Needs more Broxham as striker tbh.

Almost certain to be lining up like that image I reckon..

Melbourne Victory’s home semi final scenarios and possibilities - after round 23 A-League action,

Etihad Stadium – Melbourne Victory v Melbourne City OR Perth Glory:
Friday April 28 – available
Saturday April 29 – unavailable due to AFL commitments
Sunday April 30 – unavailable due to AFL commitments

Etihad Stadium – Melbourne Victory v Brisbane Roar OR Western Sydney Wanderers:
Friday April 28 – unavailable due to AFC Champions League commitments for both Brisbane Roar & Western Sydney Wanderers in Thailand & Japan on Wednesday April 26th
Saturday April 29 – unavailable due to AFL commitments
Sunday April 30 – unavailable due to AFL commitments

AAMI Park – Melbourne Victory v Perth Glory:
Friday April 28 – available
Saturday April 29 – available
Sunday April 30 – available

AAMI Park – Melbourne Victory v Brisbane Roar OR Western Sydney Wanderers:
Friday April 28th – unavailable due to AFC Champions League commitments for both Brisbane Roar & Western Sydney Wanderers in Thailand & Japan on Wednesday April 26th
Saturday April 29 – available
Sunday April 30 – available

Hey! Where's the credit!?! I thought I put together a pretty decent team with what we had on offer.

Like my lineup or Pala's?

Judging by the training photos, feel I got it pretty right, Even Waring was there wearing the sub-jersey. 

-----------------------Thomas---------------------------
-----Geria-----Ansell-----Baro-------Nigro----------
-----------------Valeri--------Broxham----------------
--------------------------FBK-----------------------------
--Georgievski----Theoharous-------Austin------

Your lineup, I reckon you're on the money.

Wouldn't mind seeing austin play as the central striker, he has the body shape for it, not sure on his intelligence in the box but if the only person in the way is howard then it should be a no brainer. 
Howard shouldn't even be playing under 11s let alone the 1st 11.

Foostcray paisley  park campus.  The other one is on nicholson street

Iirc millsy has been released.   So he aint on arab money no mo'

Youth prospect Christian Theoharous set for Melbourne Victory debut against Brisbane Roar


......Theoharous headlined the Victory youth players who trained at Gosch’s Paddock on Wednesday and will travel to Brisbane, with striker Pierce Waring also in the mix to travel as Victory are down to bare bones with four players on World Cup qualifying duty.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/a-league/youth-prospect-christian-theoharous-set-for-melbourne-victory-debut-against-brisbane-roar/news-story/925563ac7a1a58f45a8e78667dd63d7f

Wouldn't mind seeing some of Pierce Waring. Ol mate George Howard has shown literally zero in all his senior appearances that makes you think he will be any sort of contributor (may or may not look better in NYL or NPL, but has yet to translate to nary a nutmeg in seniors).

I think the criticism of Howard is unwarranted. Kid is only 20, does well in a side that knows how he plays, does a tremendous amount of work off the ball and puts himself in goal-scoring positions.

Has he done enough to push for a starting position normally? Nah. But he also isn't that appalling that he shouldn't be given a chance. Both his goals against Murray two weeks ago were quality, particularly the first one.

I'll admit I haven't seen enough of Howard but I recall last year that Muscy played him on the RW at aami park and it was an epic failure.

Leave him in his preferred position this weekend and see how he goes.
He did score against Wellington at the caketin when he was as a striker last year.

In this preseason, wasn't Howard running at either a goal or an assist every game he played? Remember him doing pretty well in his limited time on the park.

There has to be enough seen in him for him to be the only recognised back up striker in the squad.

Also difficult for him to get a chance when he's behind the greatest striker the A-League has ever seen in Berisha - only time you don't play Berisha is if he's injured or away, which leaves about 10 minutes a season for any up and coming striker unfortunately.

In an ideal world, you'd love to have an A2 league up and running to loan promising players like Howard out to cut their teeth in a cuthroat scenario - playing with youth players can only teach you so much, even if they are playing against men in the NPL.

Couple of extra youngsters added to the squad:

Melbourne Victory squad (two to be omitted): 2.Jason GERIA, 4.Nick ANSELL, 5.Daniel GEORGIEVSKI, 6.Leigh BROXHAM, 11.Mitch AUSTIN, 14.Fahid BEN KHALFALLAH,15.Alan BARO, 16.Rashid MAHAZI, 17.James DONACHIE, 19.George HOWARD, 20.Lawrence THOMAS (gk), 21.Carl VALERI (c), 22.Stefan NIGRO, 31.Christian THEOHAROUS, 32.Cameron McGILP, 35.Josh HOPE, 40.Matt ACTON (gk), 49.Pierce WARING

Ins: 19.George HOWARD (promoted), 22.Stefan NIGRO (promoted), 31.Christian THEOHAROUS (promoted), 32.Cameron McGILP (promoted), 35.Josh HOPE (promoted), 49.Pierce WARING (promoted)

Outs: 7.Marco ROJAS (international duty), 8.Besart BERISHA (international duty), 10.James TROISI (international duty), 23.Jai INGHAM (international duty) Unavailable: Nil

McGilp, 18, is a talented player with good ability on the ball who can perform as a midfielder or central defender.

With a keen eye for goal, 18-year-old Waring is a traditional striker, while Hope, 19, is a versatile midfielder.

You never know with Howard, may have improved a lot and do well with a start.

Keen to see the other youngsters though.

Nigro pls.

-PB

Looks likely that Mahazi will be out with his father's funeral on today.

Thoughts with him and his family. 

As an aside, anyone who boo's Mahazi when he comes on is a c*nt. Sure he may not be great, but booing your own players is a step too far.

Shit, what happened?!

-PB

Not sure what happened other than that he passed, but it seems the funeral was today.

Not a stalker, Mahazi is a really easy name to google in this part of the world.

Thoughts and best wishes are with Rashid and the family.

Yeah this. Plus the whole Raaashid Mahazi da da da da daa (in the tune of the old Carlos Hernandez chant done in obvious sarcasm is a bit poor too

Berisha (wearing his familiar number 8) played 83 minutes this morning in a 1-2 loss to Iceland, being replaced by Bernard Berisha. Not even kidding.

Seems he played in the hole as a second striker.

He played as the central AMF in a 5 man midfield, slightly further back than the wingers. He also hit the crossbar with a shot.

Good to see my boy Bes playing for Kosovo
Its a shame he choose to end his international career with Albania
Who is Kosovo though? Are they a new nation? Looks like it on their wiki page
Would best start though?
Look at their strikers
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania_national_football_team

Berisha is our greatest striker ever. His talent and abilities are what seperates him from the pack

He literally played last night. Why are you asking if he would start?