No pyro, no party. Ends 0-0, full game for Degenek, Red Star stay 11 points in front.

This month's Aussies Abroad transfers in case you missed any..
Additions/changes to the database:
BAKMAZ, Ante (7 Mar 1992) - transferred to Persik Kediri, Indonesia
BILOKAPIC, Nicholas (8 Sep 2002) - transferred to Huddersfield Town, England
CALDERBANK-PARK, Kai (16 Jan 2001) - loan to Hyde United, England
COLLARD, Dylan (16 Apr 2000) - transferred to Stal Rzeseow, Poland
CURRAN, Jesse (16 Jul 1996) - loan to Udon Thani, Thailand
FERNS, Curran (6 Jul 1993) - transferred to Melaka United, Malaysia
FOWLER, Mary (14 Feb 2003) - transferred to Montpellier, France
FOWLER, Quivi (20 May 1999) - transferred to Excelsior Maassluis, Netherlands
GIBBS, Joey (13 Jun 1992) - transferred to Keflavik IF, Iceland
HUTCHINSON, John (coach) - transferred to Seattle Sounders, USA
JEGGO, Luc (25 Feb 1994) - transferred to Bryne FK, Norway
KALIK, Anthony (5 Nov 1997) - transferred to HNK Gorica, Croatia
MARVEGGIO, Andrew (22 Apr 1992) - transferred to FK Bokelj, Montenegro
MAYNARD-BREWER, Ashley (25 June 1999) - loan to Dover Athletic, England
MAZIS, Leo (7 Oct 2000) - transferred to US Triestina, Italy
McLEAN, Lachlan (28 Mar 1998) - transferred to Greenville Triumph, USA
MESOUROUNI, Andrew (19 Dec 2000) - transferred to AOK Kerkyra, Greece
RICH-BAGHUELOU, Jay (22 Oct 1999) - transferred to Crystal Palace, England
ROSS, Jordan (17 Jan 1999) - transferred to Stranraer, Scotland
USAI, Seb (28 Feb 1990) - transferred to Robres, Spain
VOLPATO, Christian (TBA) - transferred to AS Roma, Italy
ZAWKO, Joseph (24 Nov 1997) - transferred to Chieti, Italy
Removals from the database:
ALESSI, Daniel (Hereford) - transfer to Stratford Town, England (non-league)
BABALJ, Eli (Chant Hornbill) - released, club whereabouts unknown
DE NIESE, Gavin (Armacenenses) - transferred to APIA Leichhardt, NSW (NPL)
DUGGAN, Chris (East Fife) - released, returned to Australia
FAERBER, Jon (UMF Tindastoll) - released, club whereabouts unknown
GRIFFIN, Marc (Warrenpoint Town) - released, club whereabouts unknown
HARALAMPOPOULOS, Meni (Acharnaikos) - transferred to Cumberland, SA (NPL)
IBINI, Bernie (Jeonbuk Motors) - transferred to Newcastle Jets
KHOURY, Louis (Curzon Ashton) - released, training in Australia
LUSTICA, Steven (Qizilqum) - transferred to Western United
MILUTINOVIC, Marko (OFK Beograd) - transferred to Magpies Crusaders, QLD (NPL)
SCHWARZER, Julian (Slough Town) - released, club whereabouts unknown
SUSNJAR, Aleks (Busan I'Park) - released, club whereabouts unknown
TRAJKOSKI, Anthony (FK Smederevo) - released, returned to Australia
TUSON-FIRTH, George (Sutton United) - released, training in England
WATSON, Lachlan (Unionistas de Salamanca) - released, returned to Australia
YILDIZ, Deni (Fethiyespor) - transferred to Melbourne Knights, VIC (NPL)

Bouman hasn't played a minute since the U23 championship. 22 games on the bench but transfermarkt is surely wrong here. I swear I read he's gotten some minutes.

Friday saw Hrustic get a full 90 in a 3:1 loss to Willem 2 with Ryan on the bench yet again. 

Ryan Teague has gotten an average of 44min the last 3 games. 

Wasn't Daniel Alessi a decent prospect? Who wasn't at some point I suppose? 

Susnjar is apparently back at Mlada Boleslav but he's not been in the squad. Whether he's actually there I can't find out for certain. The guy is an odd one who is hard to track down. 

Can't comment on Mooy this season because I don't watch enough of Brighton play (don't think I'm missing out on anything there lol). Rogic wasting his potential is all down to himself, blaming the league for his downfall is silly considering he has had 2 good seasons in 7 years due to his poor fitness- plenty of players playing in the league have went onto bigger leagues because they were consistently good. He could play in the Championship/ Eredivisie but would that solve his fitness issues that hold him back from being a luxury player to a consistent goal scoring attacking midfielder? no. 

