ACL Elite vs Buriram @ Our Paradise

[midfielder]

Lack of creativity was my biggest concern last night....

 

[Meerkat]

What other AL side starts Pav and Paull?
What aspiring top 4 side starts Theo and Kuol?
None
Dick has gutted the title winners and it shows.
Top 6 maybe as we have a rubbish keeper and no AL strikers.
See the players who we sold are playing at a higher level than their replacements
Is Alfie from the 3rd tier really better than someone local?
Max from Temu so far

This.

 

[Big Al]

Unfortunately the kids got to play to improve.

Niz ans Max took a few years. Even Faz too

Going to have to go through it again.

They are at least learning what the higher levels require and that’s just Asia.

While disappointed and if sucks after all this winning we can’t complain too much after the turnover in the last 2 years and where some of them now play overseas. Some really big talent has gone.

 

[FFC Mariner]

I know SM used to despair about how the venue was managed. Catering etc has nothing to do with CCM at all.
Council looking after their mates meant CCM lost out when the rights came up

 

[midfielder]

Rowles, Sammy, Nizzy, Cumdog, Ballard [soon], Farrell [soon] Miller, thats seven Socceroos, plus other players lost including a swag of visa players.... add Danny in goals....

No team could replace the talent we have lost we are at the start of a major rebuild, lets hope it does not take six years and 4 coaches this time...

 

[midfielder]

I know SM used to despair about how the venue was managed. Catering etc has nothing to do with CCM at all.
Council looking after their mates meant CCM lost out when the rights came up

We have hardly ever had friends in Council... its like the crave for a league side and still have separation pains from the lost of the Northern Eagles ...same goes for the leagues club across the road ...

 

[crock]

Rowles, Sammy, Nizzy, Cumdog, Ballard [soon], Farrell [soon] Miller, thats seven Socceroos, plus other players lost including a swag of visa players.... add Danny in goals....

No team could replace the talent we have lost we are at the start of a major rebuild, lets hope it does not take six years and 4 coaches this time...

The club can't afford to have a bad 6 year period and I doubt we will be as bad as those 6 years were

 

[Big Al]

Rowles, Sammy, Nizzy, Cumdog, Ballard [soon], Farrell [soon] Miller, thats seven Socceroos, plus other players lost including a swag of visa players.... add Danny in goals....

No team could replace the talent we have lost we are at the start of a major rebuild, lets hope it does not take six years and 4 coaches this time...

Didn’t even mention Garang who almost almost almost got past Martinez

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Unfortunately the kids got to play to improve.

Niz ans Max took a few years. Even Faz too

Going to have to go through it again.

They are at least learning what the higher levels require and that’s just Asia.

While disappointed and if sucks after all this winning we can’t complain too much after the turnover in the last 2 years and where some of them now play overseas. Some really big talent has gone.

Nizz looked the goods when he came off the bench for his A-League debut. It just took others time to realise it, some more than others. I have not seen any of our current crop of youngsters looking even close.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Nizz looked the goods when he came off the bench for his A-League debut. It just took others time to realise it, some more than others. I have not seen any of our current crop of youngsters looking even close.

The 2 young fullbacks we have are superb (Sas and the left back who's name I can never remember) Da Lima will go ok but not yet

 

[priorpeter]

The 2 young fullbacks we have are superb (Sas and the left back who's name I can never remember) Da Lima will go ok but not yet

Menham is the left back. Agree, he is excellent and should be offered a scholar IMO.
Sadly we’ve moved Taye Hedley and Don Niyonkuru on. Taye had an excellent first season back from a ruptured ACL and I was looking forward to seeing more of him.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Is it just me or does young Brandtman look like he struggles in senior football? The player who carves in junior football but struggles to step up.
Doesnt have pace and is a terrible diver. Really bad at it too.
Having written this he will probably now go on to get 50 caps but so far he doesnt look the goods.
He is a year older than MDP by comparison.

 

[Ads]

Anyone we put up top will struggle at the moment.

We just don’t have the correct style to create through balls.

We are a bit reflective of the Socceroos at the moment, can’t create ‘obvious’ and clear opportunities based on our system.

As mentioned without Niz or Ballard + Farrell, last year we would not have created those tiny moments, deflections, layoffs and second ball follow throughs leading to our goals.

 

[JB16]

Menham is the left back. Agree, he is excellent and should be offered a scholar IMO.
Sadly we’ve moved Taye Hedley and Don Niyonkuru on. Taye had an excellent first season back from a ruptured ACL and I was looking forward to seeing more of him.

Any idea where they went??

 

[Michael]

Is it just me or does young Brandtman look like he struggles in senior football? The player who carves in junior football but struggles to step up.
Doesnt have pace and is a terrible diver. Really bad at it too.
Having written this he will probably now go on to get 50 caps but so far he doesnt look the goods.
He is a year older than MDP by comparison.

Imo it’s just a mentality thing atm for Bailey, I like him, I think he has quality. Just needs to flick the switch abit.
Migs did that when Jacko told him to win more duels (more physicality) last season, never looked back after that.

 

[Corsair]

wasn’t capable of distributing it.

This is our biggest challenge, it was supposed to be remedied by Mcalmont but he's looking like a very defensive backwards player. I'm hoping this is just while he finds his feet but I'm not so sure. We need him going forward. At the moment we look like we've got 3 identical mids.

 

[Wombat]

Is it just me or does young Brandtman look like he struggles in senior football? The player who carves in junior football but struggles to step up.
Doesnt have pace and is a terrible diver. Really bad at it too.
Having written this he will probably now go on to get 50 caps but so far he doesnt look the goods.
He is a year older than MDP by comparison.

He fades out of games for the Yoof too. He was looking very good at training so i can see why he was picked but he was found out by Burirum tbh.

 

[Tevor]

He fades out of games for the Yoof too. He was looking very good at training so i can see why he was picked but he was found out by Burirum tbh.

Same as Theo, was absolutely owned by their winger. I don’t think that helped Brandtman either. At about the 20 minute mark we were dominated and it all stemmed from Theo trying to beat his man which he failed at 100%.

 

[turbo]

Same as Theo, was absolutely owned by their winger. I don’t think that helped Brandtman either. At about the 20 minute mark we were dominated and it all stemmed from Theo trying to beat his man which he failed at 100%.

That feels harsh to me. We were putting a lot of pressure on a few players to make something out of nothing because the core of the midfield was ineffective and a lot of our play too slow. Then those players often found themselves double or triple marked because the opposition was sitting deep and we didnt have numbers pushing up.

 

[Tevor]

That feels harsh to me. We were putting a lot of pressure on a few players to make something out of nothing because the core of the midfield was ineffective and a lot of our play too slow. Then those players often found themselves double or triple marked because the opposition was sitting deep and we didnt have numbers pushing up.

What was concerning was Theo kept trying to beat him and didn’t adjust his play on the basis his opponent clearly had his measure. That shows a one dimensional player. I’ve been a Theo fan to be honest but his continued turnovers in the first half was a clear problem and more than likely why he was hooked at half time.