2020/21 Season

[marinermick]

FFA has announced that all potential Olyroos will be available for their A-League clubs during finals series.

Good news for us if we make it.

 

[Ironbark]

With the added bonus teams like City should still lose key players to the socceroos (although we may lose Ollie too)

 

[Forum Phoenix]

How do we think Murray would go in a better team with a better coach?
Pace to burn, great work rate but had to play in front of rubbish
When we gave him some service he was fine

Murray didn’t show me that he has what it takes to succeed at this level. And it had nothing to do with our bad play, it was his shortcomings when he had opportunities. Which he had his share of.

Not strong enough for hold up play, Not slow, but not faster than most HAL defenders. Never beat a man. Wins ball in the air but couldn’t finish. Doesn’t score from outside the box and though I did believe he can finish within It - he failed to take a good number of chances to the point that even most of his die hard fans had no choice but to let their Muzz hopes die.

Best I can see is he had a good work rate, attitude and made decent runs. Also competed well in the air, but as said, doesn’t convert. It’s just not enough at this level.

 

[Huddo]

How do we think Murray would go in a better team with a better coach?
Pace to burn, great work rate but had to play in front of rubbish
When we gave him some service he was fine

Used to think the same thing about josh Bingham,the kid had skills, and speed to match, just couldn't score when he got little to no service.

 

[Big Al]

With the added bonus teams like City should still lose key players to the socceroos (although we may lose Ollie too)

Ollie is not going to be in the Aussie team.

 

[pjennings]

I was expecting to see him announced as soon as Indian PL finished and was surprised he hasn’t comebackH

He seemed to do well as part of a two man setup in India. With Urena out for three games and Alou one card away from a suspension I wouldn't mind seeing him for the rest of the season with an club option for next year.

 

[priorpeter]

He seemed to do well as part of a two man setup in India. With Urena out for three games and Alou one card away from a suspension I wouldn't mind seeing him for the rest of the season with an club option for next year.

Agree with all of this, and will add Simmo is also one card away from suspension

 

[booney]

Yes Murray was quick,worked hard and made himself available but lacked that instinctive ability of good strikers to be where the ball comes when there is a chance to score.You can see this almost uncanny ability in Berisha,Bobo,Le Fondre,Fornaroli and Mclaren.I am not saying Murray is in their class but he is a long way behind Kuol,DWH,the Toure brothers and even Buhagiar. He is definitely better than Kamsoba.

He is a NPL gun and an A-league squaddie.

 

[Ozhammer]

Yellow cards get reset from round 20 onwards, so all Matty and Alou need to do is keep their noses clean against MVC

 

[Big Al]

Yellow cards get reset from round 20 onwards, so all Matty and Alou need to do is keep their noses clean against MVC

Was wondering when that was.

 

[pjennings]

It is bunching up especially for the 6. City look comfortable for the plate but will probably lose Nabbout and Maclaren after 2 more games to the Socceroos and may come back to the field. We would have to probably win 6 of our remaining 7 to get the plate including beating City. I think 49 will get the plate and at most 40 would get a get a top 6 place.

When you look at it a lot of the higher placed teams have been dropping points (including us).

Team	MP	GD	PTS	Games Left	Possible Points	Points to first	Points to top 6	PPG First	PPG top 6	Current PPG	Form
MCI	18	22	35	8	59	14	5	1.75	0.63	1.944	11
SFC	20	7	31	6	49	18	9	3.00	1.50	1.550	6
ADL	19	3	31	7	52	18	9	2.57	1.29	1.632	6
CCM	19	3	31	7	52	18	9	2.57	1.29	1.632	5
MAC	20	-3	29	6	47	20	11	3.33	1.83	1.450	3
WUN	18	4	28	8	52	21	12	2.63	1.50	1.556	8
WSW	20	1	28	6	46	21	12	3.50	2.00	1.400	5
BNE	17	8	27	9	54	22	13	2.44	1.44	1.588	11
WEL	20	3	26	6	44	23	14	3.83	2.33	1.300	11
PG	17	-6	19	9	46	30	21	3.33	2.33	1.118	2
MVC	18	-27	14	8	38	35	26	4.38	3.25	0.778	6
NUJ	20	-15	13	6	31	36	27	6.00	4.50	0.650	2

 

[marinermick]

Mariners’s appealing Urena’s three match ban.

 

[Ironbark]

Mariners’s appealing Urena’s three match ban.

‘Upstanding character’ - Mariners to appeal Urena ban

Central Coast Mariners will appeal the severity of Marco Urena's three-game suspension in a bid to have the Costa Rica international's ban downgraded.

www.ftbl.com.au

 

[marinermick]

Does anyone know why the Western United game is tba?

 

[pjennings]

Does anyone know why the Western United game is tba?

All the June 5th ones are. Maybe a simultaneous kick-off?

 

[FFC Mariner]

All the June 5th ones are. Maybe a simultaneous kick-off?

Be still my beating heart

 

[Big Al]

Does anyone know why the Western United game is tba?

We can dream of simultaneous kickoffs but more likely they are waiting to see how the finals race is sitting going into the final round and they will plan the games around it.

Fox did that with the NRL I think in previous years. basically trying to make it as dramatic as possible but maybe the new APL is pushing for a Super Sunday of simultaneous kickoffs

 

[finally retired]

Does anyone know why the Western United game is tba?

yeah...all the the matches are being moved to the Homebush Stadium for the A-Leagues "Magic Round".....

 

[booney]

Magic Round-what a lame concept that is.Anyway no more needs to be said about NRL-this is a forum for real football people!!

 

[turbo]

Magic Round-what a lame concept that is.Anyway no more needs to be said about NRL-this is a forum for real football people!!

I reckon it might have some potential for a solid away trip if you were to split say 3 games in NSW (CCM, Jets, Sydney, WSW, Bulls + Roar) and 3 in Melbourne (City, Victory, WU, Adelaide, Perth, Nix), split it over 2 weeks and play the 3 games back to back on the Saturday. Would take some planning but its a better option than just picking up a whole round and taking it to 1 place.