Huh? For those of you not aware of the concept that is Moneyball, I’ll give it a quick run through here. It is the idea that the majority of perceptions of a player (by scouts, managers and backroom staff) are fundamentally flawed and subjective and that detailed statistics are a better judge of a players […]

Given our propensity to go with the marquee-less strategy so far in our history, it becomes especially important for Melbourne Heart to get the foreign players that are on its list absolutely correct, something so far that hasn’t really been achieved. There’s been the good in the form of Gerald Sibon and Patrick Gerhardt, there’s been players who’ve done […]

So if Melbourne Heart was to hunt down a marquee player, who should we look for? Shinji Ono had a fantastic year, and by some coincidence the man who he formed a wicked attacking combination with, Shunsuke Nakamura comes off contract at the end of the year, he spawned a Celtic club in Japan which […]

So we’ve run through a possible list of players that Melbourne Heart should retain, purchase and the positions that they should look to strengthen, or adapt. Firstly, some local marquee players, Richard Garcia would be great to retain as an Australian marquee, he did fantastically this year and every attempt should be made to keep […]

Strikers While our midfield was maligned, our forwards were certainly not without critique this year, Dylan Macallister played only a handful of games this year and while he looked good early, he dropped off the radar pretty quickly, a great clubman who has a contract for next year, it’ll be interesting to see how Aloisi […]

Wingers. I promise, I solemnly swear that I was going to write about Iain Ramsay. Pace to burn and the ability to whip in a nice cross, combined with the return of resigned Mate Duganzic who will take some time to get back into everything, but was probably our most consistent winger, it’d be nice to see him just out […]

Midfielders. Right, so this is where a lot of blame was handed out for our seasons poor finish, Jonaton Germano had an injury plagued season, but showed enough that he was worth persisting with going forward, even though he takes a visa spot, he adds a nice set of versatility, Matt Thompson held the ceremonial title of chief whipping boy amongst fans this […]

Fullbacks These gentlemen can be largely placed into two groups, those who served so ably, Aziz Behich and Michael Marrone and those who had ridiculously large shoes to fill Jeremy Walker and Sam Mitchinson. They were assisted throughout the year by a makeshift support crew of Jamie Coyne, Matt Thompson and at one stage, much […]