20th Anniversary Team Of The Decades

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Hasn’t been any discussion on this yet, anyone else completing it? In the same members email with POTS vote there is a link to a multiple choice survey, with your selections due by this Wednesday 14th. It’s framed as an update to the same exercise from 10 years ago, adding players from the last decade to those selected in our team of the first decade. I’ve gone for:

Coach - Arnie, Corica can be his assistant, with apologies to Larry and astonishment Talay is even an option.

Keeper - Redders just (for longevity) over Vuka’s one brilliant season.

Defenders - proper back four of Wilko, Jordy, Rhyno and Zullo. Honourable mentions to Sebba, Gowser and Colosimo.

Midfield - Ninko, Adrian, Cac and Branners.

Forwards - ALF (imo the most complete #9 we’ve had) and Brosquey (also capitano).

Guess that’s Arnie’s champagne 4-2-2-2 with our two best 10’s and Cac getting the nod at 6/8 because that side would hold the ball all day long and Branners would provide enough mongrel on his own. Seems ridiculous to have excluded some of the wingers, ADP & Bobo though.

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I think I went:
Vuković / Grant-Wilkinson-Colosimo-Zullo / Ninković-Corica-Cáceres-Adrian(incredibly balanced midfield)/Bobô-Brosque

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Thanks for the heads up. This is going to be fun.

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No Hološko no party. Ditto for Bobo.

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Almost missed this… thanks for the post to make me go back and have a look

Redders
Rhyno - Colisimo - Wilko - Ryall
Adrian - McFlynn - M1los - Lolley
Aflie - Brosque

Just couldn’t bring myself to put ninko in which is really depressing and couldn’t find space for Bobo

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Yep, I left him out as well. Is it petty? Yes. Do I care? Absolutely not.

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Oh I think I included him too. Now I can’t remember what my midfield was.

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A-League Men:

GK: Andrew Redmayne
DF: Alex Wilkinson
DF: Rhyan Grant
DF: Simon Colosimo
DF: Ryan McGowan
MF: Terry McFlynn
MF: Brandon O’Neill
MF: Filip Holosko
MF: David Carney
F: Bobo
F: Alex Brosque

Coach: Graham Arnold, captain: Alex Brosque

No Byun as an option for defender is a crime. Played every minute of every game in a double winning season. That’s more than Ben Warland or fuckin James Donachie ever did.

A-League Women:

GK: Jada Whyman
DF: Nat Tobin
DF: Elzabeth Ralston
DF: Alanna Kennedy
DF: Ally Green
MF: Teresa Polias
MF: Mackenzie Hawkesby
MF: Cortnee Vine
MF: Caitlin Foord
F: Leena Khamis
F: Kyah Simon

Coach: Ante Juric, captain: Teresa Polias

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As a rule I excluded one season wonders, so no Vuka, Buijs, Adrian, or Janko.

I believe I went with:

Manager: Arnie (sidenote, absolute disgrace that Talay was an option but not Littbarski)

GK: Bolton

DF: Rhyno, Wilko, Colosimo, and Ryall or Zullo (can’t recall which I ended up picking, it was basically a coin toss)

MF: Saint Terry, Corica, Brattan, and Ninko (felt dirty, but at the end of the day I couldn’t leave him out)

FW: Brosque (c), Bobo

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I think these are a side effect of the method. Neither Byun or Litti made the initial team of the decade (Lavicka was coach), so they’re no longer available as options to either continue or be replaced now.

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The method is FLAWED.

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So no historical revisionism allowed? Boo to that.

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The recency bias is real.

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If you just pop over to sfcstatistics.com, list by minutes played in all competitions, and then pick the players with the most minutes in each position you get a pretty reasonable XI:

Redmayne / Grant, Ryall, Wilkinson, King / Cáceres, McFlynn, O’Neill, Ninković / Brosque, Le Fondre

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Vuka
Grant-Wilko-Colosimo-Zullo
M1los-Branners
Adrian-Brosque-Milo2
Bobo

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Options are only from the last 10 years… not the entire 20 years

From the survery link:

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It is the entire 20, the list from the team of the decade plus the last 10 years added in to the original list.

The original list and the new list are both FLAWED.

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Much like our defence

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Voting for this closed last night so I did mine in a bit of a rush.

For very different reasons I found it tough to choose a second striker and a second centre half (Rhyno could do a job there I guess :sweat_smile: )

Would love to get my hands on the raw voting data but mostly I am very curious to see if Ninkovic gets in. Based on this thread alone it looks like he will…