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i cant see anything on there about fornaroli

Who's going to the game? 

No Sorensen in the sticks tonight.

-PB

Bruce and Fitzgerald swap often, both are used heaps for central crosses.

-PB

Savour of Australian football seems to be a MC fan, bit disappointed.

I feel so annoyed with JVS.

Clearing out Wilko, Zullo, Garrucio, Melling, Clisby, Novillo, for Cahill as a replacement. 

Then Mooy went for good reason.

JVS is the obvious  person to go.

That's a bit revisionist. Cahill had nothing to do with any of them leaving.

Wilko wanted to go back to Sydney to live with his family, understandable.
Novillo wanted to leave, and basically had to after the way it fell apart for him in the back end of last season
Garrucio, Melling & Clisby were well on the outer as far as the starting 11 goes and got better opportunities elsewhere
and well Zullo, i know you bang on about him a bit, but he was shit last season when he did make the pitch. I know there was potential there, but a pay rise after a crap season was out of the question imo, Sydney can have him for that price.

But i do agree, the sooner we get rid of JVS the better.

says something when so many want to leave. poor man management.  

i cant believe cfg are just being cheap with the payout clause.  just give him the cash and fk him off. we should be playing champions league this year ffs.

the man has taste

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Recruiting Cahill when City already have Fornaroli, seems perplexing.

Most of the aforementioned also provided a lot of grit, steel and determination, that City lacked in previous seasons. Then they were perplexingly let go, even though one or two may have wanted to leave.

I think Cahill will do just fine in his more traditional number 10 role. As far as grit goes Brattan and Kilkenny will do fine there, as well as Muscat when he plays.
Excited to see how Colazo and Jakobsen go - they are the signings that will make or break our season imo.

Colazo training with the squad today apparently.

Given the experienced CB shortage at City, I think Adrian Leijer could be a useful recruit and leader for the defence.


I'm not sure where he is ATM, but  not long ago he was looking for a club.

Just read he is at Suwong!

A while back he wanted a return to Oz.

What would the starting line up look like?

Something like....

Colazo----------Fornaroli----------Brandan
----------------------Cahill
-----------Kilkenny-------Brattan
Rose-----Jakobsen--Malik----Muscat?
-----------------Sorenson

Bench: Caceres, Fitzgerald, Kamau, Chapman, Bouzanis

Franjic & Gameiro unfortunately on the side lines. 

If Franjic can get back, then the only question besides how the new foreigners fare is whether Cahill in an AM role is going to be that effective. 

Interesting to see how this squad goes, though i honestly believe last year they had a better balancing squad. 

Novillo, Mooy, Wilkinson in particular the big losses. 

Judging on how we've attacked a few of our pre-season games, I think we're setting ourselves to play 3-5-2, in which case our best side looks like this:

                             Sorensen
              Chapman Jakobsen Rose
Franjic     Kilkenny   Brattan    Brandan   Colazo
                       Cahill       Fornaroli

SUBS Bouzanis Kamau Fitzgerald Malik Muscat

Interesting to see Malik on the bench, also can Brandan play AM or is he a pure winger? In which case almost see either Colazo or Brandan playing just behind the strikers in a 3-4-1-2 formation. 

Would Colazo be disciplined enough to defend as almost a wing back? Don't mind the formation, just think questions need to be asked. 

Brandan is apparently best suited to the 10 role but unlikely we'd see that here unless Cahill is out imo. Colazo has played the last two seasons for Boca as a LB (admittedly more out of the side than in last season) and is known for his crossing of the ball. Given he's a pacy LB, Colazo as a wing back seems the perfect role for him, and also Franjic.
Malik is terrific as a DM imo, but is probably behind Kilkenny and Brattan. Pre-season alone has shown he's not really up to it as a CB.
I think City will be pinning a lot of their hopes on Jakobsen; hopefully hes the sort of player like Del Pierre who is able to make the other CB next to him look better than he would be otherwise.

all the games i watched were 4-3-3.  i havent watched townsville or ballarat games.  if JVS has changed the formation it's because he is scared of the leaky defence.

muscat should not be in the 11.  he is a liability.

from what ive seen kamau will be a starter.  i have not seen brandan do anything to look even close to kamau, fitzgerald, caceres or retre.

this wednesdays game will be make or break for many.

Yeah Kamau will be a definite starter imo, his pace is farken insane.

-PB

Both games in Queensland were 3-5-2 lineups. Ballarat was a 4-3-3 but also irrelevant given the lineup. The biggest worry for me with a 3-5-2 is the quality of CB's, however we've been getting caught square a lot and in theory Jakobsen should make a big difference, so wait and see. 3-5-2 probably suits our actual squad better from an mid/atacking point of view but of course there are always question marks over defence in a JVS coached side so who knows.
I think Kamau is probably a starter in a 4-3-3 but may get squeezed out of a 3-5-2 if Franjic is available. The other three are bench players ideally.

Will we see the club explore the opportunity  to sign an IRP for Gamiero or for Franjic if his time out of the squad ends up being significant? 

I don't think we will for Franjic, we signed Brad Clarke on a youth contract so I guess that'll be a little bit of cover. You'd like to think we will for Gamiero, but being so late it may be difficult to find a suitable replacement. Having said that, it presents the club with a fantastic opportunity to give someone in the NPL a crack.

We also have Brayden Crowley i suppose, they might keep it up there sleeve and wait to till the time is right and fill a gap in quality that we might have. No doubt, are defense will come under scrutiny at some point in the coming rounds of the season. 

Gavin De Niese might be worth a look i reckon.

City's track records in the rehabilitation of ACL's isnt fantastic, i think he might be too much of a risk. 

Only Gameiro isnt it?

He's torn 2 ACL's since being at the club, which to me suggests they are pushing quickly for recovery, rather than letting him build up his strength and conditioning 

2 games in, what are City fans' opinion on Manny?