Wonder if any of those 2 players from the Northern League coming down to trial, are from ACFC? Specifically any of their experienced CBs like Nikko Boxall, Mitchell, den Heijer or Gray? Bayern Munich ain't in the A League.
Any experienced LBs around the Northern League that could step up?
Kelvin Kalua (still only 25) is solely a RB?
CB & LB are the two positions they are going to fill with Kiwis/Aussies.
From the Q&A with Gill, the Nix have enough young guys on scholarships for now.
How is recruitment going? Will we focus on youth or sign players who are older?
The focus is definitely not on youth. We signed a significant amount of scholarship players last year so largely we have those scholarship players in place for this season.
We did some pretty thorough reviews off the back of the last A-League men’s season and one of the identifiers for us are young and old, and we sort of lost that middle ground a little bit. So, a key focus of the recruitment of those three key positions that we spoke about will be around trying to get players in that middle age bracket, sort of 25, 26 plus and not trying to go too deep into the 30s.
The balance of the squad is quite critical for us and getting players in that mid to late 20s age bracket is really critical.
Any experienced LBs around the Northern League that could step up?
Kelvin Kalua (still only 25) is solely a RB?
CB & LB are the two positions they are going to fill with Kiwis/Aussies.
From the Q&A with Gill, the Nix have enough young guys on scholarships for now.
How is recruitment going? Will we focus on youth or sign players who are older?
The focus is definitely not on youth. We signed a significant amount of scholarship players last year so largely we have those scholarship players in place for this season.
We did some pretty thorough reviews off the back of the last A-League men’s season and one of the identifiers for us are young and old, and we sort of lost that middle ground a little bit. So, a key focus of the recruitment of those three key positions that we spoke about will be around trying to get players in that middle age bracket, sort of 25, 26 plus and not trying to go too deep into the 30s.
The balance of the squad is quite critical for us and getting players in that mid to late 20s age bracket is really critical.