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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - CHARLIE SPARGO
I really loved the looping handball he did into space to lead a player into an open goal, I think it was ANB who initially called for a handball which would've put himself under a little pressure. Has that footy IQ to know which is a better option and to not be afraid to override more senior players when he's in a better position to sum up what to do.
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Farewell Jesse Hogan
Ben Brown runs off with Cirque de Soleil perhaps?
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The Soccer thread
France. I'm feeling confident of a smashing. so 5-1
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Andrew Gaff
Some have bounced the idea of trading him for Darcy Moore as the Pies need cap space apparently, and it would also satisfy eddie's nostalgic bones
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The Soccer thread
As the leader of the race for the wooden boot, might i suggest 3 points for the 3rd place playoff? Though i'm hearing both teams will play their b side, so maby its only worth 0.3 points
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The Soccer thread
Yeah second half was a bit of a let down. As it had a lot of time wasting. Bit of a talking point over on reddit. Time keeping is such a terrible aspect of soccer compared with the professionalism of other sports where we value every second lost by making it up with TIME OFF. Even just having 1 minute increments of stoppage time seems so lazy. Surely if you have somewhere counting every second, then you end up with precise Min and Sec to add ie 8min 45s. And then near end of injury time, add even more on a board for the wasted time in Injury time. " [Lapanje] Next thing they should add to modernise football is to change stoppage time to effective time. Today 6 minutes was added but the ball was in play for maybe 2-3 minutes. Yet the referee blew at almost exactly 96'. Heavily encourages time-wasting. Same story in most games I watch " https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/8xsqkw/lapanje_next_thing_they_should_add_to_modernise/ Having said that, I liked France's game. So professional. Their defence was enormous. Defended the lead so well and gave Belgium nothing. Really felt the divide between an experienced football power and a middleweight team that is trying to emerge, even though the only difference was a corner goal. I wonder if Belgium for the 2022 world cup is a good bet
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The Soccer thread
These games are as close to a flip of the coin as you'll ever get imo, and I'm down by 3 to DZ, it's a terrible strategy to go the opposite to you, but I have to make a move lol. Therefore the final will be France v England (the opposite of what I'll barrack for
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Jordan Lewis is absolutely cooked, never pick him again
Wouldn't gifting someone games to get to a magic number be put under the 'reputation' category? Oddly paradoxical comment. For the record I don't think Lewis is being gifted games.
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Andrew Gaff
Surprised we haven't had a "Hunting for Hanneberries" thread created yet I don't want to be the one to start it though as it's not my rumour...
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Jordan Lewis is absolutely cooked, never pick him again
"Is Lewis the right guy ..."
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Andrew Gaff
Far out I hope all of you WCE/Gaff watchers will be reimbursed by the club for the scouting time put in
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The Soccer thread
Belgium were so fortunate to get that own goal, it really meant they could get fatigued and still concede without losing because up 1-0 and Brazil would've overrun them in ET after an equalizer i feel Just finished England game. Pretty dull. I suppose the excitement of seeing Germany fail gave birth to a boring QF
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The Soccer thread
I think the objections are that Kane initiated first contact by rushing into him, the Colombian player did not need to ride him like a horse lol but there was a foul initially from Kane imo. But it's a pretty hard foul to call as everyone was doing that. I don't think it means Colombia would've won though, England probably would have stepped up a gear and scored anyway imo. England outplayed Colombia in the 2nd half of ET too i think, so it wasn't Colombia one way traffic.
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The Need for Outside Midfielders
It would be more of a bazaar move to recruit شار حولي (Bachar Houli)
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The Need for Outside Midfielders
Fair enough re experience. I just mean, we're chock full of inside mids, and i can't see him playing on the outside, whereas having Hannebury in there would free up Viney to play more on the outside, he has at least shown a blistering burst of speed.