Was - Phoenix Transfer Speculation (Part 1)

Smeltz has scored as many goals as Dylan in 9 games this season, 12 games less than Dylan. And it was not like GCU were scoring lots of goals and Smeltz chipped in, they only scored 1 more goal than us this season. 47 goals in 74 HAL games.

Well...Midfielder and Striker could be marquee signings and up to $150k of Marco's contract could be outside salary cap. So for those 4 players you would only have the RB and whatever is left of Marco's contract taking up salary cap. All hypothetically speaking.

we need better fullbacks

Do you have how many minutes they have played and how many penalties? And how much better should he be doing if he is 4 times more expensive? I don't need to be convinced that Smeltz is a good player btw. I actually think from a stats point of view he was probably more prolific last year.

Ok, according to data from their profiles on their clubs websites:
Smeltz averages a goal every 140.4min and a goal every 5.7 shots. Not including the 11 goals from pens, Smetz averages a goal every 183.4min and 7.4 shots.
Dylan averages a goal every 276.2min and a goal every 11.3 shots

One thing Dylan is better at, he averages an assist every 662.8min while Smeltz only averages an assist every 1100.2min.

Edit:
So, not taking into account pens, Smeltz scores 1 in 2 and Dylan 1 in 3. Over a season of 30 games, Smeltz scores 15 and Dylan 10. Taking into account assists, Dylan averages about 1 in 7 and Smeltz 1 in 12 so that is about 4 assists to Dylan a season and 2-3 for Smeltz. So Smeltz is involved in 17-18 goals a season and Dylan about 14 goals a season.

Edit again:
I should add I think Smeltz is by far a better player.Bullion2011-02-17 15:34:26

But Smeltz doesn't need to make assists because he scores them himself? He's the guy everyone is trying to assist.

D-Mac has scored 7 from 1213 minutes this season so he is well above average.

And Smeltz 7 from 768

Citizenship.

Sauce: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/2359925/Smeltz-becomes-Aussie-citizen

And TBH this is D-Macs best run of form in ages where as when Smeltz has a bad run of form he can still manage 19 goals a season.

Also Dmac has got lucky- Marco has come along and been an assist bonanza. Cross after good cross...Dmac had done very little before that during regular season despite looking handy in pre-season...

Im not a huge fan of big Mac but it's a bit harsh to say that he's sh*t 'because our crossing has been good'..

btw saying Pav took Rojas' place is ridiculous considering Marco was out for 9 months with an ankle injuryvaleo2011-02-17 20:46:37

lolz.

I am sure if Ricky had the cash he would have. He hasn't resigned anyone for a number of months since green acre of all people and that should make you worried 2nd best.

The bottom line is hear field got driven away by certain members narking on him every time he went for a coffee

Ha!

Basically if we lose tonight North will get an early release to Sydney.

Have some celebratory Badgers Si.

Sydney stealing a whole heap of players and causing sh*t for the ACL, shows how rubbish their current squad is.

It crossed my mind.

keep north outta that lineup then, otherwise he may have other things on his mind

I don't think Herbert even knew they were in talks.

but you did? hmm

excellent comments on the podcast this week about North, basically agreed with every word

https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/sydney-fc-chase-a-league-quality-players-to-add-to-their-afc-champions-league-roster/story-e6frf4gl-1226007989965

confirmed he's going is it?

i think its becomming increasingly obvious

Kosta and Smeltz are sore points for us. Smeltz because of his missus and his lack of direction thereafter. Kosta because we were playing it too safe to let him more game time.

Certainly it is going to be interesting on how the line-ups are going to looking like.

Please let north be leaving now