Profit is always good news, however without the good transfer fees MV received for Milligan, Geria, Berisha and Williams there would not have been any profit. 

“Melbourne Victory post a profit of $442,582, on revenue of $22.02 million“

That’s pretty decent.

I noticed its a calf muscle, the classic old man injury, hope it doesn't hinder him too much going forward. We need him desperately!

No Toivonen yet, although he is training again. Honda to play as a false 9... 

Formation for Saturday (if still no Ola) ?

Akbari?   Troisi   Honda    Kosta 
       Antonis     Baena
Deng  Georg  Ansel   Roux
               Thomas

Bench:  Hope, Valeri, Ingham, Broxham, Acton

well we'll soon find out soon enough as he's the likely new chairman if you believe the rumours. i do think his political connections has to be a positive. 

This is the debate. 

Pommy family, played rep Volleyball, big into Collingwood

Was hoping for something concrete 

I've heard this quite a bit lately, but I've no reason to think of him as anything other than your typical AFL-zombie VIC pollie.

Nikou was a former board member at Victory, so they probably know him well and agree with his vision for the game. Conroy is a massive football fan and has great political connections with the likely new federal government. 

Any Victory news as to why they nominated Conroy  and Nikou ?

Nominee	Proposed	Seconded
Morry Bailes	SA	VIC
Joseph Carrozzi	MVC	WSW
Stephen Conroy	ACT	MVC
Craig Foster	PFA	not confirmed (TAS)
Judith Griggs	SA	MCY
Danny Moulis	ACT	TAS
Chris Nikou	MVC	MCY
Remo Nogarotto	NNSW	MCY
Linda Norquay	ACT	MCY
Heather Reid	PFA	not confirmed (ACT)
Mark Rendell	TAS	ACT
Mark Shield	TAS	ACT

Not sure the victory have the cattle to play with two upfront, the fullbacks haven’t impressed me & would like to see Deng start.
Think the squad looks somewhat better on paper like this....

Thomas

Ansell. Niedermeier Deng
Kosta. Baena Antonis. Brown
Honda. Troisi
Toivonen

Have we won a game since switching to the diamond? Pre-season or otherwise?

not convinced with kev's system, but still early days. I'm not yet worried about oue defence. need time to gel. But i don't wanna fall too far behind the pack yet again. Hopefully winning the GF in Newcastle has got the hoodoo of the back and we get chalk up 3 points this week. 

Kev mentioned Ola needing 'another week' prior to this, so assuming he'll be back. Prob off the bench though, but timing almost pretty good

Kenny will miss the next game anyway. He has a sore hamstring.

This will definitely be another year when they come good towards the tail end of the season. We have to remember that only 3 of the starting players were here last season. None of those 3 are defenders. I doubt we will see any clean sheets for a while. It's also blatenly obvious we need Ola fit and starting. With Honda delivering the precision balls he is, an experienced striker will dominate. Kenny just doesn't have the experience yet, to take advantage. Until then Honda, Barbarouses and Troisi need to start taking shots from outside the box regularly.

You know, the whole off-season I thought to myself 'shit, Kev has recruited magnificently for a 4-3-3'. Yet, here we are after Round 2 pointless, struggling to break down defences (as melbourne_terrace said, Perth are a phenomenal defensive unit, but City weren't) with the litany of attacking riches we possess because we've decided to shoe horn players into a formation that doesn't suit them.

Our central defence killed us last night. I thought we deserved at least a draw. There's are bit of de-ja-vu about this season. But we need to sort our defence out. Fortunately we have played two of the top teams now IMO.

This diamond could be an issue if we don't sort out our build up play. We are struggling to bring the ball forward when the defence is already set despite having the numbers in the middle to do so.

The ball gets bogged up on the wings and the midfield aren't switching play quickly enough to relieve pressure (or when we do the fullback isn't receiving the ball cleanly) or the defence passes endlessly along the back waiting for Baena to be in position where he can turn and play forward to cut past the attacking press and open space up.

Not many teams will be as organised and defensively rabid as Perth under Popovic so I expect things to get a bit more fluid though as we get some more experience with it.

Gooooone

Precaution apparently 

Honda training injury scare?

-PB

Great get!

1 year contract extension for Deng. 

The kid has a heap of potential, I hope he kicks on at the Victory.

Hope you guys give him some game time

Edit: Im an idiot, this isnt the guy that did the backflip in the FFA Cup?

Akbari confirmed by club: https://twitter.com/gomvfc/status/1054953127680458752?s=19

1. N/A
2. Maybe - thought he was pretty good and looks keen.
3. Troisi did ok - lets hope he keeps it up.
4. Yes and he looks good.
5. Too early to call.
6. Georg is good - will have to wait and see.
7. Roux looked ok.
8. Nick looked ok next to Georg - Georg it is a good partner for Nick.
9. You would have to say yes at his stage.

Despite the VAR controversy I enjoyed the game. Frustrated we didn't take our chances, but enjoyed watching Honda putting on a show. Muscat has a new formation which is a breath of fresh air.