Monthly Archives: February 2013
vs Sydney
A week is an incredibly long time in Football, 9 days and the week that Melbourne Heart were lucky enough to have, is an eternity. Things went wrong, Lucas Neill didn’t sign and with Patrick Gerhardt out, it seemed a difficult proposition to contain Griffiths and Del Piero, however the faith placed in the rapidly […]
Marquees and Misses.
So the Lucas Neill thing didn’t quite work out. The details are still a bit hazy, a handshake agreement with friends and then an uncomfortable interview claiming money wasn’t a factor and flying up to play in Sydney to be with family. Such is life, I guess. Neill would have been a major factor for […]
Growing pains (or why the ‘yoof’ argument exhibits a complete and utter lack of understanding of football).
I’ve briefly touched on the ‘yoof’ argument before, it goes something like this. Youth policy down there are heart is going great guns. All there off season signings, Garcia, grella, Coyne, that new dutch player, can’t remember his name and now Neill. All well into thir 30’s. The victory have become the youngest team […]
Why Melbourne Heart must aim to finish 6th (and other useless thoughts)
Another home game, another grand performance which gives us hope that we’ll eventually transfer that into some away form (Not that I’m keeping count but 409 days since a last away win could be deemed somewhat of an abberation since we could well make finals twice in the time this streak has been broken. 409 […]
Football (Soccer) and the media
Allow me to get up onto my high horse for a moment. Australian Football (or soccer, as its referred to) has another media sensation. Breaking chairs at Ettihad stadium. There have been some media people who’ve made right idiots out of themselves in this scenario, some of them more spectacularly then others (I’m looking at […]
An midweek surprise.
Two posts in a few days, what could prompt such a rabid outburst of opinion? Well some small, but promising changes upon the Melbourne Heart lineup. I’ve spoken about my thoughts on the lack of depth through our defensive line which hamstrings us. The signing of Jamie Coyne hasn’t been greeted with a hell of […]
Another derby, another ridiculous analysis
As I watched our boys get beat in another humdinger of a derby game, this article was going to be written in three very different forms. With about 70 minutes to go, it was going to be a case of not showing enough grit, being second to the ball and lacking a hunger which seperates […]
Melbourne Heart Fan Forum
I didn’t really know what to expect going into the fan forum last wednesday. If you’d asked me a week before I’d have said it was going to be spectacular, Grella, Babalj and the chance to put a foot squarely into final football. Fast forward the other side of the weekend and things have taken […]
All Heart 