Lol sounds a bit dodgy considering that today is May 23....

I'm hoping that was sarcasm lol :?

Where's the sarcasm?

I too wouldn't mind seeing our away kit unveiled, if the leaked Reebok designs are anything to go by, I am not expecting it to be any good.

that black and grey one was from like the 1994 season or something.
its got nothing to do with the current kit with stripes.

Perth Glory did not exist in 1994.

I believe he might be talking about the silver and white kit on the leaked pdf file.

ah my bad that does show my ignorance.
i thought he was talking about the one in our blog.
judging by the accuracy of the PDF file i'd say thats the likely one.

Sorry to be a nitpick but when you quote a quote which appears in a secondary source aren't you meant to write something like "he told The West" after the quoted quote (my God my writing skills suckkkk)? Or is that just an extra bit of polite that publications do to tip their hat to the original source. f1dave? I suppose you did cite the orignal source at the top - I'm just being picky :D


Edited by seanious: 24/5/2009 11:39:38 PM

That's what I thought he was talking about too

Yeah I know what you mean, I could do again for the first quote, but since I put it in the opening par, I don't really need to. But i suppose if we are nit-picking then it would have helped :?

Edited by FP General: 25/5/2009 03:06:16 AM

There's a really good article in today's paper (I used some of it in for the blog) about Sage and Glory this season. It's inside the Super Soccer lift-out of the paper....

yeh i read it aswell ..... we have to do well on and off the park this season, we really cant afford to loose tony sage.

Tony Sage is definitely the new nick tana of the club, trying to support and bak the club in every way possible. Without Tony Sage .... i honestly thinking football in wa, and the glory will be in the shits.

By the way people, bring as many people to the EPL games as you can and spread the word.

I now have 13 people going on my 1 membership haha :d

hey apparently we're suppose to find out today where mile sterjovski is heading rite?

anyone heard anything?

*tumble weed*

Hmmmm more moldy carrots?

mmmmmm.... so you guys like stuff?

Not me.

What was the source for this date again? I can't remember where I saw it

lol .... i think i read it in an article from the west ... cant remember which edition though?

](*,)

vrteski has officially re-signed with glory by the way.....

From the west:
West Australian goalkeeper Aleks Vrteski has officially been welcomed back into the Perth Glory fold for the 2009/10 A-League season.

Vrteski will vie for the no.1 position at Glory with fellow Young Socceroo Tando Velaphi, as former German Bundesliga ‘keeper Frank Juric, who featured four times for the WA side last season, takes up a coaching position.

A slimmer-looking Vrteski, who trained with his new teammates this morning at Members Equity Stadium, last played for Glory during the 2006/07 A-League season before spending two years in the Macedonian first division.

Very interesting resigning Aleks

When he left he was 17, inexperienced, fat and was a "reasonable" keeper.

Now he is only 20 years old with a bit more experience and has apparently lost a lot of weight.

I would expect him to be at least on par with Tando.

I still would rate tando better then aleks.

....I Definitely am happy to have Aleks as back up rather than juric, and if Aleks was to fill in for tando, Im sure he would be up for the task and do the job well.

now its end ff the week according to the west

Good news on signing Aleks, I think we're getting a balance of youth and experience. Tando is suitable for this level so two young, promising keepers fighting for the spot is great news.

you can call me crazy if you like, but I'm an Adelaide United Gold Member who has just purchase an associate Membership for Perth Glory.

See you for your home games against Melbourne Victory on August 29th and the boxing day clash against the Newcastle Jets.

May have free tickets again for these clashes this year due to the overwhelming success of giving away 40 free tickets to the Adelaide/Perth boxing day clash last year. I found some people down the Hay street Mall who came to their first A-League match last year so anyway to spread the word of A-League football I will do this again.

sweet as man.
good on you.
and on Vrteski im well pleased.
we have by far the two best young keepers in Australia now.
I have a feeling that Aleks may well pressure tando.
a feat not many 20 yr olds in australia would acheive.

