Is the next preseason match Glory v Adelaide in Sydney this weekend?

Hopefully they'll step up a bit from the loss to Inglewood.
All very well saying it was a fairly strong Inglewood team.
Let's not forget they're rollicking along 9th out of 12 in the State league, with 3 draws and 3 losses from their last 6 outings.
Keeping the Glory tradition alive of playing teams into form.

What a stupid comment. The game v Inglewood was a 1-1 draw. The penalty shootout was a last minute decision so they could award the trophy.

Glory played the second half with their NPL team which is 11th in the league.

But their almost full strength team in the first half still only managed a 1-1 draw.

Does not inspire hope.

Ah yes, the first stupid comment I've ever seen here.

Hotrod is quite correct.
I want hope, and our first half 11 was pretty decent.
And more that anything, I really need this club to show me something to get me into buying a membership.
For the first year since god knows when, I haven't jumped straight into sorting it in advance.
For someone who has stood in exactly the same spot in the Shed for over 13 years without missing a single game, that is a big issue. The family certainly don't know what's happened with me.

[And just for the memories, that missed match was a 5 - 1 win over Sideney Olympic (who Glory will play in a few days).
10 February 2001, with goals from the usual Mori, Despotovski, Miller and Naven, and Olympic's from Pondeljak.
Thereafter every wedding, birthday, Christmas function, etc inconveniently scheduled on a Glory day is a non attendance.]

To compare to those clubs who've already started their pre-season friendlies too and their opening matches:

Melb Heartless - 7-0 v Whittlesea Ranges
Wellington - 2-1 v Wests
Sydney 5-1 v Macarthur Rams

That said, it is pre-season. :lol: But some people do love their results.

I'm with you, Shanagar, it doesn't feel inspiring at all. Especially when the coach's recruitment policy is straight out of the hand-book of David Mitchell (player's with national team 'experience'). History repeating.

After several months of reflection and looking at my bank balance after the world cup, 100% happy with my decision not to renew this season. Hope they do well, but fucked if I'm spending money I don't have on an organisation that is slapstick at best.

Different code, but it's our State and we're in it together.
Always interesting to compare and see any similarities by playing a simple game of Word Substitution:

[size=7]Foley the driving force for change[/size]
[size=3]Nick Taylor The West Australian July 14, 2014, 7:19 am[/size]

Just two years ago, the Western Force were the model example for underachievement.

Every excuse for losing had been well and truly used up and they had even invented a few new ones along the way. For most in the Eastern States, the Force had become irrelevant, nothing more than a pleasant stopover on the way to South Africa. The club was in crisis mode on and off the field. Poor results, falling crowds and no coach. Questions were being asked if the Force had a future in the competition.
Enter Michael Foley.

He quickly got to work and, to use one his favourite phrases, "ripped in". He had long discussions with the club's powerbrokers about the state of the squad, previous player signings and future recruitment.
He culled players who were happy to pick up a nice pay packet and do just enough to coast their way through their final days in Australian rugby before heading off into the sunset. Others who did not meet Foley's standards were shown the door. The Force were eclipsed 47-25 by the Brumbies in Canberra on Friday night, dashing the Perth side's bid for a maiden Super Rugby finals appearance.

"When I arrived it was almost like there were 10 commandments of why we lose," Foley said. "There was we never start well, we never finish well, we never win our third game, we never win at home, we have a losing culture."I can rattle those things off because I cannot believe how many times I heard those things said by different people."I sat back and thought 'this story has been handed on from one person to another and rattled off after each loss, therefore it's inevitable'. "They had allowed, or the club had allowed itself, to get to a point where it had so much negative rhetoric around it that it had infected people's minds.

"In the past, because of the negative rhetoric, it was easier to buy into anything that was said and move and ebb and flow with the tide of commentary. Our guys have now broken the shackles of what I saw as a self-fulfilling prophecy and negative talk."
Foley coined the phrase "relaunch" for his first season. In truth, it was a more of a splutter than a season on the afterburners.

This year the side played under his new tags - belief and attitude. The latter was even stitched into the neckline of their playing jumpers. "One of the things our guys have been good at is redefining ourselves," Foley said.
"The only way we're going to be able to do that was to do things we had not done before, to try and behave differently, to see ourselves in a different way."In 18 months these guys have shaken off extremely entrenched views, maybe there are some still lingering in some dark recesses, but it's been shaken and they have come out for their best-ever season."

When I arrived it was almost like there were 10 commandments of why we lose."Michael Foley

A mate of mine is cruising through the South Pacific and came across Jacob Burns having a kick around with some local kids and showing some good freestyle skills. Funny little clip on FB.

It is early days to be sure - first hit out and only a training run. But hardly a stupid comment. The first team drew first half, and the NPL team drew second half. Kenny is under pressure to win over what I would be guess would be a large number of fans. If he loses to Newcastle and is otherwise unconvincing early on, then it will hurt re: confidence in the coach and getting bums on seats.

Why is Zadko still overseas?

Dunno, hoping that its transfer related tho'...

Saw that article, it was a great read. Also listened to a great interview with their CEO on NTFS about a month back.

Shame there's no one and no chance of that happening at Glory.

Good luck to the Force.

in the exact same boat. i come on here to lurk a bit these days but just dont have any passion left for the club. its hard to get excited when your reading from the same script each season.

Ryan Edwards started again and provided the assist (superb cross) for Reading's goal in their 1-1 draw against Yeovil overnight.

Quick, sign him up. :roll:

If this wasn't so painful, I'd be laughing more.

