I still can't understand why we let Vinnie Lia go.
One of the worst decisions the club has made in the recent past
WSW just announced Steven Lustica has departed, not sure if he's been attached with any clubs but he's only 27. Potentially a good fit for what will be a new phoenix midfield this season. Played well at Brisbane a few seasons ago before getting into trouble at Adelaide and hardly playing last 2 seasons for WSW.
If your Rudan, is he worth keeping an eye on, or focusing on more proven midfielders?
Once upon a time I thought Lustica might end up being a decent A-league midfielder. Unfortunately he has never fulfilled his potential. He might be an okay squad player at the right price, but in a way I would prefer Vinnie Lia!
If we wanted a former WSW player we should push to get Ikonomidis on loan.
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I still can't understand why we let Vinnie Lia go.
One of the worst decisions the club has made in the recent past
Oh no let's move on from this plodder. If he was so good Adelaide would be looking to hold onto him
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Vinnie would have added value as a squadie, but shouldn't be considered good enough to start IMO - the league has moved past him in terms of its speed and skill set.
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I still can't understand why we let Vinnie Lia go.
One of the worst decisions the club has made in the recent past
Oh no let's move on from this plodder. If he was so good Adelaide would be looking to hold onto him
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Adam Federici could be an option?? Almost certainly will be released at the end of next season, could be coming back to Australia?
A chance to get him on loan, perhaps?
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Why not - most clubs have keepers already locked in... they'd be expensivee bench options.
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Rostyn Griffiths has been released from his Uzbekistan club last month, citing family reasons.
Would be a wonderful fit in that DM role. Good engine and passer, and always scored tinny top bins.
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
Youre not wrong. My guess is that Rudan is figuring out exactly how difficult this job will be.
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I prefer to pretend that it's because the world Cup is still on and we are waiting for Keisuke Honda to be available to fly over
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
As far as I can tell there have been 32 in-coming transfers.
CCM - 8
Perth - 5
WSW - 5
Roar - 4
City - 4
Adelaide - 2
Victory - 2
Jets - 1
Sydney - 1
In terms of new arrivals if we're looking at the 4 handy players everyone talks about (who are generally all highly rated), and appear to be taking our time with the recruitement of visa players, then I don't think there's any cause for concern. Not rushing into new signings can be a good thing right? I mean the pre-season is more than 3 months long!
The vast majority of the transfers listed above is just the typical A-league merry-go-round, released from one club, another club thinks they can do better with the same talent. Do we really want these players if we have some locals who could potentially be just as good if not better?
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
As far as I can tell there have been 32 in-coming transfers.
CCM - 8 (Clisby, Aspropotamitis, Gameiro, Simon, Shabow, Gauci, McGlinchey, Cisse)
Perth - 5 (Franjic, Mrcela, Santalab, Spiranovic, Velaphi)
WSW - 5 (Fitzgerald, Kamau, Tongyik, Elrich, O'Doherty)
Roar - 4 (Taggart, Wenzel-Halls, Mauk, Mikkelsen)
City - 4 (O'Halloran, McGree, Wales, Caceres)
Adelaide - 2 (Jakobsen, Goodwin)
Victory - 2 (Brown, Roux)
Jets - 1 (Ridenton)
Sydney - 1 (Buhagiar)
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I prefer to pretend that it's because the world Cup is still on and we are waiting for Keisuke Honda to be available to fly over
I'm loving the names and fan ambition in this thread. I mean none of us genuinely believed we'd get Rudan. Why not Honda? He'd be a great marquee, and would bring publicity and would be the kind of marquee that the ffa should chip in for to.
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I prefer to pretend that it's because the world Cup is still on and we are waiting for Keisuke Honda to be available to fly over
I'm loving the names and fan ambition in this thread. I mean none of us genuinely believed we'd get Rudan. Why not Honda? He'd be a great marquee, and would bring publicity and would be the kind of marquee that the ffa should chip in for to.
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I prefer to pretend that it's because the world Cup is still on and we are waiting for Keisuke Honda to be available to fly over
I'm loving the names and fan ambition in this thread. I mean none of us genuinely believed we'd get Rudan. Why not Honda? He'd be a great marquee, and would bring publicity and would be the kind of marquee that the ffa should chip in for to.
Ahh.
As we said world cup!
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
As far as I can tell there have been 32 in-coming transfers.
CCM - 8
Perth - 5
WSW - 5
Roar - 4
City - 4
Adelaide - 2
Victory - 2
Jets - 1
Sydney - 1
In terms of new arrivals if we're looking at the 4 handy players everyone talks about (who are generally all highly rated), and appear to be taking our time with the recruitement of visa players, then I don't think there's any cause for concern. Not rushing into new signings can be a good thing right? I mean the pre-season is more than 3 months long!
Yep that definitely sounds true, but then I noticed how that list is the 2017-18 table reversed. CCM the worst team signing 8, Sydney and Jets (the top 2) only signing 1 each because they don't need improving. All the teams around our level have signed several. I find it worrying that we've made zero improvements when we're the team that needs them the most
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
As far as I can tell there have been 32 in-coming transfers.
CCM - 8
Perth - 5
WSW - 5
Roar - 4
City - 4
Adelaide - 2
Victory - 2
Jets - 1
Sydney - 1
In terms of new arrivals if we're looking at the 4 handy players everyone talks about (who are generally all highly rated), and appear to be taking our time with the recruitement of visa players, then I don't think there's any cause for concern. Not rushing into new signings can be a good thing right? I mean the pre-season is more than 3 months long!
