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    List Mgmt. 2023 Trade & List Management Thread III

    I dont think its being greedy. Its more an every man has his price scenario, and imo that should be ours. This is what we're happy to do for pick 1, anything more and we view our current hand as a better option.
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    List Mgmt. 2023 Trade & List Management Thread III

    Im content with 2 & 18, or 3 & 15 for 1. Any thing above that is too much and we take what we've got into the draft imo.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Yes, but i'm not going to lose any sleep over it until we know exactly what is happening.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Its not him ;)
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    I actually think its a bit noble tbh - Team11 were actually focussed on what was best for the area rather than what was best for themselves.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Until any such time that they move games from AAMI Park, which is not going to be in the short to medium term future, then it won't affect too many fans negatively, and is probably a pretty solid move both operationally, financially and in terms of community engagement. Play on.
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    A-League Round 7 - Return of the Kurz!

    Beat them last time we played them actually. In Sydney 2-0. But yes agree with the rest.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Clearly both Joyce and Mombaerts weren't particularly impressed with what he showed at training. Perhaps he's not the player we all thought he might have been. I'm comfortable with Bouzanis fwiw.
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    A-Leagues & Football Australia General Chat and News Thread

    Western United at home surely. The * You Mark Rudan Cup.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Really? Brillante has been a key cog in a title winning side over the last three seasons. He's not as glamorous as Brattan sure, but he's far more consistent and ultimately imo, a far better 6. Windbichler's resume is fantastic, and as good a replacement as we could possibly ask for on paper...
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Totally disagree. You don't win trophies with marquee defenders. There's a total dearth of Australian attacking stocks, so to win the A League you've got to invest your marquee $$$ there. Shattered to lose Bart obviously, but by all reports we offered him as big an under the cap deal as we...
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Craig Noone our new winger, on route from Bolton Wanderers. Played Premier League for 14-15 games with Cardiff about 5 seasons ago.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    I like to think that should JMac be presented with some of those chances Wales has been on the end of, he'll put them away. He's no star imo, but he's a very good finisher.
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    A-Leagues & Football Australia General Chat and News Thread

    IMO that's pretty spot on generally.
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    A-Leagues & Football Australia General Chat and News Thread

    No way, they'd be definitely making gains on their returns. They pumped in 15m of capital in training facilities, plus the 11m paid for the acquisition, but those are capital assets they'll get a return on when/if they sell. Their operations might be running at a 1-2 mil loss per season like...
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Well put although I think a lot of people fail to understand the difference between a dive and accentuating contact. IMO Bruno is firmly in the 2nd camp, I've not once seen him 'dive'. Indeed very few players actually dive in the A League.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    That's all the foreign slots done so I'd say that's it. Rumours of Curtis Good floating around so thats a maybe, but i'd suggest that's unlikely.
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    The Run Home - Finals?

    20 point wins and losses in every game would see us still miss to PA by about 1%. I dont think its an overly amazing sequence of results, but its a specific set of results amongst multiple sets all equally as possible as each other if that makes sense. Bottom line is if we won 13 and dont make...
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    The Run Home - Finals?

    It's actually not at all. Rich 72 WC 64 Coll 60 GWS 58 Melb 56 Geel 56 Hawt 56 PA 56 NM 56 Syd 48 That scenario involves Swans losing all 3 games, Port beating WC at home, Geel beating Haw, WC beating Melb at home, Melb beating GWS in the last round. The rest of...
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    Ballarat - failure

    Capacity is 11k fwiw.
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    Ballarat - failure

    From memory the Roos preferred Ballarat over Tassie but had no guarantees it would ever get up (the pre-election promise with Labor obv fell through when the lost the election) and so hedged their bets with Tassie. AFL saw the opportunity to funnel the Dogs in there and did so. Dogs already had...
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    2017/18 Melbourne Victory Thread. We Are The Champions!!!!

    Tbf there needs to be a bit of context around that situation. There had always been a guest player rule which was at the time between 10-14 games, but you had to meet a marketability criteria basically at the FFA's discretion to be granted the slot. Cahill became available going into the season...
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    Ballarat - failure

    As a Ballarat raised NM supporter, i attended Sunday which was my first time out of the three AFL games that have been scheduled there. I believe that the AFL in Ballarat can be pretty successful, but they need to pay a bit more attention to how to make it so. A few points : Local footy in...
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    Play Nice 2018 Ladder Predictions

    IMO it will come down to Sydney rolling Hawthorn at home in the final round for us to get in.
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    A-Leagues & Football Australia General Chat and News Thread

    Not really. This rule being introduced has been mooted for months. Still, only the FFA could cut restrictions in the league by adding more restrictions.
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    The Melbourne City Thread

    Major upgrade. Always found him pretty unlikable as an opposition fan but he's hard as nails and very much quality as a DM. Offers a terrific set piece target too.
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    Perth GloryFC Thread-2018/19 PREMIERS!! FEAR OUR WRATH!!

    What does your best XI and bench look like do you think?
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    Perth GloryFC Thread-2018/19 PREMIERS!! FEAR OUR WRATH!!

    Perth couldnt have a hell of a lot of cap space left i wouldnt think. Perhaps a marquee 10 or winger and thats about it?
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    Perth GloryFC Thread-2018/19 PREMIERS!! FEAR OUR WRATH!!

    He's a cult hero at City. Our fans were really hoping he'd wait a year and come back to us next season.
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