (gk), 2.Manny MUSCAT, 3.Justin GULLEY, 4.Roly BONEVACIA, 6.Dylan FOX, 8.Alex RODRIGUEZ, 10.Michael MCGLINCHEY, 12.Blake POWELL, 13.Albert RIERA, 16.Louis FENTON, 17.Vince LIA, 18.Ben SIGMUND, 20.Lewis ITALIANO (gk), 21.Roy KRISHNA, 22.Andrew DURANTE (c), 23.Matthew RIDENTON, 26.Hamish WATSON
Read more at http://www.a-league.com.au/article/hyundai-a-leag...

That's a surprise - i assumed he'd be out for the rest of the season.

Even if he is on the bench I would not expect to see more of him than maybe the last 10 minutes sub?

Yeah, suprising. Maybe trying to get match fitness up before time with Fiji? Would make sense.

Cant wait to see Krishna back in action !

Well to be pedantic, spelling is not grammar. And you've left out a question mark.

Does it piss anyone else off that on an extra long weekend we still get a bollocks kickoff time for the NZ tv market? For all the FFA's whining about our metrics they constantly do what they can to screw them. The last 2 years they've also given us the game on the Monday before Melbourne Cup day in Melbourne. A game at 9:30pm NZT the night before a working day is always going to be bad for our tv audience. Hopefully as part of the negotiations for our extension they have sorted better kickoff times. It makes sense for the FFA too - for instance the Melbourne Cup eve game would be a great one for a Melbourne derby.

Feck off spchelleng and granma police !!

Thats not how you spell feck is it? Oops i mean that's

We're gonna get a Keisha Castle-Hughes astride Jesse Ryder in the upcoming sequel Whale Rider 2 style shagging!

That's a whole lot harder to base an entire thread off than Tom Cruise. Thanks Coops...

Shouldn't it be spelled Whale Ryder?

Who's on top?