Who knows how it will go,though we will probably score a few goals like this but i still fear we will concede more than we score

There's no desperation in the way we defend at the moment so there's no doubt we will concede lots. Watching Wellington players put their bodies on the line time and time again to get to the ball first or to block a shot last Friday made me a bit envious.

Although never the classiest player(and one that annoyed me), it was something you saw good ol' Cornflakes do on a weekly basis.

Absolutely, we'll miss his goals at corners in the ACL too :(

We have a team for the ACL.



Bench: Malik, Boogs, Barbiero



Plenty of pace and width. Height and strength up the front. Some real power and experience at the back. Don't write us off yet.


Edited by jessesdad: 9/2/2012 02:03:11 PM

I don't mind that formation at least for home. I know Golec has made a couple of bad mistakes that have cost us but he's the best LB we have defensively IMO (Cassio is much better getting forward of course).

For away games I'd do this:



Bench: Malik, Bruce, Barbiero, Boogs

Probably not going to score a ton of goals but I'll take 0-0 draws. Plus with the ACL we have more flexibility with our subs.

for the record let me say - i love this club. its my hometown club. i love them, but..........

unfortunately everything that we had when bianco was the owner has left the building. the friendships, the love, the passion, the comradery - its non-existient now.

with the new owners (and i thank god we have stable new owners with money) the club is run like a jail now.

everyone is to scared to speak their minds and the players have their little groups that they hang out in.

its not a unified team. most of those guys just rock up and do their job. some (reportedly) dont even want to be there - not mentioning any names dario vidosic.

I’m really not sure what Nick Bianco or the current owners have to do with any of this? Dario doesn’t want to be here, what can you do? You get that. Reid travelled to Iran and didn’t want to be there. Flores went to China and by all accounts doesn’t want to be there .

As far as the friendships/camaraderie things are concerned, I agree, there was a lot more of that “love” going round the club. BUT it also hurt the club… because it cost Nick a packet to host those events and to hand out freebies and free tickets and free away game trips.

Besides, I felt to get access to that, you needed to be in the “circle” anyway. ie. I only ever heard about club functions and the like through friends who were tradies and/or had accounts with Bianco Construction Supplies. I don’t ever recall getting an invite to any club event apart from the annual club day.

At least under the new owners, they’re a lot more accessible, as we recently discovered again with the Tapestry Wines event. Everyone on 442 that went have raved on about it. They’re commoners like the rest of us, but through a membership, had access to such benefits. Also the club have created the AUFC Supporters Committee. Again another in road for us commoners to have our voices heard. I feel this approach spreads the “love” to all and sundry and I prefer this style. That’s my take anyway.

Typically, I forgot Golec. He'd be a useful LB of course but he needs to restrain his enthusiasm for getting out of position.

I hear the pint about Cassio but we're a bit limited in attacking options. The team is unbalanced.

I like the home/away option. Makes sense.

As for McKain, I still think he'll work out for us.

I just don't subscribe to the idea that we're finished this year. Football can change very quickly of the right formula is found to suit the players we have.

+1

So I read on fb that AU are playing Persipura ( or whatever they're called ) on Thurs night.( what a joke FIFA & AFC are, just letting mobs like this make up rules that suit them! )

Has anyone heard anything official?

Yeah, changing the rules to gift AUFC direct entry, then turning around when they were ordered by a court, making the Reds play-off for the spot, as they were supposed to do in the first place.

B'stards.

Don't know what your agenda is but AUFC were not gifted direct entry. We entered the draw like all eligible clubs were, and were drawn the bye. Persipura were not eligible, thus missed out entirely.

Instead, they went to the CAS to overturn AFC and FIFA statutes and make the whole situation into a farce.

Color match riot Persipura vs Persija
Meylan Fredy Ismawan - detiksport - Tuesday, 02/07/2012 19:30 pm

Yogyakarta - Riots supporters re-coloring the game of football in Indonesia, their involvement ending in a brawl at Mandala Stadium. The violence occurred when the match Persipura versus Persija , Tuesday (07/02/2012) afternoon local time, had entered the final minutes.

At that time, the Persija were leading 1-0 through a late penalty by Bambang Pamungkas. Rogue Persipura fans came to the east stands where The 'Jak Mania' gathered. These unscrupulous Persipura fans shouted ridicule pitched at, but not returned by The Jak Mania. The situation got hotter when other Persipura fans come back to the east stands and threw a number of objects in the direction of the away fans. The Jakarta fans huddled and then ran toward the south stands. Conditions got increasingly out of control when more throwing continued, now with stones.

Under continual attack, The Jakarta fans were eventually directed onto the pitch. The security forces seem overwhelmed controlling the masses. In fact, after the game ended, the action of the chase and stone throwing carried on. From information compiled by detiksport, several members of the Jak suffered head injuries in these riots. They were rushed to nearby Bethesda Hospital.

"There were friends who had to bleeding heads, including one in front of me. They hit with a stone," said one eyewitness, Anas, when contacted by detiksport. "After the game finished, Persipura fans outside the stadium also remained. They pelted the buses used by the Jak," he said. Further information received, one of the supporters suffered sharp stab wounds. Currently, Jakarta fans are still under medical care. (MFI / din)   

http://us.detiksport.com/sepakbola/read/2012/02/07/193036/1836747/76/kerusuhan-warnai-laga-persija-vs-persipura

Hardly. Persipura appealed their wrongful exclusion. CAS looked at all parties' depositions and granted Persipura the play-off they had qualified for as the winner of a FIFA-recognised league. As CAS held, Persipura was eligible and should have been drawn a play-off (against one of the other three teams) but for the wrongful actions of PSSI.

Hey, forfeit the match and go off to court if you think it's unfair. What would your chairman's inner lawyer do if FFA had withheld AUFC's documentation.

It is a terrible situation for AUFC to be in, but you're by far the most successful and experienced Aussie club in international club competition.

Redcup merely oversimplified the scenario. Foxtel is covering the game and I'm looking forward to an exhibition from the Reds. Anything less from the one-time ACL runners-up would be a total humiliation.

also looks like we are trying to get Issey Nakijima-Farran upset he missed out on acl i think he would be ok here i do not like how he wastes so much shoots though

You mean the same Issey Nakajima-Farran who scored a hattrick today? :oops: