Well I'm now a Glory (associate) member for the first time. Hopefully I'll be in the gold seating during the fulham/wolves games, eating my cake, laughing at the guys in the standing area breaking the barrier when Dadi scores his first goal.

Just wanted to say I hope you guys do well this season, have always held a soft spot for the Glory. Hoping that we meet you and NQF in the finals series

hope u guys do good aswell!

hopefully both our teams can make the finals in the a-league for the first time.

As supporters of the glory and the nix ... im sure we can share each other's pain in regards to dissapointing past seasons lol

in regards to the MES....

we have one of the best pitches in australia .... the surface and condition of the pitch we have is world class standard for sure, its just the capacity thats the issue.

an upgrade in the off season to say 30k would be fantastic, then with more upgrades to me implemented later.

Care to give us a summary lol?

MES stumbling block is the heritage listed stand. That will remain a pain in the neck until the govt allows its destruction.

Issues with sharing a multipurpose stadium like Kitchener are scheduling conflicts, expensive preparations to switch codes and most importantly of all for our game - the pitch quality.

I'm with FFA and favour a new purpose designed stadium where the power station currently is. A lot of German clubs have great stadiums, and they still have terracing.

Edited by glorywonderland: 20/5/2009 05:12:22 PM

Yeah very similar seasons have been, high's and many more lows but the Glory are firing the league up this season. Nix aren't but I have a feeling we will do well, cleared a lot of dead wood (except for bloody Mulligan) and 2 or 3 more good signings and we will have a good squad. Just hope that Kruse does not accept our offer.

Do good? Superman does good. You hope they do well. ;)

I probably shouldn't create a precedent for grammar correction in a forum... ah well.

lol thanks for the correction MUM

You're welcome dear.

see that Andre Gumprecht is available.
old Glory boy maybe could be resigned ?
though i dont know how his form has been.
obviously not that great if CCM dropped him.

Can someone please explain where all the toppor-stanley hate comes from? He seemed to play reasonably well for the jets tonight.

Yeah I agree, I thought he looked quite solid at centre-half

A pity their attack was so shocking. So many wasted opportunities. Or have I just been watching EPL games too much and forgotten what the a-league is like?

That was re: the article Southern3 posted, here:

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Glorious it's not just about capacity though- Sage brought up that it was embarassing Wolves or something had access to only one lot of showers or something. Sorry not sure what Sage said in regards to that. But it reflects how MES does have some way to go, to bring it up the 'International standard' it needs to be, to host WC matches. Yeah, some German stadiums still have terracing or something, but I think they temporarily installed seats for the WC? Or Berlin's Olympic Stadium was a special exemption? Also when I talk of upgrades, the Force talk of this too - the proposed $75M upgrades include better media boxes or something and more corporate boxes. Having the capacity is only part of it, there's alot more demanded of stadiums, for these events, these days. It's like UEFA's 5 Star rating process for their stadiums, like who can host CL finals etc...

Yeah a new, slightly larger, purpose built stadium would be best, but as I spoke of, how to sort out the Force situation in the short term? They will be spending money on MES regardless, because MES as it stands is below what they require and the govt. may not like the idea of spending up on MES, when the rectangle codes just want to abandon it to up and move to some $250-$300M venue around the corner, that the govt would also have to fund/support.

There's alot of politics here and the Kitchenor thing - Force were initially part of that and if that proposal comes back on the agenda then any push for a modern, larger purpose built rectangle rectangle stadium perfectly suited for the World Cup, may be off the table. Like Adelaide likely pushing for Adelaide Oval to be used, our govt. will probably push for Subiaco to host WC fixtures anyway, which equals the death of our chances to host a group anyway.

Edited by gloryperth: 21/5/2009 04:01:13 AM

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You obviously missed the first 5 games. \:d/

That's about his ratio, 1 good game every 5 or 6 games.

He's still shit though.

Article in the west today confirms Vrteski is back training weith the club.
and also it appears Juric has decided he'll be more of a coach then a player.
so Vrteski will be our number two which is great news.
i hope we dont go waste our money on another keeper like we often do.

Woot.

Tando and Aleks competing for number one, with Dejan Aleksic in the youth team keeping an eye on a senior spot... that is a damn impressive young keeping line-up.

And Frank the Tank no longer taking up salary cap money... thank god.

That story is now on the blog: "Newshound: Young goalkeeper set to return to Glory". Check out the blog for more...

Good to see sum of my local boys representing glory :)

aleks vrteski - year above me when we were back in high school
dean evans - year below me when we were back in high school

seems like the balcatta shs special soccer program is actually working :)

Dude, your blog is now blocked in China, along with all other blogspot sites. :cry:

hahahahah ... those Chinese government with their blocking of harmless blogs ...

Stop plugging your blog.

Its in your profile and your sig, and that is enough.

Posting in a thread just to plug you blog is frowned upon.

Just for Xmaswhore...

Newshound: Young goalkeeper set to return to Glory
After spending two years in Macedonia former Australia youth international goalkeeper Aleks Vrteski is likely to re-sign with Perth Glory, according to a report in the West Australian.

The news was revealed by Let's Talk Football host Eamon Duffy on Sunday.

The young goalkeeper has already resumed training with the club and will battle Tando Velaphi for the number one gueresy.

Perth Glory's other goalkeeper Frank Juric is set for a coaching role within the club.

Vrteski was part of the Glory's setup for the 2006-07 A-League season but left in 2007 to join Macedonian club FK Pobeda.

He said he could feel a difference within the club.

"There's a very good atmosphere within the club," he said.

"Comparing two years ago when I was at Glory to now, it's like a different place."

Fair enough erebus .... however, im my defence I don't just plug the blog in threads, I also comment on loads of stories ... I also try to be mindful to not make the plugs excessive...

Thanks for that FP General. I had no problem getting to it up until last week.

Good to have a WA boy back at the club. Should keep Tando honest

mind you ... also in FP General's defence ....

you can view his signature in his forum posts, but if your viewing the article from the 442 website and not from the forums, you can't see signatures.

It turns my frown upside down and puts a smile on my dial, it's a good blog.












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it is a good blog indeed.

you have our support general. ;)

back on NTS is like an uneven ying yang theres plenty more dark times than good times. if you want to see classic NTS just watch a replay from the olympics he looked like a deer in headlines anytime he touched the ball

T-S is what we call in the wrestling business a 'jobber'. Someone who keeps losing, lacks skill but still gets a gig