A few bits from Twitter:

Perth Glory FC ‏@PerthGloryFC 1m
PRE-SEASON | Full time whistle goes. Another good work out for the team with the one goal to @adelutd_fc separating the teams.
#NOTGIVINGIN

Perth Glory FC ‏@PerthGloryFC 2m
PRE-SEASON | Hersi making his Glory debut and getting a good 15' on the pitch. Working well out there. #NOTGIVINGIN

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 21m
PRE-SEASON | Substitutes brought on QuaQua, Vulin, O'Brien, Ghazali, Sidnei

(ya take off 8 players and only bring 5 on, you're probably gonna struggle. But I was being stupid again)

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 23m
PRE-SEASON | Big changes for the second half off Garcia, Risdon, Jamieson, Djulbic, Thwaite, Marinkovic, Keogh and Maclaren

Tim Maguire @TimMaguireFOX · 1h
Good to see @PerthGloryFC embracing the WA state colours in their new @FFACup kit... would have been great to get to the game today

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 1h
PRE-SEASON | Half time at Belmore and it's all level at 0-0. A close and tight game with little given away by either team. #NOTGIVINGIN

Pete Nowakowski @petenowakowski · 2h
#PERADL | @ScottJamieson warming up with his @PerthGloryFC teammates.

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 3h
PRE-SEASON | Lineup today:
Vukovic, Risdon, Jamieson, Djulbic, Thwaite, Garcia, Ferreira, Marinkovic, O'Neill, Keogh, Maclaren.
#NOTGIVINGIN

Perth Glory FC @PerthGloryFC · 3h
PRE-SEASON | Subs for today: Nichols, Hersi, Sciola, Griffiths, Harold, Clisby, Duncan, O'Brien, Vulin, QuaQua, Ghazali #NOTGIVINGIN

Edited by shanagar: 20/7/2014 05:38:01 PM

LOL at Glory Twitter - a bit confused I think. Tweeted Maclaren and Marinkovich off at half time and then retweeted a pic of the second half goal with both Maclaren and Marinkovich in the wall! I did wonder, esp when they tweeted 8 names off at half time and only 5 to replace them! (beat me there Shanagar)

Also found a second half pic with Thwaite still on, so that's probably the other one of the 8 who didn't come off.





Edited by GloryB: 20/7/2014 05:42:58 PM

Edited by GloryB: 20/7/2014 05:47:45 PM

I don't know why they're spelling 'given' with an 'i' but why doesn't somebody just give them the Gin their after so we don't have to see that stupid hashtag anymore ;)

1-1 draw and a 0-1 loss.

So we all happy thus far with the pre-season.

Looks like the same old story. Glory can't score.

Yeah, but what about if we keep dominating possession?
Doesn't that count for everything at Glory?

Adelaide bloke tweeting the game reckons Galekovic had nothing to do.

But, I will only start to sink the boot a little bit if we don't show any attacking force in the Newcastle game. These are too much of a muck around (esp with 3 games in a week, ending with Malaga) to really draw specific conclusions.

Of course, am concerned that we have signed Keogh for #9, instead of on the wing, and I still don't think we should have signed Zadkovich*, Garcia or Hersi at all. Should have gone for one import lead the line striker and one import central mid with that money.

* saw a Foxsports interview today with Zadkovich (done a while back), where he straight out said that he'd been told by the Jets that he had no future at the club, that he wouldn't be a starting midfielder and should look elsewhere, but that Kenny told him that he liked the way he played and so Ruben decided to come here. Ugh, stuff like that really makes it hard for me to believe in Kenny.

Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

The story of Glory in three words.

Western Force they would be one of the few sporting teams with less success than Perth Glory have had in the A-league.
I think Glory are in big trouble as you can already see Garcia has made the starting line up, along with Marinkovic.
Garcia will pull senior rank and make sure he plays 90 minutes.
Zadkovich is the only hope for Glory but if Zadkovich is playing the role of a lone wolf then he will end up like mcKay against Spain.

Was with you until .... "Zadkovich is the only hope". :shock:

Not a glory fan but it think it's a bit early for this sort of talk.

A few things.... Zadkovic to come into that team, Nichols will replace marinkovic I would imagine. De silva maybe even a sneaky. I don't think hersi started today and he will... Rostyn griffiths is in the mix too and he was bench today.

I just think you had zadkovic, hersi, nicholls, griffiths, de silva, sidnei to name the few that come to mind that could be starting this season.... That is potentially half your starting line up. And remember because of the large turnover you would expect them to take longer to gell, especially playing against a basically unchanged and already proven quality Adelaide side.

Just wanted to put things in perspective from a neutrals point of view. Yeah you haven't started with the world on fire but there are so many potential factors for that at this stage. Playing with a completely new midfield, completely new strike force and a new cb pairing this season.

Also bare in mind it was 0-0 at half time when the majority of the 'best team' was on... They had heaps of youngsters on second half when they conceded.

Hope Perth have a good season... If they didn't have Lowe as coach I would be certain they would. Still think they might though, just need to gel with their best XI in my opinion.

Ah beautiful, 'we need time to gel'.
Usually we make it to the 1st game before we get to this point.

A couple of us may recall hearing that phrase on previous occasions - like 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, I'll stop there.
As far as I'm concerned, the coach is professional (ok, use that term loosely), the players are professional footballers, and so on, so they can sort themselves out and get on with being a professional outfit that can play together. I'm sure they must learn something about who is who at training sessions all week for weeks on end.
Why is it only in football (soccer) and Glory in particular, the team needs to gel? I never hear it in any other team sports and they all manage.
Next thing you know, Kenny will start rattling that one off.
Glory should really take note of how Ross the boss Lyon conducts his setup - "we are a no excuses football club".
End of story.

But he was useless and only picked in the XI because of nepotism right?

If you say so.

Sigh.

Pre-season results are meaningless of course, but would be nice to get some offensive threat showing.