Pepz has left the Wanderers
Bring him home Middleby.
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Pepz has left the Wanderers
Bring him home Middleby.
Nice JokeQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
Would've MUCH preferred Pepper over some on the boneheads in the team last year... Eg WatsonQuote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Who's joking?Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
Middleby missed the chance to sign Lustica.
Asleep at the wheel again missing another big name.
pepper isnt much better than watsonQuote:
Originally Posted by tomo
So has the criteria for the FFA Cup draw changed this year??
Why do the Jets play last years winners, but the Mariners get Green Gully? We didnt get a non A-League team after getting the spoon last year, so why should they?
I thought the bottom 4 or 6 A-League teams play against each other, and one side of the draw is rigged so that a non A-League team is guarantee'd a semi final?
They announced the change earlier this week.. All A-league teams went togetherQuote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Aaah ok, i must've missed that!Quote:
Originally Posted by football_macigian23
Dont have a link?
http://www.theffacup.com.au/article/...XIAMEOMekTO.99Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
No surprise the rules get changed and Smurfs FC get a non HAL side.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Rigged or what???
Lets just lose then not worry
So now that Heart have managed to get rid of Mooy just a day or two after they won with their plan to get a 3rd Marquee why are they not being told to put Timmy in as a Marquee and sticking to Two Marquees??
Also I find the timing of Mooys departure a rather sad reflection on the Heart.
They could have easily moved Mooy on and brought Timmy in and kept the 2 Marquee situation
Looks to me the politics of tampering with the salary cap were more of a factor than any great desire to bring Timmy home
They upgraded Bruno already and it's been widely reported that they've already signed a 2nd marquee but the announcement wouldn't be until Mooy leftQuote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
I just read that FFA wont help the Roar out with $300,000 out of their fund to sign Brett Holman because they want to use most, if not all, to help City sign Cahill. What a fvckin joke!
If that is true it would set a dangerous precedent - we could offer Messi a squillion and run to FFA saying, you can pay for it, look at the benefits to the A-League.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Can see Mooy coming back in January as said "guest" after Timmy becomes marquee two.
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Cahill may bring in extra crowds (though I'm unconvinced the effect will be significant). Holman will not bring in extra crowds. Given that the FFA's spending here is essentially marketing, what's wrong with spending on Cahill over Holman?
I think Harry Kewell at MV did ok marketing wise but at City [Heart] not so great. I'd expect Timmy to generate less interest than Kewell but for a much larger chunk of cash.Quote:
Originally Posted by Couscous
Holman you'd buy for what he offers on the park not off it - So anythng more than 450k would be ridiculous.
I wouldn't be suprised if Mooy comes back to Melb City on some bullshit loan deal to make sure the Timmy experiment works.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Spot on, Mooy will be playing in the a-league this season..Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Explain to me why Mooy will be playing in the HAL??
If the plan was for him to play for Heart then why he sign for Man City??
Being Heart are owned by City if the plan is to push his development along then nothing stopping him heading to Manchester and training with City. Being the HAL doesn't start until October he could skip Heart pre season and just train with Man City until then
Why go to the hassle of transfering him to Man City only to loan him back??
Up until a few days ago they had him as a Marquee and could pay him as much as they want and could also bring in the 3rd Marquee due to the rule change
I will offer he has only been moved to Man City with the express intention of having him train at City for a bit before getting loaned out to someone with the intention of getting a Transfer Fee for him
Reality is Aaron Mooy of Man City goes for much more money than Aaron Mooy of Melbourne Heart when a Euro Club offers coin.
This move is just a restructuring of assets for the City Group to maximise profit
The bloke ain't playing EPL under Pep and he ain't coming back to Heart this year.
A year or two proving he can do it in Europe and the City Group get more coin for his transfer
The bloke has just been used as a pawn by City to exploit this 3rd Marquee rule that has come in.
Heart will not be bringing him back. They will bring Timmy In and use him as the Aussie Marquee not as a Guest Player.. The guest player Heart will bring in will be a Foreigner
That way they are getting 2 Foreign Marquee and 1 Aussie Marquee in Timmy
The truth is out there
This was just as an elaborate con job by City
Because City did exactly the same thing with Anthony Caceres last season.
