And the height.

-PB

Enjoy another serve of the game lads and ladettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDJRxcxyxqs

I would leave Baena out. We need to give more game time to Hope and I think Valeri has been pretty solid so far this season. 

I'm inclined to think this as well - we're stacked in central midfield, so it makes sense to do a rotation with Valeri/Baena/Broxham between A-League and ACL fixtures. Kosta will back up every game no problem, so he's essential. Niedermeier is essential for our defence & Honda is a no-brainer. Toivonen might not play every game, but I think it's important to be able to have him as an option in the ACL, even if he only ends up playing 30 minutes or something.

I think with the positional depth it's a bit of a no-brainer and was probably made clear to Baena at the outset, but the group stage is still a few months away so we'll see what happens.

Also, Baena is only on loan and iirc still contracted with his club for next year. Could play a part in long term planning if we want to try and re-sign Georg. 

I only got to watch the first half of this game.
Oof that touch down to Antonis for the 4th goal was sublime.

Daegu getting a late goal to claim a 2-1 away goal advantage over Ulsan ahead of the final leg of the cup final at home, Saturday 3:30pm Melbourne time.

Winner joins our group. 

Nice result for us, I don't really want to face Ulsan again after the drubbing they gave us at their home.

Last leg of the Korean cup final today at 3:30pm Melbourne time, winner goes straight into our group. Daegu taking a 2-1 away advantage to their home leg against Ulsan.

Daegu making it 4-1 on aggregate with fifteen minutes to go, you can pencil them in for our group.

We draw the easier Korean team, Sydney get dicked 3-0 at home by the Nix, we go top of the table and they skipped Victory the Brave and went straight to Horses.

Thank fuck.

Vtb can die in a fire.

-PB

Um, they did play victory the brave. They just play it for a really short time before horses but that’s every game now

Must have blocked it out lol

They are slowly phasing out vtb. 

Where was Raul last night?

Troisis needs to live on the wing and let Antonis play CAM.

Having Honda play in Terry and then Ola is just a joy to watch.

-PB

Hamstring I believe 

Antonis to 10 and Troisi on the left makes sense to me.

Club dropping some nice merch.

https://www.victoryshop.com.au/mvfc-gold-range/

The gold looks clarshy and the training  tee is reminiscent of our acl kit with gold trimmings

Is there a coach in football that makes less changes during a game or waits as long as kev?

KM is improving as a coach but he still makes some errors.
Leaving his subs too late is probably the biggest fault he still has for me.
He rarely makes an impact sub and he should have made some time wasting subs at the end of the derby.
It will be interesting to see if this changes when we have less injured. He did not trust the young player last game to see the match out.

Iirc franz  straka  made no  subs a couple of times during his tenure at nqf . Iirc Wenger subbed very late during games as well. 


Also mv now have pre academies.  

Melbourne Victory7 hrs ago

Melbourne Victory is pleased to announce the launch of its Pre-Academy Centres.The Pre-Academy Centres will run at a variety of partner club venues and form the first plank in the Club’s long-term vision for our Player Development Pathway (PDP), as a lead in to the Melbourne Victory Academy.The Player Development Pathway will allow participants to train and develop their skills from a young age, in accordance with the Melbourne Victory way, building confidence in their skills at an important time in their development.The Pre-Academy Centres will target the best developing talent throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria, offering boys and girls aged 8-12, with the environment and platform to reach their potential.The program will work as a complementary offering to that of the player’s registered clubs.While there is an intent to develop more geographically targeted sites, the initial launch locations will be run in conjunction with the following Club Victory partners; Whittlesea Ranges, Bell Park Soccer Club, Spring Hills Football Club, West Point Soccer Club and Knox Churches, as well as a new regional arrangement with Murray United.More partnerships will be announced in due course.Rob Sherman, General Manager - Technical and Coaching welcomed the launch of the Pre-Academy Centres.“The Player Development Pathway has two fundamental aims; to help grow the game by attracting more boys and girls to football and to provide opportunities for those who wish to get better."The program is designed to present players with the opportunity to gain a high-quality coaching experience in their local football community while they aspire and develop, whilst also providing a tangible route in the Melbourne Victory Academy."We are excited by the response from clubs to host our Pre-Academy Centres and look forward to working with them in developing the game and talented players in the region.”Melbourne Victory captain Carl Valeri said, “it’s exciting to know that current and future generations of Australian footballers have a quality development pathway in their own backyard," Valeri said.“For so many, myself included, the path to the top of the game had to take us overseas. We had to leave home to take our game to the next level.“But now Melbourne Victory can offer young players with genuine coaching and development opportunities, the likes of which we didn’t have previously."These clubs will be the sites of our Pre-Academy Centre programs to run throughout 2019.There are two ways to enter these programs: via a referral from a trusted scout or following participation in one of our talent identification camps to take place in January.

Yup, is frustrating as shit.

-PB

To think we could have been on top last week and ahead of the pack this week.

-PB

Hoping  Honda.  Georg and raul come back next week. We look lost 

Muscat said Honda and Baena weren't far off. Georg wasn't close. I reckon a couple weeks at least.
Frustrating as hell

Honda posting that he needs more time on Insta. https://www.instagram.com/p/BsIHJWSFI9e/

Yeah all of Jan by the looks.

Wtf did he do.

-PB