Do you really think the players say this stuff? It's written by the club's PR dept.Originally Posted by Jetmaster
Do you really think the players say this stuff? It's written by the club's PR dept.
Melbourne City sign Ritchie De Laet.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/footbal...bd57227bf02859
They will be starting the season as favourites won't they?
WE DON'T DO WALKING AWAY !
They're up there with Perth for me.
Adelaide are next, then a mix of Wanderers, Victory, Sydney, Roar and Us.
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
I know they have Popa but I can still see Perth finishing 7th and it will be hilarious if they do. They have a great squad on paper, but they have the last few seasons and just never got it together.
On paper - Top 3.
In Reality - Fighting for 6th.
Ritchie De Laet is not a great player at all. He can't get minutes in a Championship side who's best defender by far last year was a 37 yr old John Terry. He is up against Alan Hutton and can't get minutes... Alan freaking Hutton!! He was loaned out last year and played 8 times for a Belgian 1st division side.
I know this league is rubbish, but he will honestly fit in quite well. He is on holidays for a year earning Championship wages but with no pressure to perform what so ever.
Jamieson - La Rocca - Schekenveld - De Laet
That's not really too troubling to come up against.
Its not, but neither is Georgie - Boogard - NTS - Hoffman but we managed to dominate teams.
Look at City midfield and attacking players. They have a great A-league team!
WE DON'T DO WALKING AWAY !
We conceded 37 goals, 4 more than City did last year.
We didn't dominate teams, we attacked very smartly and efficiently.
City have a better attack than us this year on paper I agree. But they won't be dominating teams in defence like Sydney did the last few years, that was more my point. City don't have a squad like Sydney did last year so i'm not getting over excited by them. Same goes for Adelaide, Victory and Sydney.
Sydneys dominance was more tactical rather than personnell as such
Gypo Arnie just picked at a fault of Aussie players
Their desire to retain possession at all costs and play out from the back etc thanks to the Dutch Mango sucking indoctrination and exposed our poor technical ability at retaining that ball whilst under pressure
So all Gypo Arnie did was get his team super fit and then teach his team to press well and hunt in packs much much better than seen in Oz before
Gave them a significant advantage over their rivals that took nearly 2 years for teams to start to get to grips with
Nothing revolutionary in the World
Just him exploiting a weak point as Ange did before with Roar and his Tikka Takka shit
You don't think the referees might have helped them a bit as well ? Not to mention the FFA changing rules for them whenever they needed to get another player under the salary cap or circumvent transfer rules.
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