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Matt Simon- Top Scorer in 08-09?
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infirmus said:
Earlier in the week I mentioned how nice it was that the usual wanker trolls were absent. I spoke too soon.
You really are an absolute f**kwit mate. Go away, you are making a fool of yourself.
Bex
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infirmus said:
Not only are you shithouse at flying your flag, you're also really bad at trolling.
Can't see how you can comment on Matty's goal. The jest couldn't even score a goal without the refs help at their own ground; be it header or anything else.
Don't tell me you're going to bleat about Breeze failing to call a penalty in the box after what the same thing did for you guys in the GF. Thats bloody priceless that is. Anyway, Simon was a metre on side; take your head out of your arse and you might get a better view.
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Michael Cockerill
August 18, 2008
MATT SIMON may have broken one of the more celebrated goal droughts in the A-League, but the robust Central Coast Mariners striker knows he has to keep scoring if he wants to make this his breakthrough season.
Two years and 23 games after he joined the Mariners, the 22-year-old local junior finally got off the mark with a close-range header in Friday's season-opener against Newcastle Jets. Simon's catalogue of near-misses over the past two seasons has become folklore, but while he admits his first goal came as a huge relief, he won't be dwelling on his change of fortune.
With four strikers - Dylan Macallister, Sasho Petrovski and Nik Mrdja are the others - competing for one position, only goals will guarantee continued selection. Macallister's untimely rib injury - which again is expected to sideline him for next weekend's first home match, against Sydney FC - has taken some of the heat out of the situation, but only temporarily.
The strange contradiction for Simon is that while he's struggled to buy a goal at club level, he has managed to score freely at international level over the past six months for the Olyroos - enough to earn him a stand-by role at the Olympics. Archie Thompson's injury handed Simon an opportunity for the final match against Ivory Coast, and he made a brief appearance as a substitute on a heavy pitch in Tianjin as the Olyroos bowed out of the tournament.
Like the rest of the home-based players, Simon scrambled to return in time for the weekend's opening round of the A-League, and he arrived back in the country only six hours before the kick-off against the Jets. For the Mariners, it's just as well he did.
"Maybe I need to go on a plane trip every week," he laughed. "Obviously, it feels great to get the monkey off my back.
"It was a bit surreal, actually. I can't remember how it went in, I'm just glad it did. Probably the only thing that's changed is a bit of luck. I scored from a similar position last season but it was flagged for offside.
"Scoring all those goals for the Olyroos, the confidence is raging. But now I've got to prove myself here. We've got four quality strikers - oh, three, I'm not talking about myself. The gaffer [Lawrie McKinna] has been loyal to me, and now I've got to repay him. I know I have to keep scoring goals if I want to keep my position."
Simon will get another chance against Sydney, probably off the bench, and McKinna is delighted he's giving him a selection headache.
"We've always known Matty's had goals in him, it was just a matter of when," McKinna said
http://www.smh.com.au/news/a-league/this-is-just-the-start-simon/2008/08/17/1218911461316.html
He knows he's got a chance for the golden boot as well!
verhead:Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this article...
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Wouldnt it be nice if that lasts for 21 rounds
marinersman
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