v Fury Mon 27th 10:15pm SS1

I'm skeptical that Lia that provides more than Ward or Brown, Bearing in mind he has one (quite good) assisst for the season where as Brown has 4 assissts (club highest) and 6 goals.
Although perhaps we are too hard on him. At the end of the day though the level of fouls he commits to the whatever else he offers the side is poor: 36 fouls, 4 yellow cards, only phoenix player to be red carded this season, gets about half his shots on target 15 shots, 7 on. He has about as many goals and assissts in his career as another player would in  a season.
1 goal 5 assists ever in the A-league in 57 starts 81 appearences.
Question: Is that good enough to start everyweek?

It depends what his role is.  Paston has scored even less, and same with assists.  Paston out.

Indeed but he is a mid-fielder, similar to Brown, more defensive I concede but surely we can expect more from a player in his position on the park.
It would be really interesting if only the A-league collected stats for tackles and completed passes, things we can really judge a midfielder on.
And besides Paston has some saves and Lia doesn't, so really it doesn't matter who you compare him to, still seems to come up a little short.

He has had some good games for us but I think there a better players who could play his position which we could get instead. I'm reasonably happy to have him in the team but I don't think he needs to start every game.
If Muscat moves into defensive mid again we don't need him in the starting 11 anyway.

Sorry just to clarify it's Vince Lia's turn as our no good piece of sh*t performer who doesn't deserve a starting spot  is that right 

LOL Very good

You need someone like Lia in your squad. I agree that ideally it would be nice to have a midfielder of better quality but with injuries in key positions Ricki has been forced to use him and overall he has done a good job. He was certainly poor last night but the negativity about him is totally out of proportion in my view. A lot of the holding and tackling he does goes unnoticed, except when he gives away a foul whereupon the abuse starts flying.

We'd be better off if we had either Lia or Brown But not both in the midfield, two too many defensive players (imo)

we don't have a recognised Rb either and we've struggled more because of it trying to patch that side up so when we lost Lochy it just compounded the problem even more because we still didn't know who was best suited to the rb role Hearfield,Manny,Siggie or North then Durante goes and gets a one match suspension i mean ffs ...

My bad so the Team of Vinnie Lias chant is a cruel piss take not an actual plea for a team of him 

If Lia could; Whitby boy2010-12-29 20:08:14

Lia's great with those two armed tackles...just the no-arm tackles he's got to watch...

manny + brown = our best midfield

Agree manny is the perfect DM, Browny a box to box who scores, we just need that creative mid in behind.

Lia isn't so bad but would be behind these two
raynes2010-12-31 15:52:24

Sadly WB most of those in one form or another apply to most of the team and therein lies the problem.

C'mon Ballane, a new decade dawns - have a drink and see what new year's resolutions the lads make after having read our on the money coaching tips

Have a drink thats the problem i have had to many all ready.Shyte week at work been busy since Monday and have to work Sunday as well.So much for semi retirement.

oh well Ballane - at least there's $$$s in it

glad I'm on holiday though!!