Really!?? Find there's a signing if it's true.Originally Posted by The Postman
What's Toohey's form been like lately?
Really!?? Find there's a signing if it's true.
What's Toohey's form been like lately?
Would happily take the big portaloo
Git a link?
That bloke really hates Gypos
Sign him up FFS
Would be conflict with Griff over the hairdryer though.....
Will be number one club for chix if this gets through.
Don't know what everyone else thinks, but it looks like HSG/Tinks is spending some money to greatly improve the worth of this club. He may not sell until the next off season, depending on how we perform.
Last edited by Jetmaster; 20-07-2014 at 10:20 AM.
Pretty freaking accurate actually.
Hope he's right again.
Imagine having Griff and Erik on the same team. 2 players who scored goals to beat the Gypos in grand finals.
This
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How awesome is Kew looking in this photo. Looks like he is getting ready to strike down the Coasties with great vengeance and furious anger.
I'm genuinely excited for this season. Even without Paartalu there is still reason to be confident.
Here the same thing every off season
Come December we should revisit this
That's very true.
I still remember some young blokes on a podcast picking us as the dark horses last season and thinking we were going to pick up the premiership.
We have lost the golden boot winner from last season and a work horse defender / midfielder deemed good enough to play in Serie-A. Add to that the loss of a former England International with many years of EPL experience and the likelihood of flappy hands back in goals.
Top six at best. Most likely seventh or worse.
I'll still support them though no matter where I think we will finish.
No one can honestly say losing Heskey is going to be the deciding factor in us making the top 6 this season.
Sure, we lost the golden boot winner, and replaced him with a guy who also scored 9 goals last season while being played mostly as an impact sub, as well as having Griff, a previous golden boot winner.
The positions Brillante played are covered and covered quite well, Neville was quality prior to his injury last season, Hoole is socceroo bound in my opinion and Kanta is the same, both with major futures ahead of them. Those three cover all potential areas that Brillante would play, and add in a potential Erik Paartalu and I'd say we're covered.
Finally, I can't recall anyone complaining about Birraz prior to the Coastie **** up, many people were saying he was overlooked by a lot of people when it came to the best keeper in the league. The guy ****ed up, it happens, let it go.
I'm not saying that I'm happy we lost these players, but at the same time I don't think you can look at losing these players as the reason we won't perform well this season.
yep. we're stronger but so are a few others
I think madaschi gonna have a major say in where we end up this season. If we get paartalu and have kanta there too we will be well covered in the middle of the park but if madaschi doesn't have that imposing season he is capable of, there will be a lot of pressure on the ageing legs of kew and the solid but inconsistent regs. Madaschi was great for heart in 10 games or so and I hope we can get that same impact for most of this season if not the whole of it. Personally I'm not worried about the front third, I think we have enough quality there, but I want to see a very solid defensive unit like the one led by Ljubo and toppers a few years back.
but we also lost a coach without any tactical awareness, so he can learn from someone better
Add in the big bonus of the lack of Craig Deans influence.
That is a huge positive for us
Taggart doing the same thing a second season wasn't a sure thing. Second season syndrome and all that.
* Geronimo > Heskey
* Madaschi > Mitchell and/or Chapman
* Flores > Brown
* We don't have GVE
* Steele may or may not be better than either Zads/Caravella. My guess is he will be.
* Montano is a complete unknown - we may have a complete flop, we may have a GB contender...
* Griffiths & Carney have had a full pre-season and while I realise they're both a year older which isn't a + for the over 30's, surely we'll see more out of them this season than last.
* We don't have GVE
* Stubbins seems to actually have a clue
* I like Brillante but to say we've lost a midfielder deemed good enough to play in the Serie A doesn't mean shit when his performances for us last year made no impact on reaching the top 6. He *might have been more effective this season but it's not a loss because it never was.
That's not even accounting for Paartalu, who would wipe out the losses of both Caravella and Zadkovich combined in a heartbeat.
My guess is 4th place.
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