They are apparently bringing Luke Brattan in as well.
Yep and that was an elaborate plan to circumvent the rule that you can't sign rival HAL playersQuote:
Originally Posted by baldrick
So your telling me this is an elaborate plot just so Heart can sign their own player??
I'm sensing the Member hasn't had an empty out for awhile. Might have to pass the hat around the forum and get him hooked up at a short stay hotel.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
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Originally Posted by The Dunster
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Mooy will be loaned out in Europe next season, he won't be playing for Melbourne unless he is still unable to find a suitable club.
Cahill will be signed as their guest player, rumors are City already have another marquee lined up and are waiting to announce them both.
See there you go....Quote:
Originally Posted by furns
Everything you say is bang on except for the bit about Mooy playing in Melbourne this season
As soon as Timmy signs and as soon as they announce the other Marquee/Guest Player bit any hope of Mooy coming back is over until the 4th Marquee thing gets up
I agree with u and furns 100%. Mooy will be playing in Europe. But if things didnt turn out the way he wanted, theres nothing stopping Melbourne loaning Mooy back with Manchester paying the wages, therefore, they get another "Marquee" player for nothing!Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Former Smurfs player Chris Naumoff has announced his retirement with immediate effect at the age of 21
After signing for a Spanish 2nd division side routine medical discovered heart issue.the type that sees athletes drop dead in the game
Commiserations to the bloke
Does though leave some serious questions about the medical staff at Smurfs how they could miss it and how competent their procedures are
He played for Australian Youth teams as well. I wonder if such tests were conducted on him there as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
I'm sure he's feeling pretty bad about things at the moment but there are obvious positives for him which will become more apparent.
Devastating for him but also a relief. Could of been the next unexpected fatality on the football field (not that any are expected).
Questions should be asked around all of Australia whether at club or international level on procedures to test for this kind of stuff. Did Bernardo Ribeiro have some sort of condition that could of been picked up before his tragedy? I don't know but it's a serious issue and needs to be looked into.
Forgot about himQuote:
Originally Posted by weston
Being he played for a dysfunctional club like us no great surprise really.
I though am concerned Smurfs FC screening process was this bad. It ain't like our health care system is 3rd world.
It must work some of the time as it picked up Vidmar and prevented him going to a WC
That being said it is baffling how Ribiero and Naumoff can go undetected in this day and age by Aussie clubs
It's not economically viable to test everyone and the types of problems and the tests required to detect them are numerous and often expensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Has nothing to do with people being incompetent and so on.
There is also issues about the risks involved in testing otherwise healthy people using radiation and so on in search of things they more than likely do not suffer from.
2 tests required - not much in the scheme of things.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
So it is economically viable for clubs in the Spanish second division but it isn't for A League clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Professional clubs take care of their product. By not being able to look after players with tests that for Professional clubs around the world consider mandatory then we look pretty amatuer
Sorry Member I forgot that you specialized in epidemiology. Carry on.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Medicare pays $219 for outpatient echocardiogram (ultrasound / no radiation) and about prob $30 for ECG. If Medicare decline to cover it would cost the club about $6000 to test 24 players. Keep in mind players only need to be tested once... Ribeiro would still be with us.....
So there you go Dunster $250 per player that's going via Medicare FFSQuote:
Originally Posted by lquiquer
You would think that these clubs would have some degree of medical insurance on their players also
Surely a figure these clubs in this country can afford
Surely something the leaders at the PFA should be making mandatory in part of their next lit of negotiations when ripping the clubs off
But then do you do cancer scans? Melanoma checks? Brain scans for CTE?
It's easy to say one particular test would save lives but so would a bunch of others how thorough do you want clubs to be ("just thorough enough to prevent every single issue" says Member).
Rightly or wrongly I guess clubs just expect your ticker is ok if you're young and fit.
I just thinking all our players should have their hearts checked so we not endure more gutless performances from themQuote:
Originally Posted by plague