I went to the Hakoah V Rams match out there at Leumeah & quite frankly about a dozen of "The Cove" showed up along with about a thousand disinterested people to watch them stink it up on the pitch.

Well done to the RBB, obviously a superior team, superior firm & superior general bunch of supporters.

Apparently Matthew Spiranovic has been training with the wanderers.

Can't see him signing for you guys. You already have a great CB pairing and enough depth for that position. But good to see the club opening its doors for players to train.

You call 3 CB's, one of which is also cover for midfield 'depth'? CB is where we are thinnest at the moment, and if we make another signing pretty sure it'll be at CB.

Spira isn't going to sit behind anyone...

Spiranovic's immaculate distribution would be so wasted in this team. Don't do it Spira!

Yeah he should continue having no contract anywhere.

When you have "the best" CB pairing in the league, with La Rocca as cover (as well as Polenz, D'Apuzzo & Heffernan who could do a job there) you don't need to sign another top quality CB. Hopefully you'd have a decent CB in the youth team for more depth.

After all:


Edited by A16Man: 14/8/2013 01:41:02 PM

Wanderers 3-1 victors over Canberra Olympic FC in Canberra.

Goals to Haliti, Juric, and Bridge. Mark Shields scored for Canberra. Wanderers started with mostly second-string side. Was 1-1 and fairly even until after half-time when Hersi, Ono, Polenz, Juric and Bridge (I think) brought on and then they started to run away with it.

Not a lot you can take from such games, but nice to see Juric scoring. Hope it continues.

Will be interesting to see how WSW go this year, as the side has remained relatively stable and likely won't be running off the same adrenaline as they had last season.

Was a huge season though and look forward to another big year in the HAL.

I think we have improved our team this year,with Juric undoubtedly better infront of goal than Kresinger,also picked up Santalab which if Hersi or Bridge gets injured then can play on the wing so I'm looking forward to the season when it finally comes hahahaha........longest off season ever!!!!!

WSW will either continue where they left off, or fail miserably.

But then again, that's the case with every HAL side every year :lol:

Well the other clubs have a chance to improve :lol:

Absolute filth. Disgusting, sub-human behaviour.

Grow up.

What've they done now...

Tried to break a fence to get to an end of the stadium that is fenced off.

Security eventually allowed them in eventually.

2-1 Wanderers thanks to a late Santalab double.

Fuck off retard. Where we initially was located was dangerous. There were people in the garden getting squashed against the fence. People were getting barged. It was genuinely unsafe. We then tried to move peacefully. What would you want us to do. Just stay there until people get injured. Maybe the FFA or whoever decided the rbb could fit there should open their fuckinh eyes.

Yeah okay mate. Having us herded in like animals in an area that clearly couldn't accomodate us was perfectly fine? We even had certain figures from the club admit they fucked up by not having us behind the goals that could accomodate all 1200 people in the RBB that came to the match.

So does that mean charging into a fence validates this fuck up? Yeah sure they were wrong but the way the RBB carried on was poor.

what did you want to happen? people tried to talk to the security and police before anything happened. these people told them what was occurring and how dangerous it was. yet they did nothing but allow more and more people in. it was genuinely getting worse. something had to be done before people got injured. if they said "okay we see the problem, you can go to the other side" then there would have been no issue.
anyway just hope that whoever organised this learns from it.

Well said mate :d

If the RBB didn't move to the hill we would be sitting here posting about how a stand collapse occured at a fucking pre season match.

If you weren't there you should shut the fuck up, there was no hooliganism in this, just people looking after crowd safety when police and stadium security did s.f.a.

FYI the entire RBB was on a concrete ledge with a 2 metre drop and the only thing holding the crowd back was a plastic barrier held together with cable ties.

Edited by Wu Tang: 21/8/2013 11:33:41 PM

Isn't what you're describing the same thing that happened at Hillsborough?...

-PB

For anyone wondering, this is what was decided would be safe enough to contain and protect 1000 people from a 2m drop.

For Anyone wondering, they rammed a fence and acted like spoiled children. I was ashamed to be a football fan at the game tonight.

And if hadn't happened we could be sitting here talking about people who were seriously injured or worse. I know which scenario I'd prefer.

Edited by sydneycroatia58: 22/8/2013 12:01:30 AM

i am sure we are going to get an unbiased report of the events from a esfc fan

You know I love you man, but the boys were disgusting tonight. The RBB could manage what they were dealt, but instead the decide that charging a face and taunting police with the paranoia song (I don't care what anyone says, if you chant that at police, you're a grot).

Was absolutely disgusting to watch. Would prefer they all left if they were so unsafe.