The off-season is almost over
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Caceres starts despite their being 3 better options on the bench 
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Decent turnout on our end 10 minutes before start. Quite a few more around the stadium not in the away bay and a couple of dozen behind me.
May the football gods have mercy if one of the CBs go down injured 
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He will just put O’Neill there like he did before.
Play him up front
Sub him off before he undoes the good work by conceding a penalty.
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Oh yes, what a start
Haha what a fucking start.
Good delivery from O’Neill, good delivery from Calver. Disgraceful defending from Brisbane. If I was a head coach, I would absolutely ban any of those stupid 5 minute huddles before the kick-off. It just serves as a potential to distract the players from the coach’s game plan.
Game is much more even now. Babalj and Wenzel-Halls could be a pretty lethal combination. Babalj holding the ball up and/or knocking it on for a confident, reasonably speedy player willing to run at defenders or shoot from distance.
I’m liking the high press
Yes, agreed, but O’Neill vs Babalj physically is a complete non-contest.
That should be a card for McKay
That’s an awful lot of blood.
McKay was looking at Caceres before blocking him like that. If McKay doesn’t even get a talking to, that is crazy.
Babalj? I thought he was dead!
That was ridiculous from Ninkovic
Bautheac looking like he’s ready to work under Kevin Muscat.
Final ball lacking but we look like we have a bit more purpose. That or I just super hopeful and blocked out our last few weeks