The only thing this thread proves is that there are a few Aussies out there that have a misconception that guys like Rogic are 'killing it' when he can barely play 60 mins, averages a goal every 5 games and has still yet to score in a Europa League/ Champions League game in 24 games playing as an attacking midfielder, but hey they see him score a wonder goal on facebook  once every couple of years so surely he deserves to play in prem right? If he fixes his fitness issues and becomes more clinical in front of goal who knows how far he could go, but right now he can't get into the starting xi unless Christie is suspended or injured, this talk of mid table Bundesliga teams from Schwarzer only feeds into this delusion that the general public over here have about Rogic. 

that mark schwarzer's kid? 

Yep.

we get it dude... you love the scottish farmers league can we stop hearing about it now?

De niese nearly signed for City before getting injured. Wonder if he’s still got A League potential. 

Due to his poor conditioning, which is baffling to say the least, it has me wondering if it's in his genetics or something.  So with that in mind, along with what I see of him when playing, in my opinion he is best used as an inpact player coming off the bench for the last 30 or so minutes as he can influence the game doing as such.

Mabil starting, Behich bench
Portsmouth v Arsenal soon, not sure if Williams will start.

Mabil goal and assist 

ridiculous Mabil goal wow... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIADjBvplzE 30 secs in or so.

He scored in the 21st minute.

Various follow ups;
Transfermarkt is correct about Bouman.  Been on the bench 22 times with the senior side this season without playing a minute.  The club are top of the table and hard to break in.  He does drop back to the reserves for game time quite frequently.
Ryan Teague has only just moved so we need to moderate our early expectations.  He is an 18 year old, playing at the U23 level in Portugal, so tracking ok.  He started and played 78 minutes yesterday.
Aleks Susnjar, trying to get more current information, but as at about a month ago, he told me that he was still assessing his options.  
Blake Ricciuto.  As of a week or two ago, he too was still assessing his options.

Watched extended highlights of Mail's game. Holy crap what an absolute terror he was. Seems to be in really really good form. Other than Ruka I don't believe anyone else is performing at a high standard in a  good league

My app says Williams was by far Portsmouth’s best vs. Arsenal. 

Taggart starting

Antonis on the bench in ACL. Be nice to see him get some minutes. 

Should've scored, deceived by a bobble.

Boyle just won SPL player of the month last month in what is a higher league than the israeli league. Mooy and ryan close to Brighton's best this season in the best league in the world. Degenek dominant in a league better than israeli league. James Holland nearly started every game and gotten at least 6 assists in a top 10 league in Europe (Austria) . 

Antonis subbed on at halftime, just scored a nice one from 20 yards or so. Johor 1-1 Suwon.
https://twitter.com/whirlwind_0216/status/1234839623106347008

Awesome to see Antonis scoring in the ACL. 

As i just pointed out on the ELO thread, the Scottish league has jumped up a lot in quality the last few seasons. It is nearly back to what it was in the 2000's with Rangers, Hibs and Hearts all back in the top division after the dark says of circa 2014 when teams like Inverness were finishing 2nd in the top flight. Dundee United look likely to be promoted back as well which will be the last big scottish team back in the top flight and help lift the league again. Both Rangers and Celtic topped their Europa league Groups and are immeasurebly better sides than when Rogic first broke into the Celtic team in the 2015/16 season when they were ranked about 1500 on ELO.
That 2015 side saw Rogic, Bitton, Simunic, Gordon and Leigh Griffiths (who was also the league topscorer) as guaranteed starters - today all of them are only squad rotation players despite being in their primes (bar Gordon) which shows you how much Celtic and the league has improved. 

Today Celtic are rated 1647 which is the 68th best in Europe and for comparison would put them 17th in the prem, 11th in the bundi and 8th in Italy. Using the UEFA coeffcients SCotland is now back up to a very respectable 14th (they went as low as about 23rd around 2014) which so long as they stay there come the end of the season, means an automatic champions league group stage place, something the Scottish League hasn't seen in a long time

Rogic is still one of their best whenever he comes on so it is certainly reasonable that he could play in a mid table bundi side. Currently he is being ousted by Christie who after Edourd and Morelos is probably the best player in the league so we shouldn't be too hard on rogic. 

Ends 2-1 for Johor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx8-sgisOrs

Boyle and Bozanic starting against each other
Amini started, Gersbach bench in the cup

Bozanic just scored a ripper against Hibs.  2-0

Dylan Ryan has signed a two year extension. Needs matches desperately. 

A good interview on TWG the other day with Dylan Ryan. He says Willem II have a bunch of players leaving the club at the end of the season and sees this as his chance to become a starting player.