Yeah nice capture, good to see the boy back home. He played/was selected for some matches for Macedonia's Under 21s NT too? Despite the league, he's now older and wise with some decent first team, professional football, experience. So he should pressure Tando indeed. Also a bonus, Frank Juric is moving into a coaching role, which means we don't lose a squad place and don't have 3 GKs, which would've been a bit excessive. Juric should be useful as a GK coach, with his exp.

BTW On a different topic, I looked up Bernd Stange the other day and see he's currently coaching Belarus' NT, pretty good gig I'd say! :o More than that, he's lifted the NT to it's highest ever ranking of 57! So he still has his magic.

After his stint with Glory, he coached Oman for a short while. Then, as many of us know, he coached Iraq for a couple of years, during the US invasion. He then coached in Cyprus's league for 2 seasons, before taking over Belarus in 07. Shows how impressed Belarus are with him, given it's 09 and he's still there! :o

I'm just wondering - he's 61, gong 62 next year. Yeah, I know, you can read my mind and sure he'd be a great coach, football director, media spokesman or something for us. I'd just love him to be involved in our club again. He always loved Perth, so I'm sure he'll return here some day. Hopefully it's sooner while he can still actively contribute to our football department. Just speculating - one presumes he will still be coaching them, through to the end of their UEFA WC Qualifying (Where they probably won't qualify), October later this year. February or March next year qualifying may begin for Euro 2012. That tournament is co-hosted by neighbours Poland and Ukraine, so Belarus will be very keen to qualify. Stange 'could' leave or be somehow dismissed from his post, before that campaign or he could push on and depending on Belarus' success, could even coach the side at Euro 2012, at 64, which is possible.

If he returns to Perth at 62 or 64/65, hopefully he can be actively involved with Glory again, even if it's only for a couple years, before he retires or semi-retires.

The media would love it and Glory are already at the moment, showing signs of some sort of comeback, so the club and Perth itself, by season 2010/11 onwards may be all primed for his return.

And some of you might bag him or might even suggest he may not be of the standard the A-League requires. Well I think his current stint with Belarus more than reminds us of his quality. Belarus features players like Barcelona's Alexander Hleb and guys based in the Bundesliga and Russia's Premier League. But it also features many young players from the Belarussian league, many players who Stange promoted himself. And obviously its paid off with their results. Stange also coached the Iraq side who featured the likes of Nashat Akram and co, only 2-3 years before they taught us a lesson at the 2007 Asian Cup. Stange has experience in Oman too, which has also been quite competitive against our NT. The wealth of player knowledge he could bring - imagine - a then 31/32 year old Alexander Hleb lining up as Perth's Marquee, thanks to Stange? Or we bringing in guys like, a then 32 year old, more than 50+ times capped and Russian Premier League pro, Sergei Omelyanchuk as a Visa player for our backline? Alexander's younger brother, Vyacheslav Hleb, a former Stuttgart and Frankfurt player, currently plays C-League for Shanghai Shenhua and may only be 29/30 when we could snap him up, under Stange?

Dave Mitchell will be 48 by the 2010/11 A-League season and depending on his success or not, at this club, he may wish to move onto to Europe, given his solid Dutch and UK connections. So an opportunity could open up for Stange's return. One wonders whether Mitch would be happy to have Stange as Director of Football, if Mitch was still in charge then. Mitch would be a powerful voice at the club too, if he were still to be around then. Stange as DoF, I'm not sure, with a young coach it could work, but he may just be too domineering a presence, especially media wise? So he would have to be coach again, I presume? Unless he's like club ambassador or even ceremonial board member or something. lol Hopefully Sagey will still be around to allow it/get him back here, in any case. :)

Edited by gloryperth: 26/5/2009 12:13:41 AM

Slow day today mate?

:lol:

lol But it is interesting to see how he's been doing quite well in recent times, rather than fading into semi-retirement obscurity or something, as some might presume. And just wondering whether people agree, if we should have him back, or if we could get him back?

Edited by gloryperth: 26/5/2009 01:32:30 AM

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=15&ContentID=143829

I think so too, but no need to put excessive pressure on the lad.

i wonder how much juric retireing and added back to our cap. he would of been signed on money for a first choice keeper so maybe 200k? getting back aleks on perhaps 100k or so.. these are just guesses but im sure we have freed up some space here.