Yep that definitely sounds true, but then I noticed how that list is the 2017-18 table reversed. CCM the worst team signing 8, Sydney and Jets (the top 2) only signing 1 each because they don't need improving. All the teams around our level have signed several. I find it worrying that we've made zero improvements when we're the team that needs them the most
To be fair, a lot of CCM's signings look REALLY average
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Phillip Rollo tweeted that a Tasman United player is trialling with the Nix. Not sure who it is.
Callan Elliot (not sure how good he's been for Rapa?), Dan Allan, Cam Lindsay and Sam Ayers are the only ones I can think of with even outside shots although I'm making the assumption that it wouldn't be an import signing.
Probably not gonna be Paul Ifill though!
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
Youre not wrong. My guess is that Rudan is figuring out exactly how difficult this job will be.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? Do you think that good players are hard to attract here because of (a) our uncertain future; (b) our reputation as failures; (c) not enough cash being splashed; (d) the Wellington climate; (e) a combination of the above?
Of course, this is an improvement on previous seasons, where a lack of transfer movement would be ascribed to coach incompetence - luckily Rudan still has the benefit of the doubt.
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Phillip Rollo tweeted that a Tasman United player is trialling with the Nix. Not sure who it is.
Callan Elliot (not sure how good he's been for Rapa?), Dan Allan, Cam Lindsay and Sam Ayers are the only ones I can think of with even outside shots although I'm making the assumption that it wouldn't be an import signing.
Probably not gonna be Paul Ifill though!
If its an import it would have to be Kowal but he isn't even playing Central League. Ben Harris isn't in NZ yet I don't think (rumoured to be signing for Tasman this summer) so I'm a little stumped to be honest. Jordy Yong maybe? He's English as well though.
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I'd have thought Marowa back or one of the Iraqi brothers the most likely options.
Shame Kaltak doesn't count as a local because he'd be my choice. If it's just training to make up the numbers it could be him.
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Phillip Rollo tweeted that a Tasman United player is trialling with the Nix. Not sure who it is.
Callan Elliot (not sure how good he's been for Rapa?), Dan Allan, Cam Lindsay and Sam Ayers are the only ones I can think of with even outside shots although I'm making the assumption that it wouldn't be an import signing.
Probably not gonna be Paul Ifill though!
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If its an import it would have to be Kowal but he isn't even playing Central League. Ben Harris isn't in NZ yet I don't think (rumoured to be signing for Tasman this summer) so I'm a little stumped to be honest. Jordy Yong maybe? He's English as well though.
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I'd have thought Marowa back or one of the Iraqi brothers the most likely options.
Shame Kaltak doesn't count as a local because he'd be my choice. If it's just training to make up the numbers it could be him.
Marowa isn't a Tasman player anymore, he moved to Hawkes Bay last season
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Gotta be Lindsay, surely. We don't have a single dm on the books yet do we
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I'd have thought Marowa back or one of the Iraqi brothers the most likely options.
Shame Kaltak doesn't count as a local because he'd be my choice. If it's just training to make up the numbers it could be him.
Add a certain to Roy Kayara to that list please! I just love the guy and would even contemplate a foreign spot for him but I understand it's not likely to happen.
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The discussion was who from Tasman. Roy better not have gone there. :-)
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
Youre not wrong. My guess is that Rudan is figuring out exactly how difficult this job will be.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? Do you think that good players are hard to attract here because of (a) our uncertain future; (b) our reputation as failures; (c) not enough cash being splashed; (d) the Wellington climate; (e) a combination of the above?
Of course, this is an improvement on previous seasons, where a lack of transfer movement would be ascribed to coach incompetence - luckily Rudan still has the benefit of the doubt.
e is the more likely.
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Phillip Rollo tweeted that a Tasman United player is trialling with the Nix. Not sure who it is.
Callan Elliot (not sure how good he's been for Rapa?), Dan Allan, Cam Lindsay and Sam Ayers are the only ones I can think of with even outside shots although I'm making the assumption that it wouldn't be an import signing.
Probably not gonna be Paul Ifill though!
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I know I'm stating the bleeding obvious here, but pre season training has started and while the other clubs have all made significant recruitment progress while we haven't signed a single player
furthermore, and please please please correct me if i am wrong, but the only whispers of new arrivals are the 4 local handy players
Youre not wrong. My guess is that Rudan is figuring out exactly how difficult this job will be.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? Do you think that good players are hard to attract here because of (a) our uncertain future; (b) our reputation as failures; (c) not enough cash being splashed; (d) the Wellington climate; (e) a combination of the above?
Of course, this is an improvement on previous seasons, where a lack of transfer movement would be ascribed to coach incompetence - luckily Rudan still has the benefit of the doubt.
All of the above. Most of it is no ones fault, really; we're always going to be fighting for scraps, especially coming off two absolutely dismal seasons.
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So does anyone know what this Callan Elliot is like
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here’s a few stories on the lad. Is in the NZ under-20 wider squad, just finished school, captained Tasman against Auckland City and has been working with Ifill for a few years now. No doubt he had a word to Greenacre.
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Talked to Rudan a couple of weeks back - said he was happy to take his time, a lot of players assessing options through July (imports) wouldn't expect too much movement until late in the month even early August
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Hear from sources that Elliott is currently tiraling.
I think you might need to read above...
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I'm positive things will go wrong.
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He's a whippet. Very good for Handy and very young.
Captained Tasman at times
That's good cos when a problem comes along you must whippet...
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