Sarota made a break through before Oar to be fair. However, point taken.
In the end, our players only break through faster in weaker competitions where the gap between said league and the HAL (or the quality of the individual player) isn't actually that big.

Davidson got a full 90 for the U21s last night so is hopefully back to full fitness and can properly fight for his place in the team

Brilliante also played another friendly vs a lower Italian club I think. he started in a pretty weak central midfield combination. Don't know how long he played

on the ball as usual Moofa , nice work, hope Davidson gets his start, and its great that Brilliant is getting such a good trial in his first preseason. i only hope he can sustain the good performances if/when called on as a squadie during the year.

Kruse not in Leverkusen squad currently trailing 2:1 after 20mins in Copenhagen.

surprised Robbie didn't even get on the bench..

need to hurry up and get this loan move sorted.

He played 62mins in a 5-0 win over 4th tier Arezzo. Cuadrado got a half and so did Joaquin but it was a second string Fiorentina XI.

He got a 6.5 rating for his game. People said he worked hard in midfield but went missing a bit, but that was just down to experience. Has very good ideas when transitioning into attack.

One Vinnie Grella was looking on to check on his boy:

looks more like a pill dealer then an agent/manager there.. I though they had nice suits in Itally Vinnie?

It's his day off from his TV show ;)
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Oh c'mon and who IS wearing a flash suit there? It's pre-season game with a second XI, probably cold, come in your casual wear...

Then again - casual wear in Italy?



Out for a spot of shopping?



:p

Tonight is the first game Williams is available for Fulham. Taggart still out with ankle injury

williams on bench burgess passing at 88% which is impressive

burgess struggling with aerial duels but he is 18 and playing cb

ryan williams makes his debut well done

Burgess giving away a penalty, fortunately saved.

I missed it but Brad Smith played midweek so his injury must not have been that bad

EDIT: Ok not the article, but there was one from about him being not as bad as first feared, no break, and might be ready for the Crewe game (which is this weekend).

What I didn't know about him was this:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/football/brad-smith-commits-international-future-to-australia/story-fn63e0vj-1227032139476

Wow. All that talk about him rejected Australia. We have young left back. \o/



Edited by andytoddselbow: 21/8/2014 07:52:36 PM

A couple of accounts on twitter saying Sainsbury will start against Sparta

Any injury updates on Rogic?

Would love to see him get an Aussie marquee spot if he's fit enough to play by A-League season.

Ryan, Wilkshire, Sainsbury all starting in their Europa League games

Really want to see them in the group stage.

Sainsbury playing pretty well
Wilkshire with an assist (I think)

sainsbury doing great

its going to be hard to exclude wilkshire if he keeps playing for feyenoord

Looks like brugge have a good win away from home against the grasshoppers
sainsburys zwolle drew at home despite dominating posession and shots
Wilkshires feyenoord got a draw away from home

Happy to see some good OS Aussies news, had an average couple of weeks I guess

turns out the only bad news is vidosic and holland

every other players absense is explained by injury and we have had some youth break through

The Brugge and Feyenoord results are both really good. A draw at home will make it a little hard for Zwolle to qualify but they seemed to have been the batter team. Should have capitalized on their dominance, especially when they did get a penalty pretty early on. Good to see Sainsbury straight in for a big tie though.

Edited by moofa: 22/8/2014 10:44:56 AM

Sainz vs Lavicka, get around it.

Vidosic got a decent run last Friday night, and although i only watch the first half had a few nice chances..

and for all the kiwis/Victory supporters, Rojas is going on loan to Greauther Furth (currently top of 2.Bun)